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A Torrid Week for the Transatlantic Corporatocracy
A Torrid Week for the Transatlantic Corporatocracy The carefully woven fabric is unraveling. A new survey conducted by YouGov for the Bertelsmann Foundation showed that only 17% of Germans believe the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is a good thing, down from 55% two years ago. In the United States, only 18% support the deal compared to 53% […]
Possible End Game: The United States Has Created a Climate That Could Easily Be Transformed Into a War
Possible End Game: The United States Has Created a Climate That Could Easily Be Transformed Into a War Most readers have been watching, as the U.S. and Russia seem to be positioning themselves along Cold War lines. The posturing is not confined to maneuvering military assets; it also runs along economic lines, in which most warfare […]
Castrated
Castrated Take away Saudi Arabia’s oil and all that’s left are a couple of Islamic shrines and a lot of sand and hot air. After three decades of internecine war, Abdul-Aziz bin Saud, allied with the fundamentalist Wahhabist Islamic sect, consolidated the House of Saud’s dominance over Arabia in 1932 with the tacit support of […]
Andrew Bacevich and America’s Long Misguided War to Control the Greater Middle East
ANDREW BACEVICH AND AMERICA’S LONG MISGUIDED WAR TO CONTROL THE GREATER MIDDLE EAST THE CONVICTION that invasion, bombing, and special forces benefit large swaths of the globe, while remaining consonant with a Platonic ideal of the national interest, runs deep in the American psyche. Like the poet Stevie Smith’s cat, the United States “likes to gallop about […]
Is the US trying to destroy ISIS?
Is the US trying to destroy ISIS? Someone asked me to find war lies during the past few years. Perhaps they had in mind the humanitarian pretenses around attacking Libya in 2011 and Iraq in 2014, or the false claims about chemical weapons in 2013, or the lies about an airplane in Ukraine or the […]
Russian Aggression Unmasked (Sort Of)
Russian Aggression Unmasked (Sort Of) Provocative Fighter Jocks Back in 2014, a Russian jet made headlines when it passed several times close to the USS Donald Cook in the Black Sea. As CBS reported at the time: “A Pentagon spokesperson told CBS Radio that a Russian SU-24 fighter jet made several low altitude, close passes in […]
Why US Govt. And Saudi Arabia Don’t Want Americans Knowing the Truth About 9/11
Why US Govt. And Saudi Arabia Don’t Want Americans Knowing the Truth About 9/11 (ANTIMEDIA) In a rare show of bipartisanship, President Obama and top Republicans in Congress have come together to shield Americans from knowing the truth about who was behind the 9/11 terror attacks, which took the lives of 2996 people in 2001. However strange it […]
Washington Launches Its Attack Against BRICS
Washington Launches Its Attack Against BRICS Having removed the reformist President of Argentina, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Washington is now disposing of the reformist President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff. Washington used a federal judge to order Argentina to sacrifice its debt restructuring program in order to pay US vulture funds the full value of defaulted […]
A Great Awakening – Public Support for Fake “Free Trade” Deals Plunges in the U.S. and Europe
A Great Awakening – Public Support for Fake “Free Trade” Deals Plunges in the U.S. and Europe Public opposition to the sovereignty killing corporate giveaway marketed as a free trade deal known as the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) has become so widespread that all the leading candidates for the U.S. Presidency are publicly against it. Specifically, […]
US Assaults British Sovereignty
US Assaults British Sovereignty The Washington elite believe that the British people should serve Washington’s interest and not their own. To this end, President Obama has been sent to London to emphasize that the UK must remain in the EU. Does this make you wonder why it is important to Washington for the British people […]
Why Mario’s Got A Bee In His Bonnet
Why Mario’s Got A Bee In His Bonnet Mario had a bee in his bonnet this morning. Apparently, the chorus of German voices pointing to the obvious—- that his policies are killing savers, insurance companies, pension funds and banks—-got his dander up: “We have a mandate to preserve price stability for the whole of the euro […]
Bowing to America’s Oligarchs
Bowing to America’s Oligarchs Commerce Secretary (and Hyatt Hotel heiress) Penny Pritzker was treated with kid gloves and spared tough questions at the National Press Club, showing how America treats its own oligarchs, writes Sam Husseini. Apparently, other countries, but not the U.S., have oligarchs. Billionaire and Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker came and went to the […]
China tests ICBM capable of striking US within half an hour
China tests ICBM capable of striking US within half an hour © Anton Denisov / Sputnik Beijing has successfully tested a new long-range ballistic missile capable of engaging any potential target worldwide. The rocket takes just 30 minutes to cover its maximum 12,000km range and can deliver multiple strikes on any nuclear-capable state. The launch […]
US 2015 Oil Production and Future Oil Prices
US 2015 Oil Production and Future Oil Prices Oil production can be confusing because there are various “pieces” that may or may not be included. In this analysis, I look at oil production of the United States broadly (including crude oil, natural gas plant liquids, and biofuels), because this is the way oil consumption is defined. I […]
