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U.S. Economic Warfare and Likely Foreign Defenses
U.S. Economic Warfare and Likely Foreign Defenses Photograph Source: Trending Topics 2019 – CC BY 2.0 Today’s world is at war on many fronts. The rules of international law and order put in place toward the end of World War II are being broken by U.S. foreign policy escalating its confrontation with countries that refrain from […]
“This Cannot Be Tolerated”: Beijing Hints It Could Send Troops Into Hong Kong If Protests Don’t Stop
“This Cannot Be Tolerated”: Beijing Hints It Could Send Troops Into Hong Kong If Protests Don’t Stop A few days after another round of violent protests rocked Hong Kong, Beijing on Wednesday issued its harshest warning yet to the citizens of Hong Kong: It sought to remind them that Beijing has the authority to mobilize the […]
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 […]
Ceasefire On The Rocks? Trump Sanctions Chinese Firm For Importing Iranian Crude
Ceasefire On The Rocks? Trump Sanctions Chinese Firm For Importing Iranian Crude A huge escalatory step in the US-led economic war on Tehran and its global oil exports, and amid continued trade tensions with Beijing: the US State Department said Monday the US will impose new sanctions against a Chinese company for transporting Iranian crude in contravention […]
Something Just Broke In China As Repo Rate Soars To 1,000% Overnight
Something Just Broke In China As Repo Rate Soars To 1,000% Overnight Ever since the unexpected failure of China’s Baoshang Bank in late May, which caused a freeze in the interbank market among smaller, less credible (and government bankstopped) banks, and which sent rates on Negotiable Certificates of Deposit (NCDs), various bank bonds and assorted report rates sharply […]
Australia Conducts It’s “Largest Amphibious Assult Since WWII”
Australia Conducts It’s “Largest Amphibious Assult Since WWII” A joint Australian-U.S. military exercise, called Talisman Sabre 2019, will continue through early August following this week’s Australian-led amphibious landing at Langham Beach, Queensland, Australia, reported Naval Today. Forces from around the world (the U.S., New Zealand, United Kingdom, and Japan) practiced one of the most massive beach assault since […]
China’s Losing Control Of Its Crushing Debt Load As Defaults And Missed Payments Skyrocket
China’s Losing Control Of Its Crushing Debt Load As Defaults And Missed Payments Skyrocket China’s economic slowdown and heavy debt load is affecting everybody in the country – even it’s “jewelry queen”, Zhou Xiaoguang, according to the Wall Street Journal. Zhou, who went from selling trinkets on city streets to taking a seat in China’s parliament and becoming […]
The Strange Case Of Chrystia Freeland And The Failure Of The “Super Elite”
The Strange Case Of Chrystia Freeland And The Failure Of The “Super Elite” Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland has become a bit of a living parody of everything wrong with the detached technocratic neo-liberal order which has driven the world through 50 years of post-industrial decay. Now, two years into the Trump presidency, and five […]
The Winds are Shifting
The Winds are Shifting How do you define terror? Perhaps, because of the way the term has evolved in the English language, one wouldn’t call the west ‘terrorists’ per se, but ‘we’ are certainly spreading terror and terrorizing very large groups of people. Yeah, bring on the tanks and parade them around town. Add a […]
The Dying Days Of An Empire
The Dying Days Of An Empire Something’s been nagging me for the past few days, and I’m not sure I’ve figured out why yet. It started when Donald Trump first called off the alleged planned strikes on targets in Iran because they would have cost 150 lives, and then the next day said the US […]
In Absurd Fiasco, Entire Market Spike Was Due To A CNBC Grammatical Mistake
In Absurd Fiasco, Entire Market Spike Was Due To A CNBC Grammatical Mistake The farce that is this “market” just took a whole new turn for the surreal. As we reported earlier, the reason why stocks surged just after 5am EDT is because of a CNBC headline, according to which the US Treasury Secretary said that […]
George Orwell’s Dystopian Nightmare in China
George Orwell’s Dystopian Nightmare in China Beijing’s tyranny over its people is fast becoming more terrifying than anything in Nineteen Eighty-Four. Michael Hogue It has become fairly cliché to call China’s surveillance state—its artificial intelligence-driven facial recognition, the new “social credit system,” its cultural policing and re-education camps for Uyghur minorities—“something right out of George Orwell’s Nineteen […]
“It Would Be An Earthquake” – Three Chinese Banks Tumble After US Threatens To Cut Them Off From SWIFT
“It Would Be An Earthquake” – Three Chinese Banks Tumble After US Threatens To Cut Them Off From SWIFT In news that initially did not receive much prominence, on Monday a US judge found three large Chinese banks — reportedly the state-owned Bank of Communications, China Merchants Bank, and Shanghai Pudong Development Bank — in […]
