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How the FBI Silences Whistleblowers
How the FBI Silences Whistleblowers Speaking truth to power has ruined Darin Jones, a former FBI contract specialist who reported evidence of serious procurement improprieties. He should be the last federal whistleblower victimized, writes John Kiriakou. The idea of “whistleblowing” has been in the news a great deal. Is the anonymous author of a recent New […]
Trump vs. The Fed: When Markets Crash, Who Is To Blame?
Trump vs. The Fed: When Markets Crash, Who Is To Blame? After a certain length of time examining history in-depth, anyone who is honest and relatively objective comes to understand that most of what we are told about our past in the mainstream is completely fabricated. We learn that much of “history” is not about […]
Agents of Chaos: Trump, the Federal Reserve and Andrew Jackson
Agents of Chaos: Trump, the Federal Reserve and Andrew Jackson Photo Source Eli Christman | CC BY 2.0 “It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes.” – President Andrew Jackson, Washington, July 10, 1832 They are three players, all problematic in their […]
Saudi Arabia Considers Itself Untouchable Due to Oil and Money
Saudi Arabia Considers Itself Untouchable Due to Oil and Money The roots of that lobby’s rise to prominence in Washington lie in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. As you may remember, with 15 of those 19 suicidal hijackers being citizens of Saudi Arabia, it was hardly surprising that American public […]
Should US-Saudi Alliance be Saved?
Should US-Saudi Alliance be Saved? Over the weekend Donald Trump warned of “severe punishment” if an investigation concludes that a Saudi hit team murdered Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Riyadh then counter-threatened, reminding us that, as the world’s largest oil exporter, Saudi Arabia “plays an impactful and active role […]
Forget Oil, Here’s Saudi Arabia’s Other ‘Weapons’
Forget Oil, Here’s Saudi Arabia’s Other ‘Weapons’ There are not one, not two, but three ‘weapons’ on the “nuclear option” menu for Saudi Arabia to strike back at any US sanctions stemming from its alleged murder and dismemberment of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi in what is now being reported as a “botched interrogation.” The first […]
Peter Schiff: The Next Economic Crash Will Be “Far More Painful” Than The 2008 Recession
Peter Schiff: The Next Economic Crash Will Be “Far More Painful” Than The 2008 Recession Euro Pacific Capital CEO Peter Schiff is sounding the alarm after this week’s market selloff, saying Wall Street and the U.S. economy are on the verge of a recession. “I think as Americans lose their jobs, they are going to see the […]
Saudi Stocks Crash Most Since 2016 As Riyadh Threatens US With “Very Strong” Retaliation
Saudi Stocks Crash Most Since 2016 As Riyadh Threatens US With “Very Strong” Retaliation Saudi Arabia warned on Sunday it would respond to any “threats” against it as its stock market crashed the most since 2016 after President Trump’s warning of “severe punishment” over the disappearance of Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi. On Saturday, Trump […]
The Summer of No Return
The Summer of No Return Photo Source NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | CC BY 2.0 The forecast for August 8th was ominous. The temperature in Portland was predicted to breach 100 hundred degrees for the second time in a couple weeks. In the end, the mercury stalled at 96 degrees because the sun was blotted […]
‘Trump Wants To Have Me Killed’, Says Venezuela’s Maduro
‘Trump Wants To Have Me Killed’, Says Venezuela’s Maduro As the US continues to send not-so-subtle signals that it could be open to a military invasion of Venezuela after a US-supported coup plot involving Venezuelan military officers fizzled, Nicolas Maduro – who only a few months ago evaded a bizarre assassination attempt involving C4-laden drones […]
Google vs. Trump: “The Good Censor” On Collision Course With The Patriot President
Google vs. Trump: “The Good Censor” On Collision Course With The Patriot President The leaked internal Google briefing “The Good Censor” [PDF] has received suspiciously little attention from the Main Stream Media, but it represents the crassest statement yet of the Tech oligopolies’ intention to impose Silicon Valley Political Correctness on the U.S. As American […]
The Self-Defeating US Empire
The Self-Defeating US Empire Trump is trying to square a globalized world through a national-based American capitalism. It won’t work. Former President Teddy Roosevelt (1901-09) described the essence of US foreign policy as “speaking softly while carrying a big stick”. Under the incumbent president, Donald Trump, it seems to be all about “speaking loudly”. What […]
Trump Is Right: The Federal Reserve Is Crazy And Here Are 101 Reasons Why It Should Be Shut Down
Trump Is Right: The Federal Reserve Is Crazy And Here Are 101 Reasons Why It Should Be Shut Down Donald Trump just made one of the most brilliant moves of his entire presidency. By accusing the Federal Reserve of “going loco”, he is placing the blame for the coming stock market crash and horrifying economic […]
Does the United States strive for a new Cold War?
Does the United States strive for a new Cold War? Donald Trump’s administration regularly increases military presence in Central Europe. The currently discussed idea is to create an American permanent military base in Poland, that is to say, a further shift of the US military presence towards the Russian border. The question arises whether, through […]
