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NATO Threatens To Send In Troops After Russia Stations Ground “Battalion” In Syria
NATO Threatens To Send In Troops After Russia Stations Ground “Battalion” In Syria As the propaganda “war” between East and West intensifies ahead of what might ultimately transform into an actual war in the skies above Syria, the world is transfixed with the scope of Russia’s week-old military campaign in support of the Assad regime. […]
Chapter 5: Economists and the Banking System, Part 2: Adam Smith, Some Early Americans, and Friedrich List
Chapter 5: Economists and the Banking System, Part 2: Adam Smith, Some Early Americans, and Friedrich List This chapter is about economics in transition. Economics means literally ‘housekeeping’ and most early writers on economics (roughly speaking before Adam Smith, 1723-90) treated it that way. They worried about a nation’s solvency, whether fairness generally prevailed in […]
When the Aristocracy Leaves the Commoners in the Dust, The Empire Is Doomed
When the Aristocracy Leaves the Commoners in the Dust, The Empire Is Doomed We all know the barriers between the commoners and the Elite rise higher every year, despite the claims of the corporate media and the Power Elite aristocracy. Historian Peter Turchin identified “the degree of solidarity felt between the commons and aristocracy” as […]
Syrian Crisis: What Will Happen Next?
Syrian Crisis: What Will Happen Next? The Syrian crisis and the confluence of clashing interests there was entirely predictable. In fact, I wrote an article on my former website in 2010 outlining the potential for Syria as a high value catalyst for global conflict titled “Will Globalists Trigger Yet Another World War?” In it, I summarized […]
Syriasly
Syriasly Senior administration officials say the new offensive holds promise and may change the dynamics on the ground. — The New York Times Whew…. That’s reassuring. Finally, a Middle East policy you can believe in. It’s apparently based on a joint Kurdish-Arab army that our side (the USA) is pretending to assemble around the ISIS stronghold […]
Syria Ground War Imminent? U.S. Accuses Russia Of Launching Syrian Land Campaign
Syria Ground War Imminent? U.S. Accuses Russia Of Launching Syrian Land Campaign While the US was been surprised and angered by the stunningly fast turn of events in Syria where in the span of less than a month Russia unleashed a massive, Syria-based airborne campaign against what it says are ISIS terrorists, even as the […]
It’s Official – UK Admits “Human Rights” No Longer a Priority of British Foreign Policy
It’s Official – UK Admits “Human Rights” No Longer a Priority of British Foreign Policy Not that they ever were, but they’ve finally decided to be explicit about it. Which to be honest, is pretty scary. From the Independent: Human rights are no longer a “top priority” for the Government, Britain’s most senior Foreign Office official has […]
Did World War III Start on the Precise Day of the ECM?
Did World War III Start on the Precise Day of the ECM? Russia began bombing CIA trained rebels in Syria precisely on the day of the turn in the Economic Confidence Model. This bombing has continued as CNN pointed out. Now, hundreds of Iranian troops have arrived in Syria to also join a major ground offensive in support of […]
Part Deux ‐ Shorting the Federal Reserve
Part Deux ‐ Shorting the Federal Reserve The sequence of events leading up the French Revolution are likely unfamiliar to most. Yet money printing and a debauched French currency played no small part in those events. As a sequel to “Shorting the Federal Reserve”, 720 Global aims to provide an historical example of excessive money […]
The Largest US Foreign Policy Blunder Since Vietnam Is Complete: Iran Readies Massive Syrian Ground Invasion
The Largest US Foreign Policy Blunder Since Vietnam Is Complete: Iran Readies Massive Syrian Ground Invasion On Thursday, in “Mid-East Coup: As Russia Pounds Militant Targets, Iran Readies Ground Invasions While Saudis Panic”, we attempted to cut through all of the Western and Russian media propaganda on the way to describing what Moscow’s involvement in […]
How The War Party Betrayed America’s Non-Interventionist Foreign Policy Tradition
How The War Party Betrayed America’s Non-Interventionist Foreign Policy Tradition So Vladimir Putin in his U.N. address summarized his indictment of a U.S. foreign policy that has produced a series of disasters in the Middle East that we did not need the Russian leader to describe for us. Fourteen years after we invaded Afghanistan, Afghan […]
Gold & War
Gold & War QUESTION: Does war boost gold prices? MM ANSWER: No. The only impact that war will have on gold is confined to either prolonged inflation or the uncertainty of the victor — the hedge against government survival. War by itself is a non-event. Gold will rise ONLY when there is uncertainty because the currency of the government will […]
The ECM Turning Point — Sept. 30/Oct. 1 — Guns & War?
The ECM Turning Point — Sept. 30/Oct. 1 — Guns & War? The unleashing of Russian firepower in Syria in support of the Syrian government came precisely on the day of the Economic Confidence Model. I have come to learn from observing this model that major world events, whatever the major focus may be, appear […]
Heading Toward a Collision: Syria, Saudi Arabia and Regional Proxy Wars
Heading Toward a Collision: Syria, Saudi Arabia and Regional Proxy Wars A recent Guardian article (“Saudi Arabia says there is no future for Assad in Syria”) Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeil is quoted saying, “This [the Syrian civil war] could be a more lengthy process and a more destructive process but the choice is entirely that of Bashar […]
U.S. Bombs Somehow Keep Falling in the Places Where Obama “Ended Two Wars”
U.S. Bombs Somehow Keep Falling in the Places Where Obama “Ended Two Wars” “We’ve ended two wars.” — Barack Obama, July 21, 2015, at a DSCC fundraiser held at a “private residence” “Now that we have ended two wars responsibly, and brought home hundreds of American troops, we salute this new generation of veterans.” — National Security Adviser […]
