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China: Testing Ground for U.S. Surveillance
China: Testing Ground for U.S. Surveillance There is little doubt for most of us that the recent shootings in Florida were not merely a “spontaneous, random event,” precipitated by one individual. At the very least, if Cruz (the alleged shooter) was a “lone wolf,” then the Deep State and those who back it in the […]
Admiral Warns US Must Prepare For Possible War With China
Admiral Warns US Must Prepare For Possible War With China While we await the latest details on the ongoing trade war between the US and China, currently focusing on escalating steel and aluminum tariffs and China’s reciprocal response could be, the threat of a real war is looming. Speaking to Congress, the navy admiral nominated […]
Budget Woes Sign of a Dysfunctional Empire
Budget Woes Sign of a Dysfunctional Empire The bloated military budget is justified on the assumption that the United States can and should police the entire world, but this approach is fundamentally unsustainable, warns Jonathan Marshall. President Donald Trump’s latest $4.4 trillion budget proposal calls for boosting military spending by nearly $200 billion over the […]
Conflict between Fiscal & Monetary Policy
Conflict between Fiscal & Monetary Policy We are moving into a crisis of monumental proportions. There has been a serious fundamental problem infecting economic policy on a global scale. This conflict has been between monetary and fiscal policy. While central banks engaged in Quantitative Easing, governments have done nothing but reap the benefits of low-interest rates. This […]
Four Rate Hikes in 2018 as US National Debt Will Spike
Four Rate Hikes in 2018 as US National Debt Will Spike Chorus gets louder. But no one will be ready for those mortgage rates. It didn’t take long for rate-hike expectations to be jostled further by last week’s “monster” two-year budget bill that Congress passed with its usual gyrations, including a government mini-shutdown, and that […]
U.S. Mandates Biggest Non-Emergency Strategic Oil Selloff
U.S. Mandates Biggest Non-Emergency Strategic Oil Selloff The budget deal that the U.S. Congress passed and President Donald Trump signed into law last Friday calls for selling 100 million barrels of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) by 2027 to help fund the government. The sale of 100 million barrels of crude oil in the next […]
Will Congress Face Down the Deep State?
Will Congress Face Down the Deep State? The House Intelligence Committee’s vote on Monday to release a memorandum describing alleged malfeasance at the DOJ and the FBI could test constitutional principles, writes Ray McGovern. With the House Intelligence Committee vote yesterday to release its four-page memorandum reportedly based on documentary evidence of possible crimes by […]
Foxes in Charge of Intelligence Hen House
Foxes in Charge of Intelligence Hen House Recent revelations of “inadvertent” deletions of electronic data at the FBI and NSA relating to alleged felonies are being described as a “foul-up,” but the intelligence agencies’ track record suggests a possibly more nefarious explanation, explains Ray McGovern in this op-ed. We learned in recent days that the FBI […]
The NSA Is a Blackmail Agency
The NSA Is a Blackmail Agency The main function of the National Security Administration is to collect the dirt on members of the house and senate, the staffs, principal contributors, and federal judges. The dirt is used to enforce silence about the crimes of the security agencies. The blackmail mechanism was put into gear the […]
The FISA Memo is All the Ammunition Trump Needs to Take on the CIA
The FISA Memo is All the Ammunition Trump Needs to Take on the CIA FISA is an abomination. Let’s get that out of the way. And since I don’t believe there are any coincidences in U.S. or geo-politics, the releasing of the explosive four-page FISA memo after Congress reauthorized FISA is suspicious. Former NSA analyst (traitor? hero?) turned […]
2018: The Year of Living Dangerously
2018: The Year of Living Dangerously I’m calling 2018 “The Year of Living Dangerously.” That description might seem odd to lot of observers. Major U.S. stock indexes keep hitting new all-time highs. 2017 went down as the first calendar year in which the Dow Jones industrial average was up for all 12 months. Even in […]
Can The US Survive An EMP Attack?
Can The US Survive An EMP Attack? While there’s no question that a nuclear strike on the Continental US would be utterly devastating, it’s not the only way a rogue state like North Korea could kill millions of American civilians in one fell swoop. Another possibility that is being studied by lawmakers and Pentagon officials […]
The Case Against Iraqing Iran
The Case Against Iraqing Iran The case against Iraqing Iran includes the following points: Threatening war is a violation of the U.N. Charter. Waging war is a violation of the U.N. Charter and of the Kellogg-Briand Pact. Waging war without Congress is a violation of the U.S. Constitution. Have you seen Iraq lately? Have you […]
