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U.S-Led Coalition Shoots Down Syrian Warplane
U.S-Led Coalition Shoots Down Syrian Warplane Update: U.S. Central Command issued a statement saying the plane was downed “in collective self-defense of Coalition-partnered forces,” identified as fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces near Tabqah. It is unclear if these particular “forces” were getting their funding from Saudi Arabia or Qatar. And a quick situational take […]
Tomgram: Nomi Prins, In Washington, Is the Glass(-Steagall) Half Empty or Half Full?
Tomgram: Nomi Prins, In Washington, Is the Glass(-Steagall) Half Empty or Half Full? Remember when “draining the swamp” was something the Bush administration swore it was going to do in launching its Global War on Terror? Well, as we all know, that global swamp of terror only got muckier in the ensuing years. (Think al-Qaeda […]
Putin Warns Of “Hot War” And Nuclear Holocaust: “I Don’t Think Anyone Would Survive”
Putin Warns Of “Hot War” And Nuclear Holocaust: “I Don’t Think Anyone Would Survive” With tensions among the world’s super powers mounting in places like Ukraine, Syria, North Korea and most recently Qatar and Iran, it may only be a matter of time before someone pushes the red button. When they do, all bets are […]
US Deploys Third Aircraft Carrier Toward North Korea
US Deploys Third Aircraft Carrier Toward North Korea One month ago, when we first discussed that in addition to the CVN-70 Carl Vinson aircraft carrier group, the US was deploying two more carriers toward the Korean peninsula, some took the Yonhap-sourced report skeptically: after all, what’s the incremental symbolic impact of having three, or even […]
Mark Yusko: I’m Telling You Right Now, the US Is Going to Have a Massive Crash
Mark Yusko: I’m Telling You Right Now, the US Is Going to Have a Massive Crash “I’m telling you right now, the US is going to have a crash and it will be massive,” asserted Mark Yusko at Mauldin Economics’ Strategic Investment Conference. In his keynote speech, Mark Yusko, CIO of Morgan Creek Capital Management, […]
RBC Explains What The Hell Is Going On: “Prudent” Fed & Chinese Intervention
RBC Explains What The Hell Is Going On: “Prudent” Fed & Chinese Intervention A “prudent” Fed (and China’s “National Team”) have spurred a risk-on rally, as RBC’s head of cross-asset strategy Charlie McElligott notes the market’s ‘Pavolovian’ response to Fed’s ‘dovish hints’ contained within the Minutes – despite simultaneously staying ‘on message’ with hiking / tapering […]
Will Venezuela Be The Battleground In The Next U.S.-Russia Proxy War?
Will Venezuela Be The Battleground In The Next U.S.-Russia Proxy War? (MPN) There’s no denying that Venezuela is deeply embroiled in a significant crisis. While most are aware of the country’s recent string of violent protests, food shortages and government crackdowns on opposition protesters, few are aware of the opposition’s use of underhanded and downright illegal […]
China Accuses US Warship Of “Trespassing” In Disputed Waters, Warns It To “Leave Immediately”
China Accuses US Warship Of “Trespassing” In Disputed Waters, Warns It To “Leave Immediately” In the first unofficial challenge to Beijing over China’s domination of disputed waters in the South China Sea since President Trump took office, a US navy warship sailed within 12 nautical miles of an artificial island built up by China in […]
Moving Closer to the Precipice
Moving Closer to the Precipice Money Supply and Credit Growth Continue to Falter The decline in the growth rate of the broad US money supply measure TMS-2 that started last November continues, but the momentum of the decline has slowed last month (TMS = “true money supply”). The data were recently updated to the end […]
Truth Has Become Un-American
Truth Has Become Un-American Those of us who have exited The Matrix are concerned that there are no checks on Washington’s use of nuclear weapons in the interest of US hegemony over the world. Washington and Israel are the threats to peace. Washington demands world hegemony, and Israel demands hegemony in the Middle East. There […]
Sergey Lavrov Says US Media Reminds Him of Soviet Union’s “Pravda”
Sergey Lavrov Says US Media Reminds Him of Soviet Union’s “Pravda” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had a few choice words for the U.S. media during a press conference in Cyprus a few days after the NYT and WaPo unleashed a pair of dubiously sourced accusations about what was said between President Trump and the […]
Trump Escalates Syrian Proxy War
Trump Escalates Syrian Proxy War At the start of the Trump presidency, it looked like the U.S. covert “regime change” war in Syria might be ending, but it has returned, zombie-like, in a slightly different form, reports Steven Chovanec. Back in February, it was quietly reported that the CIA had discontinued its support program to […]
Gorbachev Warns of Growing Danger
Gorbachev Warns of Growing Danger A group of Americans visiting Russia heard dire warnings from ex-Soviet President Gorbachev that the tensions between the U.S. and Russia are creating a dangerous situation for the world, reports Rick Sterling, who is on the trip. The former President of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, is 87 years old […]
NATO Builds Infrastructure for Permanent Military Presence Near Russia’s Borders
NATO Builds Infrastructure for Permanent Military Presence Near Russia’s Borders A group of about 50 combat engineers based at Canadian Forces Base Gagetown were deployed to Latvia on April 29 as part of Operation Reassurance. The mission is to build a town for 500 soldiers. According to commanding officer Lt.-Col. Chris Cotton, the installation will have «everything you would expect […]
BOMBSHELL: Seth Rich Was In Contact With Wikileaks Says Former DC Homicide Detective
BOMBSHELL: Seth Rich Was In Contact With Wikileaks Says Former DC Homicide Detective It’s been close to a year since Seth Rich, the 27 year old computer expert who worked for the DNC, was murdered – shot twice in the back without anything of value taken from him. Rich was found alive and in shock before he bled […]
