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Resource Insights: How the U.S. could fight OPEC and win (and why it won’t)
Resource Insights: How the U.S. could fight OPEC and win (and why it won’t). OPEC has declared war on American oil production with the intention of making the country more dependent on imported oil and on oil in general. By refusing to cut production in the face of weakening world demand, the cartel has allowed oil […]
It’s official (finally): The US is no longer the world’s #1 economy
It’s official (finally): The US is no longer the world’s #1 economy. It seems rather appropriate that just seven days after the US government hit a whopping $18 trillion in debt, mainstream financial media has picked up the IMF’s recent World Economic Outlook report, which puts the US economy as #2 in the world. There’s […]
West’s action in Libya in 2011 was a ‘mistake’ – Italy’s foreign ministry — RT News
West’s action in Libya in 2011 was a ‘mistake’ – Italy’s foreign ministry — RT News. Western countries made a ‘mistake’ three years ago, when they intervened in Libya to overthrow the Gaddafi regime, according to Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs. The statement came amid reports of the US discussing airstrikes on Libya’s territory. “Three […]
Made in the USA – How the Ukrainian Government is Giving Away Citizenships so Foreigners Can Run the Country | Liberty Blitzkrieg
Made in the USA – How the Ukrainian Government is Giving Away Citizenships so Foreigners Can Run the Country | Liberty Blitzkrieg. I hadn’t written a single piece on the U.S.-Ukraine-Russia quagmire for the entirety of 2014, until Monday when I published: Tensions Between the U.S. and Russia Are Worse Than You Realize – Remarks by […]
Putin Says Crimea Sacred, Attacks U.S., EU Over Ukraine – Bloomberg
Putin Says Crimea Sacred, Attacks U.S., EU Over Ukraine – Bloomberg. President Vladimir Putin attacked the U.S and Europe for backing Ukraineand said that Crimea, which the Kremlin annexed from Ukraine in March, has “sacred meaning” as Russia’s “Jerusalem.” Crimea’s “territory is strategically important” and for Russia it’s “like theTemple Mount in Jerusalem” is for Muslims and Jews, Putin said in his […]
Falling Oil Prices Could Cripple ‘Vulnerable’ Russia, Trigger World War III
Falling Oil Prices Could Cripple ‘Vulnerable’ Russia, Trigger World War III. The Cold War 2.0 is going hot, and while it may someday be fought with planes, tanks, guns and bombs, the first front is being fought with oil and shale gas. The U.S. and European sanctions against Russia will become more severe and crippling […]
U.S. to discuss possible new Russia sanctions with European allies | Reuters
U.S. to discuss possible new Russia sanctions with European allies | Reuters. (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will talk to European allies this week about imposing further sanctions onRussia if pro-Moscow separatists in eastern Ukraine do not halt violence, a senior State Department official said on Tuesday. The United States and the 28-nation European Union […]
Marked for deportation, Iraq war resisters fight to stay in Canada | Al Jazeera America
Marked for deportation, Iraq war resisters fight to stay in Canada | Al Jazeera America. VANCOUVER, British Columbia — For more than five years, former U.S. soldier Rodney Watson has lived as a prisoner, confined to a church that serves a poor neighborhood here. Wanted on charges of desertion in the United States and marked […]
EU imposes sanctions on Ukraine rebel vote organizers | Reuters
EU imposes sanctions on Ukraine rebel vote organizers | Reuters. (Reuters) – The European Union has imposed sanctions on the organizers of rebel elections in eastern Ukraine this month, the bloc said on Saturday, hitting the separatists and their organizations with asset freezes and travel bans. As reporting by Reuters on Thursday, EU governments decided to add […]
Syria: US-led strikes failed to weaken ISIS — RT News
Syria: US-led strikes failed to weaken ISIS — RT News. The Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) has not been weakened since US-led airstrikes began in September, Syria’s foreign minister said, adding that nothing will change until Turkey increases security at its borders. READ MORE: ‘Key to ISIS fighting – concerted pressure on its funding and […]
The German BND and American NSA Cooperate More Closely than Thought – SPIEGEL ONLINE
The German BND and American NSA Cooperate More Closely than Thought – SPIEGEL ONLINE. Three months before Edward Snowden shocked the world with his revelations, members of NSA’s “Special Source Operations department” sat down for a weekly meeting at their headquarters in the US state of Maryland. The group, considered internally to be particularly efficient, […]
US responsible for two-thirds of all military conflicts – Russia’s top brass — RT News
US responsible for two-thirds of all military conflicts – Russia’s top brass — RT News. US interference in the internal affairs of countries around the world has brought neither peace, nor democracy, said Russia’s Deputy Defense Minister. America’s double standard experiments in supporting terrorists are provoking further destabilization. “Think of it, over the last decades […]
German Government Shows Faults in Stance on Russia – SPIEGEL ONLINE
German Government Shows Faults in Stance on Russia – SPIEGEL ONLINE. Philip Breedlove needs a pen. He is surrounded by journalists and is looking around desperately. Finally, his advisor hands him one and it disappears almost entirely between the American four-star general’s broad fingers. Then he begins sketching out in quick strokes the outlines of […]
Resource Insights: Nuclear war: A forgotten threat to human sustainability
Resource Insights: Nuclear war: A forgotten threat to human sustainability. The possibility of a new Cold War between Russia and the United States and its NATO allies brings with it the spectre of nuclear war, an all-but-forgotten threat since the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991. Even as the number of nuclear weapons has declined through […]
