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Peace Talk Between Nuclear Superpowers Offends America’s Assholes And Morons
Peace Talk Between Nuclear Superpowers Offends America’s Assholes And Morons When I was a little girl I used to end all my nightly prayers with the words, “And please no nuclear war, and peace on earth. Amen.” This was in the early eighties. The knowledge that weapons existed armed and ready which could annihilate all life […]
Record Oil Production Doesn’t Free U.S. From Global Market
Record Oil Production Doesn’t Free U.S. From Global Market In the first week of July, U.S. net imports of petroleum products fell to just 1.670 million barrels per day (mb/d), the lowest weekly total on record in at least three decades. The decline of net imports comes as the U.S. has ramped up oil production […]
Trump On Path for War With Iran in the “National Interest”
Trump On Path for War With Iran in the “National Interest” Trump’s Iran policy not only has US allies hopping mad, it also has us on a path towards another major Mideast war. “We will seek to provide unprecedented financial pressure on the Iranian regime,” the U.S. said, rebuffing Britain, France, and Germany which requested […]
World Trade War Has Begun
World Trade War Has Begun “By imposing tariffs of 25% on hundreds of products imported from China worth US$34 billion a year on Friday, July 6, the United States has violated the rules of the World Trade Organization and launched the largest trade war in the world’s economic history,” a statement by China’s Commerce Ministry declarae. […]
The Myth of US ‘Inaction’ in Syria
The Myth of US ‘Inaction’ in Syria Introduction When the Russian military intervened in the Syrian war in October 2015, many in the Western press complained bitterly, demanding that US planners intervene directly in Syria on behalf of the anti-government rebels in response. Reuters alleged that “The Middle East is angry and bewildered by US […]
Record Deficits, Stronger Dollar Equals Record China Trade Deficit
Record Deficits, Stronger Dollar Equals Record China Trade Deficit Sometimes math is a real bitch. Donald Trump is a smart guy. I know he knows math. Too bad he’s ignoring it. Here’s the gig. The title says it all. Government spending is rising rapidly. More actual money is flowing into the US economy. Where is that […]
Five Things That Would Make The CIA/CNN Russia Narrative More Believable
Five Things That Would Make The CIA/CNN Russia Narrative More Believable As we just discussed, some major news stories have recently dropped about what a horrible horrifying menace the Russian Federation is to the world, and as always I have nothing to offer the breathless pundits on CNN and MSNBC but my completely unsatisfied skepticism. […]
World’s Largest Shipping Company Collapses As Trade War Reality Strikes
World’s Largest Shipping Company Collapses As Trade War Reality Strikes While US equity markets (well a few mega-cap tech stocks anyway) have remained resilient in the context of rising protectionist fears, theworld’s largest shipping company is seeing its stock eviscerated as investor anxiety over trade wars finds an outlet that makes rational sense. A.P. Moeller-Maersk […]
The Market Gods Are Laughing
The Market Gods Are Laughing POITOU, FRANCE – President Trump escalated the trade war yesterday, making a kamikaze attack on a vast armada of Chinese imports – $200 billion in total – headed for California. The Chinese say they will retaliate. Phony Wars Last month, we opined that the trade war wouldn’t go any better […]
Lessons That Should Have Been Learned From NATO’s Destruction of Libya
Lessons That Should Have Been Learned From NATO’s Destruction of Libya Photo by Bernd.Brincken | CC BY 2.0 The summit meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the military alliance that is expanding its deployments of troops, combat and surveillance aircraft and missile ships around Russia’s borders, took place on July 11-12 and was a […]
The U.S. Energy Industry Can’t Afford A Trade War
The U.S. Energy Industry Can’t Afford A Trade War As the U.S.-China trade spat turns into a full-blown war with tariffs and retaliatory tariffs and threats of further tariffs, U.S. energy exports to China may suffer if Beijing follows through with its threat to slap tariffs on U.S. oil and oil product imports. China has, […]
For Peace With Putin, End America’s Pointless Wars
For Peace With Putin, End America’s Pointless Wars Ignore the establishment: Trump has a huge opportunity at his upcoming summit. Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump meet at the 2017 G-20 Hamburg Summit. Credit: Creative Commons/www.kremlin.ru. The upcoming summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin is an overdue opportunity for the American president’s next bold peace […]
Bank of Canada Hikes Rates By 25bps, Loonie Rises On Hawkish Take
Bank of Canada Hikes Rates By 25bps, Loonie Rises On Hawkish Take The Bank of Canada raised the overnight rate by 25bps to 1.5%, in line with consensus estimates. In justifying the move, the Bank said it expects the global economy to grow by about 3.75% in 2018 and 3.5% in 2019, adding that the […]
How Trump is Reshaping US Foreign Policy
How Trump is Reshaping US Foreign Policy Trump’s policies are shaping America’s relationship with the world in major ways even if those policies don’t exhibit a consistent strategy, observes Paul Pillar. The urge within the commentariat to describe every president’s foreign policy in terms of some clearly defined doctrine is as strong as ever, but […]
The Foundation of the West is Rocked as Tribalism Becomes Normality
The Foundation of the West is Rocked as Tribalism Becomes Normality In our modern digital age, news comes at you fast. Never before has the spread of information traveled so quickly or social media been so influential. And never before have problems been exacerbated so rapidly. The West is in turmoil, as chaos seeps into […]
