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The Increasingly Unhinged Russia Rhetoric Comes From a Long-Standing U.S. Playbook
The Increasingly Unhinged Russia Rhetoric Comes From a Long-Standing U.S. Playbook FOR ASPIRING JOURNALISTS, historians, or politically engaged citizens, there are few more productive uses of one’s time than randomly reading through the newsletters of I.F. Stone, the intrepid and independent journalist of the Cold War era who became, in my view, the nation’s first “blogger” even though […]
Donald Trump, Saudi Arabia, and the Petrodollar
Donald Trump, Saudi Arabia, and the Petrodollar Obama pulled out his veto pen 12 times during his presidency. Congress only overrode him once… In late 2016, Obama vetoed the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA). The bill would allow 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia in US courts. With only months left in […]
Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast
Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast Alice laughed. “There’s no use trying,” she said. “One can’t believe impossible things.” “I dare say you haven’t had much practice,” said the queen. “When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before […]
US Lawmakers Are Probing Soros’ Involvement In European Politics
US Lawmakers Are Probing Soros’ Involvement In European Politics After years of tangential accusations, which never amounted to anything concrete, George Soros’ alleged meddling in European politics has finally caught the attention of Congress. As we first observed in early January, concerns about Soros’ involvement were most recently raised by the Hungarian prime minister, who last […]
China Opposes “Threatening And Damaging” US Carrier Patrols In South China Sea
China Opposes “Threatening And Damaging” US Carrier Patrols In South China Sea One day after the US announced it had dispatched the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier group in the contested South Chine Sea on “routine” patrols (through a post on the aircraft carrier’s Facebook page), China responded and predictably, it wasn’t thrilled. In a statement by the […]
Fight of the Century
Fight of the Century In March 1933, the Enabling Act was passed by the Reichstag, Germany’s parliament. Its purpose was to provide Chancellor Adolf Hitler with the ability to bypass the Reichstag. It allowed him (amongst other measures) emergency powers to legally wage pre-emptive war without any further parliamentary or presidential approval, or even discussion. […]
Norway Doubles Down On Arctic Oil
Norway Doubles Down On Arctic Oil While Canada and the U.S. ban Arctic drilling for oil and gas motivated by environmental concerns, and majors such as Shell pull out of their Arctic projects due to financial pressures, Norwegian energy companies are planning to increase drilling in the country’s Arctic shelf in the Barents Sea. It […]
Red Hysteria Engulfs Washington
Red Hysteria Engulfs Washington President Dwight Eisenhower’s warning about the dangers of the military-industrial complex made half a century ago ring as loud and clear today. The soft coup being mounted against the Trump government by America’s ‘deep state’ reached a new intensity this week as special interests battled for control of Washington. The newly […]
Inflation To Rise – We expect UK, ECB and US Policy to Diverge
Inflation To Rise – We expect UK, ECB and US Policy to Diverge Purely for geopolitical reasons, namely frustration at the failure of the governments of individual member states to respond to repeated calls for “structural reforms”, your authors had taken the view in recent months that the ECB might increase interest rates this year. […]
Mattis “We’re Not In Iraq To Seize Anybody’s Oil”
Mattis “We’re Not In Iraq To Seize Anybody’s Oil” In the latest distancing by Trump administration advisors from recent statements by the President, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis arrived in Baghdad on an unannounced visit on Monday to discuss the war effort against ISIS, and said that the US military is not in Iraq “to seize […]
The Cancer of War: US Used Depleted Uranium in Syria
The Cancer of War: US Used Depleted Uranium in Syria Despite vowing not to use depleted uranium (DU) weapons in its military action in Syria, the US government has now admitted that it has fired thousands of the deadly rounds into Syrian territory. As Foreign Policy Magazine reports: US Central Command (CENTCOM) spokesman Maj. Josh Jacques […]
Johnson: Elites Eying the Exits Signals America’s Crisis
Johnson: Elites Eying the Exits Signals America’s Crisis Institute President Rob Johnson interviewed by the New Yorker on hedge-fund managers and the market for air strips in New Zealand Interviewed as part of an extraordinary New Yorker investigation into growing anxiety among America’s corporate elite over the potential for anarchic social collapse, Institute President Robert Johnson saw his peers’ talk of […]
The causes of the recent decrease in US greenhouse gas emissions
The causes of the recent decrease in US greenhouse gas emissions Since their peak in 2007 GHG emissions in the USA have decreased more in absolute terms than in any other country. The results of this review suggest that approximately 40% of this decrease was caused by the replacement of coal with gas in generating […]
Unprecedented Moves Towards War With China Would “Upend Supply Routes, Trigger Global Recession”
Unprecedented Moves Towards War With China Would “Upend Supply Routes, Trigger Global Recession” Economic tensions are tipping over into military ones. Warships have sailed, and the rhetoric of Trump’s officials has shifted dramatically from the previous era. The larger threat to the petrodollar and the continuance of U.S. hegemony has been put face-to-face with a […]
