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Americans Dumbed Down on Russia
Americans Dumbed Down on Russia Five years ago today, Congress learned from sworn, horse’s-mouth testimony that there is no technical evidence that Russia (or anyone else) hacked the DNC emails showing how the DNC had stacked the deck against Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton’s rival for the Democratic nomination. I can almost hear readers new to this website […]
The US is a rogue state leading the world towards ecological collapse
The US is a rogue state leading the world towards ecological collapse It’s not just indifference. It’s an active, and deadly, cavalier attitude towards the lives of others: an example other nations follow Illustration: Eleanor Shakespeare There are two extraordinary facts about the convention on biological diversity, whose members are meeting in Montreal now to discuss the […]
Global Dimming Keeping the Planet Habitable
Global Dimming Keeping the Planet Habitable If you have not already seen it, visitors to this blog will have an interest in this 50-min documentary, “BBC Global Dimming Documentary”, via Gail Zawacki at her Wit’s End blog. It relates to evidence obtained from the three-day aircraft grounding that occurred after 9/11 and the profound effects that just […]
Zoltan Pozsar: Gold At $3,600 Is Not Improbable If US Refill Reserves With Russian Oil
Zoltan Pozsar: Gold At $3,600 Is Not Improbable If US Refill Reserves With Russian Oil In his latest dispatch, Credit Suisse contributor Zoltan Pozsar shifted focus on his ongoing series about Bretton Woods III where commodities will dictate the new world order. Instead, the author zeroed in on the depleting Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) of the United […]
Winter in Central Europe and for the dollar
Winter in Central Europe and for the dollar In this article I examine the current state of the fight for hegemonic control between America on the one side, and Russia and China on the other. It is being fought on two fronts. Ukraine, the one in plain sight, is about to endure a winter without […]
Russia Now Says US & NATO “Directly Participating” In Ukraine War
Russia Now Says US & NATO “Directly Participating” In Ukraine War Earlier this week CNN reported that the Biden administration is considering “dramatically” increasing its training of Ukrainian forces. The proposal would involve US advisers training “much larger groups of Ukrainian soldiers in more sophisticated battlefield tactics” at American installations in Germany, and possibly other locations in Europe. This could […]
The Chris Hedges Report Podcast: Richard Wolff
The Chris Hedges Report Podcast: Richard Wolff The Chris Hedges Report Podcast speaks with the economist Richard Wolff about inflation, growing income inequality and the looming disasters built into the U.S. economic system Podcast
One Monetary Policy Fits All – Part II
One Monetary Policy Fits All – Part II In Part one of this series, Our Currency The World’s Problem, we discuss the vital role the U.S. dollar plays in the global economy. With an understanding of the dollar’s role as the world’s reserve currency, it’s time to discuss how the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy machinations influence […]
US Nuclear Reactors Among The Oldest In The World
US Nuclear Reactors Among The Oldest In The World The United States’ 92 nuclear reactors currently in operation have a mean age of 41.6 years, the third oldest in the world. As Statista’s Katharina Buchholz reports, the only nuclear fleets that are older are those of Switzerland (46.3 years) and Belgium (42.3 years). Also older are […]
The Great Gold Robbery of 1933
The Great Gold Robbery of 1933 It’s been 75 years since the federal government, on the spurious grounds of fighting the Great Depression, ordered the confiscation of all monetary gold from Americans, permitting trivial amounts for ornamental or industrial use. This happens to be one of the episodes Kevin Gutzman and I describe in detail […]
It Was Never About Ukraine
It Was Never About Ukraine In his March 21 press briefing, State Department spokesman Ned Price told the gathered reporters that “President Zelenskyy has also made it very clear that he is open to a diplomatic solution that does not compromise the core principles at the heart of the Kremlin’s war against Ukraine.” A reporter asked […]
US Bird Flu Outbreak Officially Becomes Worst On Record
US Bird Flu Outbreak Officially Becomes Worst On Record The US outbreak of avian influenza or bird flu is now the worst on record, with 50.54 million birds culled, US Department of Agriculture data showed on Thursday. Earlier this week, the outbreak at a commercial turkey farm in South Dakota resulted in tens of thousands […]
Is Washington’s Dangerous Ukraine Boondoggle Starting to Unravel?
Is Washington’s Dangerous Ukraine Boondoggle Starting to Unravel? Last week the world stood on the very edge of a nuclear war, as Ukraine’s US-funded president, Vladimir Zelensky, urged NATO military action over a missile that landed on Polish soil. “This is a Russian missile attack on collective security! This is a really significant escalation. Action […]
Will the American Empire Collapse in Our Lifetime?
Will the American Empire Collapse in Our Lifetime? All good things must come to an end. Even the greatest of civilizations has an expiration date. This happened to the likes of Ancient Greece and Rome, who were the most advanced civilizations of their respective epochs. Once prosperous civilizations, eventually met their demise after years of […]
