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Biden’s New “Regressive” Methane Tax Will Raise Average American’s Gas Bill By 17%: Op-Ed
Biden’s New “Regressive” Methane Tax Will Raise Average American’s Gas Bill By 17%: Op-Ed At a time when the Biden administration is panicking in an attempt to keep energy prices down, the House has slapped a “fee” on methane that is being called a “stealth tax” on natural gas and everyone who uses it. The […]
John Pilger: A Judicial Kidnapping
John Pilger: A Judicial Kidnapping Julian Assange’s High Court judges offered no mitigation, no suggestion that they had agonised over legalities or even basic morality, writes John Pilger. “Let us look at ourselves, if we have the courage, to see what is happening to us” –- Jean-Paul Sartre. Sartre’s words should echo in all our minds […]
Ukrainian Crisis: Are We on the Verge of WWIII or Pax Multipolarity?
Ukrainian Crisis: Are We on the Verge of WWIII or Pax Multipolarity? The highpoint in the Ukrainian crisis and the big visits by Nuland to Moscow and Austin to Kiev might actually be attempts by Washington to make lemons out of lemonade, Tim Kirby writes. The Mainstream Media Eye of Sauron has turned its horrid […]
British Court Rules Julian Assange Can Be Extradited To US
British Court Rules Julian Assange Can Be Extradited To US More than 2.5 years have passed since Wikileaks’ founder Julian Assange was dragged from the Ecuadorian embassy in London after 7 years in hiding from British authorities, during which time Assange has struggled through a lengthy court battle, all while remaining imprisoned. And yet it […]
Putin to Biden: Finlandize Ukraine, or We Will
Putin to Biden: Finlandize Ukraine, or We Will Neocons and Republican hawks such as the late John McCain sought to bring Ukraine and two other ex-Soviet republics, Georgia and Moldova, into NATO. Putin, who served in the KGB in the late Soviet era and calls the breakup of the USSR the “greatest geopolitical catastrophe” of […]
Our $29 Trillion Deficit, Interest Rates, Inflation, And Debt
Our $29 Trillion Deficit, Interest Rates, Inflation, And Debt The emergence and acceptance of Modern Monetary Theory has turned our economic system upside down. Skeptics of its substance and sustainability have been brushed aside temporarily but expect the MMT experiment to collapse and end in ruin. To us that believe in old school economics, […]
The High Stakes of the U.S.-Russia Confrontation Over Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a flower-laying ceremony at the Russian Civil War memorial on Unity Day, in Sevastopol, Crimea, on November 4, 2021. (Photo: Mikhail Metzel / Sputnik / AFP via Getty Images) The High Stakes of the U.S.-Russia Confrontation Over Ukraine Americans should beware of romanticizing the “old” Cold War as a time […]
We’re Sleepwalking Into Nuclear War
We’re Sleepwalking Into Nuclear War Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Every day there’s more propaganda banging the drums of war between nuclear-armed nations a little louder. Western media are churning out reports about Russia preparing to invade Ukraine any minute now and China preparing to invade Taiwan any minute now, saying the response to […]
Impending Planetary Disaster Should Unite Us, Yet We Remain More Divided Than Ever
Impending Planetary Disaster Should Unite Us, Yet We Remain More Divided Than Ever Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Charles Bukowski has a quote: “We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, […]
Pretty Please? US Trying To Persuade Russia To Lift Oil Output
Pretty Please? US Trying To Persuade Russia To Lift Oil Output Interfax is reporting Thursday that the United States is urging Russia to raise oil output in order to lower global prices, following the Biden administration’s Tuesday announcement it plans release 50 million barrels of crude from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve, amid predictions of $100 oil. “The US […]
Saudis, Russians Consider Pausing Oil Production Increases In Retaliation To Biden SPR Release
Saudis, Russians Consider Pausing Oil Production Increases In Retaliation To Biden SPR Release When commenting on yesterday’s SPR release announcement by the Biden admin and several assorted hanger-on nations – which has backfired spectacularly sending the price of oil soaring now that the rumor can no longer be sold so the news has to be […]
Fighting “Information Disorder”: Aspen’s Orwellian Commission on Controlling Speech in America
Fighting “Information Disorder”: Aspen’s Orwellian Commission on Controlling Speech in America The Aspen Institute has issued the results of its much heralded 16-person Commission on Information Disorder on how to protect the public from misinformation. The commission on disinformation and “building trust” was partially headed by Katie Couric who is still struggling with […]
Putin Says the West Is Taking Russia’s ‘Red Lines’ Too Lightly
Putin Says the West Is Taking Russia’s ‘Red Lines’ Too Lightly The Russian leader says relations with US are ‘unsatisfactory’ and is open to more talks On Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Western powers are taking Moscow’s “red lines” too lightly. “We’re constantly voicing our concerns about this, talking about red lines, but we understand […]
Nobody Who Says “You Can Criticize Washington AND Beijing” Actually Does
Nobody Who Says “You Can Criticize Washington AND Beijing” Actually Does Listen to a reading of this article: ❖ Whenever I criticize the US empire’s manipulations and aggressions on a nation which disobeys its dictates I always get comments from people saying “You know, Caitlin, two things can be bad at once. You can criticize both.” They […]
