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Iran’s Top Oil Customers Resist U.S. Calls For Zero Imports
Iran’s Top Oil Customers Resist U.S. Calls For Zero Imports Just a few days before U.S. sanctions on Iranian oil exports return on November 5, the keywords about how much of Iran’s oil will come off the market are ‘lack of clarity’. On the one hand, it’s unclear how much Iranian oil will really be […]
U.S. And OPEC Flood Oil Market Ahead Of Midterms
U.S. And OPEC Flood Oil Market Ahead Of Midterms OPEC and the U.S. are together adding enormous volumes of new supply, which together have softened the oil market. In October, OPEC hiked oil production to the highest level since 2016, back before the oil production cuts went into effect, according to a recent Reuters survey. […]
Sarah Chayes on Kleptocracy in America
Sarah Chayes on Kleptocracy in America In 2015, Sarah Chayes came out with her book Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security. She has since moved to West Virginia, where she’s writing a book about corruption in the United States. It’s a take off on Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America. Working title? Kleptocracy in America. Kleptocracy […]
Risky Business
RISKY BUSINESS “In 1961, at the height of the Cold War, a B-52 bomber carrying two Mark 39 thermonuclear bombs accidentally crashed in rural North Carolina. A low technology voltage switch was the only thing that prevented a 4-megaton nuclear bomb with 250 times the yield of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima from detonating on […]
The New Global Tinderbox: It’s Not Your Mother’s Cold War
The New Global Tinderbox: It’s Not Your Mother’s Cold War When it comes to relations between Donald Trump’s America, Vladimir Putin’s Russia, and Xi Jinping’s China, observers everywhere are starting to talk about a return to an all-too-familiar past. “Now we have a new Cold War,” commented Russia expert Peter Felgenhauer in Moscow after President Trump […]
DoD Official Urges Taiwan To Buy More Weapons In Fear Of “Cross-Strait Invasion” By China
DoD Official Urges Taiwan To Buy More Weapons In Fear Of “Cross-Strait Invasion” By China A Pentagon official said Monday that Taiwan should increase its military spending to safeguard continued peace and security both across the Taiwan Strait and within the Indo-Pacific, reported Focus Taiwan. David Helvey, U.S. principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for […]
US Approves Waivers On Iranian Oil Imports As Supply Panic Fades
US Approves Waivers On Iranian Oil Imports As Supply Panic Fades With oil prices already extending the drop from their highs as the trader “panic attack” identified by celebrated energy analyst Art Berman abates, and approaching a bear market from recent highs, a Friday morning report from Bloomberg will likely ensure that prices continue to […]
Just in Time Stimulus: Fed Proposes Looser Rules for Large U.S. Banks
Just in Time Stimulus: Fed Proposes Looser Rules for Large U.S. Banks The Fed’s proposal marks one of the most significant rollbacks of bank regulations since Trump took office. The Wall Street Journal reports Fed Proposes Looser Rules for Large U.S. Banks The Federal Reserve announced one of the most significant rollbacks of bank rules […]
America and Russia: Tamanous and Sobornost
America and Russia: Tamanous and Sobornost In the first two essays in this sequence, I sketched out the framework of Oswald Spengler’s vision of the process by which great cultures rise, work through their possibilities, and fossilize once those possibilities have been pushed as far as they can go. That vision of history pretty reliably […]
US Blames Iran For Impoverishing Civilians While Prepping Further Sanctions
US Blames Iran For Impoverishing Civilians While Prepping Further Sanctions The United States government is preparing to implement an additional level of sanctions against Iran for its refusal to meet a dozen demands that are so absurdly unreasonable that they have been called a regime change policy in all but name. The sanctions which have […]
A Rules-Based Global Order or Rule-less US Global ‘Order’?
A Rules-Based Global Order or Rule-less US Global ‘Order’? “It has taken the US military/security complex 31 years to get rid of President Reagan’s last nuclear disarmament achievement – the INF Treaty, that President Reagan and Soviet President Gorbachev achieved in 1987”, writes Reagan’s former Assistant Treasury Secretary: “Behind the scenes, I had some role […]
DARPA Seeks FAA Approval For Military Drones Over American Cities By 2030 – At The Latest
DARPA Seeks FAA Approval For Military Drones Over American Cities By 2030 – At The Latest Just a little over 10 years after drone surveillance inside U.S. borders was declared a conspiracy theory, it is now an indisputable fact of life. So, too, are military grade drones along the “border,” which in reality constitutes a […]
India Calls Trump’s Bluff, Will Pay For Russian S-400s In Rubles
India Calls Trump’s Bluff, Will Pay For Russian S-400s In Rubles After facing down US threats of possible economic sanctions should it follow through with its plans to purchase nearly $5.4 billion in Russian S-400 anti-ballistic missile systems, India has successfully called the US’s bluff. After India stood its ground and insisted on moving ahead […]
Russia Eyeing Military Base In Cuba As US Prepares To Leave Nuclear Missile Deal
Russia Eyeing Military Base In Cuba As US Prepares To Leave Nuclear Missile Deal A senior Russian official proposed that his country is seriously considering establishing a military base in Cuba in response to Trump’s plan to quit the INF treaty, predicting that “a new Cuban crisis” could erupt if the US and Russia fail […]
Are You Prepared for Lockdown? How to Stay Safe When All Hell Breaks Loose in America
Are You Prepared for Lockdown? How to Stay Safe When All Hell Breaks Loose in America Tensions are incredibly high in the United States right now. I realized that over the past three years, I’ve written that they’re “at an all-time high” far too many times. So, I’ll just say, they’re high enough that all […]
