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The Panama Papers: Laundering Havens for War Budgets (Video)
The Panama Papers: Laundering Havens for War Budgets (Video) In mid-April, economist Michael Hudson told The Real News Network that global oil and mining industries and the U.S. State Department created Panama and Liberia for the express purpose of tax evasion. Read a full transcript of Hudson’s exchange with host Sharmini Peries below. SHARMINI PERIES, TRNN: It’s the […]
“Getting Things Done” – The Brother of Hillary Clinton’s Campaign Chair is a Major Lobbyist for Saudi Arabia
“Getting Things Done” – The Brother of Hillary Clinton’s Campaign Chair is a Major Lobbyist for Saudi Arabia Although scores of us in the alternative media world have been discussing the obvious links between Saudi Arabia and the attacks of 9/11 for many years, this reality has only now started to enter the mainstream consciousness due to a […]
The New Global Financial Cold War
The New Global Financial Cold War The Guns and Butter Interview Suppose a country owes money to another nation’s government or official agency. How can creditors collect, unless there’s an international court and an enforcement system? The IMF and the World Bank were part of that enforcement system and now they’re saying: ‘We’re not going […]
How Obama Enables Atrocities
How Obama Enables Atrocities Exclusive: President Obama seems so scared of offending the Saudis and their Israeli allies that he will tolerate almost any outrage, including Saudi Arabia’s mass beheadings and/or shootings of the regime’s enemies including a Shiite political leader who dared criticize the monarchy, writes Robert Parry. As the New Year dawns, the neocons and […]
PM-Elect Of ‘US Ally’ Canada Wastes No Time: Tells Obama Will Withdraw Fighter Jets From Syria, Iraq
PM-Elect Of ‘US Ally’ Canada Wastes No Time: Tells Obama Will Withdraw Fighter Jets From Syria, Iraq With the ink still damp on voter slips, newly crowned elected Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wasted no time in fulfilling the first of his liberal “hope” and “change” promises. As AFP reports, hours after defeating Stephen Harper, Trudeau has told US President Obama that […]
The Six Most Disastrous Interventions of the 21st Century
The Six Most Disastrous Interventions of the 21st Century On October 2 President Barack Obama, alluding to Russia’s decision to launch air strikes in Syria, told reporters at the White House that for Russia to view the forces targeted “from the perspective they’re all terrorists [is] a recipe for disaster, and it’s one that I […]
HBO and Snapchat are Actively Working with the U.S. Government to Create Propaganda
HBO and Snapchat are Actively Working with the U.S. Government to Create Propaganda In 1953, Joseph Alsop, then one of America’s leading syndicated columnists, went to the Philippines to cover an election. He did not go because he was asked to do so by his syndicate. He did not go because he was asked to […]
‘Kiev persecuting media reporting truth’ – blacklisted Spanish journo to RT
Kiev persecuting media reporting truth’ – blacklisted Spanish journo to RT The Ukrainian government is “persecuting people who are telling the truth,” Cesar Vidal, Spanish historian and journalist, who has been blacklisted by Kiev along with other European journalists, told RT. Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Wednesday introduced sanctions against hundreds of individuals and legal […]
Lawrence Wilkerson: Travails of Empire – Oil, Debt, Gold and the Imperial Dollar
Lawrence Wilkerson: Travails of Empire – Oil, Debt, Gold and the Imperial Dollar “We are imperial, and we are in decline… People are losing confidence in the Empire.” This is the key theme of Larry Wilkerson’s presentation. He never really questions whether empire is good or bad, sustainable or not, and at what costs. At […]
Officials: Islamic State arose from US support for al-Qaeda in Iraq
Officials: Islamic State arose from US support for al-Qaeda in Iraq A former Pentagon intelligence chief, Iraqi government sources, and a retired career US diplomat reveal US complicity in the rise of ISIS A new memoir by a former senior State Department analyst provides stunning details on how decades of support for Islamist militants linked […]
How a Department of Homeland Security Fusion Center in Texas Targeted Animal Rights Activists
How a Department of Homeland Security Fusion Center in Texas Targeted Animal Rights Activists Last September, a Facebook event caught the eye of a counterrorism specialist within the Texas Department of Public Safety. The email was among those released by the Austin Regional Intelligence Center (ARIC) last month. This same release revealed that ARIC took stock of potential […]
US Approves Saudi Use Of Banned Cluster Bombs (But Only If They’re Extra Careful)
US Approves Saudi Use Of Banned Cluster Bombs (But Only If They’re Extra Careful) Following a report on Sunday, where Human Rights Watch said video and photographic evidence showed that Saudi Arabia used cluster bombs near villages in Yemen’s Saada Province at least two separate times, the US State Department said it is “looking into” the allegations […]
Emails: How State Department Secretly Approved Expanding Piece of Enbridge’s “Keystone XL Clone”
Emails: How State Department Secretly Approved Expanding Piece of Enbridge’s “Keystone XL Clone” DeSmogBlog has obtained dozens of emails that lend an inside view of how the U.S. State Department secretly handed Enbridge a permit to expand the capacity of its U.S.-Canada border-crossing Alberta Clipper pipeline, which carries tar sands diluted bitumen (“dilbit”) from Alberta to midwest markets. The State Department submitted the emails […]
Ukraine Enters The Endgame
Ukraine Enters The Endgame Back in March 2014 we forecast that it in the aftermath of the US State Department-sponsored military coup in Kiev, it was only a matter of time before Ukraine (all of its sovereign gold having since “vaporized“) succumbed to full blown hyperinflation and economic implosion. Less than a year later, precisely this outcome has […]
