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Wilder Fires and Rising Waters, Climate Impacts Coming to America’s Door
Wilder Fires and Rising Waters, Climate Impacts Coming to America’s Door Pair of new studies show how American climate refugees will ‘reshape’ population landscape of the nation The Chelan Butte fire encroaches on homes in coastal Washington state. (Photo: Ben Brooks/cc/flickr) Americans in many cases have been slow to acknowledge the real threats posed by […]
Buy the Dip?
Buy the Dip? The military frolics of spring have distracted the nation’s attention from the economic and financial dynamics that pose the ultimate mortal threat to business as usual. Note the distinction between economic and financial. The first represents real activity in this Land of the Deal: people doing and making. The second, finance, used […]
U.S. Propaganda is Embarrassingly Bad (and Why it Matters)
U.S. Propaganda is Embarrassingly Bad (and Why it Matters) When you want to see what U.S. deep state propagandists are up to, all you have to do is take a glance at what meme corporate media happens to be pushing any given week. It’s been almost a decade since I started observing and analyzing the […]
Through the ‘War on Terror’ Looking Glass
Through the ‘War on Terror’ Looking Glass Exclusive: The U.S. government’s 15-year-long “global war on terror” has spread death and chaos across entire regions – while also imposing propaganda narratives on Americans – with no end in sight, says Nicolas J S Davies. The Airwars.org U.K.-based monitoring group reports that 41 U.S-led air strikes targeting ISIS […]
The Problem is Washington, Not North Korea
The Problem is Washington, Not North Korea Photo by Stefan Krasowski | CC BY 2.0 Washington has never made any effort to conceal its contempt for North Korea. In the 64 years since the war ended, the US has done everything in its power to punish, humiliate and inflict pain on the Communist country. Washington has subjected […]
US Deploys Two More Aircraft Carriers Toward Korean Peninsula: Yonhap
US Deploys Two More Aircraft Carriers Toward Korean Peninsula: Yonhap According to a report by South Korea’s primary news outlet, Yonhap, the Pentagon has directed a total of three US aircraft carriers toward the Korean Peninsula, citing a South Korean government source. Yonhap reports that in addition to the CVN-70 Carl Vinson, which is expected […]
The Last Country We “Liberated” from an “Evil” Dictator Is Now Openly Trading Slaves
The Last Country We “Liberated” from an “Evil” Dictator Is Now Openly Trading Slaves (ANTIMEDIA) It is widely known that the U.S.-led NATO intervention to topple Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 resulted in a power vacuum that has allowed terror groups like ISIS to gain a foothold in the country. Despite the destructive consequences of […]
How America and China Could Stumble to War
How America and China Could Stumble to War Can Beijing and Washington escape the Thucydides Trap? Would a Chinese leader barely in control of his own country after a long civil war dare attack a superpower that had crushed Japan to end World War II five years earlier by dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and […]
Will Trump Accept Responsibility When This Shitshow Implodes?
WILL TRUMP ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY WHEN THIS SHITSHOW IMPLODES? Donald J. Trump has taken credit for making America’s economy great again. He’s been crowing about all the jobs being created, the soaring consumer confidence and record highs in the stock market. It’s all because the Donald has inspired Americans about our glorious future. But, a funny […]
Is That Armageddon Over The Horizon?
Is That Armageddon Over The Horizon? The insouciance of the Western world is extraordinary. It is not only Americans who permit themselves to be brainwashed by CNN, MSNBC, NPR, the New York Times and Washington Post, but also their counterparts in Europe, Canada, Australia, and Japan, who rely on the war propaganda machine that poses […]
US Conducts Successful Field Test Of New Nuclear Bomb
US Conducts Successful Field Test Of New Nuclear Bomb With the world still abuzz over the first ever deployment of the GBU-43/B “Mother Of All Bombs” in Afghanistan, where it reportedly killed some 36 ISIS fighters, in a less noticed statement the US National Nuclear Security Administration quietly announced overnight the first successful field test […]
A Bankruptcy of Nuclear Proportions
A Bankruptcy of Nuclear Proportions With the failure of Westinghouse, the future of American nuclear power looks even bleaker. (JEFF FUSCO/Getty Images) Summary In any given year, a handful of companies file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the United States. Rarely, however, does one of these filings reverberate beyond the boardroom and into the realm […]
What Could Go Wrong?
What Could Go Wrong? “Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.” Yeats wrote. The funny thing is, we didn’t seem to miss the center all that much after it was gone. America is perfectly satisfied hunkering down at the margins these days. Especially the margins of thinking. One thing that used to occupy the center […]
Japan Prepares For North Korea “Emergency”
Japan Prepares For North Korea “Emergency” Judging by the precautionary actions of North Korea’s neighbors, the next 48 hours on the Korean peninsula could see substantial volatility, because at the same time as China’s largest carrier was said to suspend flights to Pyongyang, the Japanese government has asked the U.S. to provide advance consultation if […]
