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Deadly Blowback from Neo-Imperial Wars
Deadly Blowback from Neo-Imperial Wars Exclusive: The E.U.’s crisis – with the post-World War II project to unify Europe spinning apart amid economic stress, refugees and terrorism – can be traced back to E.U./U.S. neo-imperial wars in the Arab world, says Jonathan Marshall. In what may be the most dramatic blowback yet from Western military intervention in […]
Alberta and oil prices: How Middle East geopolitics and religion affect our future
Alberta and oil prices: How Middle East geopolitics and religion affect our future Calgary’s economic fortunes enmeshed in decisions made on the other side of the globe Saudi Arabia’s Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi at a news conference following a meeting in Doha, Qatar February 16, 2016. (Naseem Zeitoon/Reuters) Calgary is unlike most other cities. It […]
China And India Rewrite The Rules Of The Oil And Gas Game
China And India Rewrite The Rules Of The Oil And Gas Game As the current oil price crisis leads to some game-changing upheavals in the global energy market, Asia’s two powerhouses, China and India, are taking advantage of the supply glut to rewrite the long-established rules of business. India and China have seen exponential growth […]
Tomgram: Gregory Foster, A Case for Demilitarizing the Military
Tomgram: Gregory Foster, A Case for Demilitarizing the Military General Lloyd Austin, the outgoing head of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), recently testified before Congress, suggesting that Washington needed to up its troop levels in Iraq and Syria. Meanwhile, in his own congressional testimony, still-to-be-confirmed incoming CENTCOM chief General Joseph Votel, formerly head of U.S. Special Operations Command, […]
Profits of death: disaster capitalists fan flames of war in Syria
Syrian refugee prays after arriving on shores of Greece Profits of death: disaster capitalists fan flames of war in Syria American, European and Russian corporations are the only ones winning from humanitarian disasters of their own making As a tentative ceasefire continues to hold in Syria, with the next round of peace talks having resumed this week, you’d be […]
The Coming Collapse of Saudi Arabia
The Coming Collapse of Saudi Arabia They met in secret to plan a devastating attack… Two powerful men, colluding at a palace in the Middle East. In September 2014, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry flew to Saudi Arabia. He was there to meet with King Abdullah, the country’s ruler and one of the […]
Justin Trudeau’s Shame: Extending Carte Blanche to Israel
Justin Trudeau’s Shame: Extending Carte Blanche to Israel Here’s a Middle East multiple choice question for you (warning: one of these will get you condemned by the government of Justin Trudeau). Would you rather that the Palestinian people 1) once again take up armed struggle in order to end Israeli occupation of their land or […]
This Is How Government Dealt With Dissent And Revolt In Collapsing Venezuela – “Soldiers Shooting Civilians In The Streets, Paramilitaries Roaming Neighborhoods”
This Is How Government Dealt With Dissent And Revolt In Collapsing Venezuela – “Soldiers Shooting Civilians In The Streets, Paramilitaries Roaming Neighborhoods” Editor’ Note: The initial report about this incident was printed in error. While the videos and images below were believed to be recently recorded, several readers contacted us to report that these incidents occurred […]
Middle Eastern Wars Have ALWAYS Been About Oil
Middle Eastern Wars Have ALWAYS Been About Oil Robert Kennedy Jr. notes: For Americans to really understand what’s going on, it’s important to review some details about this sordid but little-remembered history. During the 1950s, President Eisenhower and the Dulles brothers — CIA Director Allen Dulles and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles — rebuffed Soviet […]
Caught On Tape: U.S. Test Fires Nuclear ICBM, Warns “We Are Prepared To Use Nuclear Weapons”
Caught On Tape: U.S. Test Fires Nuclear ICBM, Warns “We Are Prepared To Use Nuclear Weapons” Less than two years ago, news of Russia test-firing an ICBM just as the east Ukraine civil war was heating up, was sufficient to send the stock market into a brief tailspin. Since then, the launches of nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic […]
The Age Of Stagnation (Or Something Much Worse)
The Age Of Stagnation (Or Something Much Worse) Excerpted from Satyajit Das’ new book “The Age Of Stagnation”, If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth, only . . . wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, […]
Road To World War III: Turkish Army Enters Syria After Second Day Of Shelling As Saudi Warplanes Arrive
Road To World War III: Turkish Army Enters Syria After Second Day Of Shelling As Saudi Warplanes Arrive Update: Reports indicate the Turkish army has crossed the border into Syria. Новости ДОЖДЯ @tvrain_live Дамаск заявил овхождении турецких военных в Сирию http://tvrain.ru/news/damask-403651/ … 10:56 AM – 14 Feb 2016 Дамаск заявил о вхождении турецких военных в Сирию 12 […]
After ISIS Is Defeated, What Next?
After ISIS Is Defeated, What Next? A modest proposal for a new start by Canada the ‘honest broker.’ Could Trudeau ever find common ground between combatants in Syria? Photo by Chris Wattie, Reuters Media Express. Drop, for a moment, the question of whether Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was right to stop the Canadian air war […]
President Kennedy and His Brother Robert Kennedy Were Murdered By The Military-Security Complex
President Kennedy and His Brother Robert Kennedy Were Murdered By The Military-Security Complex Presstitute Media, such as the UK Telegraph, spend a lot of energy debunking exposes of government conspiracies. For example, the thousands of highrise architects, structural engineers, physicists, nano-chemists, demoltion experts, first responders, military and civilian pilots, and former government officials who have […]
