Home » Posts tagged 'united states' (Page 94)
Tag Archives: united states
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 […]
Another War for Oil on the Agenda? Thank Ted Cruz
Another War for Oil on the Agenda? Thank Ted Cruz Very important identical bills were introduced in the U.S. Senate and House in late February, but you’ve likely not heard of them – even though they could literally blow up the Middle East and take the world much closer to World War III. On February […]
Shale Companies In Turmoil As Newer Wells “Drink Their Milkshake”
Shale Companies In Turmoil As Newer Wells “Drink Their Milkshake” US shale companies’ decision to drill thousands of new wells closely together – and close to already existing wells – is turning out to be a bust; worse, this approach is hurting the performance of wells already in existence, posing an even greater threat to the already struggling […]
The Bakken Hit A New Record In 2018, But It’s A Bad Sign For The Industry
The Bakken Hit A New Record In 2018, But It’s A Bad Sign For The Industry The insanity continues in the United States second largest shale oil field as the fundamental economics go from bad to worse. While it is true that the shale industry doesn’t look as dire as it did back in 2016 […]
Financial Imperialism: the Case of Venezuela
Financial Imperialism: the Case of Venezuela Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair Invasion of Venezuela by US and its proxies is just around the corner! This past week vice-president Pence flew to Colombia once again—for the fifth time in recent weeks—to provide final instructions to US local forces and proxy allies there for the next step […]
‘The American People Do Not Want Endless War’: Sanders, Warren, and Ocasio-Cortez Back Pledge to Bring Post-9/11 Conflicts to a Close
‘The American People Do Not Want Endless War’: Sanders, Warren, and Ocasio-Cortez Back Pledge to Bring Post-9/11 Conflicts to a Close “Congress must reassert its constitutional authority over the use of force and responsibly end these interventions,” said the Vermont senator. “The United States has been in a state of continuous, global, open-ended military conflict […]
US Conservatives Pursue a ‘Ben Option’ of Global Ramification
US Conservatives Pursue a ‘Ben Option’ of Global Ramification Are we ‘Rome’? The question has weighed heavily on the minds of American conservatives, libertarians and Catholics at their various conferences. Is America headed the way of the Roman empire? Bureaucratic decay, massive public debt, an overstretched military, a political system seemingly incapable of responding to challenges – […]
