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Why Are We In Afghanistan?
Why Are We In Afghanistan? It is long past time for someone in the shithole known as Washington to tell us why Americans have been killing and dying in Afghanistan for 17 years. Is it to steal the country’s minerals? Is it to control the location of pipelines? Is it to keep American taxpayers money […]
Exacerbation of Tensions in Syria: Who Stands to Gain?
Exacerbation of Tensions in Syria: Who Stands to Gain? French President Emmanuel Macron has said he would order airstrikes against Syria if the rumors that its government has used chemical weapons (CW) against civilians are confirmed. Never backed up with any solid evidence, such reports crop up from time to time in the Western media. In some […]
Russians Spooked by Nukes-Against-Cyber-Attack Policy
Russians Spooked by Nukes-Against-Cyber-Attack Policy New U.S. policy on nuclear retaliatory strikes for cyber-attacks is raising concerns, with Russia claiming that it’s already been blamed for a false-flag cyber-attack – namely the election hacking allegations of 2016, explain Ray McGovern and William Binney. Moscow is showing understandable concern over the lowering of the threshold for […]
The All-Important Doorman
The All-Important Doorman Picture this: A tribal leader from a distant country visits the US. He’s brought to a large apartment building in New York City. When he gets out of the car, he looks up at the great building and is quite impressed. A uniformed doorman exits the foyer and comes out on the […]
America: A Military Nation
AMERICA: A MILITARY NATION Americans like to think of their country as different from those run by military regimes. They are only fooling themselves. Ever since the federal government was converted into a national-security state after World War II (without a constitutional amendment authorizing the conversion), it has been the Pentagon, the CIA, and the […]
Falsehoods and Lies: Inciting War Is a War Crime
Falsehoods and Lies: Inciting War Is a War Crime The torrent of reckless false accusations against Russia made by the US and its NATO allies is hitting warp speed. This week saw more baseless allegations of Russian cyber attacks on American elections and British industries. There were also crass claims by US officials that Russia was behind so-called sonic […]
Admiral Warns US Must Prepare For Possible War With China
Admiral Warns US Must Prepare For Possible War With China While we await the latest details on the ongoing trade war between the US and China, currently focusing on escalating steel and aluminum tariffs and China’s reciprocal response could be, the threat of a real war is looming. Speaking to Congress, the navy admiral nominated […]
Agitprop Is Not News
Agitprop Is Not News Forget about sharks. In their Valentine’s Day editorial: Why Does Trump Ignore Top Officials’ Warnings on Russia?, The New York Times jumped several blue whales (all the ones left on earth), a cruise ship, a subtropical archipelago, a giant vortex of plastic bottles, and the Sport’s Illustratedswimsuit shoot. The lede said: […]
Global Trade Wars Begin: Ross Recommends Major Tariffs On Steel, Aluminum Focusing On China, Russia
Global Trade Wars Begin: Ross Recommends Major Tariffs On Steel, Aluminum Focusing On China, Russia Update 3: As previewed earlier, at noon on Friday the commerce department released reports on the U.S. Department of Commerce’s investigations into the impact on our national security from imports of steel mill products and from imports of wrought and […]
How the SHTF in Bosnia: Selco Asks Americans, “Does this sound familiar?”
How the SHTF in Bosnia: Selco Asks Americans, “Does this sound familiar?” Selco interviewed by Daisy Luther I was recently emailing back and forth with Selco and we were discussing the situation in the US right now, with the political polarization, the rage, and the general cognitive dissonance. I asked him if he saw any […]
Regime Change Fails: Is A Military Coup or Invasion of Venezuela Next?
Regime Change Fails: Is A Military Coup or Invasion of Venezuela Next? The U.S. has employed all of its regime change tools in Venezuela and although so far they have failed, there is still a chance that a military attack is in store, warn Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers. Several signals point to a possible military […]
Musical Tribute to Bribes in the US, Israel, Nigeria, Everywhere
Musical Tribute to Bribes in the US, Israel, Nigeria, Everywhere Israeli PM Netanyahu and Shell executives face bribery charges. US politicians are second to none when selling votes. Bribes Israeli Style NPR reports Israeli Police Push For Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Indictment On Corruption Charges. Israeli police are urging the attorney general to indict Prime Minister […]
Russian Deputy PM: Our Banks Are Ready To Turn Off SWIFT
Russian Deputy PM: Our Banks Are Ready To Turn Off SWIFT Russian financial institutions are prepared to survive without access to SWIFT (The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) – the global dollar-based interbank payments network – should the US and European Union follow through with threats to cut it off, according to Deputy Prime […]
The Ghosts of 1968
The Ghosts of 1968 The hope of 1968 that public demonstrations can actually change the power structure has been lost. 1968 was a tumultuous year globally and domestically. The Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia–a very mild form of political and cultural liberalization within the Soviet bloc–was brutally crushed by the military forces of the Soviet Union. […]
$1.2 Trillion Asset Manager: Forget Volatility, The Real Financial Timebomb Is Public Pensions
$1.2 Trillion Asset Manager: Forget Volatility, The Real Financial Timebomb Is Public Pensions As we have reported over and over and over (and over, and over), public pensions are in deep, deep trouble. In addition critical funding shortfalls (U.S. public pensions had just 71.8% of assets required to meet obligations as of June 2016), many of the country’s largest […]
