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The Anti-Russia Cold War in the Arctic is Heating Up
The Anti-Russia Cold War in the Arctic is Heating Up Photo Source Official U.S. Navy Page | CC BY 2.0 Britain’s Daily Mail is a strident rag that is bought daily by over a million people who agree with its stance that most foreigners are inferior to Brits. Two years ago the European Commission against Racism and […]
Assassination as a Criminal Tool by the Powerful Against the Weak and Oppressed
Assassination as a Criminal Tool by the Powerful Against the Weak and Oppressed Photo Source James N. Mattis | CC BY 2.0 Only recently a spat between Saudi Arabia and Canada made headlines as a result of the Saudi Government’s beheading of a Myanmar guest worker. After the public barbaric and gruesome decapitation, the corpse […]
Has America Become a Dictatorship Disguised as a Democracy?
Has America Become a Dictatorship Disguised as a Democracy? Still from “They Live.” “The poor and the underclass are growing. Racial justice and human rights are nonexistent. They have created a repressive society and we are their unwitting accomplices. Their intention to rule rests with the annihilation of consciousness. We have been lulled into a […]
Looking for the Next Crisis: the Not Very Scary World of CLOs
Looking for the Next Crisis: the Not Very Scary World of CLOs We’re still in financial crisis mania, as the business press eagerly tries to tell us how little they learned from the last crisis by trying to identify the source of the next one. The NYT’s latest contribution to the effort is a piece […]
The War on Terror is the Reign of Terror
The War on Terror is the Reign of Terror Photo Source POMED | CC BY 2.0 So, does an accidental killing lead to dismemberment of the body and hiding of all the evidence and waiting days before admitting to the killing? If the United States accepts this version of events for the killing of Jamal […]
The Middle East, Not Russia, Will Prove Trump’s Downfall
The Middle East, Not Russia, Will Prove Trump’s Downfall Photo Source The White House | CC BY 2.0 The Middle East has a century old tradition of being the political graveyard of American and British political leaders. The list of casualties is long: Lloyd George, Anthony Eden, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Tony Blair and George W Bush. All […]
Aspirational Goals
Aspirational Goals It was great to hear, from the mouth of Congressional savant Gerry Connolly, (D-VA) that substantive Democratic actions confronting climate change are “aspirational goals”. It makes survival sound like such an elective pleasure: as in should I order the hardtack or the filet mignon? Can I afford to survive? What will this […]
Pence v. China: Cold War 2.0 May Have Just Begun
Pence v. China: Cold War 2.0 May Have Just Begun U.S. Vice President Mike Pence announced what could already be described as the beginning of World Cold War II, with Washington and Beijing as the first belligerents but soon the stage will be global. Pence spoke at the Hudson Institute, a think tank specializing in […]
Yes, Virginia, There are Conspiracies—I Think
Yes, Virginia, There are Conspiracies—I Think You know those little green-and-white USDA Organic labels you find on organic produce? What if someone told you that their adhesive transmits a powerful drug into the edible that over time can render humans sterile? It’s true, they say; they’ve seen the lab reports, and go on to assert […]
Time Out for Nukes!
Time Out for Nukes! With 122 nations having voted last summer to adopt a treaty for the complete prohibition of nuclear weapons, just as the world has banned chemical and biological weapons, its seems that the world is locked in a new Cold War time-warp, totally inappropriate to the times. We were warned last week […]
Will Trump Split the World by Endorsing a Bold-Faced Lie?
Will Trump Split the World by Endorsing a Bold-Faced Lie? The Saudi “investigation” into the Khashoggi murder, conducted on the demand of U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, is not yet complete. But preliminary conclusions have been announced in the Saudi media. Turns out (surprise, surprise!) Khashoggi died while in a choke-hold following a fist-fight […]
A Storm is Brewing in Europe: Italy and Its Public Finances Are at the Center of It
A Storm is Brewing in Europe: Italy and Its Public Finances Are at the Center of It Photo Source Giuseppe Milo | CC BY 2.0 Yet the problem with Italy is not the problem that the European Commission or financial markets see. Rome is planning an expansionary budget – just what Italy needs and just the […]
Washington’s Latest Cold War Maneuver: Pulling Out of the INF
Washington’s Latest Cold War Maneuver: Pulling Out of the INF Photo Source White House Photographic Office | CC BY 2.0 The Trump administration has decided to withdraw from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), the most comprehensive disarmament treaty ever negotiated between Washington and Moscow. National Security Adviser John Bolton, a long-time opponent of arms […]
The New Politics of Climate Change
The New Politics of Climate Change As climate change accelerates, the political environment will start to boil. It’s happening already. More and more ordinary people are beginning to connect the dots between extreme weather, rising climate related death tolls, collapsing ecosystems, refugee/resource crises, and other grave anomalies. The political outcome of all this will either […]
Are Chinese Municipal $6 Trillion (40 Trillion Yuan) Hidden Debts Posing Titanic Risks?
Are Chinese Municipal $6 Trillion (40 Trillion Yuan) Hidden Debts Posing Titanic Risks? The China Collapse trope is rearing its ugly head again. This time round, the spin is on China’s local government or municipal debts. The latest narrative goes like this : local governments in China are estimated to have hidden debts of 40 […]
