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Don’t Take Higher Oil Prices For Granted
Don’t Take Higher Oil Prices For Granted Oil prices collapsed at the start of this week, with WTI and Brent dropping 5.5 percent and 7.5 percent respectively from their three and a half year peaks. This recent price slump serves as a timely reminder for market observers and players alike that, while a heightened geopolitical […]
America’s Incredible Shrinking Influence
America’s Incredible Shrinking Influence Just two weeks after President Trump pulled the US from the Iran nuclear agreement, his Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, issued 12 demands to Iran that could never be satisfied. Pompeo knew his demands would be impossible to meet. They were designed that way. Just like Austria-Hungary’s ultimatum to Serbia in […]
The “Axis of Gold” Just Got Stronger
The “Axis of Gold” Just Got Stronger As you probably know by now, President Trump backed out of the nuclear deal with Iran and is re-imposing harsh sanctions. And just this morning, Trump announced that he’s canceling the much-anticipated nuclear summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un because of Kim’s recent belligerent comments. What […]
Is US Bellicosity Backfiring?
Is US Bellicosity Backfiring? U.S. threats to crush Iran and North Korea may yet work, but as of now neither Tehran nor Pyongyang appears to be intimidated. Repeated references by NSC adviser John Bolton and Vice President Mike Pence to the “Libya model” for denuclearization of North Korea just helped sink the Singapore summit of […]
End of unipolar world? New world order evolves in response to US demands on Iran
End of unipolar world? New world order evolves in response to US demands on Iran © Getty Images If Mike Pompeo’s ultimatum to Iran, after US withdrawal from the Iranian nuclear deal, was fulfilled it would inflict economic warfare on the country and set up Tehran for failure while reasserting a US-led unipolar world order. […]
Bolton Trying to Convince Trump to Topple Iran
Bolton Trying to Convince Trump to Topple Iran Now that the Trump administration has derailed the Iran nuclear deal, the old issue of regime change in Iran is back again. National Security Advisor John Bolton is obviously the chief regime-change advocate in the administration, and there is every reason to believe he has begun to […]
Iran Announces Plan To Stay In Syria As Pompeo Issues Unprecedented Threats
Iran Announces Plan To Stay In Syria As Pompeo Issues Unprecedented Threats After last Thursday’s relatively brief meeting in Sochi between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Syria’s Bashar al-Assad wherein Putin stressed that it is necessary for all “foreign forces” to withdraw from Syria, there’s been much speculation over what Putin actually meant. Many were quick […]
Iran and Russia Discuss Transacting in Crypto to Avoid International Sanctions
Iran and Russia Discuss Transacting in Crypto to Avoid International Sanctions Iran and Russia could start using cryptocurrencies to avoid Western sanctions, Russian news portal RBC reported yesterday, May 17. Mohammad Reza Pourebrahimi, the head of the Iranian Parliamentary Commission for Economic Affairs, referred to cryptocurrencies as a promising way for both countries to avoid […]
Europe: National Sovereignty vs. International Conquest, at Stake over Iran
Europe: National Sovereignty vs. International Conquest, at Stake over Iran Europe now faces its ultimate ideological fork-in-the-road, which it has thus far ignored but can no longer ignore: They need to decide whether they seek a world of nations that each is sovereign over its own territory but over no other (and this would not […]
An Iranian Viewpoint on the Battle for Syria
An Iranian Viewpoint on the Battle for Syria A new feature from Iran gives a totally different perspective of the war raging in Syria than Western audiences are used to, explains Rick Sterling. West against East on the Syrian battle-field, in the newspapers and now on film: A new, full-length action movie, titled “Damascus Time,” […]
What’s Wrong With the United States?
What’s Wrong With the United States? Photo source jqpubliq | CC BY 2.0 Despite the myth perpetrated by United States spokespersons, the country is not, and never has been, a beacon of peace and freedom, the ‘land of the free and the home of the brave’, or a democracy that is the envy of the […]
Oil Jumps Above $80 For The First Time Since Nov. 2014
Oil Jumps Above $80 For The First Time Since Nov. 2014 Two weeks after Saudi Arabia said it was targeting $80/bbl oil, this morning Riyadh got its wishes early when Brent hit the Saudi target, jumping as much as 1% to $80.18, following the latest drop in U.S. crude inventories and as traders continued to […]
DOLLAR COLLAPSE COMING: EU To DITCH The US Dollar In Payments For Iranian Oil
DOLLAR COLLAPSE COMING: EU To DITCH The US Dollar In Payments For Iranian Oil The dollar’s collapse is nearing. The European Union is planning to switch its payments to the Euro for its oil purchases from Iran, eliminating United States dollar transactions. Just one more nail to the US dollar’s coffin. Its collapse is all but […]
Europe: National Sovereignty vs. International Conquest, at Stake over Iran
Europe: National Sovereignty vs. International Conquest, at Stake over Iran Europe now faces its ultimate ideological fork-in-the-road, which it has thus far ignored but can no longer ignore: They need to decide whether they seek a world of nations that each is sovereign over its own territory but over no other (and this would not […]
