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Saudi Aramco IPO More About Geopolitics Than Finance
Saudi Aramco IPO More About Geopolitics Than Finance In the first week of 2016, Saudi deputy crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, in an interview with the Economist, revealed that the Saudi government is considering selling shares in government-owned Saudi Aramco and/or its downstream assets through an IPO. He indicated that a decision on the IPO […]
Final MH17 crash report ‘unsubstantiated, inaccurate,’ new Russian probe says
Final MH17 crash report ‘unsubstantiated, inaccurate,’ new Russian probe says The reconstructed airplane serves as a backdrop during the presentation of the final report into the crash of July 2014 of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine, in Gilze Rijen, the Netherlands, October 13, 2015. © Michael Kooren / Reuters Some of the key conclusions […]
Russia Breaking Wall St Oil Price Monopoly
Russia Breaking Wall St Oil Price Monopoly Russia has just taken significant steps that will break the present Wall Street oil price monopoly, at least for a huge part of the world oil market. The move is part of a longer-term strategy of decoupling Russia’s economy and especially its very significant export of oil, from […]
Financial collapse leads to war
Financial collapse leads to war [This is a rerun from March of last year, whose time has finally come. With the new year, a sea change seems to have occurred in the financial markets: instead of “melting up,” the way they used to, they have started “melting down.” My original prediction is that this will […]
The Proof Is In: The US Government Is The Most Complete Criminal Organization In Human History
The Proof Is In: The US Government Is The Most Complete Criminal Organization In Human History Unique among the countries on earth, the US government insists that its laws and dictates take precedence over the sovereignty of nations. Washington asserts the power of US courts over foreign nationals and claims extra-territorial jurisdiction of US courts […]
Reality Peeks Through in Ukraine
Reality Peeks Through in Ukraine Exclusive: With corruption rampant and living standards falling, Ukraine may become the next failed state that “benefited” from a neoconservative-driven “regime change,” though the blame will always be placed elsewhere – in this case, on the demonized Russian President Putin, writes Robert Parry. Nearly two years since U.S. officials helped foment a […]
How Obama Enables Atrocities
How Obama Enables Atrocities Exclusive: President Obama seems so scared of offending the Saudis and their Israeli allies that he will tolerate almost any outrage, including Saudi Arabia’s mass beheadings and/or shootings of the regime’s enemies including a Shiite political leader who dared criticize the monarchy, writes Robert Parry. As the New Year dawns, the neocons and […]
The Europe Question in 2016
The Europe Question in 2016 NEW YORK – At the cusp of the new year, we face a world in which geopolitical and geo-economic risks are multiplying. Most of the Middle East is ablaze, stoking speculation that a long Sunni-Shia war (like Europe’s Thirty Years’ War between Catholics and Protestants) could be at hand. China’s […]
America’s Vampire Aristocracy
America’s Vampire Aristocracy On January 2nd, America’s NBC News bannered “Arab Spring Cleric Nimr al-Nimr Among 47 Executed by Saudi Arabia,” and, one-third of the way into their report, showed this tweet: “Saudi execution of Nimr al-Nimr along w/ al Qaeda members is straight from Assad’s playbook – lumping nonviolent activists with terrorists. — DavidKenner (@DavidKenner) January […]
Hearing the Russian Perspective
Hearing the Russian Perspective The neocons and liberal hawks who dominate the U.S. foreign policy and media establishment are pushing the world toward a nuclear showdown with Russia as few people hear a comprehensive response from the other side, an imbalance that a new Russian documentary addresses, writes Gilbert Doctorow. By Gilbert Doctorow Without mincing […]
Slouching Toward Global Disaster
Slouching Toward Global Disaster There are many disturbing signs that the West is creating conditions in the Middle East and Asia that could produce a wider war, most likely a new Cold War, containing, as well, menacing risks of World War III. The reckless confrontation with Russia along its borders, reinforced by provocative weapons deployments […]
NATO: Seeking Russia’s Destruction Since 1949
NATO: Seeking Russia’s Destruction Since 1949 In 1990, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, U.S. president George H. W. Bush through his secretary of state James Baker promised Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev that in exchange for Soviet cooperation on German reunification, the Cold War era NATO alliance would not expand “one inch” eastwards towards […]
Ukraine’s Looming “19 Fukushimas” Scenario
Ukraine’s Looming “19 Fukushimas” Scenario With all the action in Syria, the Ukraine is no longer a subject for discussion in the West. In Russia, where the Ukraine is still a major problem looming on the horizon, and where some 1.5 million Ukrainian refugees are settling in, with no intentions of going back to what’s left […]
US aimed to nuke civilian populations in enemy cities during Cold War – declassified document
US aimed to nuke civilian populations in enemy cities during Cold War – declassified document © Airman John Parie / Reuters A newly released Cold War-era list of nuclear targets shows the US planned to inflict “systematic destruction” on enemy cities and target the “population” of those areas. It is the most comprehensive Cold War […]
