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Obama Won’t Back Down After Chinese Threat, Sends U.S. Warships To Contested Islands In “Matter Of Days”

October 12, 2015

Obama Won’t Back Down After Chinese Threat, Sends U.S. Warships To Contested Islands In “Matter Of Days” On Friday, we reported the latest provocation in what has truly become a very dangerous, if largely pointless, staring contest between Beijing and Washington over China’s reclamation of land in The South China Sea. Responding to suggestions that the US […]

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Snowden Has A Simple Solution To Get To The Bottom Of The US Afghan Bombing “War Crime”

October 7, 2015

Snowden Has A Simple Solution To Get To The Bottom Of The US Afghan Bombing “War Crime” Overnight, Medecins Sans Frontiers, or the “Doctors without Borders” medical group which suffered a tremendous loss of life at the hands of US bombardment this past Saturday, stepped up its criticism of what it has previously called a […]

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Trans-Pacific Partnership Deal Struck As “Corporate Secrecy” Wins Again

October 5, 2015

Trans-Pacific Partnership Deal Struck As “Corporate Secrecy” Wins Again Once again the corporatocracy wins as the so-called “Trojan horse” Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement has been finalized. As WSJ reports, the U.S., Japan and 10 countries around the Pacific reached a historic accord Monday to lower trade barriers to goods and services and set commercial rules of the […]

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Not a Joke – Saudi Arabia Chosen to Head UN Human Rights Panel

September 21, 2015

Not a Joke – Saudi Arabia Chosen to Head UN Human Rights Panel If you were trying to put together a global all-star team of the most authoritarian, human rights abusing nations on earth, not only would Saudi Arabia be at the top of the list, it would be captain of the squad. In a […]

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Are Neocons an Existential Threat?

September 16, 2015

Are Neocons an Existential Threat? Exclusive: Despite a record of unprecedented error, American neocons remain the dominant foreign policy force in Official Washington, demanding more “regime change” in the Middle East and a new Cold War that could heat up and end all life on the planet, writes Robert Parry. The neoconservatives arguably have damaged American national […]

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Fourth Turning: Crisis of Trust–Part 2

September 15, 2015

Fourth Turning: Crisis of Trust–Part 2 In Part 1 of this article I discussed the catalyst spark which ignited this Fourth Turning and the seemingly delayed regeneracy. In Part 2 I will ponder possible Grey Champion prophet generation leaders who could arise during the regeneracy. The nearly seven year reign of Barack Obama has resulted in furthering […]

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Unmasking ISIS

September 12, 2015

Unmasking ISIS INTRODUCTION Where did ISIS come from? How was it able to gain land, arms and money so quickly? This book will answer those questions … and unmask ISIS. Part 1 shows that the U.S. – through bad policies and stupid choices – is largely responsible for the rise of ISIS. Part 2 reveals the strange […]

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Spy Chief’s ‘Unusual’ Contact With Military Official Raises Concerns About Intelligence Manipulation

September 12, 2015

Spy Chief’s ‘Unusual’ Contact With Military Official Raises Concerns About Intelligence Manipulation Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. (Partnership for Public Service / CC BY 2.0) James Clapper—Barack Obama’s director of national intelligence—is said to be in what a former intelligence official called frequent and “highly, highly unusual” contact with a ranking junior intelligence officer who sits […]

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This Is Why The Saudis Are Unlikely To Accept Any Production Cutback

September 5, 2015

This Is Why The Saudis Are Unlikely To Accept Any Production Cutback ‘Clack! cla-cla clack-clack clack-clack CLACK!!’ (today’s fanfare for Nonfarm Friday was played on football helmets to celebrate the start of college football season). It is the first Friday in September, which means we see official US employment data, aka nonfarm payrolls. Today’s report […]

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Prime Minister Harper’s Inaction on Climate Killed the Keystone XL Oilsands Pipeline

September 3, 2015

Prime Minister Harper’s Inaction on Climate Killed the Keystone XL Oilsands Pipeline With U.S. President Barack Obama expected to deny a permit to the Keystone XLpipeline this fall, Canada’s oil industry is looking for someone to blame. The National Post’s Claudia Cattaneo wrote last week that “many Canadians … would see Obama’s fatal stab as a betrayal by a close friend […]

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Naomi Klein: Obama Is Beginning to Sound Like a Climate Leader, When Will He Act Like One?

Naomi Klein: Obama Is Beginning to Sound Like a Climate Leader, When Will He Act Like One? As scientists warn 2015 is on pace to become the Earth’s hottest year on record, President Obama has unveiled his long-awaited plan to slash carbon emissions from U.S. power plants. Under new Environmental Protection Agency regulations, U.S. power […]

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Obama Makes Fracking a Cornerstone of Climate Policy … But Fracking Does Much More Harm than Good

Obama Makes Fracking a Cornerstone of Climate Policy … But Fracking Does Much More Harm than Good A Fracked Up Policy “Clean natural gas” from fracking has been touted for years as a cure for global warming. It’s a cornerstone of Obama’s climate plan. But scientists say that fracking pumps out a lot of methane […]

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Capitalism, Engineered Dependencies and the Eurozone

Capitalism, Engineered Dependencies and the Eurozone Greece As fact and metaphor the ongoing crisis in Greece is the vanguard of broad social disintegration across the capitalist West. IMF Director Christine Lagarde is being put forward as the voice of reason calling for writing down Greece’s debt to manageable levels. But her actual public statements have […]

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Obama’s Deadly Cold War Legacy

Obama’s Deadly Cold War Legacy Exclusive: President Obama is endangering his legacy by letting neoconservatives still set his foreign policy, including the creation of a new and costly Cold War with Russia that could have been easily avoided and that now risks spinning off into a nuclear showdown, writes Robert Parry. Whatever positive legacy that President […]

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Why is Obama Goading China?

Why is Obama Goading China? Pivot Insanity US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter is willing to risk a war with China in order to defend “freedom of navigation” in the South China Sea. Speaking in Honolulu, Hawaii on Wednesday, Carter issued his “most forceful” warning yet, demanding “an immediate and lasting halt to land reclamation” […]

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