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2019 was a year of global unrest, spurred by anger at rising inequality – and 2020 is likely to be worse
2019 was a year of global unrest, spurred by anger at rising inequality – and 2020 is likely to be worse 2019 may well go down as the most disrupted year in global politics since the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989 and the subsequent implosion of the former Soviet Union. However, the likelihood is that 2020 will […]
International Group Of Doctors Warns Assange Will “Die In Prison” Without Urgent Medical Care
International Group Of Doctors Warns Assange Will “Die In Prison” Without Urgent Medical Care With Washington fighting tooth-and-nail to extradite him from the UK, the notion that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange might die in prison is looking increasingly probable. At this point, it’s more a matter of when: A few weeks, or a few decades. Assange’s […]
US Publicly Backs Iran Protests As Khamenei Says Crackdown On “Thugs” Coming
US Publicly Backs Iran Protests As Khamenei Says Crackdown On “Thugs” Coming It took Washington all of two days to jump behind the large popular protests over gas price hikes which gripped cities across Iran since Friday. Over the weekend the US State Department predictably came out in favor of more protests, in a volatile situation in the […]
Resistance
Resistance The status quo is always difficult to alter. Resistance is a normal reaction to change. The current theatrics in Washington, DC are especially revealing. Donald Trump is many things to many people. His supporters believe him to be a savior of the American system and way of life. His opponents see him as a […]
Grayzone Editor Max Blumenthal Arrested Months After Reporting on Venezuelan Opposition Violence
Grayzone Editor Max Blumenthal Arrested Months After Reporting on Venezuelan Opposition Violence Blumenthal has been arrested on false charges after reporting on Venezuelan opposition violence outside the D.C. embassy. He describes the manufactured case as part of a wider campaign of political persecution, reports Ben Norton. Max Blumenthal, the editor of the news site The Grayzone, […]
Trump Praises US Energy Independence After Saudi Attack: “We Don’t Need Middle Eastern Oil”
Trump Praises US Energy Independence After Saudi Attack: “We Don’t Need Middle Eastern Oil” With international oil prices soaring following this weekend’s attack in Saudi Arabia, which has indefinitely crippled as much as half of its oil-production capacity, President Trump sent a tweet Monday morning to try and reassure markets that the US is now […]
We’re Ready For “Full-Fledged” War: Iran Responds To US Accusation It Launched Saudi Oil Attack
We’re Ready For “Full-Fledged” War: Iran Responds To US Accusation It Launched Saudi Oil Attack After the United States was quick to point the finger at Iran for the early Saturday explosions that rocked Abqaiq facility and the Khurais field — forcing production to be shut and with it 5.7 million barrels a day of oil production lost — Iran has warned it […]
Marines “Remind China Of America’s Military Edge” During 11-Day Exercise In The Pacific
Marines “Remind China Of America’s Military Edge” During 11-Day Exercise In The Pacific The US is escalating the intensity of its military drills in the waters around mainland China. According to the South China Morning Post, US marines recently held airfield and island-seizure drills in the East and South China seas in order to remind Beijing […]
Beijing Enraged After US Navy Ship Sails Through Taiwan Strait
Beijing Enraged After US Navy Ship Sails Through Taiwan Strait With the 70th anniversary of the founding of the CPC looming, and Beijing staking out a more aggressive trade stance Friday morning by threatening retaliatory tariffs, the US picked the best – or worst – time to provoke Beijing, when a Navy ship sailed through the […]
Writing on the Wall
Writing on the Wall Not Adding Up One of the more disagreeable discrepancies of American life in the 21st century is the world according to Washington’s economic bureaus and the world as it actually is. In short, things don’t add up. What’s more, the propaganda is so far off the mark, it is downright insulting. Coming […]
Russia’s Sound Proposal for Gulf Peace
Russia’s Sound Proposal for Gulf Peace There is an eminently reasonable and feasible way to avoid conflict in the Persian Gulf, and to secure peace. The principles of multilateralism and international law must be adhered to. It seems almost astounding that one has to appeal for such obvious basic norms. Fortunately, Russia has presented a […]
U.S. Currency Wars With China—Past And Present In a purely political move, the Trump administration (read: the U.S. Treasury) has branded China as a currency manipulator. This is an act of war. After President Trump announced that even more tariffs would be imposed on China, the markets took the value of the Chinese yuan down […]
Beijing Accuses Washington Of “Undermining Global Stability” In New Defense Report
Beijing Accuses Washington Of “Undermining Global Stability” In New Defense Report For the first time since President Xi began his second term in 2017, China has released a defense white paper that doesn’t elaborate on the country’s military priorities so much as it criticizes Beijing’s chief political adversary – the US – while defending the […]
You had better memorize the term: de-dol-la-ri-za-tion
You had better memorize the term: de-dol-la-ri-za-tion Some say it was Colonel Muammar Qaddafi, who wanted to dethrone the dollar, and so he paid for it with his own life. Others say it was Iraq’s President Saddam Hussein, who wanted to make settlements in a currency other than the US dollar, and he was hanged. […]
