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Oil Jumps As Trump Asks Allies To Cut Off Iranian Oil
Oil Jumps As Trump Asks Allies To Cut Off Iranian Oil The Trump administration is going to extreme lengths to disrupt as much oil from Iran as possible, and the implications for the oil market could be severe. When the Obama administration sought to isolate Iran, it built an international coalition, put in place tight […]
How Long Can The Federal Reserve Stave Off the Inevitable?
How Long Can The Federal Reserve Stave Off the Inevitable? When are America’s global corporations and Wall Street going to sit down with President Trump and explain to him that his trade war is not with China but with them. The biggest chunk of America’s trade deficit with China is the offshored production of America’s […]
American Totalitarianism and the Culture of Fake News
American Totalitarianism and the Culture of Fake News American citizens have a problem telling the difference between facts and opinion. That’s the finding of a recent survey carried out by the respected Pew organization. It was found that only a quarter of the people polled were able to correctly distinguish between a factual statement and […]
The Next American Civil War – Thank You Mueller
The Next American Civil War – Thank You Mueller The Mueller investigation is all about removing Trump from office, which has been cheered by CNN, New York Times, and The Washington Post among many others. They are intent on overturning the results of a Democratic election to ensure this is no longer a government of […]
Europe Warns Of An Upcoming “Trade Apocalypse”
Europe Warns Of An Upcoming “Trade Apocalypse” As European officials struggle to do everything they can to save the WTO, which appears headed for an all-but-certain demise thanks to President Trump’s aggressive trade policies, EU leaders have apparently circulated an “internal memo” drafted by the European Commission that accuses the US of deliberately instigating the […]
Trump’s Doomsday Gamble in China Trade War
Trump’s Doomsday Gamble in China Trade War President Trump dramatically resumed a trade war footing this week with Beijing, threatening to impose tariffs on virtually all imported Chinese goods to the US. After earlier negotiations this month appeared to avert a clash, the Trump administration is back to full trade war mode. With fiery language, […]
How the US, Under Obama, Created Europe’s Refugee Crisis
How the US, Under Obama, Created Europe’s Refugee Crisis The current US President, Donald Trump, claimed on June 18th, that Germany’s leadership, and the leadership in other EU nations, caused the refugee-crisis that Europe is facing: “The people of Germany are turning against their leadership as migration is rocking the already tenuous Berlin coalition. Crime in […]
Big Oil’s Man in Foreign Policy
Big Oil’s Man in Foreign Policy The Koch brothers’ extremist political agenda of empowering multinational corporations to reign as sovereigns has always been inextricably entwined with the profiteering agenda of their wholly-owned, $100-billion-a-year industrial conglomerate. The brothers’ plutocratic view of business-as-government even has a name: Pompeo. As in Mike Pompeo, the Trump regime’s latest secretary […]
Singapore, Trade and Geopolitics
Singapore, Trade and Geopolitics The Western media was incredulous. The Donald had disregarded diplomacy, scuttled out of the G7 meeting in Canada without endorsing the G7 agreement, and ended up shaking hands with a previously avowed enemy in Singapore. The formally leisurely pace of global diplomacy, where all is pre-agreed before the photo-op showing unanimity […]
The Eagle, the Dragon, and the Bear
The Eagle, the Dragon, and the Bear Does Trump recognize the limits of US power? Trump’s new world order comes straight from The Godfather. There are three global powers: the US, Russia, and China. None of these powers can militarily defeat either of the other two, and even an alliance among two of them would […]
The Murder of Julian Assange
The Murder of Julian Assange It was a fool’s errand. On the day Donald Trump was elected his supporters asked him to pardon the founder and frontman of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange. They flooded social media demanding Assange be allowed to leave the Ecuadorian embassy in London without arrest and extradition to the United States. Stone silence […]
Pro-War Media Deserve Slamming, Not Sainthood
Pro-War Media Deserve Slamming, Not Sainthood Still from “The Post.” The media nowadays are busy congratulating themselves for their vigorous criticism of Donald Trump. To exploit that surge of sanctimony, Hollywood producer Steven Spielberg rushed out The Post, a movie depicting an epic press battle with the Nixon administration. Critics raved over the film, which the […]
Trump, Tariffs and Trade Deficits
Trump, Tariffs and Trade Deficits “The Chinese are raping us” and “Canada is killing our farmers”! Such melodramatic claims from Trump resonate with many Americans, because the effects of globalization have been devastating for half the population. To his credit, Trump has been harping on trade deficit for thirty years – he was complaining about […]
