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The Administration isn’t Ending the Wars in the Middle East — It’s Shifting Strategy
The Administration isn’t Ending the Wars in the Middle East — It’s Shifting Strategy The loss-averse President Donald Trump, who campaigned on a platform to “defeat ISIS, sought to uphold his election-season slogan by declaring “historic victories against ISIS” as a reason for his Wednesday decision to end US military presence in Syria. ✔ We […]
Endless War Has Been Normalized And Everyone Is Crazy
Endless War Has Been Normalized And Everyone Is Crazy Since I last wrote about the bipartisan shrieking, hysterical reaction to Trump’s planned military withdrawal from Syria the other day, it hasn’t gotten better, it’s gotten worse. I’m having a hard time even picking out individual bits of the collective freakout from the political/media class to […]
America’s Technology and Sanctions War Will End, by Bifurcating the Global Economy
America’s Technology and Sanctions War Will End, by Bifurcating the Global Economy “The true reason behind the US-China ‘trade’ war has little to do with actual trade … What is really at the basis of the ongoing civilizational conflict between the US and China … are China’s ambitions to be a leader in next-generation technology, […]
Reactions To Trump’s Syria Withdrawal Plan Say More Than The Plan Itself
Reactions To Trump’s Syria Withdrawal Plan Say More Than The Plan Itself President Trump has ordered the withdrawal of US troops from Syria, which is reportedly expected to take 60-100 days or 30 days depending on who you ask. According to Kurdish forces in eastern Syria the withdrawal of American as well as French troops is […]
Is U.S. Geopolitical Strategy Experiencing a Monumental Shift?
Is U.S. Geopolitical Strategy Experiencing a Monumental Shift? The defining question about global order for this generation is whether China and the United States can escape Thucydides’s Trap. The Greek historian’s metaphor reminds us of the attendant dangers when a rising power rivals a ruling power—as Athens challenged Sparta in ancient Greece, or as Germany […]
Continued American Occupation of the Middle East Does Not Suppress Terrorism, It Causes It
Continued American Occupation of the Middle East Does Not Suppress Terrorism, It Causes It Even the neo-con warmongers’ house journal The Guardian, furious at Trump’s attempts to pull US troops out of Syria, in producing a map to illustrate its point, could only produce one single, uncertain, very short pen stroke to describe the minute […]
These 8 Red Flags Warn Us We’re Speeding Toward an Economic Collapse RIGHT NOW
These 8 Red Flags Warn Us We’re Speeding Toward an Economic Collapse RIGHT NOW This isn’t exactly an article loaded with Christmas cheer, but there’s a very good reason that my family has strictly limited our holiday splurges this year. It’s because all the signs right now seem to indicate the US is hurtling toward […]
The Coming Crisis
The Coming Crisis In a crisis, people either turn to their institutions or they turn to their leaders to provide a path forward through the emergency. This is especially true when the path forward is waiting out the emergency. People respect action, so they have to have faith in their leaders if the right course […]
America Has a “Neo-feudal” System
America Has a “Neo-feudal” System The conventional definition of a Bear is someone who expects stocks to decline. For those of us who are bearish on fake fixes, that definition doesn’t apply: we aren’t making guesses about future market gyrations (rip-your-face-off rallies, dizziness-inducing drops, boring melt-ups, etc.). No, we’re focused on the impossibility of reforming […]
Venezuela’s gold in limbo amid tug-of-war at the Bank of England
Venezuela’s gold in limbo amid tug-of-war at the Bank of England In early November news was placed into the British media (Reuters and The Times) revealing that the Bank of England in London, one of the world’s largest custodians of gold bars on behalf of other central banks, was refusing to allow the withdrawal and […]
Which Nations Are State Sponsors of Terrorism?
Which Nations Are State Sponsors of Terrorism? On 30 December 2009, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sent a cable (subsequently released to the public by wikileaks) to America’s Ambassadors in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Kuwait, and Pakistan, headlined, “Terrorist Finance: Action Request for Senior Level Engagement on Terrorism Finance.” She told those Ambassadors to make […]
Russophobia and the Specter of War
Russophobia and the Specter of War Could global warming pose the greatest threat to the future of life on the planet? Quite possibly, if we believe the international (and scientific) consensus, despite a widening stratum of debunkers, deniers, and skeptics. What about the prospects of thermonuclear war between the United States and Russia, two countries […]
Your Biometrics: Silent Witnesses Against You and Tools to Track You
Your Biometrics: Silent Witnesses Against You and Tools to Track You Another week has gone by where we have seen a tremendous amount of activity around the world: the French, Belgians, and Dutch are engaged in protests labeled “yellow vest” protests. In actuality, the yellow vests are insignificant: these Euro-Socialist countries require citizens to wear […]
U.S. Groundwater in Peril: Potable Supply Less Than Thought
A groundwater well near Estancia, New Mexico. (Photo: Debra Perrone) U.S. Groundwater in Peril: Potable Supply Less Than Thought Drilling deeper wells may not be a good long-term solution to compensate for increasing demands on groundwater, report UA hydrologist Jennifer McIntosh and colleagues. The U.S. groundwater supply is smaller than originally thought, according to a […]
The Impact of OPEC on Climate Change
The Impact of OPEC on Climate Change It is accepted that the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is a cartel that restrains oil production and keeps prices higher than they would otherwise be. Indeed, this is the premise behind the “OPEC Accountability Act of 2018” in the US Senate. This bill would address […]
