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Ukraine’s NATO Bid Risks Even Worse U.S.-Russia Ties
Ukraine’s NATO Bid Risks Even Worse U.S.-Russia Ties Ukraine has made new moves towards joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which would cross a Russian “red line” and further deteriorate U.S.-Russia relations, argues Will Porter. It’s been four years since the hectic “Euromaidan” protest movement culminated in a coup that deposed Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. […]
Is It Time for A Nice, “Little” Nuclear War?
Is It Time for A Nice, “Little” Nuclear War? I have been accused by many of being cynical. My accusers make this claim in the context of my being “pessimistic, sardonic, or negative.” Having been a middle-school student crouching under his desk with a piece of notebook paper over his head during the “Cuban Missile […]
BBC Reporter Discourages Syria Questions Due To “Information War” With Russia
BBC Reporter Discourages Syria Questions Due To “Information War” With Russia A BBC interview is making the rounds today among opponents of western interventionism in Syria. The subject of the interview, Admiral Alan West, voiced some much needed skepticism about the establishment narrative around the alleged gas attack in Douma. Everybody’s talking about it because West […]
WW3 Alert: NATO Readies 35,000 Troops For Combat Amidst ‘Russia Tensions’
WW3 Alert: NATO Readies 35,000 Troops For Combat Amidst ‘Russia Tensions’ Citing increasing tensions with Russia, NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) has begun to prepare 35,000 troops for combat. The troops will participate in the largest training exercise conducted since the end of the Cold War. NATO commanders revealed the thousands of soldiers from 30 […]
Returning to the Commonplace
Returning to the Commonplace There are times when the twilight of the American century takes on a quality of surreal absurdity I can only compare to French existentialist theater or the better productions of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, and this is one of them. Over the weekend, in response to a chemical-weapons incident in Syria […]
China Prepares “Emergency Response Plan” Amid Escalating US Trade War
China Prepares “Emergency Response Plan” Amid Escalating US Trade War While in recent days the growing trade war between China and the US has moved off the front page of market concerns despite now daily skirmishes such as today’s anti-dumping probe launch by the US into US steel wheels which followed a Chinese 179% tariff […]
The Road to 2025 (Part 1) – Prepare for a Multi-Polar World
The Road to 2025 (Part 1) – Prepare for a Multi-Polar World If pressed to describe what I think the next several years will look like as concisely as possible, I’d simply provide the following quote, often misattributed to Lenin: “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” There will […]
China’s “Nuclear Option” in the Trade War
China’s “Nuclear Option” in the Trade War The United States has been interested in economic relations with China since 1784, shortly after the American War for Independence. At first, this interest was purely economic, because the British refused to deal with the U.S. (for obvious reasons). So the Americans bought Chinese goods, and the Chinese […]
Syrian Conflict Is A Distraction From A Secret War
Syrian Conflict Is A Distraction From A Secret War Back in March 2010 I published an article titled ‘Will Globalists Trigger Yet Another World War?’under the pen name Giordano Bruno describing what I felt would be the most effective triggers for a new global conflict. In that article I pointed to Syria as the primary […]
The Neocons’ Real Plan for Syria Emerges from the Lack of Rubble
The Neocons’ Real Plan for Syria Emerges from the Lack of Rubble I told you over the weekend that Trump’s presidency was over. As a practical matter it is. His yielding to his ‘advisors’ on every foreign policy issue makes it clear that he can’t or won’t stand up to the relentless pressure to do what […]
How US Has Virtually Destroyed UN
How US Has Virtually Destroyed UN Under President Donald Trump, the US has basically eliminated the only real international authority the UN used to have. Here is how this was done: The equivalent, in international law, to a domestic-law crime involving murder, rape, and theft, is an international invasion that’s purely for aggressive purposes and […]
Is the “Petro-Yuan” a Credible Challenge to Dollar Supremacy?
Is the “Petro-Yuan” a Credible Challenge to Dollar Supremacy? Wolf Richter with Jim Goddard on This Week in Money: China latest effort to get its currency to be used globally is the “petro-yuan.” Is it a credible challenge to the supremacy of the US dollar? If China dumped US Treasuries, what would that accomplish? And […]
Trump’s Disastrous Syria Attack
Trump’s Disastrous Syria Attack Over the weekend, President Trump celebrated firing more than 100 missiles into Syria by Tweeting, “Mission Accomplished!” They say if you cannot learn from history you are condemned to repeat it. So I guess we are repeating it. We all remember that “Mission Accomplished” was the banner behind then-President Bush as […]
A Tale of American Hubris: Or Five Lessons in the History of American Defeat
A Tale of American Hubris: Or Five Lessons in the History of American Defeat The lessons of history? Who needs them? Certainly not Washington’s present cast of characters, a crew in flight from history, the past, or knowledge of more or less any sort. Still, just for the hell of it, let’s take a few moments […]
Kabuki Warfare
Kabuki Warfare When this chapter of US history is finally written, it will look like a deep dive into a vat of lentil soup. In Syria Friday night, we came, we saw, and we slung 103 cruise missiles into largely symbolic targets, including a supposed chemical weapons plant just outside Damascus, and some other places […]
