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Will China Really Supplant US Economic Hegemony?
STR/AFP/Getty Images Will China Really Supplant US Economic Hegemony? As artificial intelligence reshapes the global economy, economists who once argued that China’s massive population would propel it to superpower status should rethink that assumption. In fact, as the global economy reaches higher stages of development, China’s labor advantage today could become a handicap tomorrow. […]
Syriasly
Syriasly “Peace with Honor” was President Nixon’s anodyne phrase for futzing around as long as possible in Vietnam to conceal the reality that the US military was getting its ass kicked by what we had initially thought was a 98-pound weakling of a Third World country. That was a half-century ago and I remember it […]
Russia ‘Novichok’ Hysteria Proves Politicians and Media Haven’t Learned the Lessons of Iraq
Russia ‘Novichok’ Hysteria Proves Politicians and Media Haven’t Learned the Lessons of Iraq The current state of anti-Russia hysteria is reminiscent of earlier dark chapters of American history, including the rush to war in Iraq of the early 2000s and McCarthyism of the 1950s, Patrick Henningsen observes. If there’s one thing to be gleaned from […]
The Isolation of Julian Assange Must Stop
The Isolation of Julian Assange Must Stop We call on the government of Ecuador to allow Julian Assange his right of freedom of speech. If it was ever clear that the case of Julian Assange was never just a legal case, but a struggle for the protection of basic human rights, it is now. Citing […]
Michigan Activates Emergency Ops Ahead Of Chinese Space Station Crash
Michigan Activates Emergency Ops Ahead Of Chinese Space Station Crash With China’s Tiangong-1 space station (translated as “Heavenly Palace”) full of highly toxic chemicals such as hydrazine, set to crash into the earth at a still unknown location some time today, Michigan isn’t taking any chances. As a reminder, several weeks ago Aerospace.org predicted that […]
Whatever Happened to Saving for a Rainy Day?
Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Whatever Happened to Saving for a Rainy Day? The US will be paying for its current fiscal excesses with the promise of future payments. But inefficient economic stimulus now will not give future generations the productive resources needed to make good on it. CAMBRIDGE – More than a decade […]
Americans Trust ‘Our’ Intelligence Agencies. Should We?
Americans Trust ‘Our’ Intelligence Agencies. Should We? The record is clear that ‘our’ (that is, the ruling Establishment’s) intelligence agencies, such as the CIA, have lied to the public many times, actually lie routinely — but these lies are always revealed only decades later, by historians, which is too late, because the damage was already […]
What Could Dethrone the Dollar as Top Reserve Currency?
What Could Dethrone the Dollar as Top Reserve Currency? Central banks seem leery about the Chinese yuan. What will finally pull the rug out from under the dollar’s hegemony? The euro? The Chinese yuan? Cryptocurrencies? The Greek drachma? Whatever it will be, and however fervently the death-of-the-dollar folks might wish for it, it’s not happening […]
Russian Ambassador Speaks Out: “Relations With The US Are The Worst I Can Remember”
Russian Ambassador Speaks Out: “Relations With The US Are The Worst I Can Remember” The Russian ambassador to the United States, Anatoly Antonov, told NBC’s Today that he can’t remember a period when relations between Washington and Moscow were worse, after both countries expelled dozens of each other’s diplomats following the poisoning of a former Russian […]
The Struggle Continues For Bankrupt Shale Drillers
The Struggle Continues For Bankrupt Shale Drillers Remember the wave of bankruptcies that hit shale E&Ps and oilfield services providers in the shale patch between 2015 and 2017? Over those two years, more than 120 oil and gas producers filed for bankruptcy protection in the United States, figures from Haynes & Boone showed last year. […]
U.S. Tourists Will Be Required To Turn Over Their Social Media History
U.S. Tourists Will Be Required To Turn Over Their Social Media History The State Department will unveil new rules on Friday requiring most visitors or immigrants to the United States to turn over their recent social media histories, in accordance with one of President Trump’s key national security enhancements contained in his “extreme vetting” executive […]
Getting Ready for Nuclear War
Getting Ready for Nuclear War Photo by Steve Snodgrass | CC BY 2.0 John Bolton is to assume the appointment as President Trump’s National Security Adviser on April 9. On February 28 he wrote in the Wall Street Journal that “it is perfectly legitimate for the United States to respond to the current ‘necessity’ posed by North Korea’s […]
Turkey Breaks with NATO, Refuses to Expel Russians
Turkey Breaks with NATO, Refuses to Expel Russians Ankara (GPA) – Turkey has broken with their NATO allies and decided not to expel Russian diplomats at the behest of the UK. Following the alleged March 4th alleged Russian poisoning of Sergei Skripal, an ex-double agent in the UK, several European countries and the US have […]
3 Recent Events That Could Send the US Hurtling Toward World War III
3 Recent Events That Could Send the US Hurtling Toward World War III Recently, the news has been all abuzz with teen activists who want to take away our guns but refuse to use clear backpacks, the Facebook privacy scandal, and how someone bit Beyonce in the face. But there are three recent events that […]
