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US air strikes in Syria driving anti-Assad groups to support Isis | World news | The Guardian
US air strikes in Syria driving anti-Assad groups to support Isis | World news | The Guardian. US air strikes in Syria are encouraging anti-regime fighters to forge alliances with or even defect to the fundamentalist jihadi group Islamic State (Isis), according to a series of interviews conducted by the Guardian. Fighters from the Free […]
Hacked from ‘US servers’: Ecuador leader claims attacks on his private computer — RT News
Hacked from ‘US servers’: Ecuador leader claims attacks on his private computer — RT News. Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa has accused the US of “systematic, high-tech” cyber-attacks on his private internet accounts and computers, the last of which was traced back to American servers last Thursday. He outlines his accusations in a scathing Twitter post […]
Tomgram: Michael Klare, The New Congress and Planetary Disaster | TomDispatch
Tomgram: Michael Klare, The New Congress and Planetary Disaster | TomDispatch. Looking for a little hope on climate change? Believe it or not, it’s here and it’s real. And I’m not referring to the fact that, at least temporarily, oil prices have gone through the floor, making environmentally destructive “tough oil” projects like western oil-shale fracking and Canadiantar sands extraction […]
charles hugh smith-Have Central Banks Entered an Undeclared War?
charles hugh smith-Have Central Banks Entered an Undeclared War?. The monetary tectonic plates are shifting, and predicting the next global financial earthquake is relatively easy. I recently suggested that the devaluation of the yen was Japan’s Monetary Pearl Harbor: a direct attack on the currencies of its major trading partners: the euro (European Union), the won […]
Lavrov accuses West of seeking ‘regime change’ in Russia | Reuters
Lavrov accuses West of seeking ‘regime change’ in Russia | Reuters. (Reuters) – Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused the West on Saturday of trying to use sanctions imposed on Moscow in theUkraine crisis to seek “regime change” in Russia. His comments stepped up Moscow’s war of words with the United States and the European Union in their […]
The Need to Escape Collapsing Empires | International Man
The Need to Escape Collapsing Empires | International Man. Jeff Thomas: What is your present residential/citizenship situation worldwide? Ron Holland: I’m an American citizen, living, working, and playing in Canada and elsewhere. Jeff: What countries have you previously lived or spent significant time in? Ron: I’m adopted, but I think I was born in North Carolina. I’ve lived in […]
Russia warns US not to arm Ukraine forces against pro-Russian rebels | World news | theguardian.com
Russia warns US not to arm Ukraine forces against pro-Russian rebels | World news | theguardian.com. Russia has warned the United States against supplying arms to Ukrainian forces fighting pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, hours before US vice-president Joe Biden was due to arrive in Kiev on Thursday. Ukraine accused Vladimir Putin of treating its […]
Breakfast with a Lord of War | Casey Research
Breakfast with a Lord of War | Casey Research. For reasons that will become apparent as you read the following article, I was quite reluctant to write it. Yet, in the end, I decided to do so for a couple of reasons. The first is that it ties into Marin Katusa’s best-selling new book, The Colder […]
Target Liberty: New Bill Circulating in the Senate Moves US Closer to Direct Confrontation with Russia
Target Liberty: New Bill Circulating in the Senate Moves US Closer to Direct Confrontation with Russia. Michael S. Rozeff explains: This proposed act is here… mong other provisions that sanction Russia, this Act commits America to reestablish the territorial integrity of Ukraine by providing advanced weapons to Ukraine’s government. This sets America against Russia, which supports Crimea […]
3 Of The 10 Largest Economies In The World Have Already Fallen Into Recession – Is The U.S. Next?
3 Of The 10 Largest Economies In The World Have Already Fallen Into Recession – Is The U.S. Next?. Are you waiting for the next major wave of the global economic collapse to strike? Well, you might want to start paying attention again. Three of the ten largest economies on the planet have already fallen […]
The Great Change: Is this all we get?
The Great Change: Is this all we get?. As we endure the kind of 11-day Arctic blast of all-powerful Rossby Waves that will define our childrens’ future, we note a sudden uptick in interest in climate. Unfortunately, the new US-China bilateral climate deal leaves us feeling like that T-shirt that says, “I went to Beijing […]
Richard N. Haass | Why the Post–Cold War Order Is Unraveling | Foreign Affairs
Richard N. Haass | Why the Post–Cold War Order Is Unraveling | Foreign Affairs. In his classic The Anarchical Society, the scholar Hedley Bull argued that there was a perennial tension in the world between forces of order and forces of disorder, with the details of the balance between them defining each era’s particular character. Sources […]
Will Islamic State Cripple the Pivot? | The Diplomat
Will Islamic State Cripple the Pivot? | The Diplomat. The “pivot to Asia,” also known as the “rebalance,” is the most important geopolitical shift in U.S. strategy since the declaration of the “long war” (against terrorism) after September 11, 2001. Yet try as it might, the U.S. seems permanently bogged down in the Middle East. […]
Cynics, Step Aside: There is Genuine Excitement Over a Hillary Clinton Candidacy – The Intercept
Cynics, Step Aside: There is Genuine Excitement Over a Hillary Clinton Candidacy – The Intercept. It’s easy to strike a pose of cynicism when contemplating Hillary Clinton’s inevitable (and terribly imminent) presidential campaign. As a drearily soulless, principle-free, power-hungry veteran of DC’s game of thrones, she’s about as banal of an American politician as it gets. […]
Are The US And China’s Climate Goals Realistic?
Are The US And China’s Climate Goals Realistic?. At first glance, the agreement between China and the United States to impose new limits on their greenhouse gas emissions looks like an effort for significant cooperation between two huge global rivals. But not everyone’s convinced that their plan will address the problem adequately. The leaders of […]
