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All Twerked Out
All Twerked Out Bruce Jenner’s journey to transgender sainthood was interrupted Saturday on the road to Malibu, and with it perhaps the Kardashian Klan’s hopes and dreams for achieving supremacy of the known universe. All of America was twerking at the news because that is what we do and who we are now. The […]
Governments from Around the World Admit They Do It
Governments from Around the World Admit They Do It There are many documented false flag attacks, where a government carries out a terror attack … and then falsely blames its enemy for political purposes. In the following 42 instances, officials in the government which carried out the attack (or seriously proposed an attack) admits to it, either […]
The Overt Media War Against the Maduro Government
The Overt Media War Against the Maduro Government The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses. – Malcolm X On January 30, 2015, El Universal, one of the big […]
War and Default in Europe Pose Merkel’s Biggest Challenge
War and Default in Europe Pose Merkel’s Biggest Challenge (Bloomberg) — After almost a decade as German chancellor, Angela Merkel faces a moment of truth as a resurgent Russia and fed-up Greeks challenge her blueprint for Europe’s future. As bloodshed in eastern Ukraine escalates and the new Greek government rejects austerity championed by Merkel, her […]
Why U.S. Reporters Are Always Pro-War
Why U.S. Reporters Are Always Pro-War 5 Reasons that Both Mainstream Media – and Gatekeeper “Alternative” Websites – Are Pro-War There are five reasons that the mainstream media and the largest alternative media websites are always pro-war. 1. Self-Censorship by Journalists Initially, there is tremendous self-censorship by journalists. A survey by the Pew Research Center […]
Crude Conspiracies? Data Suggest Nations Do Go to War Over Oil
Crude Conspiracies? Data Suggest Nations Do Go to War Over Oil The “thirst for oil” is often put forward as a near self-evident explanation behind military interventions in Libya, for instance, or Sudan. Oil, or the lack of oil, is also said to be behind the absence of intervention in Syria now and in Rwanda […]
Russia Deploys Nuclear ICBM Launchers On Combat Patrol
Russia Deploys Nuclear ICBM Launchers On Combat Patrol Perhaps it is a coincidence that a day before John Kerry’s arrival in Kiev (a visit which “coincided” with a 35% devaluation of the local currency) where among other things the US statesman discussed the possibility of official (as opposed to unofficial) deliveries of US “lethal support” to […]
Failed Statebuilding versus Peace Formation: The Consequences and Implications over the Last 25 Years
Failed Statebuilding versus Peace Formation: The Consequences and Implications over the Last 25 Years Recent years have seen an abundance of foreign intervention to achieve peace and statebuilding. Below, Oliver Richmond discusses how statebuilding often fails to achieve its goal of long-term peace and a stable state, and questions whether peace formation should come from actors and […]
Ukraine “Truce”? Tanks Are Rolling In Poland As NATO Plans Permanent Eastern European Bases
Ukraine “Truce”? Tanks Are Rolling In Poland As NATO Plans Permanent Eastern European Bases With Ukraine, Germany, and France all expressing their concern this morning about “conflict escalation” between pro-Russian separatists and the Ukraine military, the so-called “truce” appears to be hanging by a thread of semanticism (despite OSCE’s please for respect of the cease-fire and the […]
How to Start a Nuclear War
How to Start a Nuclear War The United States has just made an exceptionally dangerous, even reckless decision over Ukraine. Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader who ended the Cold War, warns it may lead to a nuclear confrontation with Russia. Rule number one of geopolitics: nuclear-armed powers must never, ever fight. Yet Washington just announced […]
Superpower Blunders: Czechoslovakia in 1938
Superpower Blunders: Czechoslovakia in 1938 The Czechoslovakia crisis of 1938 marked a pivotal shift in the balance of power in Central Europe, putting the major world superpowers in a collision course. The policies of one superpower in particular made inevitable what was to come less than a year later – World War II. This episode […]
The Next War In The Middle East Has Begun And Israel Vows ‘To Act Powerfully On All Fronts’
The Next War In The Middle East Has Begun And Israel Vows ‘To Act Powerfully On All Fronts’ Israel and Hezbollah are at war. On top of everything else that is going on in the world, now we have a new war in the Middle East, and nobody is quite certain what is going to […]
From Keynesian Shangri-La To Outright War
From Keynesian Shangri-La To Outright War Over the last few weeks drum beats could be heard signalling the coming of troops from abroad to lay waste to any foe ahead of them. However, unlike what we first conjure up as troops from an opposing force made up of men and weapons. This battlefield is being waged […]
Why Governments Love Terrorism “Wars”
Why Governments Love Terrorism “Wars” Telltale Signs Dow down a little on Tuesday. Gold almost unchanged. Oil kept slipping. From Bloomberg: “Oil fell below $45 a barrel amid speculation that US stockpiles will increase, exacerbating a global supply glut that’s driven prices to the lowest in more than 5½ years. Oil slumped almost 50% last […]
Top Russian, American and Polish Leaders Warn that Continued Fighting In Ukraine Could Lead to Nuclear War
Top Russian, American and Polish Leaders Warn that Continued Fighting In Ukraine Could Lead to Nuclear War The Stakes Are Too High Not to Negotiate Peace Former Soviet leader and Nobel prize winner Mikhail Gorbachev warned today that the battle in Ukraine could result in a nuclear war: “A war of this kind would unavoidably lead to a nuclear […]
