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American Mass Media and Punditry Remain a Dishonest, Militaristic Embarrassment
American Mass Media and Punditry Remain a Dishonest, Militaristic Embarrassment When it comes to U.S. presidents, experience has taught me to always assume the worst. Irrespective of what the winning candidate said on the campaign trail, a few things things tend to happen once they’re sworn into office. To name a few, we almost always […]
The Volcano of Debt
The Volcano of Debt Just as gravity propels the lava from Kilauea inexorably toward the sea, a mountain of public and private debt looms over today’s markets. Earlier this week, the Boards of Trustees for both U.S. Social Security and Medicare released their latest updates on the “solvency” of the programs. The advisories can be […]
IEA: Oil Prices Could Rise Further As Shale Can’t Fill The Gap
IEA: Oil Prices Could Rise Further As Shale Can’t Fill The Gap U.S. shale will continue its breakneck growth rate into 2019, despite bottlenecks, but the oil market still faces serious supply risks from the potential losses from Venezuela and Iran, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in a new report. The IEA said that […]
Free Money Calculation: Fed Will Give $36.93 Billion of Taxpayer Money to Banks
Free Money Calculation: Fed Will Give $36.93 Billion of Taxpayer Money to Banks The Fed upped the interest it pays on excess reserves to 1.95% today. This is free money (taxpayer funded) to banks. The Fed bumped up the interest it pays on excess reserves today to 1.95%. Currently, excess reserves sit at $1.894 trillion. […]
Here’s What Would Happen If a Nuclear Bomb Was Detonated on the Ground in NYC
Here’s What Would Happen If a Nuclear Bomb Was Detonated on the Ground in NYC After the meeting between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump seemed to end on an optimistic note, one may have hoped that our fears of a nuclear attack would subside. Not so, according to The […]
Foundation of Anti-Imperialism
Foundation of Anti-Imperialism The United States has had a policy of imperialism beginning after the Civil War. The US way of war, developed against Indigenous peoples, spread worldwide as the US sought to extend its power through military force, economic dominance and diplomatic hegemony. Imperialism is driven by what Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. identified at the end […]
Saudi Oil Production Jumps In June Despite Drop In Oil Demand: OPEC
Saudi Oil Production Jumps In June Despite Drop In Oil Demand: OPEC It will probably not come as a surprise that at a time when both Trump, and Saudi Arabia, are pressing OPEC to reverse the 1.5 year long OPEC agreement and pump more oil so US gasoline prices dont soar in the summer months, […]
More Than Just Russia–There’s a Strong Case for the Trump Team Colluding with Saudi Arabia, Israel, and the UAE
MORE THAN JUST RUSSIA — THERE’S A STRONG CASE FOR THE TRUMP TEAM COLLUDING WITH SAUDI ARABIA, ISRAEL, AND THE UAE DONALD TRUMP HAS fully embraced both official, legalized corruption as well as good, old garden-variety individual corruption. Did Trump directly conspire with Vladimir Putin and Russia to influence the 2016 election? That is certainly […]
Canada Bets On Trans Mountain Expansion To Sell Oil In Asia
Canada Bets On Trans Mountain Expansion To Sell Oil In Asia Canada may be the fourth largest producer and third largest exporter of oil in the world, but it has one sole customer of its oil—the United States. At the end of last month, Canada took a step toward ensuring that its oil would have […]
The American Exceptionalism Myth and the Selling of U.S. Domination
The American Exceptionalism Myth and the Selling of U.S. Domination I believe in American exceptionalism with every fiber of my being. – Barack Obama, 2015. From birth, Americans are expected to believe in the notion of U.S. superiority over other peoples in other nations. The daily school ritual of pledging allegiance to the flag and playing […]
The Geostrategy That Guides Trump’s Foreign Policies
The Geostrategy That Guides Trump’s Foreign Policies According to Alastair Crooke, writing at Strategic Culture, on June 5th: “Trump’s US aims for ‘domination’, not through the globalists’ permanent infrastructure of the US defence umbrella, but through the smart leveraging of the US dollar and financial clearing monopoly, by ring-fencing, and holding tight, US technology, and by […]
