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Rand Paul: Deep State Exists, Uses Intelligence for Political Purposes
Rand Paul: Deep State Exists, Uses Intelligence for Political Purposes Washington, D.C.— Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said Tuesday during an appearance on The Laura Ingraham Show podcast that the term “deep state” accurately describes how an unelected bureaucracy of national security officials in positions of power exert influence without Congressional oversight. “Absolutely, there is a […]
If You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It
If You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It Various readers, fans, blog commenters, Facebook trolls, and auditors twanged on me all last week about my continuing interest in the RussiaRussiaRussia hysteria, though there is no particular consensus of complaint among them — except for a general “shut up, already” motif. For the […]
The Russian Military Warns: a Major War in Syria Is Imminent
The Russian Military Warns: a Major War in Syria Is Imminent On March 17, the Russian General Staff warned about an imminent attack on Syria. The statement did not elaborate. Of course, some information is classified but an independent and impartial analysis of publicly available information leads one to the same conclusion. Let’s look at the facts. […]
China Is Days Away From Killing the Petrodollar
China Is Days Away From Killing the Petrodollar Not long ago, there was a popular joke in China that went something like, “Who is Xi Jinping?” The answer was, “The husband of Peng Liyuan,” the famous singer Xi is married to. Today, Xi is China’s president. He leads 1.4 billion people. And he’ll likely be […]
US Planning a Terrorist False Flag Chemical Attack to Justify Bombing Syria: Russia Says It Will Respond
US Planning a Terrorist False Flag Chemical Attack to Justify Bombing Syria: Russia Says It Will Respond Events in Syria increasingly resemble a direct confrontation between major powers rather than a proxy war. Lavrov’s words, delivered a few days ago, reveal the critical phase of international relations the world is going through, with a potentially […]
China Unveils How It Will Retaliate To US Tariffs, USDJPY Snaps
China Unveils How It Will Retaliate To US Tariffs, USDJPY Snaps While it will hardly come as a surprise considering that trade wars always evolve in an escalating tit-for-tat manner, the WSJ reports that just hours ahead of Trump’s announcement of as much as $60 billion in tariffs targeting Beijing, China is preparing to hit […]
Time is Running Out: Who Will Protect Our Wrecked Democracy from the American Oligarchy?
Time is Running Out: Who Will Protect Our Wrecked Democracy from the American Oligarchy? Photo by Joe Schueller | CC BY 2.0 There’s been an interesting debate over the years about the relation between capitalism and democracy, for example, are they even compatible? I won’t be pursuing this because I’d like to discuss a different […]
A World War Might Sound Crazy, but It Could Be America’s Last Act of Desperation
A World War Might Sound Crazy, but It Could Be America’s Last Act of Desperation (ANTIMEDIA Op-ed)— Though some have been warning about the catastrophic potential for a third global conflict for years, it wasn’t until recently that these warnings became more mainstream. The calamitous nature of the violence in Syria — which has one nuclear power defending a government that has been the target […]
Fourth Nor’Easter Of The Month Could Paralyze North East (Again)
Fourth Nor’Easter Of The Month Could Paralyze North East (Again) Just when you thought it was the first day of spring… Ed Vallee, head meteorologist at Vallee Weather Consulting LLC., warns of the fourth nor’easter this month — expected to slam into the North East on Wednesday: “Another coastal storm will take shape Tuesday off […]
Attack Against Nord Stream 2 Renewed with Vigor: Whose Interests Does It Meet?
Attack Against Nord Stream 2 Renewed with Vigor: Whose Interests Does It Meet? Economics dictate national interests. Foreign policy is the tool used to advance it. Moscow has to fight back on all fronts, but the truth is that Washington does not care much about chemical attacks in Eastern Ghouta, the Salisbury poisoning, election meddling, […]
Emperor Xi Delivers Stark Warning To Trump: Hands Off Taiwan
Emperor Xi Delivers Stark Warning To Trump: Hands Off Taiwan President Donald Trump may have kicked the hornet’s nest by signing on Friday the “Taiwanese Travel Act”, encouraging official visits to Taiwan by officials at all levels with an emphasis on “national security officials.” The signing angered the newly crowned Chinese President Emperor Xi Jinping, […]
74% Of Americans Believe The “Deep State” Is Running The Country
74% Of Americans Believe The “Deep State” Is Running The Country For the past two years, the long-running narrative, at least that promulgated by the mainstream media which continues to “explain away” Hillary Clinton’s loss to Donald Trump, is that Americans had fallen for a massive, long-running fake news scam (in part aided and abetted […]
Can Nuclear War Be Avoided?
Can Nuclear War Be Avoided? Two factors are driving the world to nuclear war. One is the constant stream of insults, false accusations and broken agreements that the West has been dumping on Russia year after year. The other is Russia’s response, or, perhaps more correctly, the lack thereof. Articles documenting Washington’s betrayals and provocations […]
Russia’s Reaction to the Insults of the West is Political Suicide
Russia’s Reaction to the Insults of the West is Political Suicide The onslaught of western Russia bashing in the past days, since the alleged poison attack by a Soviet-era nerve agent, Novichok (the inventor of which, by the way, lives in the US), on a Russian double agent, Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, has […]
