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Setting the Record Straight; Stuff You Should Know About Ukraine
Setting the Record Straight; Stuff You Should Know About Ukraine On February 16, 2022, a full week before Putin sent combat troops into Ukraine, the Ukrainian Army began the heavy bombardment of the area (in east Ukraine) occupied by mainly ethnic Russians. Officials from the Observer Mission of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in […]
Covid-19: Phase 1 of the “Permanent Crisis”?
Covid-19: Phase 1 of the “Permanent Crisis”? Let’s assume that the events of the last five months are neither random nor unexpected. Let’s say they’re part of an ingenious plan to transform American democracy into a lockdown police state controlled by criminal elites and their puppet governors. And let’s say the media’s role is to […]
10 Signs the U.S. Is Heading for a Depression
10 Signs the U.S. Is Heading for a Depression 1– Unemployment is off-the-charts Thursday’s jobless claims leave no doubt that the country is in the grips of another severe recession. More than 6.6 million Americans filed for unemployment insurance in the last week. That number exceeds the gloomiest prediction of more than 40 economists and pushes […]
Coronageddon: Can a “Minsky Moment” be Avoided?
Coronageddon: Can a “Minsky Moment” be Avoided? There’s a chance that the coronavirus will be contained in the United States and that fewer people will be infected than in China or Iran. But there’s also a possibility that the highly-contagious virus will spread and that there will be sporadic outbreaks across the country. If this […]
Gas Wars in the Mediterranean
Gas Wars in the Mediterranean The unexpected alliance between Turkey and Libya is a geopolitical earthquake that changes the balance of power in the eastern Mediterranean and across the Middle East. Turkey’s audacious move has enraged its rivals in the region and cleared the way for a dramatic escalation in the 9 year-long Libyan civil […]
How Brzezinski’s Chessboard Degenerated Into Brennan’s Russophobia
How Brzezinski’s Chessboard Degenerated Into Brennan’s Russophobia “Russia is an inalienable and organic part of Greater Europe and European civilization. Our citizens think of themselves as European. That’s why Russia proposes moving towards the creation of a common economic space from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, a community referred to by Russian experts as […]
If There’s a War in Korea, Blame Trump
If There’s a War in Korea, Blame Trump Brainwashed Americans believe that Kim Jong-un is responsible for the confrontation between Pyongyang and Washington, but nothing could be further from the truth. The real problem is not Kim’s nuclear weapons but Washington’s 65 year-long military occupation that continues to reinforce a political solution that was arbitrarily […]
The Problem is Washington, Not North Korea
The Problem is Washington, Not North Korea Photo by Stefan Krasowski | CC BY 2.0 Washington has never made any effort to conceal its contempt for North Korea. In the 64 years since the war ended, the US has done everything in its power to punish, humiliate and inflict pain on the Communist country. Washington has subjected […]
Stop the Fed Before it Kills Again
Stop the Fed Before it Kills Again Why has the Fed created incentives for US corporations to loot their companies and drive them deeper into debt? Despite four consecutive quarters of negative earnings, weak demand and anemic sales, US corporations continue to load up on debt, buy back their own shares and hand out cash […]
Is This Class Warfare?
Is This Class Warfare? Is there a conspiracy to keep wages from rising or is it just plain-old class warfare? Check out these charts from a recent report by Deutsche Bank and see what you think: (Feeling Underpaid, Zero Hedge) Well, what do you know? Everywhere the global bank cartel has its tentacles, wages are […]
Subprime Auto Loans: the Next Shoe to Drop?
Subprime Auto Loans: the Next Shoe to Drop? Booming auto sales have more to do with low rates and easy financing than they do with the urge to buy a new vehicle. In the last few years, car buyers have borrowed nearly $1 trillion to finance new and used autos. Unfortunately, much of that money was lent to borrowers who have less-than-perfect credit and […]
Compare Mike Whitney’s Truthful Account Of Syria With The Disinformation Published By The Washington Post
Compare Mike Whitney’s Truthful Account Of Syria With The Disinformation Published By The Washington Post Compare Mike Whitney’s Truthful Account Of Syria With The Disinformation Published By The Washington Post http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article44174.htm vs. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-era-of-us-abdication-on-syria-must-end/2016/02/09/55226716-ce96-11e5-88cd-753e80cd29ad_story.html There is no such thing as “the Syrian opposition.” The “opposition” consists almost entirely of the Washington-backed ISIS, which Washington sent to […]
The Chart That Explains Everything
The Chart That Explains Everything Why is the economy barely growing after seven years of zero rates and easy money? Why are wages and incomes sagging when stock and bond prices have gone through the roof? Why are stocks experiencing such extreme volatility when the Fed increased rates by a mere quarter of a percent? […]
Putin Leads BRICS Uprising
Putin Leads BRICS Uprising There’s been a virtual blackout of news from this year’s seventh annual BRICS summit in Ufa, Russia. None of the mainstream media organizations are covering the meetings or making any attempt to explain what’s going on. As a result, the American people remain largely in the dark about a powerful coalition […]
