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Charges Under Seal: US Prosecutors Get Busy With Julian Assange
Charges Under Seal: US Prosecutors Get Busy With Julian Assange Photo Source Michael Mayer | CC BY 2.0 Those with a stake in the hustling racket of empire have little time for the contrariness that comes with exposing classified information. Those who do are submitted to a strict liability regime of assessment and punishment: you […]
The World Order That’s Now Emerging
The World Order That’s Now Emerging The Post-World-War-II world order was dominated by the one WWII major combatant that had only 0.32% of its population (the lowest percentage) killed by the war: the United States. The Soviet Union’s comparable number killed by the war was the highest — it was 13.7% — 4.28 times higher than […]
“It Will Be A Cold War”: APEC Summit Ends In Unprecedented Chaos After Dramatic US-China Showdown
“It Will Be A Cold War”: APEC Summit Ends In Unprecedented Chaos After Dramatic US-China Showdown One day after vice president Mike Pence and China’s president Xi Jinping clashed after exchanging sharply worded barbs in a showdown between the two superpowers, on Sunday the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit ended in unprecedented chaos and disarray, […]
Trump Claims Victory As Oil Prices Plummet
Trump Claims Victory As Oil Prices Plummet Oil prices are now down over 20 percent from recent highs, and President Trump knows exactly where the credit for that belongs. “If you look at oil prices they’ve come down very substantially over the last couple of months,” President Trump said in a news conference last week. […]
What The Oil Price Collapse Says About The Economy
What The Oil Price Collapse Says About The Economy In Tuesday’s technical update, I discussed the breakdown in the major markets both internationally as well as domestically. Of note, was the massive bear market in China which is currently down nearly 50 percent from its peak. (Click to enlarge) What is important about China, besides […]
The Empire Keeps Proving Assange Right About Everything
The Empire Keeps Proving Assange Right About Everything WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been charged under seal by the Trump administration. This has been revealed by a purportedly accidental copy-paste error in an unrelated court document which used Assange’s name, interestingly not long after it was reported to the Wall Street Journal that federal prosecutors […]
Trump Quietly Orders Elimination of Assange
Trump Quietly Orders Elimination of Assange On June 28th, the Washington Examiner headlined “Pence pressed Ecuadorian president on country’s protection of Julian Assange” and reported that “Vice President Mike Pence discussed the asylum status of Julian Assange during a meeting with Ecuador’s leader on Thursday, following pressure from Senate Democrats who have voiced concerns over […]
WTF Just Happened with Natural Gas?
WTF Just Happened with Natural Gas? If you blinked, you missed it. The price of natural gas for December delivery plunged 19% on Thursday, the biggest percentage plunge since February 2003. This comes after futures prices had skyrocketed 20% on Wednesday to $4.931 per million Btu intraday, before settling at $4.837, the highest settlement price […]
Et Tu, RT? Amplifying Western Disinformation on Rwanda
Et Tu, RT? Amplifying Western Disinformation on Rwanda The great lie about the Rwandan bloodbath opened the door to a far larger genocide in Congo and helped justify U.S. military interventions in Libya and Syria, argues Ann Garrison. During a recent campaign event, Florida Senator Bill Nelson said, “That story of Rwanda is very instructive to […]
Saudis Cut Oil Exports To U.S. To Boost Crude Prices
Saudis Cut Oil Exports To U.S. To Boost Crude Prices Saudi Arabia has been slashing oil exports to the United States over the past two months, in what looks like a move to force a reduction in the world’s most transparently reported inventories that could put the Saudis on a collision course with U.S. President […]
Why Orwell Is Superior to Huxley
Why Orwell Is Superior to Huxley One of the frequent comparisons that comes up in the Dissident Right is who was more correct or prescient, Orwell or Huxley. In fact, as the only truly oppressed intellectual group, the Dissident Right are the only ones in a position to offer a valid opinion on this, as […]
How George W. Bush Corrupted America’s ‘News’-Reporting
How George W. Bush Corrupted America’s ‘News’-Reporting In order to understand today’s demonization of Vladimir Putin, one must go back to US President George W. Bush’s propaganda for “regime-change in Iraq” and demonization of Saddam Hussein at that time. The US regime now has come to recognize that with Putin’s high approval-ratings from the Russian public, the US […]
US Household Debt Hits Record $13.5 Trillion As Delinquencies Hit 6 Year High
US Household Debt Hits Record $13.5 Trillion As Delinquencies Hit 6 Year High Total household debt hit a new record high, rising by $219 billion (1.6%) to $13.512 trillion in Q3 of 2018, according to the NY Fed’s latest household debt report, the biggest jump since 2016. It was also the 17th consecutive quarter with […]
Nuclear Weapons are a Nightmare Made in America
Nuclear Weapons are a Nightmare Made in America Photo Source International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons | CC BY 2.0 What transforms American elections from participatory politics into farce is the exclusion of crucial issues. Environmental crisis, the threat of nuclear annihilation and the wildly skewed distribution of political and economic power will affect how […]
