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The Declining Empire of Chaos Is Going Nuts Over Iran
The Declining Empire of Chaos Is Going Nuts Over Iran The transition in recent years from a unipolar to a multipolar world order has created international tensions that seem to threaten to escalate into clashes between regional and global powers. In 2014 we were almost at the point of no return in Ukraine following the […]
Americans Should Be Very Skeptical Of Calls For New “Terrorism” Laws
Americans Should Be Very Skeptical Of Calls For New “Terrorism” Laws Two mass shootings have rocked the United States in less than 24 hours, leaving dozens dead and many more wounded. The first in El Paso, Texas was allegedly perpetrated by a white supremacistwhose racist motives are outlined in a rambling “manifesto”, the second allegedly by a self-described […]
“New Cold War” Unleashing “Geopolitical Chaos”: China Reacts To US Offensive Missiles In Asia
“New Cold War” Unleashing “Geopolitical Chaos”: China Reacts To US Offensive Missiles In Asia China’s Global Times — the communist country’s hawkish, belligerent state tabloid — has responded to the Pentagon’s Friday announcement stating the US is looking to deploy intermediate range ballistic missiles to Asia “within months,” warning “it will certainly trigger an intense arms race in the region.” Its editorial board, long understood as a […]
4 Reasons To Expect Even More US-China Trade (And Currency) War Escalation
4 Reasons To Expect Even More US-China Trade (And Currency) War Escalation As we noted earlier when summarizing some of the more notable Wall Street reactions to China’s jarring trade war escalation, we highlighted the take of Morgan Stanley’s chief US public policy strategist, Michael Zezas, who said that he saw incentives for the U.S. to escalate […]
Could The U.S Be Gearing Up To a Return to the Gold Standard?
Could The U.S Be Gearing Up To a Return to the Gold Standard? There may be readers who weren’t even born when the U.S. still had a gold-backed dollar. Since the gold standard was abolished in 1971, the value of the dollar has decreased annually by 3.96 percent. You would need over $600 today to […]
Opinion: 10 alarming things about the economy that politicians won’t tell you
Opinion: 10 alarming things about the economy that politicians won’t tell you The Congressional Budget Office reveals shocking forecasts for immigration, debt and spending for the next 30 years How do you know a politician is lying to you? Simple: His lips are moving. Yes, it’s an old one — but none the worse for that. […]
Ship of Fools: Britain, America and the Iranian Oil Tanker Incidents
Ship of Fools: Britain, America and the Iranian Oil Tanker Incidents Taking over from Britain’s colonial role in exploiting the country, the US has bullied and tried to intimidate Iran for decades. The ongoing pretext for strangling Iran economically is that Iran is developing nuclear weapons. The UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency repeatedly finds no evidence for […]
America’s Collapse: #2 in a series
America’s Collapse: #2 in a series An Economy Based on Plunder Capitalists have claimed responsibility for America’s past economic success. Let’s begin by setting the record straight. American success had little to do with capitalism. This is not to say that the US would have had more success with something like Soviet central planning. Prior to 1900 […]
The Last Western Empire?
The Last Western Empire? “Missing the forest for the trees” is an apt metaphor if we take a look at most commentary describing the past twenty years or so. This period has been remarkable in the number of genuinely tectonic changes the international system has undergone. It all began during what I think of as the “Kristallnacht of […]
Mystery Airstrikes On Iraqi Camp Were Israeli Stealth Jets In “Anti-Iran” Escalation
Mystery Airstrikes On Iraqi Camp Were Israeli Stealth Jets In “Anti-Iran” Escalation Regional experts had immediately suspected the possibility of an Israeli air raid after a pro-Iranian militia arms depot in Iraq was obliterated during a mysterious attack on July 19, and another reported follow-up attack this past Sunday. The attack happened around 80 km from the Iranian border and 40 […]
U.S. Economic Warfare and Likely Foreign Defenses
U.S. Economic Warfare and Likely Foreign Defenses Photograph Source: Trending Topics 2019 – CC BY 2.0 Today’s world is at war on many fronts. The rules of international law and order put in place toward the end of World War II are being broken by U.S. foreign policy escalating its confrontation with countries that refrain from […]
Monsters with Human Faces: The Tyranny of the Police State Disguised as Law-and-Order
Monsters with Human Faces: The Tyranny of the Police State Disguised as Law-and-Order “But these weren’t the kind of monsters that had tentacles and rotting skin, the kind a seven-year-old might be able to wrap his mind around—they were monsters with human faces, in crisp uniforms, marching in lockstep, so banal you don’t recognize them […]
The $6 Trillion Pension Bailout Is Coming
The $6 Trillion Pension Bailout Is Coming Fiscal responsibility is dead. This past week, Trump announced he had reached an agreement with Congress to pass a continuing resolution which will suspend the debt ceiling until July 2021. The good news is that it will ONLY increase spending by just $320 billion. What a bargain, right? […]
Russia Urges “Independence” From “Imposed World Order” Of US Financial System
Russia Urges “Independence” From “Imposed World Order” Of US Financial System Following Russia signalling last week, its willingness to join the controversial payments channel Instex – designed to circumvent both SWIFT as well as US sanctions banning trade with Iran – new statements from Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov called on the international community to free itself from […]
