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Oil Analysts Baffled As Venezuela Ditches Petrodollar
Oil Analysts Baffled As Venezuela Ditches Petrodollar At the end of August, the U.S. stepped up sanctions on Venezuela, prohibiting dealings in new debt or equity issued by state oil firm Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA) or the government. A couple of weeks later Venezuela responded to what it called an “economic blockade” by suspending […]
Trump To Impose More Sanctions On North Korea Today
Trump To Impose More Sanctions On North Korea Today Update: According to Bloomberg, Trump won’t be declaring war (yet), and instead the announcement is sanctions related. TRUMP’S N. KOREA ANNOUNCEMENT TO BE SANCTIONS-RELATED: OFFICIAL TRUMP SAYS `WE WILL BE PUTTING MORE SANCTIONS ON NORTH KOREA” * * * Following yesterday’s anticlimatic Rex Tillerson press conference […]
Presidential Bomb Threats at the UN
Presidential Bomb Threats at the UN Photo by Nathaniel St. Clair Donald Trump denounced North Korea and its president Kim Jong-un as “depraved” before the United Nations Sept. 19, saying the nation “threatens the entire world with unthinkable loss of life.” Of course, North Korea can barely feed itself, and yet has to defend itself […]
Trump’s China-Sanctions Madness Imperils the Dollar
Trump’s China-Sanctions Madness Imperils the Dollar Last week US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin warned the US will impose new sanctions on China if it doesn’t conform to UN sanctions on North Korea: “If China doesn’t follow these sanctions, we will put additional sanctions on them and prevent them from accessing the U.S. and international dollar […]
Actions of A Bully Child or Dying Empire: Sanctions and Threats
Actions of A Bully Child or Dying Empire: Sanctions and Threats As the Western world continues to slide into the dust bin of history, it is not going without a fight. As with any “wounded animal”, once the reality of pain permeates the body, it typically lashes out at anything or anyone within arms’ […]
US Threatens To Cut Off China From SWIFT If It Violates North Korea Sanctions
US Threatens To Cut Off China From SWIFT If It Violates North Korea Sanctions In an unexpectedly strong diplomatic escalation, one day after China agreed to vote alongside the US (and Russia) during Monday’s United National Security Council vote in passing the watered down North Korea sanctions, the US warned that if China were to […]
China Warns Trump: “We Will Back North Korea If The US Strikes First”
China Warns Trump: “We Will Back North Korea If The US Strikes First” All day Saturday, South Korea braced for a possible new missile test by North Korea as the provocative northern neighbor marked its founding anniversary, just days after its sixth and largest nuclear test rattled global financial markets and further escalated tensions in […]
Putin Rejects More Korea Sactions, Warns US Risks “Global Catastrophe, Huge Loss Of Human Life”
Putin Rejects More Korea Sactions, Warns US Risks “Global Catastrophe, Huge Loss Of Human Life” After UN Ambassador Nikki Haley asked the security council to pass the “strongest possible” sanctions against North Korea following the isolated nation’s sixth nuclear test which took place over the weekend, Russia President Vladimir Putin has hinted that Russia may […]
China Slams White House For Latest Sanctions On “Close Ally” Venezuela
China Slams White House For Latest Sanctions On “Close Ally” Venezuela Shortly after the White House unveiled new sanctions last Friday against Venezuela while prohibiting U.S. trading in various bonds issued by the country (while exempting the notorious Goldman “Hunger Bonds”), Venezuela’s “close ally” China slammed the latest diplomatic crackdown and said on Monday that […]
How the Deep State Ties Down Trump
How the Deep State Ties Down Trump America’s Deep State players have tied down President Trump on Russian sanctions and other foreign and economic policies but that doesn’t mean the struggle is over, writes ex-British diplomat Alastair Crooke. President Trump has had his foreign policy hands and feet tied by the Russia (and Iran) Sanctions […]
Treasury Slaps Sanctions On China, Russia Entities And Individuals Over North Korea
Treasury Slaps Sanctions On China, Russia Entities And Individuals Over North Korea In a move that is certain to infuriate China further and result in another deterioration in diplomatic relations between Washington and Beijing, moments ago the United States slapped both Chinese and Russian entities and individuals with new sanctions in the Trump administration’s escalating […]
In “Unprecedented Step” US Sanctions Chinese Entities With Ties To North Korea
In “Unprecedented Step” US Sanctions Chinese Entities With Ties To North Korea After allegedly pressuring the Chinese government to act first and adopt sanctions against nearly 10 local entities who the US claims provided North Korea with materials used in its nuclear program, the US has decided to act. In an unprecedented step, the Treasury […]
Kremlin Warns Of Response To Latest US Sanctions, Says “Almost All Communication With US Is Frozen”
Kremlin Warns Of Response To Latest US Sanctions, Says “Almost All Communication With US Is Frozen” In response to the latest imposition of US sanctions on Russia, the Kremlin said on Wednesday that the new sanctions would further damage relations between the two countries and that Moscow would respond with its own measures. “We regret […]
French farmers protest at prices driven down by Russia sanctions
French farmers protest at prices driven down by Russia sanctions © @RTenfrancais / periscope.tv A protest by French farmers has taken place in Paris. Large crowds gathered to decry the low prices of agricultural produce. Prices are being driven down by the sanctions exchange with Russia, which has caused domestic produce to flood the […]
The Proof Is In: The US Government Is The Most Complete Criminal Organization In Human History
The Proof Is In: The US Government Is The Most Complete Criminal Organization In Human History Unique among the countries on earth, the US government insists that its laws and dictates take precedence over the sovereignty of nations. Washington asserts the power of US courts over foreign nationals and claims extra-territorial jurisdiction of US courts […]
