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The Failure of Global Elites
The Failure of Global Elites In the 1970s, global political and corporate elites had all the information they needed to put the world on a path toward long-term stability. Systems science was sufficiently advanced that a team of its practitioners organized a scenario study to see how trends in industrial production, population, food, pollution, and resource usage […]
Americaâs Nuclear Death Wish â Europe Must Rebel
Americaâs Nuclear Death Wish â Europe Must Rebel The Trump administrationâs declared scrapping of a crucial arms control treaty is putting the world on notice of a nuclear war, sooner or later. Any such war is not winnable. It is mutually assured destruction. Yet the arrogant American rulers â some of them at least â […]
Volcker Recalls Another Time the Fed Was in the Presidentâs Crosshairs
Volcker Recalls Another Time the Fed Was in the Presidentâs Crosshairs The central bankerâs memoir recounts an awkward encounter with Ronald Reagan. Reagan and Volcker in the Oval Office in 1981. PHOTOGRAPHER: J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE/AP PHOTO Donald Trumpâs repeated public criticism of the Federal Reserveâs monetary policy seems extraordinary, but he isnât the first president […]
It Is Like A Western Movie: A Showdown Is In The Making
It Is Like A Western Movie: A Showdown Is In The Making It has taken the US military/security complex 31 years to get rid of President Reaganâs last nuclear disarmament achievementâthe INF Treaty that President Reagan and Soviet President Gorbachev achieved in 1987. The Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty was ratified by the US Senate […]
Has Russia Given Up on the West?
Has Russia Given Up on the West? By the end of his second term, President Ronald Reagan, who had called the Soviet Union an âevil empire,â was strolling through Red Square with Russians slapping him on the back. Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive. And how have we husbanded the fruits of […]
Climate Change Bites Big Business
Climate Change Bites Big Business âElectoral politics is not the solution to the Earth-threatening problems we face.â â Jeffrey St. Clair, 10 August 2018, Counter Punch There is now no non-violent way to reverse climate change. Even with morally unrestrained action, it is probable that there is now no physical possibility of reversing climate change. […]
Russiaâs âDirty Policy of Occupationâ of Crimea and Ronald Reagan
Russiaâs âDirty Policy of Occupationâ of Crimea and Ronald Reagan On March 18th, 2014 following a popular self-determination referendum of the people of Crimea the Russian Federation declared reunification with the Crimean Peninsula which was illegitimately transfered to the Soviet Ukraine in 1954 by Soviet Communist Party leader Nikita Khrushchev. Nevertheless, the western global corporative […]
The Unraveling of American/Russian Relations
The Unraveling of American/Russian Relations Dear Readers: I agree that the official Las Vegas story seems to be unraveling. A public mass shooting should be transparent, not opaque. I think we explored the story long enough to discover that without knowing the facts, we cannot arrive at an explanation with confidence. It is time to […]
The Legacy of Reaganâs Civilian âPsyopsâÂ
The Legacy of Reaganâs Civilian âPsyopsâ Special Report: When the Reagan administration launched peacetime âpsyopsâ in the mid-1980s, it pulled in civilian agencies to help spread these still-ongoing techniques of deception and manipulation, reports Robert Parry. Declassified records from the Reagan presidential library show how the U.S. government enlisted civilian agencies in psychological operations designed […]
Outside Powers Must End Their Proxy Wars in Syria
Outside Powers Must End Their Proxy Wars in Syria A FRENCH NEWS CAMERAMANÂ burst into the bar of Beirutâs Commodore Hotel, where his colleagues gathered most evenings, on November 17, 1983. âAt last,â he shouted, cupping both hands upward, âsomeone with balls!â French warplanes had just bombed the town of Baalbek, site of magnificent Roman ruins […]
We created Islamic extremism: Those blaming Islam for ISIS would have supported Osama bin Laden in the â80s
We created Islamic extremism: Those blaming Islam for ISIS would have supported Osama bin Laden in the â80s Jingoists conveniently forget the West’s Cold War strategy was to arm the Islamic extremists that became al-Qaida (Credit: AP/Dennis Cook) History takes no prisoners. It shows, with absolute lucidity, that the Islamic extremism ravaging the world today […]
Former Reagan Administration Official Warns That Financial Disaster Is Dead Ahead
Former Reagan Administration Official Warns That Financial Disaster Is Dead Ahead Why wonât the American people listen to the warnings? David Stockman was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1977 to 1981, and he served as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Ronald Reagan from 1981 to […]
Fallout from Reaganâs Afghan War
Fallout from Reaganâs Afghan War In the 1980s, President Reagan funded and armed Islamic fundamentalists to defeat a Soviet-backed secular regime in Afghanistan. Now, one of those ex-U.S. clients is throwing his support behind the brutal Islamic State, a lesson about geopolitical expediency, writes ex-CIA analyst Paul R. Pillar. In a blast from the past in […]
David Stockman Interviewââ-Kick-The-Can Economics Is Entering The End Game
David Stockman Interviewââ-Kick-The-Can Economics Is Entering The End Game Today David Stockman, the man President Ronald Reagan called upon along with Dr. Paul Craig Roberts to help save the United States from disaster in 1981, warned King World News that we are now entering the âterminal phaseâ of the global financial system that will end in total collapse. Eric […]
