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The EU Uses Every Crisis To Grab More Power
The EU Uses Every Crisis To Grab More Power Jean Claude Juncker held a speech yesterday that had, oh irony, been labeled a State of the Union. A perfect way of showing how pompous Juncker and his surroundings have become. A perfect way, too, to point out how much the European Union differs from the […]
US Warns Of “Unprecedented” Russian Military Buildup In Syria: “It’s Starting To Look Like Crimea”
US Warns Of “Unprecedented” Russian Military Buildup In Syria: “It’s Starting To Look Like Crimea” On Wednesday, we brought you an in-depth look at the latest from Syria where Russia is apparently in a mad dash to send reinforcements to Assad and his depleted army at Latakia (or at least that’s the narrative being pushed […]
Is This The Start Of India’s Gold Confiscation
Is This The Start Of India’s Gold Confiscation On April 5, 1933, FDR signed Executive order 6102 which made illegal “the Hoarding of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates within the continental United States” in the process criminalizing the possession of monetary gold by any individual or corporation. This was de facto gold confiscation; […]
Migrant Crisis & Syria War Fueled By Competing Gas Pipelines
Migrant Crisis & Syria War Fueled By Competing Gas Pipelines Don’t let anyone fool you: Sectarian strife in Syria has been engineered to provide cover for a war for access to oil and gas, and the power and money that come along with it. Editor’s note: This article has been updated to reflect recent Wikileaks […]
How America Double-Crossed Russia and Shamed West
How America Double-Crossed Russia and Shamed West The conditionality of the Soviet Union’s agreement to allow East Germany to be taken by West Germany and for the Cold War to end, was that NATO would not expand «one inch to the east». This was the agreement that was approved by the Russian President of the […]
So you really want to make Syrian Refugees an Election Issue?
So you really want to make Syrian Refugees an Election Issue? Thomas Pynchon once wrote: ‘If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about the answers.’ Words to live by for the the major political parties in Canadian Federal politics. The refugee crisis in Syria, Iraq and spilling into Europe […]
Obama prosecuted whistleblowers for working with media, not with foreign govts – Assange to RT
Obama prosecuted whistleblowers for working with media, not with foreign govts – Assange to RT © / RT “Academic censorship” in journalism and foreign relations is one of the US’ greatest sins according to whistleblower Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks. Assange spoke to RT about the “US Empire” and mechanisms it uses to expand […]
War Drums Beating: Bulgaria Blocks Russian Access To Its Airspace For Syria Flights
War Drums Beating: Bulgaria Blocks Russian Access To Its Airspace For Syria Flights On Monday we flagged a notable escalation in the build up to the geopolitical “main event” in Syria where, thanks largely to the West’s ambition to break Gazprom’s leverage over Europe, the US and Russia are one “accidental” run-in away from taking the “proxy” […]
Fed Up with the Fed
Fed Up with the Fed At the end of every August, central bankers and financiers from around the world meet in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, for the US Federal Reserve’s economic symposium. This year, the participants were greeted by a large group of mostly young people, including many African- and Hispanic Americans. The group was not […]
Eventual Consequences
Eventual Consequences Mark Bryan The US empire has murdered some 40 million people since World War II (according to John Stockwell), has suppressed popular social change in dozens of countries, has overthrown and assassinated their leaders and has organized and trained right-wing death squads that murdered and tortured their citizens. Both Al Qaeda and ISIS […]
There Goes Europe
There Goes Europe The desperate wish in what is loosely called the West to at least appear morally correct is unfortunately over-matched by the desperation of people fleeing unstable, overpopulated places outside the West, and it is a fiasco beyond even the events of the moment. The refugee / immigrant crisis around the Mediterranean is a preview of […]
U.S. Drops Bombs; EU Gets Refugees & Blame. This Is Insane
U.S. Drops Bombs; EU Gets Refugees & Blame. This Is Insane Starting in 2011 in Libya, the United States dropped bombs on Libya in order to replace its pro-Russian dictator, Muammar Gaddafi. The EU is now tearing itself apart with guilt-feelings at European nations’ responses to the refugee-crisis that was caused by this […]
Globalized Crisis
Globalized Crisis If there is a bright side to the turmoil that has roiled the global economy since 2008, it is that not every part of the world has erupted simultaneously. The first blow was the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States, to which Europeans responded with self-satisfied reflections on the superior resilience of […]
Russian Military Presence In Syria Risks “Confrontation” With US-Backed Forces, Kerry Warns Lavrov
Russian Military Presence In Syria Risks “Confrontation” With US-Backed Forces, Kerry Warns Lavrov On Friday, Vladimir Putin conceded that the scope of Russian military involvement in Syria is “quite serious.” In a replay of the Kremlin’s official line regarding Russian involvement in Ukraine, Putin did not admit that his soldiers were on the ground to play a […]
US reputation suffers when it stands against human rights & rule of law – Snowden
US reputation suffers when it stands against human rights & rule of law – Snowden Accepting Norway’s freedom of speech prize via a video link from Moscow, due to Washington’s pressure for his extradition, whistleblower Edward Snowden noted that the US’ reputation is crumbling every year it stands against human rights, the rule of law […]
