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Falling From Grace

Falling From Grace Years ago, Doug Casey mentioned in a correspondence to me, “Empires fall from grace with alarming speed.” Every now and then, you receive a comment that, although it may have been stated casually, has a lasting effect, as it offers uncommon insight. For me, this was one of those and it’s one […]

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Ship of Fools: Britain, America and the Iranian Oil Tanker Incidents

Ship of Fools: Britain, America and the Iranian Oil Tanker Incidents Taking over from Britain’s colonial role in exploiting the country, the US has bullied and tried to intimidate Iran for decades. The ongoing pretext for strangling Iran economically is that Iran is developing nuclear weapons. The UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency repeatedly finds no evidence for […]

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How Iran Will Determine If The US Dollar Remains The World’s Reserve Currency

How Iran Will Determine If The US Dollar Remains The World’s Reserve Currency For almost two centuries, Sterling reigned supreme as the world’s reserve currency, propping up the vast British Empire which was the world’s superpower during the 19th century and the early 20th. Then, in the span of just a few months, everything changed […]

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The Hidden Structure of U.S. Empire

The Hidden Structure of U.S. Empire My father was a doctor in the British Royal Navy, and I grew up traveling by troop-ship between the last outposts of the British Empire – Trincomalee, Gibraltar, Hong Kong, Malta, Aden, Singapore – and living in and around naval dockyards in England and Scotland. The British naval bases […]

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The WWI Conspiracy – Part Two: The American Front

The WWI Conspiracy – Part Two: The American Front Difficult as it had been for the Round Table to maneuver the British Empire into the war with Germany, it would be that much harder for their American fellow travelers to coax the United States out of its neutrality and into World War One. The cabal […]

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Junior Partner of Empire: Why Canada’s Foreign Policy Isn’t What You Think

Junior Partner of Empire: Why Canada’s Foreign Policy Isn’t What You Think Canada is not what it appears to outsiders. It is not what it seems even to Canadians. The idea that middle-power Canada is a strong, upright guy who steps into the fight hesitantly and defends the little man is a myth of grandiose […]

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Will Austerity Be the Straw that Breaks the EU AND the UK?

Will Austerity Be the Straw that Breaks the EU AND the UK? From where we’re sitting, the biggest victory in the May 7 British election will turn out to be not that of the Conservatives, but of the SNP, the Scottish nationalists. The party took 56 out of 59 Scottish seats in the United Kingdom’s […]

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