Home » Posts tagged 'united states' (Page 165)
Tag Archives: united states
The Empire Strikes Out
The Empire Strikes Out Watching the debacle unfold that is the contemporary U.S. is like watching a tsunami approach an ocean shore and knowing that it’s pretty much time to kiss, well, readers can catch the drift of this line of thought without too much reliance on imagination. Now we stand on the precipice and […]
Staying the Course: the Long March of Middle East Destruction
Staying the Course: the Long March of Middle East Destruction When falsely convicted Andy Dufresne bored a hole through the Shawshank prison wall over the course of two decades, narrator “Red” says that Andy always liked geology, and that geology, like digging through a prison wall with a rock hammer, is just a matter of “pressure […]
US Plans “Significantly More” South China Sea War-Drills To Counter China’s “New Reality”
US Plans “Significantly More” South China Sea War-Drills To Counter China’s “New Reality” After an exciting weekend of comments from U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis and Chinese People’s Liberation Army Lieutenant General He Lei at the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue, a civilian and military defense summit in Singapore, it appears the United States had to have the last word. On Sunday, […]
Trump Asked Saudi Arabia To Boost Oil Production By 1 Million Barrels Per Day
Trump Asked Saudi Arabia To Boost Oil Production By 1 Million Barrels Per Day It all started on April 20, when having tweeted at and about virtually everything else, President Trump realized that surging oil and gasoline prices are wreaking havoc on his economic agenda and eating away at the benefits from his tax cuts, […]
Shale Bottlenecks Could Send Oil Prices Higher
Shale Bottlenecks Could Send Oil Prices Higher Amid reports that OPEC will likely decide to start easing production quotas after June 22 and an IEA forecast that electric vehicles will displace 2.5 million bpd in crude oil demand by 2030, some analysts remain upbeat about the future of oil prices, citing transport constraints in the […]
The American Way of War: Evolution Stops Here
The American Way of War: Evolution Stops Here America does what it wants. This is obvious, except it’s also monstrously unnerving. Let’s at least add some quote marks: “America” does what it wants — this secretly defined, self-obsessed, unelected entity that purports to be the United States of America, all 325 million of us, but […]
How and Why the US Government Perpetrated the 2014 Coup in Ukraine
How and Why the US Government Perpetrated the 2014 Coup in Ukraine This will document that the ‘new Cold War’ between the US and Russia did not start, as the Western myth has it, with Russia’s involvement in the breakaway of Crimea and Donbass from Ukraine, after Ukraine — next door to Russia — had […]
“Unacceptable”: China Blasts Mattis For “Irresponsible Comments” About South China Sea Islands
“Unacceptable”: China Blasts Mattis For “Irresponsible Comments” About South China Sea Islands A Chinese general on Saturday defended Beijing’s military build-up in the South China Sea, blasting the “irresponsible comments” made by U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis, who on Saturday accused Beijing of threatening its neighbors in the heavily disputed waters and warned China of “consequences” […]
“This Is A Red Line”: Beijing Warns Trump Trade Deal Is Off If US Imposes Tariffs
“This Is A Red Line”: Beijing Warns Trump Trade Deal Is Off If US Imposes Tariffs In a scathing editorial warning Trump to back off on his latest tariff threat, on Sunday China said that any trade deals between the US and China, and any progress and commitments made so far in bilateral negotiations would […]
Mattis Warns Of “Consequences” If Beijing Continues Weaponizing The South China Sea
Mattis Warns Of “Consequences” If Beijing Continues Weaponizing The South China Sea The United States and China appear to be headed for a military collision in the Southeast Asia region, as Washington warns of a more powerful military response to the increased weaponization of the heavily disputed islands in the South China Sea. Speaking at […]
“Just Days Left” To Avoid Trade War France Says, As G-7 Condemn Trump
“Just Days Left” To Avoid Trade War France Says, As G-7 Condemn Trump With Trump refusing to back down and slapping Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from the EU, Canada and Mexico, which were enacted at midnight on June 1, the G-7 meeting taking place in Whistler, also known as Canada’s Davos, […]
De-Dollarization Escalates: “African Economy Needs More Usage Of Chinese Yuan”
De-Dollarization Escalates: “African Economy Needs More Usage Of Chinese Yuan” The world’s push towards de-dollarization continues to accelerate as Americans go about their daily lives worrying more about blasphemous comedians, participation trophies, and Kim and Kanye’s traitorous behavior. From yuan-denominated oil futures (and soon to be yuan-denominated metals contracts) to Europe’s decision to use Yuan […]
