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What Will Follow The Age Of Oil?
What Will Follow The Age Of Oil? U.S. natural gas production will increase by 10 percent this year alone and by as much as 60 percent by 2037, a new report from IHS Markit has forecast. The market research company is extremely upbeat about U.S. gas because of the shale gas revolution, seeing the country […]
Pro-War Media Deserve Slamming, Not Sainthood
Pro-War Media Deserve Slamming, Not Sainthood Still from “The Post.” The media nowadays are busy congratulating themselves for their vigorous criticism of Donald Trump. To exploit that surge of sanctimony, Hollywood producer Steven Spielberg rushed out The Post, a movie depicting an epic press battle with the Nixon administration. Critics raved over the film, which the […]
Report: New US Coalition Airstrikes On Government Positions In Eastern Syria
Report: New US Coalition Airstrikes On Government Positions In Eastern Syria Though as yet unconfirmed in other international sources, Russian and Syrian state media are reporting major US coalition airstrikes in eastern Syria which left multiple civilians and at least one Syrian soldier dead. Syria’s SANA reports eight civilians killed and many injured during US […]
What Kind of Country Are We?
What Kind of Country Are We? That’s what Time magazine tweeted this morning. It is trying to place the blame for Trump’s immigration policy—specifically, his separation policy—on all Americans. Time wants us to stand up for the children. ✔ TIME’s new cover: A reckoning after Trump’s border separation policy: What kind of country are we? https://ti.me/2JVINI1 […]
The Entire Western World Lives In Cognitive Dissonance
The Entire Western World Lives In Cognitive Dissonance In this column I am going to use three of the current top news stories to illustrate the disconnect that is everywhere in the Western mind. Let us begin with the family separation issue. The separation of children from immigrant/refugee/asylum parents has caused such public outcry that […]
The United States Is Pushing Toward War With China
Is a War With China on the Horizon? Ships travel in formation in the Pacific Ocean during the Rim of the Pacific multinational naval exercise, July 25, 2014. (Reuters / US Navy / Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Shannon E. Renfroe / Handout) There’s no other imperial tradition like it. For two millennia, dynasty after […]
The Diseased, Lying, Condition of America’s ‘News’Media
The Diseased, Lying, Condition of America’s ‘News’Media Both President Trump and former President Obama are commonly said in America’s ‘news’ media to be or to have been “ceding Syria to Russia” or “ceding Syria to Russia and Iran,” or similar allegations. They imply that ‘we’ own (or have some right to control) Syria. That’s not only a lie; it is […]
Why a US-Style Housing Bust & Mortgage Crisis Can Happen in Canada, Australia, and Other Bubble Markets
Why a US-Style Housing Bust & Mortgage Crisis Can Happen in Canada, Australia, and Other Bubble Markets Despite persistent and false memes to the contrary. When a housing downturn gets big enough, there will be a mortgage crisis, and it will hit banks, shadow banks, and mortgage insurers no matter what the mortgage laws are: […]
The Pentagon Expands Its Provocative Encirclement of China
The Pentagon Expands Its Provocative Encirclement of China It failed to make headlines, but the recent change in name of the U.S. Pacific Command is an ominous sign of a coming U.S. confrontation with China, argues Michael T. Klare. U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis announced a momentous shift in American global strategic policy in […]
China’s Oil Trade Retaliation is Iran’s Gain
China’s Oil Trade Retaliation is Iran’s Gain I’ve told you that once you start down the Trade War path forever will it dominate your destiny. Well here we are. Trump slaps big tariffs on aluminum and steel in a bid to leverage Gary Cohn’s ICE Wall plan to control the metals and oils futures markets. I’m […]
Trade End Game Scenarios: Boycott Treasuries vs Yuan Devaluation
Trade End Game Scenarios: Boycott Treasuries vs Yuan Devaluation Since there is no longer any reasonable debate about a trade war having started, let’s investigate how it ends. End Game Analysis The end-game retaliation comes via a global boycott of the Treasury auctions. Foreign entities fund half the US fiscal deficit, which is set to […]
Big Brother Facebook: Drawing Down the Iron Curtain on Yankeedom
Big Brother Facebook: Drawing Down the Iron Curtain on Yankeedom Leading a double life When my partner, Barbara, first opened an account on Facebook, she used it in a way that most people in Yankeedom use it. Her network was an eclectic assortment of family, current and former workmates, new and old friends, neighbors and […]
Getting Ready for Nuclear War
Getting Ready for Nuclear War Although many people have criticized the bizarre nature of Donald Trump’s diplomacy with North Korea, his recent lovefest with Kim Jong Un does have the potential to reduce the dangers posed by nuclear weapons on the Korean peninsula. Even so, buried far below the mass media coverage of the summit […]
Assange and Truth: the Deeper (Harder) Issue
Assange and Truth: the Deeper (Harder) Issue Photo by thierry ehrmann | CC BY 2.0 When Harold Pinter got the Nobel Prize (2005), he described “a vast tapestry of lies upon which we feed”. He asked why “systematic brutality, widespread atrocities, ruthless suppression of independent thought” were well-known when they occurred in the Soviet Union. […]
Murder Incorporated
Murder Incorporated Murder Incorporated is a three-book series by Mumia Abu Jamal and Stephen Vittoria, which I can highly recommend based on the first book. The other two are not out yet. Book One, “Dreaming of Empire,” is a critique of U.S. imperialism, a debunking of U.S. nationalist myths, a corrective or alternative history of […]
