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How to Drain the Deep Swamp
How to Drain the Deep Swamp Pablo Picasso Girl Before A Mirror 1932 Obviously, like hopefully many people, I’ve been following the WikiLeaks CIA revelations, and closely. It’s too early for too many conclusions, if only because WikiLeaks has announced much more will flow from that same pipeline. But one thing is already clear: the CIA is -still- […]
Obstacles to Trump’s ‘Growth’ Plans
Obstacles to Trump’s ‘Growth’ Plans Theodor Horydczak “Dome of US Capitol through trees at night” 1943For the second time in a few weeks (see ‘End of Growth’ Sparks Wide Discontent), former British diplomat Alastair Crooke quotes me extensively, and I gladly return the favor. Crooke here attempts to list -some of- the difficulties Donald Trump will face in executing […]
China Moves Forward with Its De-Dollarization Strategy
China Moves Forward with Its De-Dollarization Strategy The world monetary order is changing. Slowly but steadily, global trade and currency markets are becoming less dollar-centric. Formerly marginal currencies such as the Chinese yuan now stand to become serious competitors to U.S. dollar dominance. Could gold also begin to emerge as a leading currency in world […]
Ungovernability
Ungovernability Inge Morath Street Corner at World’s End London 1954 Over the summer I introduced a two-fold assertion: 1) global economic growth is over (and has been for years and won’t come back for many more years) and 2) the end of growth marks the end of all centralization, including globalization. You can read all about these themes […]
President Obama Threatens President Putin with Nuclear War
President Obama Threatens President Putin with Nuclear War “It’ll be at a time of our choosing,” says U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, on NBC’’s “Meet the Press,” to be aired on Sunday, October 16th. Interviewer Chuck Todd had asked him, “Why would he [Obama] send a message out to Putin?” Biden pursed his lips, paused, […]
Russia Slams “Unprecedented, Insolent” US Cyber Threats, Vows Retaliation
Russia Slams “Unprecedented, Insolent” US Cyber Threats, Vows Retaliation In a striking report released on Friday night by NBC, the Obama administration was reportedly “contemplating an unprecedented cyber covert action” (it remains unclear how the action is covert if Biden announced it to the world via an interview with Chuck Todd), a “wide-ranging clandestine cyber operation […]
Do We Really Want A War With Russia?
Sasilssolutions/Shutterstock Do We Really Want A War With Russia? Because we’re in danger of getting exactly that This report was initially written for our premium subscribers. But given the significance of the topic, we’re making a rare exception and releasing it to the general public. I wish I could say things were improving between the […]
Obama Warned to Defuse Tensions with Russia
Obama Warned to Defuse Tensions with Russia A group of ex-U.S. intelligence officials is warning President Obama to defuse growing tensions with Russia over Syria by reining in the demonization of President Putin and asserting White House civilian control over the Pentagon. ALERT MEMORANDUM FOR: The President FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity SUBJECT: PREVENTING STILL WORSE IN SYRIA […]
‘Our views are either similar or coincide’: Putin on comprehensive strategic China-Russia alliance
‘Our views are either similar or coincide’: Putin on comprehensive strategic China-Russia alliance Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping. © Sergey Guneev / Sputnik The level of mutual trust in Sino-Russian relations has created grounds for comprehensive partnership and strategic collaboration between the two nations in technical, economic, and political spheres, Russia’s President […]
Russia’s Diversity of Opinion
Russia’s Diversity of Opinion The usual U.S. depiction of Russian media is that all you get is Kremlin propaganda, but prime-time talk shows actually offer wider diversity of opinion and more substantive debates than what appears on American TV, says Gilbert Doctorow. I remember with a shudder an exchange I had with Elmar Brok on March […]
America’s Biggest of All Big Lies (I)
ERIC ZUESSE | 05.05.2016 | WORLD America’s Biggest of All Big Lies (I) On April 26th, Reuters headlined from Romania, «‘We’re Not Here to Provoke,’ Say US Pilots on Putin’s Doorstep», and gave as an example: «‘We’re not here to provoke anybody, we’re here to work with our allies,’ says Dan Barina, a 26-year-old pilot on his first trip to a […]
George Soros Targeting Putin through the Panama Papers?
George Soros Targeting Putin through the Panama Papers? The Panama Papers represent the biggest document leak of the modern era, and George Soros apparently has a role. The scandal that has erupted after the publication of the Mossack Fonseca law firm’s so-called “Panama Papers” was organized by the US Centers for investigations on corruption and […]
‘Corruption’ as a Propaganda Weapon
‘Corruption’ as a Propaganda Weapon Exclusive: Mainstream U.S. journalism and propaganda are getting hard to tell apart, as with the flurry of “corruption” stories aimed at Russia’s Putin and other demonized foreign leaders, writes Robert Parry. Sadly, some important duties of journalism, such as applying evenhanded standards on human rights abuses and financial corruption, have been so corrupted […]
U.S. Troops on Russia’s Borders
U.S. Troops on Russia’s Borders Official Washington’s hype about “Russian aggression” has cloaked a U.S. military buildup on Russia’s borders, possibly increasing risks of escalation and even world war, explains ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar. U.S. military deployments to Eastern Europe are being ramped up. The latest word as reported by the Wall Street Journal is that regular rotation of […]
