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Snowden, Putin, Greece: It’s All The Same Story
Snowden, Putin, Greece: It’s All The Same Story Through the last decades, as we have been getting ever more occupied trying to be what society tells us is defined as successful, we all missed out on a lot of changes in our world. Or perhaps we should be gentle to ourselves and say we’re simply […]
Oil and Arctic Ocean Make A Highly Troublesome Mix
Oil and Arctic Ocean Make A Highly Troublesome Mix As the U.S. and Russia take the first halting steps to drill for oil and gas in the Arctic Ocean, experts say the harsh climate, icy seas, and lack of any infrastructure means a sizeable oil spill would be very difficult to clean up and could cause […]
Superpower in Distress
Superpower in Distress Think of this as a little imperial folly update — and here’s the backstory. In the years after invading Iraq and disbanding Saddam Hussein’s military, the U.S. sunk about $25 billion into “standing up” a new Iraqi army. By June 2014, however, that army, filled with at least 50,000 “ghost soldiers,” was only standing in […]
German Court Turns Down Drone Lawsuit But Leaves Door Open to Others
German Court Turns Down Drone Lawsuit But Leaves Door Open to Others On August 29, 2012, a drone flying above the Yemeni town of Khashamir launched four missiles at a group of five men standing near a vehicle on a remote mountainside. All of them perished. Three of the men were suspected al Qaeda militants, […]
Russia Wards Off “Provocative And Aggresive” US Warship In Black Sea
Russia Wards Off “Provocative And Aggresive” US Warship In Black Sea While we are used to hearing of the 100s of “close encounters” between NATO and Russian planes,but, as reported by state news agency RIA – citing an anonymous source in Russia’s armed forces, Russian military aircraft were scrambled to head off a U.S. warship that was […]
1812: The Inconsequential War That Changed America Forever
1812: The Inconsequential War That Changed America Forever WHY SHOULD I CARE? Most adult Americans today are unaware of what caused the War of 1812, who started it, what the outcome was, or even who the belligerents were. If I recall correctly, my grade school / high school History Class covered The War Of 1812 […]
Revolution and American Empire
Revolution and American Empire When the Left Promotes the Political Economy of the Far-Right The American preference for ideological, or ideologically based, explanations of world events frames them as both self-generated and inexplicable— self-generated because causal relations recover history and thereby clutter ideology and inexplicable in that ideology didn’t exist until it did, again recovering […]
A Recession Within A Recession
A Recession Within A Recession On Friday, the federal government announced that the U.S. economy contracted at a 0.7 percent annual rate during the first quarter of 2015. This unexpected shrinking of the economy is being primarily blamed on “harsh” weather during the first three months of this year and on the strengthening of the […]
The Pressure Just Shifted from Greece to the US and EU
The Pressure Just Shifted from Greece to the US and EU With the 3rd US Q1 GDP print coming in at -0.7% (-3% if not for inventories), perhaps the media spotlights – and lively imagination – can move away from Greece for a few weeks. The US has enough problems of its own, it would […]
America has no enemy more dastardly and lethal than the Neoconservative
America has no enemy more dastardly and lethal than the Neoconservative Those men who wrote our Constitution made it perfectly intelligible to anyone who cared to read it. They also left some flexibility in its articles to ensure that as time passed and circumstances changed the document would remain viable as the indispensable protector of […]
What if Putin is Telling the Truth?
What if Putin is Telling the Truth? On April 26 Russia’s main national TV station, Rossiya 1, featured President Vladimir Putin in a documentary to the Russian people on the events of the recent period including the annexation of Crimea, the US coup d’etat in Ukraine, and the general state of relations with the United […]
“Strongly Dissatisfied” China Warns US “Accident” Is “Highly Likely” In South China Sea
“Strongly Dissatisfied” China Warns US “Accident” Is “Highly Likely” In South China Sea Things are escalating rapidly in the South China Sea where Beijing has figured out an innovative solution to the notion of “disputed waters.” As regular readers are by now acutely aware, China appears to have adopted the maritime boundary equivalent of the […]
How the Saudis Wag the Dog
How the Saudis Wag the Dog Even Without a Bomb or a Lobby American diplomacy favors (majority) white, English-speaking countries (the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) and non-Hispanic European settler states (Canada, Australia and New Zealand again, but also Apartheid South Africa and, of course, Israel). South Africa eventually fell out of favor, thanks […]
George Soros Warns “No Exaggeration” That China-US On “Threshold Of World War 3”
George Soros Warns “No Exaggeration” That China-US On “Threshold Of World War 3” While admitting that reaching agreement between the two countries will be difficult to achieve, George Soros –speaking at The World Bank’s Bretton Woods conference this week – warned that unless the U.S. makes ‘major concessions’ and allows China’s currency to join the IMF’s basket […]
