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Cold War-Era ‘Arms Race’ With US Is Back On, Russian Official Warns
Cold War-Era ‘Arms Race’ With US Is Back On, Russian Official Warns The Trump administration has successfully managed to replace Russia with China in the ongoing narrative of election hacking and economic and geopolitical aggression, a shift that was underlined by Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen Tuesday morning when she declared that China was engaged […]
The Emergency Brake
The Emergency Brake Photo Source spinster cardigan | CC BY 2.0 Although the Trump Administration, it was recently revealed, concluded that it’s too late to do anything to avert catastrophic climate change (and, so, why even bother), the UN just announced that there’s still time to avoid mass death and suffering – if there is “massive, […]
How Trump Win changed US Politics forever
How Trump Win changed US Politics forever Global Intel Hub (Zero Hedge Exclusive) 10/7/2018 — Now that MidTerms are coming up, the heat is being turned up on Trump in the deep state’s ‘death by a thousand cuts’ approach to assassinate his character and any of his allies as well. But in this flagrant and […]
Is The U.S. Using Force To Sell Its LNG To The World?
Is The U.S. Using Force To Sell Its LNG To The World? The Trump Administration trade policy is nowhere so clear as in the energy area. For years it was thought that the younger Bush Administration was one of the most energy industry friendly in history. But the Trump Administration has gone far beyond that. […]
The View of American Politics from Afar
The View of American Politics from Afar COMMENT: This business with Trump and the media is quite amazing when seen from a distance. I read posts from people who can not see past what they are believing. It’s as if the hate for Trump has become a Religion. A religious person will refuse to look at […]
Could Donald Trump be the Last World Emperor? States and Empires After the End of the Fossil Age
Could Donald Trump be the Last World Emperor? States and Empires After the End of the Fossil Age Empires are short-lived structures created and kept together by the availability of mineral resources, fossil fuels in our times. They tend to decline and fall with the decline of the resources that created them, and that’s the […]
The “VaR Shock” Is Back: Global Bonds Lose $880 Billion In One Week
The “VaR Shock” Is Back: Global Bonds Lose $880 Billion In One Week Markets were in turmoil, S&P futures were locked limit down as traders panicked, the establishment political system was in chaos and global bond portfolios were about to suffer a near record $1.2 trillion in losses in just a few days. All this […]
USMCA: New Economic Alliance Formed to Isolate China
USMCA: New Economic Alliance Formed to Isolate China The almost 25-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has been relegated to the dustbin of history. The United States, Canada, and Mexico have agreed on a trilateral trade deal — the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) — to replace it. As expected, the agreement finalized on Sept. 30 is intended to stimulate production […]
Fishtailing into the Future
Fishtailing into the Future The opening chapters of Michael Lewis’s new book, The Fifth Risk, detail the carelessness of the Trump transition team in the months leading up to his swearing-in as president. Former New Jersey governor Chris Christie led the team, with its binders full of possible agency chiefs, before he was summarily canned […]
Putin: Trump Is To Blame For Higher Oil Prices
Putin: Trump Is To Blame For Higher Oil Prices Just hours after President Trump implicitly threatened Saudi Arabia with a withdrawal of military protection (a threat that was possibly inspired by OPEC+ ignoring Trump’s demands to raise production at its Algiers meeting last month) Russian President Vladimir Putin said out loud what many oil traders […]
The Trump administration knows the planet is going to boil. It doesn’t care
The Trump administration knows the planet is going to boil. It doesn’t care Trump’s team used last week to sneak in disastrous, linked policies on climate change and child refugee camps The Trump years are a fantasy land where we pretend we can go on living precisely as in the past, unwilling even to substitute […]
Trump and Washington’s Warmongers Sow Death and Destruction
Trump and Washington’s Warmongers Sow Death and Destruction The squalid charade in the US Senate over the nomination of a Supreme Court judge and the comic opera performance by President Donald Trump at the UN General Assembly are deeply embarrassing for many Americans — but far from all Americans, because substantial numbers support the flawed […]
Washington’s Sanctions Machine
Washington’s Sanctions Machine Perhaps it is Donald Trump’s business background that leads him to believe that if you inflict enough economic pain on someone they will ultimately surrender and agree to do whatever you want. Though that approach might well work in New York real estate, it is not a certain path to success in […]
Is Trump Eyeing A Coup In Venezuela?
Is Trump Eyeing A Coup In Venezuela? The Trump administration and some others in the U.S. government have sent some not-so-subtle hints lately that they are open to a military invasion of Venezuela to oust President Nicolas Maduro. “It’s a regime that frankly could be toppled very quickly by the military, if the military decides […]
