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Regime Change — American Style
Regime Change — American Style The campaign to overturn the 2016 election and bring down President Trump shifted into high gear this week. Inspiration came Saturday morning from the altar of the National Cathedral where our establishment came to pay homage to John McCain. Gathered there were all the presidents from 1993 to 2017, Bill […]
Global Trade Hit By Rare Decline As “Supply Chains Seize Up”
Global Trade Hit By Rare Decline As “Supply Chains Seize Up” With the Trump administration about to slap tariffs of up to 25% on an additional $200 billion in Chinese goods, new data suggests that the global slowdown has already begun. Confirming our observations from two weeks ago, in which we showed that the latest […]
Covert US Plot For Venezuela Coup Detailed In Explosive NYT Report
Covert US Plot For Venezuela Coup Detailed In Explosive NYT Report “This is going to land like a bomb” in the region, a former Latin America diplomatic official told the New York Times in this morning’s explosive lengthy report detailing how the Trump administration held covert meetings with Venezuelan military coup plotters targeting President Nicolás Maduro. The “clandestine channel” […]
Syria & Russia Accuse U.S. Coalition, ‘White Helmets’, of Preparing Chemical Weapons Attacks in and Near Idlib
Syria & Russia Accuse U.S. Coalition, ‘White Helmets’, of Preparing Chemical Weapons Attacks in and Near Idlib The Governments of Syria and Russia claim to have proofs that the U.S. coalition that has invaded and now occupies Syria has prepared chlorine and sarin gas attacks for Idlib and other areas where Syria and Russia are […]
U.S. Government Financial Balance Sheet One Step Closer To Blowing Up
U.S. Government Financial Balance Sheet One Step Closer To Blowing Up The U.S. Government’s balance sheet is one step closer to blowing up as its debt, and interest expense hit new record highs. And when I say “new record highs,” I am not exaggerating. It’s been a while since I checked the data on the […]
Trump’s Neocon Conversion and the Syrian 180
Trump’s Neocon Conversion and the Syrian 180 You have to feel a little sorry for the folks who voted for Trump expecting him to live up to his promise to bring the troops home and stop killing people. On Thursday Trump cleared up any doubt about his neocon conversion. Once again he made his supporters—or those […]
US Military Preparing For “Options” In Syria
US Military Preparing For “Options” In Syria Events are moving rapidly in Syria as Russian jets pound insurgent positions in Idlib Province and as the Syrian Army initiates a ground invasion which Damascus has described as coming in a “phased” approach. The White House responded to the Syrian and Russian bombing campaign by vowing it would act “swiftly and […]
Washington Announces Sanctions On Syrian Oil Industry
Washington Announces Sanctions On Syrian Oil Industry The U.S. Department of Treasury announced sanctions against five Syrian companies and four individuals on allegations of facilitating crude oil shipments and financing to the Assad government, Reuters reports, citing a statement by the department. One of the targets of the sanctions are businessman Muhammad al-Qatirji and a […]
Top US Envoy Says “Lots Of Evidence” Assad Prepping Chemical Weapons; Russia Threatens Attack On US Base
Top US Envoy Says “Lots Of Evidence” Assad Prepping Chemical Weapons; Russia Threatens Attack On US Base While Syria seemed to have dropped from the Western media’s radar over the past months as the Syrian Army and its Russian and Iranian allies made rapid gains, multiple huge developments this week have returned the war to center […]
Canada, the Petroyuan Thesis, and Balance of Trade Issues in Pictures
Canada, the Petroyuan Thesis, and Balance of Trade Issues in Pictures As NAFTA negotiations linger on, let’s step back and see what Trump’s threats are all about. The US has had a goods surplus with Canada every month since 1985. Nonetheless, Trump is incredibly annoyed at Canada and threatens to put tariffs on Canadian cars. […]
Climate of Class Rule: Common(s)er Revolt or Common Ruin
Climate of Class Rule: Common(s)er Revolt or Common Ruin Photo Source r. nial bradshaw | CC BY 2.0 Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that […]
Sheryl Sandberg Misled Congress About Facebook’s Conscience
Photo: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images SHERYL SANDBERG MISLED CONGRESS ABOUT FACEBOOK’S CONSCIENCE FACEBOOK CHIEF OPERATING officer Sheryl Sandberg draped herself in the star-spangled banner of American principles before today’s Senate Select Intelligence Committee hearing on social media. Sandberg proclaimed that democratic values of free expression were integral to the company’s conscience. “We would only operate in a […]
Plutocracy Now!
Plutocracy Now! The United States today qualifies as a plutocracy – on a number of grounds, and it is having a profound impact on the media, education and think tanks–indeed on the whole of society, says Michael Brenner. Plutocracy literally means rule by the rich. “Rule” can have various shades of meaning: those who exercise […]
Over Half The U.S. Has Now Been Hit By Drought As Lake Powell And Lake Mead Drop To “Dangerous” Low Levels
Over Half The U.S. Has Now Been Hit By Drought As Lake Powell And Lake Mead Drop To “Dangerous” Low Levels The worst drought in years in the western half of the United States has sparked hundreds of wildfires, has crippled thousands of farms, and has produced what could ultimately be the worst water crisis […]
Psychic Nikki Haley: If There Is A Future Chemical Weapons Attack, Assad Did It
Psychic Nikki Haley: If There Is A Future Chemical Weapons Attack, Assad Did It UN Ambassador and Clairvoyant Prognosticator of the Transmundane Nikki Haley has foreseen that, if there are any future chemical weapons attacks in the Syrian province of Idlib, it will most definitely be the Syrian government that is responsible and not the multiple […]
