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Peak Oil: Are We Not Better Than This? Pt 9
Peak Oil: Are We Not Better Than This? Pt 9 There are—almost always—at least two sides to any story of significance and potential impact upon others. The greater the impact and potential for a range of outcomes, the more certain one can be that there are more than a handful of factors, considerations, and perspectives […]
The Media Divides Us With Gorillas to Enable the Crimes of the Government
The Media Divides Us With Gorillas to Enable the Crimes of the Government (ANTIMEDIA) United States — By now, we’ve all witnessed selective outrage in real time — a misdeed, tragedy, or other infuriating item blows up national headlines and almost immediately receives backlash in the vein of, ‘well, why isn’t anyone irate about ___ ?’ It’s […]
America’s Greatest Threat Is Its Crazed “Leadership” And Its Brainwashed Population
America’s Greatest Threat Is Its Crazed “Leadership” And Its Brainwashed Population Insouciant Americans do not even know what they should be worried about. A Russian Warning By Dmitry Orlov, The Saker, Victor Katsap and Evgenia Gurevich June 02, 2016 “Information Clearing House” – “ClubOrlov” – We, the undersigned, are Russians living and working in the […]
Guided By Nonsense
Guided By Nonsense “Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction.” — Lewis Carroll U.S. consumers are at it again. After a seven year hiatus they’re once again doing what they do best. They’re buying stuff. According to the Commerce Department, personal consumption expenditures (PCE), which is the primary measure of […]
Silencing America as It Prepares for War
Silencing America as It Prepares for War Orlok | Shutterstock.com Returning to the United States in an election year, I am struck by the silence. I have covered four presidential campaigns, starting with 1968; I was with Robert Kennedy when he was shot and I saw his assassin, preparing to kill him. It was a baptism in […]
Merkel’s TTIP policy is ‘wrong:’ German Vice Chancellor criticizes US-EU free trade deal
Merkel’s TTIP policy is ‘wrong:’ German Vice Chancellor criticizes US-EU free trade deal German Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel (L) and Chancellor Angela Merkel. © Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters TTIP Hastiness would lead to an unfavorable agreement, German Vice Chancellor and Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel said, criticizing Chancellor Angela Merkel’s approach to reaching an agreement with […]
Against Cultural Senility
Against Cultural Senility For the connoisseur of sociopolitical absurdity, the last few weeks’ worth of news cycles very nearly defines the phrase “target-rich environment.” I note, for example, that arch-neoconservative Robert Kagan—the founder of the Project for a New American Century and principal architect of this nation’s idiotically bloodthirsty Middle East policies, a man who […]
US Exceptionalism Has No Place in a Multipolar World
US Exceptionalism Has No Place in a Multipolar World With the end of the Cold War twenty-five years ago, many in the U.S have taken the country’s continued global hegemony for granted. However, this state of affairs is increasingly being challenged by both Russia and China, exemplified by their aerial flybys and interceptions of the […]
Unintended Consequences, Part 2: Easy Money = Overcapacity = Trade Wars
Unintended Consequences, Part 2: Easy Money = Overcapacity = Trade Wars It’s unclear what China was thinking when it was borrowed all those trillions to quadruple its capacity to make steel, cement and other basic industrial products. There’s no record of it checking in with the other countries that have such industries to see if […]
The Real 9/11 Conspiracy
The Real 9/11 Conspiracy Secretary of State John Kerry, center, poses with his Arab counterparts after a meeting in Saudi Arabia on Sept. 11, 2014. Kerry’s visit was aimed at pinning down Middle Eastern allies on what support they were willing to give to U.S. plans to beat back Islamic State, which had seized large […]
US Hacking, Spyware Targets Include Mass Media, Phone, and Energy Companies
US Hacking, Spyware Targets Include Mass Media, Phone, and Energy Companies Posted on May 19, 2016 by Robert Barsocchini US corporate government wants to control and drain as much of the world as possible. Reuters, The Register, and others summarize some of its methods: “The U.S. National Security Agency has figured out how to hide spying software deep within hard drives …. giving the […]
Can Russia Survive Washington’s Attack?
Can Russia Survive Washington’s Attack? It is not only American generals who are irresponsible and declare on the basis of no evidence whatsoever that “Russia is an existential threat to the United States” and also to the Baltic states, Poland, Georgia, Ukraine, and all of Europe. British generals also participate in the warmongering. UK retired […]
The Wave of Deflation & Rising Unemployment
The Wave of Deflation & Rising Unemployment QUESTION: Marty, years ago you did a chart showing the projection for unemployment. I believe I understand what you were projection for the company I work for has been replacing people with technology on a large scale. So we can have rising corporate profits with rising unemployment as technology […]
