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Chinese Navy Begins Live-Fire Drills Off Korean Peninsula
Chinese Navy Begins Live-Fire Drills Off Korean Peninsula Earlier this week, Seoul asked the US to delay joint military exercises with Japan until after the Winter Olympics, ostensibly to avoid provoking North Korea ahead of the 2018 Winter Games. The timing of the request is suspicious – having coincided with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s […]
America’s painful self-delusion
America’s painful self-delusion America is the only nation brought forth by a set of beliefs, and those beliefs, captured so eloquently in our founding documents, are some of the most powerful and inspiring ever conceived. We consider this to be the land of the free, where the individual is supreme and nothing prevents us from […]
Why America’s Law Enforcement Empire Resembles Secret Police in a Dictatorship
Why America’s Law Enforcement Empire Resembles Secret Police in a Dictatorship Secret police are characteristic of dictatorships, or so goes the conventional thinking on the subject. Police in democracies operate for the most part transparently and within a set of rules and guidelines that limits their ability to gratuitously punish citizens who have done nothing […]
CNN Desperate to Overthrow the US Government
CNN Desperate to Overthrow the US Government CNN, who claims to be Most Trusted Name in News™, has demonstrated that they are by no means to be trusted nor are they ever impartial. They are never reporting the news, they try so desperately to make the news. CNN, along with MSNBC and CBS, have shown the entire […]
New Russian Hacker Claims Putin Ordered Theft Of Clinton’s Email, After First One Refused FBI Bribe To Lie
New Russian Hacker Claims Putin Ordered Theft Of Clinton’s Email, After First One Refused FBI Bribe To Lie A Russian hacker has reportedly confessed that he hacked the DNC and stole Hillary Clinton’s emails under the direction of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), claims Russian news outlet The Bell. Konstantin Kozlovsky – a Russian citizen with […]
Lavishing Money on the Pentagon
Lavishing Money on the Pentagon Exclusive: It seems like it’s always Christmastime at the Pentagon where the stockings are full and budget-cutting is for those domestic social-program guys, as Jonathan Marshall explains. Wise parents who celebrate Christmas advise their young children not to make unreasonably grandiose requests of Santa. After all, he has to squeeze […]
The ‘Unknown Unknowns’ That Threaten U.S. Shale
The ‘Unknown Unknowns’ That Threaten U.S. Shale Three years after the oil price crash, the U.S. shale patch is on its second growth phase and is expected to continue to increase its production, at least through the next five years. The global oil markets have become increasingly dependent on U.S. tight oil supply—and the oil […]
Trump’s Illegal Syrian Mission Creep
Trump’s Illegal Syrian Mission Creep Even as the Islamic State’s “caliphate” in Syria collapses, the U.S. government is keeping about 2,000 soldiers in-country despite lacking any legal right to be there, as ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar discusses. The other day we learned that there are four times more U.S. troops in Syria than any […]
EU To Restrict Movement of Cash
EU To Restrict Movement of Cash The EU is now developing strict rules for carrying cash when traveling to non-European countries and returning to Europe. The revision of the First Cash Control Regulation from 2005, which stipulated that EU citizens should register cash in excess of € 10,000 when leaving the EU or when returning […]
Syria – ISIS Is Defeated – The U.S. Is Next In Line
Syria – ISIS Is Defeated – The U.S. Is Next In Line Is the US really a superpower or just the biggest collection of stupidity on the planet? Washington has already lost the Syrian war once. Now it is about to lose it a second time. A few days ago the president of Russia, Vladimir […]
OPEC Reports Lowest Oil Output In Six Months; Fears Shale Production Surge
OPEC Reports Lowest Oil Output In Six Months; Fears Shale Production Surge True to its perpetually optimistic form, OPEC, which last month for the first time conceded the threat posed by rising US shale production… … sharply raised its demand forecast for cartel oil in 2018, ahead of the OPEC meeting at the end of […]
Russia Rebukes US For Sowing “Regional Instability” As Military Drills Begin
Russia Rebukes US For Sowing “Regional Instability” As Military Drills Begin The latest round of military drills involving the US, Japan and South Korea began their latest set of tracking drills on Monday, DW reported, citing sources in the South Korean military. The drills – which are meant for “practicing tracking an object and sharing […]
‘Great American Desert’ threatens to swallow eight US states as massive aquifer dries up
‘Great American Desert’ threatens to swallow eight US states as massive aquifer dries up The Ogallala aquifer is one of the world’s largest underground bodies of water, and many ecosystems and communities in the American West depend upon it – however the aquifer is in rapid decline due to over-exploitation of its resources. According to […]
The Massive Energy Bill In The $1 Trillion Infrastructure Package
The Massive Energy Bill In The $1 Trillion Infrastructure Package The GOP tax bill working its way through Congress contains provisions that have huge ramifications for the energy industry, but legislators in Washington may not be done yet. A top Republican on energy issues, Senator Lisa Murkowski, is eyeing a sweeping piece of energy legislation […]
The FBI is Not Your Friend
The FBI is Not Your Friend One of the unfortunate ironies of the manufactured “Russiagate” controversy is the perception of the FBI as a friend of liberty and justice. But the FBI has never been a friend of liberty and justice. Rather, as James Bovard writes, it has a long record of both deceit and […]
