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“Proxy” War No More: Qatar Threatens Military Intervention In Syria Alongside “Saudi, Turkish Brothers”
“Proxy” War No More: Qatar Threatens Military Intervention In Syria Alongside “Saudi, Turkish Brothers” Earlier this week, Saudi foreign minister Adel al-Jubeir had the following message for Tehran: “We wish that Iran would change its policies and stop meddling in the affairs of other countries in the region, in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen. We will make […]
‘Developed’ nations now $50 TRILLION in debt; literally, figuratively bankrupt for infrastructure, public services
‘Developed’ nations now $50 TRILLION in debt; literally, figuratively bankrupt for infrastructure, public services 4-minute video: Ready to rise from your economic slavery? I continue to factually assert that Benjamin Franklin already “discovered” government can operate without taxes, these superior mechanics were considered so important by Thomas Edison and Henry Ford that they dedicated their 1921 summer vacation […]
The Real Trouble Begins When Rising Inequality Splinters the Elites
The Real Trouble Begins When Rising Inequality Splinters the Elites If others in our class are still rising while we’re stagnating, we sense a great disturbance in the financial and political Force. Rising economic inequality tends to generate political instability for all the obvious reasons: the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, the rich say let […]
The Syrian terror trap
The Syrian terror trap The US, Russia and Iran are fracturing the Levant Leaked US diplomatic cables show that the US sought to undermine the Assad regime nearly a decade ago. But that’s not the whole story. In 2011, as peaceful protestors rallied across Syria, Assad was courted by the Obama administration as a potential […]
Will The Crazed Neocons Bring Us Nuclear Winter?
Will The Crazed Neocons Bring Us Nuclear Winter? As readers know, I have emphasized that the declared neoconservative intention of achieving global hegemony has resurrected the threat of nuclear armageddon as Russia and China are most definitely not going to submit, as every European country, the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Columbia, and Japan have […]
Moscow doubles down on Washington
Moscow doubles down on Washington History may eventually decide the ‘New World Order’ started on September 28, when Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Barack Obama had a 90-minute face off at the UN in New York. Irrespective of spin – “productive” according to the White House, “tense”according to a source close to the Kremlin – facts […]
7/7 led to wars abroad and loss of freedoms at home … but do we know what really happened that day?
7/7 led to wars abroad and loss of freedoms at home … but do we know what really happened that day? For the London media 7/7 is ‘done and dusted’, but for guest author, Tony Gosling, who helped cover the IRA London bombing campaign for the BBC, nothing could be further from the truth. 31-minute video: Ten […]
War on Islamic State: A New Cold War fiction
War on Islamic State: A New Cold War fiction The Islamic State group is little more than the proxy bastard child of a New Cold War that looks set to escalate Russia is bombing “terrorists” in Syria, and the US is understandably peeved. A day after the bombing began, Obama’s Defence Secretary Ashton Carter complained […]
The Real Reason for the Refugee Crisis You Won’t Hear About in the Media
The Real Reason for the Refugee Crisis You Won’t Hear About in the Media There’s a meme going around that the refugee crisis in Europe (the largest since World War II) is part of a secret plot to subvert the West. I completely understand why the locals in any country wouldn’t be happy about waves […]
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 […]
