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Russia Responds To Formal Cyberattack Accusations, Calls Them “Unprecedented Anti-Russian Hysteria”
Russia Responds To Formal Cyberattack Accusations, Calls Them “Unprecedented Anti-Russian Hysteria” Following the first official accusation lobbed at Russia on Friday by the Department of Homeland Security and Director of National Intelligence on Election Security, in which US intelligence services formally stated they were “confident” that the Russian government “directed the recent compromises of emails from US […]
40 Million Russians To Take Part In “Nuclear Disaster” Drill, Days After US General Warns Of War With Moscow
40 Million Russians To Take Part In “Nuclear Disaster” Drill, Days After US General Warns Of War With Moscow As relations between Russia and the US disintegrate as a result of the escalating proxy war in Syria, which today culminated with Putin halting a Plutonium cleanup effort with the US, shortly before the US State Department announced […]
Obama Warned to Defuse Tensions with Russia
Obama Warned to Defuse Tensions with Russia A group of ex-U.S. intelligence officials is warning President Obama to defuse growing tensions with Russia over Syria by reining in the demonization of President Putin and asserting White House civilian control over the Pentagon. ALERT MEMORANDUM FOR: The President FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity SUBJECT: PREVENTING STILL WORSE IN SYRIA […]
How the ‘Clash of Civilizations’ Explains Turkey-US Relations
How the ‘Clash of Civilizations’ Explains Turkey-US Relations Turkey’s geopolitics is increasingly at the center of attention after the failed coup of July 2016. The era of Kamalism, with the army as “guardian of secularism” has ended. The AKP and its revered chief Erdogan are free as never before to go ahead in their ideological project of […]
How US Propaganda Plays in Syrian War
How US Propaganda Plays in Syrian War U.S. foreign policymakers have experimented at planting propaganda in social media and then citing it as evidence to support their goals, a process now playing out in the Syrian “regime change,” as Rick Sterling explains. Manipulation of public perception has risen to a new level with the emergence of […]
Like Everything Else, History Repeats (Almost Exactly) Because Power Truly Corrupts
Like Everything Else, History Repeats (Almost Exactly) Because Power Truly Corrupts With both the Bank of Japan and Federal Reserve today undertaking policy considerations at the same time, it is useful to highlight the similarities of conditions if not exactly in time. As I wrote this morning, what the Fed is attempting now is very nearly […]
Four Flash Points That Could Trigger World War III: “We Have Not Been This Close To Nuclear War In A Long Time”
Four Flash Points That Could Trigger World War III: “We Have Not Been This Close To Nuclear War In A Long Time” As can readily be seen by the current events, the world has not been this close to a nuclear war and World War 3 in a long time. There are four major flashpoints […]
Russia Deploys Flagship Aircraft Carrier To Syria Coast
Russia Deploys Flagship Aircraft Carrier To Syria Coast Back in the summer of 2013, just around the peak of the first major escalation involving Syria and the US attempt to remove its president al-Assad, the Mediterranean briefly looked like a parking lot, with US and Russian ships on anchor just off the Syrian coast prepared for any […]
Why Syria Matters to You
Why Syria Matters to You Firstly, I want to thank all of you who reserved your online seat for the premiere of my new documentary, Crisis & Chaos: Are We Moving Toward World War III? The keen response has shown us just how many of you are deeply concerned about the turmoil casting a shadow on most […]
China’s oil peak 45 years after the US peak
China’s oil peak 45 years after the US peak Fig 1: Oil crisis in China like in 2005? No. By order: Free roads for G20 in Hangzhou https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/31/china-hangzhou-propaganda-facelift-g20-summit Strategically published only days before the G20 summit the Wall Street Journal had an article on peak oil in China: China’s Decline in Oil Production Echoes Globally […]
U.S. Blocks Former British Ambassador From Entering America
U.S. Blocks Former British Ambassador From Entering America He is not a terrorist and is not a social media jihadi. He has no criminal record, no connection to drug smuggling, and does have a return ticket, a hotel reservation and ample funds to cover his expenses. The United States over the weekend denied travel to […]
Can You Trust US Economic Data? Eight “Out Of The Box” Investment Insights – Peter Diekmeyer
Can You Trust US Economic Data? Eight “Out Of The Box” Investment Insights – Peter Diekmeyer This morning, Canada released GDP data which showed the economy shrank by 1.6% on an annualized quarter-over-quarter basis during Q2. While economists forecast a 1.5% drop, those “projections” were made after the quarter was already over. Six months […]
10 Years (Or Less): Orwell’s Vision Coming True
10 Years (Or Less): Orwell’s Vision Coming True In the wake of all of the Brexit vote, a chilling blurb made headlines and it went largely unnoticed and uncommented upon. The line was couched within comments made by Boris Titov, an economic policy maker for Russia’s Kremlin. Actually all of the following merits attention, but […]
Outside the Hall of Mirrors
Outside the Hall of Mirrors The outcome of last week’s vote concerning Britain’s membership in the European Union has set off anguished cries and handwaving across much of the internet and the mass media. The unexpected defeat of the pro-EU camp, though, has important lessons to offer, and not just for those of my readers who […]
