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Tomgram: Engelhardt, The Disappointments of War in a World of Unintended Consequences
Tomgram: Engelhardt, The Disappointments of War in a World of Unintended Consequences War, What Is It Good For? Absolutely Nothing. And No Kidding, That’s the Literal Truth When It Comes to War, American-Style It may be hard to believe now, but in 1970 the protest song “War,” sung by Edwin Starr, hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. […]
Caught On Tape: U.S. Test Fires Nuclear ICBM, Warns “We Are Prepared To Use Nuclear Weapons”
Caught On Tape: U.S. Test Fires Nuclear ICBM, Warns “We Are Prepared To Use Nuclear Weapons” Less than two years ago, news of Russia test-firing an ICBM just as the east Ukraine civil war was heating up, was sufficient to send the stock market into a brief tailspin. Since then, the launches of nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic […]
U.S. Unable To Halt ISIS March Towards Libyan Oil
U.S. Unable To Halt ISIS March Towards Libyan Oil The Islamic State (ISIS) is taking on recruits faster than anyone can keep up with, and it’s heading towards Libya’s oil crescent, eyeing billions of barrels that a country at war with itself cannot protect—even with U.S. air strikes. In mid-December, the United Nations brokered a […]
Do Americans Live In A False Reality Created By Orchestrated Events?
Do Americans Live In A False Reality Created By Orchestrated Events? Most people who are aware and capable of thought have given up on what is called the “mainstream media.” The presstitutes have destroyed their credibility by helping Washington to lie—“Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction,” “Iranian nukes,” “Assad’s use of chemical weapons,” “Russian invasion […]
Alternative fuels to replace transportation oil. U.S. House hearing 2012
Alternative fuels to replace transportation oil. U.S. House hearing 2012 House 112–159. July 10, 2012. The American energy initiative part 23: A focus on Alternative Fuels and vehicles. House of Representatives. [ Excerpts from this 210 page transcript follow ] MIKE BREEN, Vice President of the Truman National Security Project. I am also proud to be one […]
Slouching Down a March of Folly
Slouching Down a March of Folly The threats from Turkey and Saudi Arabia to mount a full-scale invasion of Syria create the potential for a modern-day “march of folly” into World War III by drawing NATO and the U.S. into a direct military confrontation with Russia and Iran, as ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar explains. […]
What Could Go Wrong? Saudis Want To Give Surface-To-Air Missiles To Syrian Rebels
What Could Go Wrong? Saudis Want To Give Surface-To-Air Missiles To Syrian Rebels When the Russians started flying from Latakia on September 30 it put the Syrian opposition in a decisively precarious situation. Whereas the Syrian air force was largely out of date and relied on replacement parts and continual maintenance to remain viable, Moscow […]
The Evil Empire Has The World In A Death Grip
The Evil Empire Has The World In A Death Grip In my archives there is a column or two that introduces the reader to John Perkins’ important book, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. An EHM is an operative who sells the leadership of a developing country on an economic plan or massive development project. The […]
Missiles Just the Latest Chapter in the South China Sea Saga
Missiles Just the Latest Chapter in the South China Sea Saga With the recent placement of surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) on Woody Island, a subset of the Paracel Islands, China has taken a major step toward militarization of the South China Sea. The action was taken during the recent US-ASEAN “Sunnylands” Summit, where economics, […]
The US: A Nation In Dire Need of Energy and Climate Policy
The US: A Nation In Dire Need of Energy and Climate Policy A new Harvard University study finds that world methane emissions have recently spiked, and that the US appears to be the site of most of the increase. Natural gas fracking is the apparent culprit. This finding should be (though I wouldn’t bet on it) the […]
United States On Path to Becoming Major Exporter of Natural Gas Despite Climate Impacts
United States On Path to Becoming Major Exporter of Natural Gas Despite Climate Impacts The Sabine Pass LNG terminal owned by Cheniere Energy in southwest Louisiana offers a glimpse of the challenges facing the growing natural gas industry in the United States. The first cargo of liquefied natural gas (LNG) was scheduled for export from Cheniere Energy’s new export […]
Recalling the Slaughter of Innocents
Recalling the Slaughter of Innocents From the Archive: The quarter-century anniversary of an early U.S. war crime in Iraq passed largely unnoticed this week, the bombing of a civilian air-raid shelter in Baghdad during President George H.W. Bush’s Persian Gulf War, an atrocity that killed more than 400 women and children, as Ray McGovern recalled in 2011. By Ray McGovern […]
World outside US and Canada doesn’t produce more crude oil than in 2005
World outside US and Canada doesn’t produce more crude oil than in 2005 After a delay of several months the US Energy Information Administration has published the latest international energy statistics for October 2015 This is an opportunity to update crude oil graphs http://crudeoilpeak.info/latest-graphs Fig 1: World’s incremental crude oil production How Fig 1 is created: for […]
The Neoconservatives Are Brewing A Wider War In Syria
The Neoconservatives Are Brewing A Wider War In Syria While you are enjoying your Sunday, the insane neoconservatives who control Western foreign policy and their Turkish and Saudi Arabian vassals might be preparing the end of the world. Any person who relies on Western media has no accurate idea of what is happening in Syria. […]
The Deep State’s Top Choice for President Is…
The Deep State’s Top Choice for President Is… RANCHO SANTANA, Nicaragua – We’re traveling home to the U.S. from our recent meeting with members of our family wealth advisory, Bonner & Partners Family Office. So, we’ll make this short. The Dow sold off again yesterday. At midday, it was down nearly 400 points. Then it recovered […]
