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Time Runs Out on U.S. Opposition to Nordstream 2
Time Runs Out on U.S. Opposition to Nordstream 2 The Nordstream 2 pipeline represents the last stand of U.S. influence over the internal affairs of Europe. Once finished it will stand as a testament to the fundamental split between the European Union and the United States. Europe will this as its first successful defense of its […]
US officials offered my friend cash to take down Tehran’s power grid
US officials offered my friend cash to take down Tehran’s power grid It took a country-wide power outage in Venezuela, whispers of a cyberattack, and smug tweets from US officials to make me suddenly recall the cloak-and-dagger story of a close Iranian-American friend nine years ago. My friend, an engineer — who I will not name for obvious reasons and who I will […]
From Coup D’etats to Soft Power: Dissecting Washington’s Color Revolution Techniques
From Coup D’etats to Soft Power: Dissecting Washington’s Color Revolution Techniques Over the last hundred years Washington has interfered in the internal affairs of at least 50 countries for a total of 130 individual cases. As for the last three decades, there have been more than 40 instances of such interference, including cases of elections meddling […]
Fracking 2.0 Was a Financial Disaster, Will Fracking 3.0 Be Different?
Fracking 2.0 Was a Financial Disaster, Will Fracking 3.0 Be Different? Two years ago, the U.S. fracking industry was trying to recover from the crash in the price of oil. Shale companies were promoting the idea that fracking was viable even at low oil prices (despite losing money when oil prices were high). At the time, no one was […]
Empire Unravelling: Will Huawei Become Washington’s Suez?
Empire Unravelling: Will Huawei Become Washington’s Suez? Photograph Source Brücke-Osteuropa America’s full-spectrum campaign against Chinese tech leader Huawei is coming spectacularly undone. Curtains are imminent for Washington’s tawdriest global offensive in recent memory – featuring open extortion, kidnapping, demonization and intimidation of both friends and foes. The signs were apparent as early as two months […]
Putin Now Thinks Western Elites Are ‘Swine’
Putin Now Thinks Western Elites Are ‘Swine’ An article I published close to five years ago, “Putin to Western elites: Play-time is over”, turned out to be the most popular thing I’ve written so far, having garnered over 200,000 reads over the intervening years. In it I wrote about Putin’s speech at the 2014 Valdai […]
Saudi Arabia Is the World’s Top Arms Buyer
Saudi Arabia Is the World’s Top Arms Buyer Saudis increased purchases 192% over five years Jason Ditz Posted on March 10, 2019Categories NewsTags Saudi Arabia Most reports on international arms sales focus on the biggest sellers. That inevitably means the United States, the largest exporter by far in the growing market. You can’t have sales without buyers, however, and that […]
Dozens Reported Dead In Venezuela After Mass Blackout Reaches Four Days
Dozens Reported Dead In Venezuela After Mass Blackout Reaches Four Days Much of Venezuela is still in the dark — now four days running — after the worst blackout on modern record in Latin America enveloped the country last Thursday evening. And as of Saturday, Reuters reported at least 17 deaths at hospitals across the country attributable to the power outage, given many hospitals […]
The Rise Of Totalitarian Technology
The Rise Of Totalitarian Technology Is technological progress bad for human autonomy? That’s the question posed by Shoshana Zuboff in “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism,” a book that recounts the ways in which corporations and governments are using technology to influence our behavior. Zuboff is just the latest to chime in on “totalitarian technology” (or […]
Intelligence Contractors Make New Attempt To Provoke Tensions With North Korea
Intelligence Contractors Make New Attempt To Provoke Tensions With North Korea It’s the second, but no less ludicrous, attempt in one week to sway the opinion of the public and President Donald Trump against the concept of denuclearization and peaceful dialogue with North Korea. A March 8, 2019 report from National Public Radio (NPR) follows another by NBC […]
Venezuela Deploys Troops “To Protect National Power Grid” From US “Aggression”
Venezuela Deploys Troops “To Protect National Power Grid” From US “Aggression” update: Though some parts of Venezuela’s power grid have reportedly begun to come back online after the country was plunged into nation-wide darkness beginning Thursday evening, the mass blackout crisis continues, which Caracas has blamed on US-orchestrated saboteurs. To prevent further “sabotage” Venezuela’s Defense Ministry […]
Pence Urged Germany To Provoke Russian Navy
Pence Urged Germany To Provoke Russian Navy Bloomberg dropped a bombshell on Thursday, citing three high level sources familiar with US-German talks at last month’s Munich Security Conference who revealed US Vice President Mike Pence tried to persuade German Chancellor Angela Merkel to directly provoke Russia by sending German ships through the Kerch Strait, the two mile wide […]
America and Europe: Growing differences over Iran
America and Europe: Growing differences over Iran The United States’ and Poland’s co-hosted conference in Europe is a controversial event. It has united some American allies around President Donald Trump’s aggressive anti-Iran posturing while alienating some others. The Summit demonstrated divisions amongst European Union member states on the current American administration’s foreign and security policies. It also […]
American Civil War 2: US media will have only itself to blame if all hell breaks loose
American Civil War 2: US media will have only itself to blame if all hell breaks loose © Getty Images / Melanie Stetson Freeman / The Christian Science Monitor For the first time in years, the drumbeat of civil war has become audible across the United States. The nation looks destined to repeat history thanks […]
