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China Just Sided With Russia Over The Ukraine Conflict
China Just Sided With Russia Over The Ukraine Conflict When it comes to the Ukraine proxy war, which started in earnest just about one year ago with the violent coup that overthrew then president Yanukovich and replaced him with a local pro-US oligarch, there has been no ambiguity who the key actors were: on the […]
Is the US Overplaying Its Energy Hand?
Is the US Overplaying Its Energy Hand? In the grand poker game of geopolitics, energy is often the wild card. That’s why the Middle East is such a mess: Great Powers (first Britain, more recently the United States) have been installing, propping up, toppling, threatening, or bribing regimes in that region — almost always to […]
Russia Is Not Bluffing With Turkish Stream Project
Russia Is Not Bluffing With Turkish Stream Project During his visit to Ankara in December 2014, Vladimir Putin announced that South Stream—a large pipeline that would have carried Europe-bound Russian gas under the Black Sea and across Southeastern Europe—had been terminated. A major reason for South Stream’s cancellation was attributed to the exit from the […]
Ukraine Enters The Endgame
Ukraine Enters The Endgame Back in March 2014 we forecast that it in the aftermath of the US State Department-sponsored military coup in Kiev, it was only a matter of time before Ukraine (all of its sovereign gold having since “vaporized“) succumbed to full blown hyperinflation and economic implosion. Less than a year later, precisely this outcome has […]
The post-1945 geopolitical settlement is now crumbling
The post-1945 geopolitical settlement is now crumbling “Stare into the abyss for long enough” wrote Nietzsche, “and it will stare back at you.” In 1945, Europe seemed caught in the abyss’s basilisk gaze. Tens of millions were dead; millions more were refugees. Cities were shattered; with them, economies. Many of the inhabitants of countries which […]
Interventionism Kills: Post-Coup Ukraine One Year Later
Interventionism Kills: Post-Coup Ukraine One Year Later It was one year ago last weekend that a violent coup overthrew the legally elected government of Ukraine. That coup was not only supported by US and EU governments — much of it was actually planned by them. Looking back at the events that led to the overthrow […]
Throw Your Grandma Under The Bus
Throw Your Grandma Under The Bus Before we get news in a few hours on the new proposals Greece is required to hand to its slavemasters today, Monday Feb 23, it seems relevant to point out one more time that what is happening to Greece is the result of political, not economic, decisions and points […]
50 Shades of Greece
50 Shades of Greece When it comes to the ongoing Greek question, I see a lot of people eagerly jump to conclusions, after the ‘debt deal’, that I don’t think are justified; certainly not yet. The overall conviction in the press seems to be that Syriza has given in on just about all fronts, and […]
Russia deploying next-gen Nebo-M radar complexes to counter NATO threat
Russia deploying next-gen Nebo-M radar complexes to counter NATO threat Russia has begun deploying the next generation of Nebo-M anti-missile radar facility systems as part of a responsive measure to a threat stemming from NATO anti-ballistic missile systems in Eastern Europe. “The mobile multi-range programmable Nebo-M complex is capable of performing the tasks of providing […]
What will Germany pay for not compromising with Greece?
What will Germany pay for not compromising with Greece? You could argue that the very public nature of the disagreement between Germany and Greece, over the terms of the latest attempt by Greece to avoid financial collapse, is good for the reputation of the eurozone. In that at least colossal sums of taxpayer’s money aren’t […]
Greek Deposit Run Accelerates Ahead Of Monday’s Bank Holiday
Greek Deposit Run Accelerates Ahead Of Monday’s Bank Holiday Official Greek deposit data began tumbling in December (outflows around EUR3bn), and accelerated in January in the run up to the Syriza election (proxied by JPMorgan at over EUR 12bn). During the last two weeks, however, the absence of ATM lines and visible bank runs has been […]
How Germany Is Blowing Up The European Union
How Germany Is Blowing Up The European Union As Germany is set to reject a Greek loan extension request (and no, international press, that is not the same as an extension of the bailout program), Steve Keen uses proprietary numbers issued by the OECD – which is supposed to be on Germany’s side?! – to […]
Game theory and the king’s new clothes
Game theory and the king’s new clothes I’ll admit to being a bit obsessed with Syriza and the Eurozone at the moment (here and here): it is by some way the most interesting development at the moment in both politics and economics. And I’m also interested in the idea that Yanis Varoufakis’ background teaching game theory might have […]
The Catastrophic Costs of Extend-and-Pretend Are About to Crush Europe
The Catastrophic Costs of Extend-and-Pretend Are About to Crush Europe Like a star which has expanded and now cannot maintain its grand state, Europe’s extend-and-pretend economy is now poised to experience a supernova implosion. The costs of ill-conceived policies are always paid by someone–usually those with the least political power. In ill-conceived wars, the costs are […]
YANIS VAROUFAKIS: THE STRAW THAT BREAKS THE PONZI’S BACK?
YANIS VAROUFAKIS: THE STRAW THAT BREAKS THE PONZI’S BACK? What do you do when your opponent won’t play by the rules? Worse, what do you do when your loan ‘partner’ (aka ‘debtor’) declares Calvinball, where the only rule is there are no rules, and proceeds to go off the deep end? The result, to put it […]
