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Apocalypse Now and Forever
Apocalypse Now and Forever As a political psychoanalyst I find the Super-bowl halftime show the best concise index of how psychotic American culture is becoming from year to year, and the 2015 version signaled a complete break from reality, a nightmare of twerking robots in a hall of mirrors, as if America had utterly surrendered […]
NYT’s Tom Friedman: Propaganda Shill For The War Party’s Ukrainian Coup
NYT’s Tom Friedman: Propaganda Shill For The War Party’s Ukrainian Coup If you wonder how the lethal “group think” on Iraq took shape in 2002, you might want to study what’s happening today with Ukraine. A misguided consensus has grabbed hold of Official Washington and has pulled in everyone who “matters” and tossed out almost […]
Gorbachev: US dragging Russia into new Cold War, which might grow into armed conflict
Gorbachev: US dragging Russia into new Cold War, which might grow into armed conflict Mikhail Gorbachev has accused the US of dragging Russia into a new Cold War. The former Soviet president fears the chill in relations could eventually spur an armed conflict. “Plainly speaking, the US has already dragged us into a new Cold […]
Could the U.S. Become the Unrivaled Superpower Again?
Could the U.S. Become the Unrivaled Superpower Again? That Grand Narratives based on short-term trends are often wrong should not surprise us. Two of the most durable and least-questioned narratives of the past 15 years are: 1. The world is becoming multipolar, meaning that rising power centers such as the BRIC nations (Brazil, Russia, India […]
Canada Is Trading Away Its Environmental Rights
Canada Is Trading Away Its Environmental Rights In 1997, Canada restricted import and transfer of the gasoline additive MMT because it was a suspected neurotoxin that had already been banned in Europe. Ethyl Corp., the U.S. multinational that supplied the chemical, sued the government for $350 million under the North American Free Trade Agreement and won! Canada […]
Increasing Demand For Refined Products Will Increase Oil Prices
Increasing Demand For Refined Products Will Increase Oil Prices In last week’s article I posted a chart from the International Energy Agency’srecent Oil Market Report that shows global demand for refined products catching up to supply by the 3rd quarter of this year. My opinion is that all of the analysts who are now blaming the sharp drop […]
Message to the UK: the fracking ‘bridge’ is burning!
Message to the UK: the fracking ‘bridge’ is burning! The lesson of fracking in the US and Canada is a simple one, writes Naomi Klein. The fracking industry is vicious, brutal and will stop at nothing to get its way. British anti-frackers can celebrate yesterday’s achievements – but the fight ahead will not be an […]
Greece Begins The Great Pivot Toward Russia
Greece Begins The Great Pivot Toward Russia Ten days ago, before the smashing success of Greece’s anti-austerity party, Syriza, we noted that Russia gave Greece a modest proposal: turn your back on Europe, whom you despise so much anyway, and we will assist your farmers by lifting the food import ban. And, sure enough, Greece’s new […]
Iran Drops Dollar As Congress Threatens More Sanctions
Iran Drops Dollar As Congress Threatens More Sanctions The clock is ticking on the Iranian nuclear deal, but it may all be for naught. A meddling Congress aside, Iran appears to lack faith in US President Barack Obama’s ability to ease long-standing sanctions and is cutting what ties it can.According to Iran’s Tasnim News Agency, Iran […]
The US’ Dark Empire Has Secret Operations in Over 100 Countries
The US’ Dark Empire Has Secret Operations in Over 100 Countries The United States deployed special forces to 70 percent of the nations on earth. In the dead of night, they swept in aboard V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft. Landing in a remote region of one of the most volatile countries on the planet, they raided […]
U.S. blizzard: New York braces for heavy snow as storms slam East Coast
U.S. blizzard: New York braces for heavy snow as storms slam East Coast ‘This could be a storm the likes of which we have never seen before,’ says NYC mayor Residents of the U.S. Northeast are girding for a “crippling and potentially historic” storm that could bury communities from northern New Jersey to southern Maine […]
Russian Sanctions Might Be Obama’s Greatest Blunder
Russian Sanctions Might Be Obama’s Greatest Blunder One of the greatest foreign policy blunders of the Obama Administration was the push by the U.S. for economic sanctions against Russia. That led to Russia fleeing into the arms of China for refuge. In response, Russia, Europe’s largest and most populated country, is now intent on moving […]
Freedom, Where Are You? Not in America or Europe
Freedom, Where Are You? Not in America or Europe When the former Goldman Sachs executive who runs the European Central Bank (ECB) announced that he was going to print 720 billion euros annually with which to purchase bad debts from the politically connected big banks, the euro sank and the stock market and Swiss france shot […]
Oil-and-Gas Default Wave, “Outright Liquidations” Next
Oil-and-Gas Default Wave, “Outright Liquidations” Next Every rally in crude oil since June turned out to be a pathetic sucker rally. On Friday, West Texas Intermediate fell over 2% to $45.32 a barrel, back where it had been on January 12, annihilating most of the 12% rally in between. WTI is now 58% below the June […]
