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Falsehoods and Lies: Inciting War Is a War Crime
Falsehoods and Lies: Inciting War Is a War Crime The torrent of reckless false accusations against Russia made by the US and its NATO allies is hitting warp speed. This week saw more baseless allegations of Russian cyber attacks on American elections and British industries. There were also crass claims by US officials that Russia was behind so-called sonic […]
False Flag Potential in the Middle East: Iran, Syria, and Israel
False Flag Potential in the Middle East: Iran, Syria, and Israel Their End Goal for We the People: “I am the State…the State is all!” (“Quarlo” from “The Outer Limits,” episode “Soldier”) History does repeat itself; if not identically, then in identical circumstances and events in different nations. History also does not just “happen,” as […]
Russian Fighters Killed In Clash With US-Led Coalition Forces In Syria
Russian Fighters Killed In Clash With US-Led Coalition Forces In Syria With the calm of global capital markets shattered in the past two weeks, the ongoing military conflict in the Middle East has taken an understandable back seat to monetary matters. And yet, tensions involving Syria, Iran and Israel continue to escalate, most notably with […]
9/11 Was the Excuse for an Already Planned Invasion of Iraq
9/11 Was the Excuse for an Already Planned Invasion of Iraq 9/11 was the neoconservatives’ “New Pearl Harbor,” the excuse the neoconservatives said they needed to launch Washington’s invasions of the Middle East. As General Wesley Clark told us, the plan was seven countries in five years. The plan had nothing to do with “weapons […]
Recipe Concocted for Perpetual War Is a Bitter One
Recipe Concocted for Perpetual War Is a Bitter One Perpetual war is leading to a host of societal ills, yet debates on war and peace are almost entirely absent from public discourse, Robert Wing and Coleen Rowley observe. U.S. Marines patrol street in Shah Karez in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Staff […]
How regional rivalries threaten to fuel the fire in Syria and Iran
How regional rivalries threaten to fuel the fire in Syria and Iran Credit: Wikimedia Turkish allegations of Saudi, Emirati and Egyptian support for the outlawed Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) threaten to turn Turkey’s military offensive against Syrian Kurds aligned with the PKK into a regional imbroglio. The threat is magnified by Iranian assertions that low-intensity warfare is heating up in […]
UK’s Secret Cold War Plan For Middle East Oil Fields
UK’s Secret Cold War Plan For Middle East Oil Fields The 1950s were a turbulent time on both sides of the Iron Curtain. With the Second World War over and the star role played by crude oil in its outcome, British and U.S. intelligence agencies wasted no time working out scenarios should the Soviets invade […]
Mike Pence’s Middle East Tour: Outright Pressure and Threats as Foreign Policy Tools
Mike Pence’s Middle East Tour: Outright Pressure and Threats as Foreign Policy Tools Jordan’s King Abdullah II wants Washington to “rebuild trust “after US President Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The king believes that East Jerusalem must be the capital of Palestine. According to him, from now on the US has a “major challenge to overcome”. “Friends occasionally […]
Art Berman: Like It Or Not, The Future Remains All About Oil
Vladimir Yudin | Dreamstime.com iTunes | Google Play | Download | Report Problem Art Berman: Like It Or Not, The Future Remains All About Oil And competition for it is heating up Art Berman, 40-year veteran in the petroleum production industry and respected geological consultant, returns to the podcast this week to talk about oil. […]
The U.S. Foreign Policy Elite Still Wants the Middle East for Its Oil and Its Strategic Location
The U.S. Foreign Policy Elite Still Wants the Middle East for Its Oil and Its Strategic Location In recent testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, four former U.S. diplomats provided remarkably candid commentary on recent U.S. involvement in the Middle East, revealing a number of the most closely guarded secrets of U.S. diplomacy. The four former […]
US Syria Policy: One Step Closer to a New Large-Scale War
US Syria Policy: One Step Closer to a New Large-Scale War There are snags ahead for the US administration as it tries to bring to life its plans to build a wall on the Mexican border. President Trump will have to fight an uphill battle to keep his pre-election promise, but launching a program aimed […]
Is the Buildup to World War I Being Repeated for WWIII?
Is the Buildup to World War I Being Repeated for WWIII? The great scholar of Turkish history, Taner Akçam, has described today’s geopolitics — the alliances and hostilities toward possibly another World War — as being not ideologically based like WWII, but instead greed-based (empire-grabbing) like WWI: These are wars of power, influence, and control over the […]
2017 Year In Review
Tortoon/Shutterstock 2017 Year In Review Markets fiddle while Rome burns Every year, friend-of-the-site David Collum writes a detailed “Year in Review” synopsis full of keen perspective and plenty of wit. This year’s is no exception. As with past years, he has graciously selected PeakProsperity.com as the site where it will be published in full. It’s quite longer than […]
What Will Drive The Next Oil Price Crash?
What Will Drive The Next Oil Price Crash? As we roll into 2018, analysts and investors are more optimistic that the oil market will further tighten next year and support higher oil prices, but rising U.S. shale production will likely cap any significant price gains. On the demand side, expectations are that global economic growth […]
