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US Sends Navy Destroyer Off Yemen Coast As Tensions With Iran Rise
US Sends Navy Destroyer Off Yemen Coast As Tensions With Iran Rise While there were some hopes President Trump would demilitarize US presence in the Middle East, they are quickly getting dashed with every passing day, and following Trump’s announcement last week he would implement “safe zones” in Syria which would boost US troop presence […]
Don’t Blame Trump When the World Ends
Don’t Blame Trump When the World Ends There was, indeed, a time when clear thinking and lucid communication via the written word were held in high regard. As far as we can tell, this wonderful epoch concluded in 1936. Everything since has been tortured with varying degrees of gobbledygook. The fall from grace was triggered […]
Dakota Access Pipeline Set For Completion After Army Approval
Dakota Access Pipeline Set For Completion After Army Approval With environmentalists already furious at Donald Trump for his recent executive orders to reincarnate the Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipelines, their anger is set to overflow following news that the completion of the latter may be just a matter of months, if not weeks. As […]
Is It Just A Coincidence That The Dow Has Hit 20,000 At The Same Time The National Debt Is Reaching $20 Trillion?
Is It Just A Coincidence That The Dow Has Hit 20,000 At The Same Time The National Debt Is Reaching $20 Trillion? The Dow Jones Industrial Average provides us with some pretty strong evidence that our “stock market boom” has been fueled by debt. On Wednesday, the Dow crossed the 20,000 mark for the first […]
The Trap Is Set: “Both Sides Are Utterly Unprepared For What’s Coming”
The Trap Is Set: “Both Sides Are Utterly Unprepared For What’s Coming” If there’s one thing that should be absolutely clear in the current political environment in America, it’s that there exists a deep division between the people of this nation. Both of sides of the aisle argue vehemently about what’s best going forward, sometimes […]
Furious Environmentalists Vow Trump Will See “Wall Of Resistance Like He Never Imagined”
Furious Environmentalists Vow Trump Will See “Wall Of Resistance Like He Never Imagined” After Trump’s executive order to accelerate the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines, angry environmental groups reacted quickly by denouncing Trump’s actions, and promising legal action and White House protests. “Donald Trump has been in office for four days, and he’s already […]
James Howard Kunstler: The World’s Greatest Misallocation Of Resources
James Howard Kunstler: The World’s Greatest Misallocation Of Resources And why we appear poised to repeat it James Howard Kunstler returns to the podcast this week, observing that despite the baton being handed to a new American president, the massive predicaments we face as a society remain the same. And it seems the incoming administration […]
As Trump Takes Power, Politicians Around the US Move to Make Protesting Illegal
As Trump Takes Power, Politicians Around the US Move to Make Protesting Illegal (ANTIMEDIA) Indiana passed a bill on Wednesday that authorizes police officers to shut down highway protesting “by any means necessary.” S.B. 285, as it is known, obliges a public official to dispatch all available officers within 15 minutes of discovering any assembly of 10 or more […]
Chris Hedges on Trump’s ‘Naked Kleptocracy’
Chris Hedges on Trump’s ‘Naked Kleptocracy’ Truthdig contributor Chris Hedges recently made an appearance on the RT show “Watching the Hawks” to analyze the future of American politics under President Trump. Right off the bat, Hedges is asked what he sees as “the most compelling or intriguing aspect of this election.” “Utter blindness of the Democratic Party,” he answers. […]
The Disgusting Embrace of Witch-Hunting McCarthyism by ‘Liberals’
The Disgusting Embrace of Witch-Hunting McCarthyism by ‘Liberals’ So-called «liberals» and «progressives», who once derided those on the political right who accused their ideological forbearers of kowtowing to the «Reds» and «Soviets» during the era of Senator Joseph McCarthy, have dusted off McCarthy’s playbook and are using the very same tactics against Donald Trump and […]
Is Trump Draining the Swamp or Filling It?
Is Trump Draining the Swamp or Filling It? Trump has broken his word and is by no means draining the swamp — he is filling it. He has really betrayed a lot of people by his nomination of Gary D. Cohn as Director of the National Economic Council, which is a policy-making position for domestic and international economic […]
2017: The Year When the World Economy Starts Coming Apart
2017: The Year When the World Economy Starts Coming Apart Some people would argue that 2016 was the year that the world economy started to come apart, with the passage of Brexit and the election of Donald Trump. Whether or not the “coming apart” process started in 2016, in my opinion we are going to see […]
Forecast 2017: The Wheels Finally Come Off
Forecast 2017: The Wheels Finally Come Off “There is no other endeavor in which men and women of enormous intellectual power have shown total disregard for higher-order reasoning than monetary policy. […]
The Deep State Blues
The Deep State Blues Lest you wonder, not only did I not vote for Mr. Trump (or Hillary), but I relished heaping opprobrium on him during the election campaign. Just so you know, I’m not advocating for him, but I’m alarmed that the Deep State (the White House + the Intel Agency gang) now appears to be […]
