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Europe Blocks U.S. from Racing to War Against Russia
Europe Blocks U.S. from Racing to War Against Russia On Friday, 6 March, President Obama placed temporarily on ice his planned increase in weapons and soldiers to help the Ukrainian Government to ‘defend’ Ukraine against the ‘terrorists’ in Donbass, which is the Ukrainian region that had voted 90% for the President whom the Obama Administration overthrew in February 2014. (Here is where the […]
Monetary System, World Order We’ve Had Since 1940’s Are Collapsing: Richard Maybury
Monetary System, World Order We’ve Had Since 1940’s Are Collapsing: Richard Maybury Richard Maybury has been predicting ‘black swan’ events in his newsletter Early Warning Report for the last two decades. In a recent conversation, he put his finger on something happening around the world. He sees a growing anxiety about global events – “everybody knows there’s […]
US Considering Openly Arming Syrian al-Qaeda Faction, al-Nusra
US Considering Openly Arming Syrian al-Qaeda Faction, al-Nusra As reported at Antiwar.com, the US and some of its regional client dictatorships are prodding the major al-Qaeda faction operating in Syria, a brutal terrorist group called al-Nusra, to “re-brand” so the US can openly arm it. Wikipedia notes that al-Nusra: …is a branch of al-Qaeda operating in Syria… …has been designated […]
Global Debt Is MORE THAN TWICE AS BIG As the Entire World Economy … What Does It Mean?
Global Debt Is MORE THAN TWICE AS BIG As the Entire World Economy … What Does It Mean? The Guardian reports that global debt has grown by $57 trillion dollars – to $199 trillion dollars – since the 2008 financial crisis. How much is that? It’s a big number … but what does it actually mean? The Guardian notes that […]
Despite Russian Warnings, US Will Deploy A Battalion To Ukraine By The End Of The Week
Despite Russian Warnings, US Will Deploy A Battalion To Ukraine By The End Of The Week “Before this week is up, we’ll be deploying a battalion… to the Ukraine to train Ukrainian forces for the fight that’s taking place,” stated US 173rd Airborne Brigade Commander Colonel Michael Foster said at the Center for Strategic and International Studies […]
US Will Never Gain Oil Market Crown Says IEA Head
US Will Never Gain Oil Market Crown Says IEA Head No matter how much oil the United States produces over the next few years, it will never become the next Saudi Arabia in the global oil market, according to Fatih Birol, the new executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA). What’s especially interesting about […]
China Just Sided With Russia Over The Ukraine Conflict
China Just Sided With Russia Over The Ukraine Conflict When it comes to the Ukraine proxy war, which started in earnest just about one year ago with the violent coup that overthrew then president Yanukovich and replaced him with a local pro-US oligarch, there has been no ambiguity who the key actors were: on the […]
The Neoconservative Threat To World Order
The Neoconservative Threat To World Order This week I was invited to address an important conference of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. Scholars from Russia and from around the world, Russian government officials, and the Russian people seek an answer as to why Washington destroyed during the past year the friendly relations between […]
OPEC’s Strategy Is Working Claims Saudi Oil Minister
OPEC’s Strategy Is Working Claims Saudi Oil Minister Saudi Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi, the architect of OPEC’s strategy to regain market share by causing the price of crude oil to plunge, says his plan is working, and data from petroleum research firms seem to back him up. Making his first public comments in two months, […]
The Stage Is Set For The Syrian Invasion
The Stage Is Set For The Syrian Invasion One week ago, when reporting on the latest bizarre plan presented by the Pentagon, namely providing Syrian rebels (but only the moderate ones, not the jihadists like al Nusra, or, well, ISIS) with B-1B Bomber air support in their attacks on ISIS, when we wrote that this “means in […]
How ISIS Pays Its Fighters——From Gulf State Bankrollers
How ISIS Pays Its Fighters——From Gulf State Bankrollers Islamic State is still receiving significant financial support from Arab sympathisers outside Iraq and Syria, enabling it to expand its war effort, says a senior Kurdish official. The US has being trying to stop such private donors in the Gulf oil states sending to Islamic State (Isis) […]
Washington Has Destroyed Trust Between Nuclear Powers, Thus Raising The Specter Of War
Washington Has Destroyed Trust Between Nuclear Powers, Thus Raising The Specter Of War Ambassador Jack Matlock made an important speech at the National Press Club on February 11. Matlock served as US ambassador to the Soviet Union during 1987-91. In his speech he describes how President Reagan won the trust of the Soviet leadership in […]
Is the US Overplaying Its Energy Hand?
Is the US Overplaying Its Energy Hand? In the grand poker game of geopolitics, energy is often the wild card. That’s why the Middle East is such a mess: Great Powers (first Britain, more recently the United States) have been installing, propping up, toppling, threatening, or bribing regimes in that region — almost always to […]
The Real Ukraine Aggressor: IMF Burying Bankrupt Country In Debt To Fight Civil War
The Real Ukraine Aggressor: IMF Burying Bankrupt Country In Debt To Fight Civil War From Bloomberg News Ukraine risks losing support from IMF member countries for a proposed $17.5 billion bailout if the conflict in the former Soviet republic continues to escalate, according to two people familiar with the matter. The new four-year loan program […]
Will US Shale Boom Continue Or Have A Hiatus?
Will US Shale Boom Continue Or Have A Hiatus? The conventional wisdom recently has been that North America will keep producing shale oil for some time despite the higher costs associated with hydraulic fracturing and the 50 percent drop in oil prices over the past eight months. The thing about conventional wisdom is that it […]
