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What Does It Mean to Live in a Multipolar World? We May Be About to Find Out
What Does It Mean to Live in a Multipolar World? We May Be About to Find Out The breakdown in the Sino-U.S. trade talks has led a number of commentatorsto suggest that America’s “unipolar moment” of post-Cold War preeminence is over, as Washington lashes out against a rising China, whose economic rise threatens America’s historic dominance. […]
Russia Slams “Crude Provocation” Nuclear Testing Accusations By US
Russia Slams “Crude Provocation” Nuclear Testing Accusations By US The Trump administration’s charge that Russia has restarted “very low-yield nuclear tests” in an intelligence finding revealed on Wednesday has been met with fierce push back from Moscow, with Russian officials slamming the allegation as a “crude provocation”. This comes just as President Vladimir Putin has reportedly submitted a draft resolution to Russian parliament on […]
US Troops To Be Based In Saudi Arabia, Qatar Against “Iran Threat”
US Troops To Be Based In Saudi Arabia, Qatar Against “Iran Threat” Just hours after US National Security Advisor John Bolton formally accused Tehran of conducing the May 12 tanker “sabotage” attacks near the Strait of Hormuz, Iran’s foreign ministry has responded that “we are ready for war” amid fears that Washington could still be on a war footing […]
US Condemns Russian-Syrian Airstrikes As “Rebels” Urge External Intervention
US Condemns Russian-Syrian Airstrikes As “Rebels” Urge External Intervention Here we go again in what now seems a yearly exercise: the United States has put Russia and the Syrian government on notice as both ramp up airstrikes on Idlib province in Syria’s northwest. The last time Russian jets and the Syrian Army prepared for a major assault […]
Vanishing open spaces: population growth and sprawl in America
Vanishing open spaces: population growth and sprawl in America Before the fossil fuel age began, about 80 to 90% of people farmed to make a living. Since the end of the oil age will send us back to the past, farmland and farmers will once again comprise the greatest numbers of people. So it’s alarming […]
Secrecy Versus Sunshine: Efforts to Hide Government Records Never Stop
Secrecy Versus Sunshine: Efforts to Hide Government Records Never Stop It’s spring, and in America’s state capitals legislatures are winding up their business and, too often, bringing out the padlocks. All 50 states give the public the right to see government records and documents, but many state legislatures are weighing changes in their open-records laws. These changes […]
Financial Markets To Federal Reserve: Time To Start Cutting Rates
Financial Markets To Federal Reserve: Time To Start Cutting Rates In late 2018 the US stock market tanked, in effect holding a gun to its own head and threatening to pull the trigger unless the Fed stopped raising interest rates. The Fed, painfully aware that an equities bull market is an existential threat in today’s […]
Is the US on the cusp of war in Iran?
Is the US on the cusp of war in Iran? March 19th 2003, US forces in coalition with the United Kingdom and others initiate war on Iraq in a conquest to overthrow the ruthless dictatorship of Saddam Hussein. During this time President George W. Bush famously announced, “At this hour, American and coalition forces are […]
Rumors of War
Rumors of War The race to economic collapse is an international competition sparking threats and tensions summoning the specter of war. The imploding center of this collapse is that of industrial technocracy based on fossil fuels. All the nations will go through it on differing schedules. It has been playing out slowly, painfully, and deceptively […]
“The Most Destructive Breach In History”: Hackers Use NSA Code To Grind Baltimore To A Halt
“The Most Destructive Breach In History”: Hackers Use NSA Code To Grind Baltimore To A Halt The United States is no longer supplying its enemies only with conventional weapons – that list now also includes cyberweapons. While Baltimore has been struggling with an aggressive cyber-attack over the last three weeks, previously profiled here , it has now […]
Crop Catastrophe In The Midwest – Latest USDA Crop Progress Report Indicates That A Nightmare Scenario Is Upon Us
Crop Catastrophe In The Midwest – Latest USDA Crop Progress Report Indicates That A Nightmare Scenario Is Upon Us The last 12 months have been the wettest in all of U.S. history, and this has created absolutely horrific conditions for U.S. farmers. Thanks to endless rain and historic flooding that has stretched on for months, many […]
Why it (sort of) makes sense for the US to impose tariffs
Why it (sort of) makes sense for the US to impose tariffs Nearly everyone wonders, “Why is Donald Trump crazy enough to impose tariffs on imports from other countries? How could this possibly make sense?” As long as the world economy is growing rapidly, it makes sense for countries to cooperate with each other. With the […]
The Indictment of Julian Assange Under the Espionage Act Is a Threat to the Press and the American People
The Indictment of Julian Assange Under the Espionage Act Is a Threat to the Press and the American People Placards left by supporters of Julian Assange outside the Ecuadorian Embassy on Aug. 20, 2012 in London, England. Photo: Oli Scarff/Getty Images A TRUE DEMOCRACY does not allow its government to decide who is a journalist. A […]
Shielding the World From US Chaos Is No Easy Task
Shielding the World From US Chaos Is No Easy Task Donald Trump’s foreign policy relies heavily on putting to use to the tools available to the Empire: economic terrorism, threats of war, diplomatic pressure, trade wars, etc. But in resorting to tried-and-true imperialism, it is isolating itself internationally from traditional allies and raising tensions on the global chessboard to an unprecedented […]
Global Elites Started The Russia Nonsense.
Global Elites Started The Russia Nonsense. Attorney General William Barr has turned the attention of the Russia probe to its origin. Who started this and why? The answer, as in all the best crime dramas, is probably hiding in plain sight. On July 13, 2016, British academic Dr. Andrew Foxall penned an op-ed in the New York Times, […]
