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The Triumph of Evil
The Triumph of Evil The murder of Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi Arabian embassy in Turkey is unprecedented in its audacity. The response from Washington and the Canadian government is to sell more weapons to Saudi Arabia, weapons that are being used by the Saudis in their destruction of the Yemeni population. The Russian response, […]
NATO Sends 50,000 Troops to Largest Exercise Since Cold War
NATO Sends 50,000 Troops to Largest Exercise Since Cold War Operations centered on Arctic and Scandinavia US Marines are landing in Iceland and warplanes are flying overhead in Scandinavia, just days ahead of the kickoff of Trident Juncture. The annual exercise, focused on the Arctic Circle and Scandinavia, is set to be the largest operation […]
US Withdrawal from INF Treaty: Implications for Asia Pacific
US Withdrawal from INF Treaty: Implications for Asia Pacific One of the motives behind the US withdrawal from the INF Treaty is its desire to acquire first-strike capability against Russia from Europe, while keeping intact its strategic nuclear arsenal. Another motivation is the need to keep China, America’s fiercest geopolitical challenger, in its crosshairs by forcing it […]
Big Oil Walking A Tightrope As Prices Rise
Big Oil Walking A Tightrope As Prices Rise Supermajors have had a great year so far, and their third-quarter results, to be released over the next couple of weeks, are likely to strengthen this impression. But this does not necessarily mean that investors will reward them. Investors have become a lot more careful in the […]
The Middle East, Not Russia, Will Prove Trump’s Downfall
The Middle East, Not Russia, Will Prove Trump’s Downfall Photo Source The White House | CC BY 2.0 The Middle East has a century old tradition of being the political graveyard of American and British political leaders. The list of casualties is long: Lloyd George, Anthony Eden, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Tony Blair and George W Bush. All […]
It Is Like A Western Movie: A Showdown Is In The Making
It Is Like A Western Movie: A Showdown Is In The Making It has taken the US military/security complex 31 years to get rid of President Reagan’s last nuclear disarmament achievement—the INF Treaty that President Reagan and Soviet President Gorbachev achieved in 1987. The Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty was ratified by the US Senate […]
Putin: In a Nuclear Holocaust “We Will Be Martyrs, They Will Drop Dead”
Putin: In a Nuclear Holocaust “We Will Be Martyrs, They Will Drop Dead” Ever since the Euromaidan color revolution in Ukraine, the threat of a thermonuclear confrontation between Russia and the United States has been steadily growing. With the United States and NATO forces having pushed their proxy fighters literally to the border with Russia, the world’s […]
U.S. Media Refuses to Inform the Public When Its Commentators and Pundits are Paid Foreign Agents
U.S. Media Refuses to Inform the Public When Its Commentators and Pundits are Paid Foreign Agents Unbelievably – Rothkopf has the audacity to criticize Trump for having “repeatedly shown great fondness for foreign leaders—even despots and known murderers, human rights abusers and criminals”, while Rothkopf himself is literally a paid agent working to disseminating propaganda for one of […]
This Alliance Could Mark A New Era For Oil
This Alliance Could Mark A New Era For Oil Saudi Arabia and Russia could formalize a strategic partnership that would last indefinitely, potentially marking a new era for the oil market. In a wide-ranging interview with TASS, Saudi oil minister Khalid al-Falih said that he hopes to setup an official OPEC+ governing body, including a […]
Trump Threatens US Will Increase Nukes Until Russia, China “Come To Their Senses”
Trump Threatens US Will Increase Nukes Until Russia, China “Come To Their Senses” After hours of closed door talks in Moscow between US National Security Advisor John Bolton and his Russian counterpart Secretary of the Russian Security Council, Nikolay Patrushev, Bolton told reporters that the United States has yet to take a decision on whether it plans […]
Facebook’s New Troll-Crushing “War Room” Confirms Surveillance By Corporation Is The New America
Facebook’s New Troll-Crushing “War Room” Confirms Surveillance By Corporation Is The New America Facebook on Wednesday briefed journalists on its latest attempt to stop fake news during the election season, offering an exclusive tour of a windowless conference room at its California headquarters, packed with millennials monitoring Facebook user behavior trends around the clock, said The Verge. […]
American War Declaration
American War Declaration Wess Mitchell, Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs in the US State Department, gave a remarkable presentation to the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee on 21 August 2018. Titled “US Strategy Towards the Russian Federation” it ostensibly lays out the US reaction to Russia’s continuing aggression, hostility, interference and […]
Russia Signals Renewed Arms Race, Says Scrapping INF Would Force It To ‘Restore Balance’
Russia Signals Renewed Arms Race, Says Scrapping INF Would Force It To ‘Restore Balance’ Now that President Trump has officially declared his intention to scrap the INF arms control treaty to remove constraints preventing the US from countering China’s menacing military presence in the Western Pacific, as well as what many military officials see as […]
Time Out for Nukes!
Time Out for Nukes! With 122 nations having voted last summer to adopt a treaty for the complete prohibition of nuclear weapons, just as the world has banned chemical and biological weapons, its seems that the world is locked in a new Cold War time-warp, totally inappropriate to the times. We were warned last week […]
The Biggest Winners In The Mediterranean Energy War
The Biggest Winners In The Mediterranean Energy War Former Vice-President of the United States Dick Cheney once said: “the good lord didn’t see fit to put oil and gas only where there are democratically elected states… Occasionally we have to operate in places where, all considered, one would not normally choose to go. But we […]
