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The Real Reasons For the Iran Agreement
The Real Reasons For the Iran Agreement Obama is being praised as a man of peace for the nuclear agreement with Iran. Some are asking if Obama will take the next step and repair US-Russian relations and bring the Ukrainian imbroglio to an end? If so he hasn’t told Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland […]
Greece’s Lesson For Russia
Greece’s Lesson For Russia “Greece’s debt can now only be made sustainable through debt relief measures that go far beyond what Europe has been willing to consider so far.” — International Monetary Fund Greece’s lesson for Russia, and for China and Iran, is to avoid all financial relationships with the West. The West simply cannot […]
Retired General: Drones Create More Terrorists Than They Kill, Iraq War Helped Create ISIS
Retired General: Drones Create More Terrorists Than They Kill, Iraq War Helped Create ISIS Retired Army Gen. Mike Flynn, a top intelligence official in the post-9/11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, says in a forthcoming interview on Al Jazeera English that the drone war is creating more terrorists than it is killing. He also asserts that the U.S. […]
Obama Administration Finds New Way to Let Criminal Banks Avoid Consequences
Obama Administration Finds New Way to Let Criminal Banks Avoid Consequences Three top Democrats are accusing the Department of Housing and Urban Development of quietly removing a key clause in its requirements for taxpayer-guaranteed mortgage insurance in order to spare two banks recently convicted of federal crimes from being frozen out of the lucrative market. […]
How Fascist Capitalism Functions: The Case of Greece
How Fascist Capitalism Functions: The Case of Greece There is democratic capitalism, and there is fascist capitalism. What we have today is fascist capitalism; and the following will explain how it works, using as an example the case of Greece. Mark Whitehouse at Bloomberg headlined on 27 June 2015, “If Greece Defaults, Europe’s Taxpayers Lose,” and presented […]
Framing Iran: Thomas Friedman’s War Wish
Framing Iran: Thomas Friedman’s War Wish Thomas Friedman, the New York Times op-ed-page representative of the foreign-policy elite, is unhappy with how the soon-to-be-completed Iran nuclear talks are going. He says President Obama, like his predecessor George W. Bush, hasn’t been tough enough. Obama holds all the cards, Friedman says, but somehow the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dictating […]
President Obama Accepts Slavery in Order to Win TPP Trade Deal
President Obama Accepts Slavery in Order to Win TPP Trade Deal So that U.S. President Barack Obama can end a roadblock and win the agreement of other nations for his proposed Trans Pacific Partnership, he has decided to remove one of the nations, Malaysia, from the U.S. State Department’s official list of countries that allow […]
Wikipedia as Propaganda Not History — MH17 as An Example
Wikipedia as Propaganda Not History — MH17 as An Example Wikipedia articles are more propaganda than they are historical accounts. And, often, their cited sources are misleading, or even false. On 15 August 2007, the BBC headlined “Wikipedia Shows CIA Page Edits,” and Jonathan Fildes reported that, “An online tool that claims to reveal the identity of […]
A Fine Balance: China’s Need for Resources and Stability in the South China Sea
A Fine Balance: China’s Need for Resources and Stability in the South China Sea The shift in demographic and economic weight from Europe to East Asia has intensified over the past 20 years, which makes East Asia and its coastal areas increasingly important – a critical shift in current and future international relations dynamics underscored […]
U.S. Wealth-Concentration: The Most-Accurate Current Estimates
U.S. Wealth-Concentration: The Most-Accurate Current Estimates CURRENT REALITIES: Wealthiest Tenth (10%) of Americans Own 75% of America; They Draw 40% of All U.S. Income. Wealthiest Hundredth (1%) of Americans Own 43% of America; They Draw 20% of All U.S. Income. Wealthiest Thousandth (0.1%) of Americans Own 22% of America; They Draw 8% of All U.S. Income. Wealthiest Ten-Thousandth (0.01%) Own 11.2% of […]
Not Learning from Mideast Mistakes
Not Learning from Mideast Mistakes Exclusive: The neocon strategy of “regime change” has proved financially costly and strategically disastrous – setting almost the entire Middle East on fire – but almost no lessons have been learned, no accountability assessed, and no relevant questions asked, writes ex-U.S. diplomat William R. Polk. Apparently, the United States, perhaps Great Britain […]
Groups Encourage Transparency, Ask Obama For Honesty About Corporate Spending
Groups Encourage Transparency, Ask Obama For Honesty About Corporate Spending The Sierra Club sent a letter to President Obama this week, urging the President to make good on his promise of increasing transparency in Washington. Specifically, the environmental group wants the administration to be forthright about the political spending of mega-polluters and their government contracts. Courtney Hight, director […]
Revolution’s Matchstick
Revolution’s Matchstick Fighting The Trans-Pacific Partnership Rolling down the corporate-political assembly line is a trade deal so treasonous to the peoples of the world that it should serve as revolution’s matchstick. The treaty is secret, but one fact is well known: the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement is being negotiated by transnational corporations without a single US […]
Top German Politician Blasts Nuland & Carter: “F##k US Imperialism”
Top German Politician Blasts Nuland & Carter: “F##k US Imperialism” With intra-Europe relations hitting a new all-time low; and, having already been busted spying on Merkel, Obama got caught with his hand in Hollande’s cookie jar this week, the following exultation from one of Germany’s top politicians will hardly help Washington-Brussells relations. As Russia Insider notes, Oskar […]
Europe’s Complicity in Evil
Europe’s Complicity in Evil Sovereignty or Imperialism? On September 5, 2009 I addressed an international conference in Austria on the subject of Europe’s subordination to the US and, thus, the absence of any constructive criticism of US foreign and domestic policies. Karel van Wolferen, whose website is http://www.karelvanwolferen.com, kindly reminded me of my address to the […]
