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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 […]
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 […]
Are Russia and Turkey on a Collision Course?
Are Russia and Turkey on a Collision Course? The murder of the Iranian hero-martyr General Soleimani created a situation in which a war between Iran and the Axis of Kindness (USA/Israel/KSA) became a real possibility but, at the very last minute, Uncle Shmuel decided that he had no stomach for a full-scale war against Iran. […]
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 […]
An End to the World as We Know It?
An End to the World as We Know It? Congress and the White House compete in year-end stupidity sweepstakes At the end of the nineteenth century, Lord Palmerston stated what he thought was obvious, that “England has no eternal friends, England has no perpetual enemies, England has only eternal and perpetual interests.” Palmerston was saying […]
The Rise of Tech Totalitarianism Michael Rectenwald’s GOOGLE ARCHIPELAGO
The Rise of Tech Totalitarianism Michael Rectenwald’s GOOGLE ARCHIPELAGO The Wall Street Journal just published a shocking expose, How Google Interferes With Its Search Algorithms and Changes Your Results, [by Kirsten Grind, Sam Schechner, Robert McMillan and John West , November 15, 2019], revealing not only that Google is exploiting its market power in ways the clearly raise anti-trust questions, but also […]
The Forgotten Media Purges of the Great Depression
The Forgotten Media Purges of the Great Depression Republican Hoover built the federal broadcasting shield in 1927. Roosevelt fashioned it into a weapon in 1934 and Democrats have never put it down since. One might consider the elaborate FCC speech barriers: A Poll Tax on Public Debate One of the more enduring myths accepted as reality […]
How to Start an Unnecessary War
How to Start an Unnecessary War I confess to being mystified by those Americans who lean conservative, like myself, who continue to think that President Donald J. Trump is somehow doing a good job. To be sure, the economy continues to add mostly low paying jobs but claims that the new tax law benefits the […]
Behold the Breathtaking Weakness of the Empire!
Behold the Breathtaking Weakness of the Empire! The Empire has suffered painful defeats in Afghanistan and Iraq, but one has to admit that these are “tough” countries to crack. The Empire also appears to have lost control of Libya, but that is another complex country which is very hard to control. We also saw all […]
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 […]
Watergate—the First Deep State Coup
Watergate—the First Deep State Coup James Fulford writes: The Mueller Report, which was supposed to be about alleged “Russian collusion” with Trump, is due out, and many people in the Democrat/Media conglomerate are hoping for a rerun of Watergate, which they think of as a victory for the Rule of Law. It wasn’t, and we need to have […]