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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, […]
Here’s The Proof: How The CPI Is Underrepresenting Food Inflation By 40%
Here’s The Proof: How The CPI Is Underrepresenting Food Inflation By 40% The “muzzle” on reported inflation has policymakers and analysts perplexed. As Joseph Carson, former director of economic research at Alliance Bernstein writes in his follow up to a “New Working Theory on Inflation“, numerous economic explanations and theories have been offered, and policymakers […]
Commerce Department Targets China With Proposed Tariffs On ‘Currency Manipulators’
Commerce Department Targets China With Proposed Tariffs On ‘Currency Manipulators’ A lot has happened since then-candidate Trump said he would label China a currency manipulator on ‘day one’ should he make it to the Oval Office. So far, at least, the pledge to hold Beijing accountable for manipulating its currency wouldn’t fall into the ‘promises kept’ column. But […]
China Enraged After US Sails Two Destroyers Through Taiwan Strait
China Enraged After US Sails Two Destroyers Through Taiwan Strait Just in case the “world tech and trade war I” was not enough to send US-China relations back decades, on Wednesday the US military sent two Navy destroyers through the Taiwan Strait in its latest transit through the sensitive waterway, “angering China” at a time […]
99 Lead Balloons… Are About To Come Crashing Down
99 Lead Balloons… Are About To Come Crashing Down ‘Lead balloon.’ That graphic description of public failure apparently dates from the US in 1924, and ironically was itself such a poorly-received idiom that it didn’t appear in the American press again until 1947. A few decades later, and the phrase was so well known that a […]
US Accuses Syria Of More Chemical Attacks Just As Chemical Weapons Narrative Crumbles
US Accuses Syria Of More Chemical Attacks Just As Chemical Weapons Narrative Crumbles The Institute for Public Accuracy published a report today about the leaked engineering assessment from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons investigation into an alleged chemical attack in Douma, Syria which directly contradicts the findings of the official OPCW report on the […]
Lira Tumbles, Turkish Stocks Enter Bear Market After US Issues Ultimatum; Russia Furious
Lira Tumbles, Turkish Stocks Enter Bear Market After US Issues Ultimatum; Russia Furious The Turkish Lira tumbled as much as 1% against the dollar, leading a decline across emerging markets… … while Turkish stock market losses accelerated as the Borsa Istanbul 100 Index falls 1.5%, declining for a 6th day and 13 of the past […]
