OILIGARCHY: Reason U.S. Stays In Syria Revealed…To Steal Its Oil – By Eric Zuesse

Source – moderndiplomacy.eu Reason U.S. Stays in Syria Revealed: To Steal Its Oil By Eric Zuesse (Also Read: American Shame in Syria: US Persecutes Population with the Sanctions but Steals 66,000 Oil Barrels Every Day @ https://www.gospanews.net/en/2022/08/10/american-shame-in-syria-us-persecute-population-with-the-sanctions-but-steal-66000-oil-barrels-every-day/) Steven Sahiounie is an exceptionally reliable journalist on the Middle East, and is also the Editor-in-Chief of Mideast…

SCORCHED EARTH: We Are Not The First Civilization To Collapse, But We Will Probably Be The Last – By Chris Hedges

Source – scheerpost.com “…The historian Arnold Toynbee, who singled out unchecked militarism as the fatal blow to past empires, argued that civilizations are not murdered, but commit suicide. They fail to adapt to a crisis, ensuring their own obliteration. Our civilization’s collapse will be unique in size, magnified by the destructive force of our fossil fuel-driven industrial society.…

REALPOLITIK: ‘Geopolitics’, The World Is Splitting Into Two – By Alasdair Macleod

Source – lewrockwell.com “…But so long as he holds the pricing reins for energy, Putin can play with the euro to his heart’s desire. By manipulating his quasi-monopoly on energy, grains, and fertilisers he can increase pressure on the EU’s leaders to reject US hegemony. And to fully appreciate the power in Putin’s hands, it…

OILIGARCHY: Keeping The Mideast Safer For Dictators – By Eric S Margolis

Source – ericmargolis.com “…The so-called ‘Abraham Agreements’ forged by Trump & Co. were a cynical bad joke. They forced despotic Arab regimes to reveal that their under the table dealings with Israel that had been going on for decades. Saudi Arabia just beheaded 81 prisoners last week. The accords openly linked some of the Mideast’s…

KILL THE MESSENGER: ‘JFK-Destiny Betrayed’, Leaves No Doubt That JFK Was Assassinated As Part Of A CIA Coup

Source – covertactionmagazine.com “…The Vietnam War provided further cover for the CIA to import opium from the Golden Triangle that wound up addicting U.S. troops and countless other Americans. Within five to ten years of ending the Vietnam War in the mid-1970s, the CIA transferred this kind of operation to Afghanistan, the site of the…

NEO-CONNED: From Junk Economics To A False View Of History – By Michael Hudson

Source – unz.com “…That neoliberal pro-creditor ethic is the root of today’s New Cold War. When President Biden describes this great world conflict aimed at isolating China, Russia, India, Iran and their Eurasian trading partners, he characterizes this as an existential struggle between “democracy” and “autocracy”…By “democracy” he means oligarchy. And by “autocracy” he means…

SCORCHED EARTH: ‘World’s Largest Ponzi Scheme’, How Corporations Are Using Environment Concerns To Scam You – By Dr. Joesph Mercola

Source – mercola.com “…Investment firm BlackRock has more power than most governments on Earth, and it also controls the Federal Reserve, mega-banks like Goldman Sachs and the WEF’s Great Reset, according to F. William Engdahl, a strategic risk consultant and lecturer who holds a degree in politics from Princeton University. BlackRock also has ties to…

SCORCHED EARTH: Inflation, Scarcity & The Road To Survival – By Andrew Nikiforuk

Source – thetyee.ca “…We are now trapped in what I have called “the poverty of two narratives” that pits the business-as-usual crowd against the green transitionists. This supposed debate avoids unpleasant realities such as rising global consumption and growing rates of energy use in a finite world. Moreover, both groups believe unlimited economic growth is the only…

SCORCHED EARTH: The Great Carbon Capture Scam – By Rex Weyler

Source – greenpeace.org “…The oil industry — Shell, Chevron, and others — were not prepared to actually slow oil production to halt global heating, and since they had no intention of aiming for zero carbon emissions, they invented “net zero.” The “net” requires that we subtract some carbon from total emissions to create the illusion…

OILIGARCHY: The Curious Death Of Rudolf Diesel

Source – capitalremanexchange.com “…To this day no one knows what truly happened. Was he murdered by the Germans, by a competitor, or did he, in the knowledge of his financial state, take his own life. We will never know. What we do know is that he was responsible for inventing an engine that will go…

VOODOO ECONOMICS: ‘The Handbook For Debt-Soaked Nations’, Lie, Print, Inflate, & Finger-Point – By Matthew Piepenburg

Source – goldswitzerland.com “…As George Washington observed in a 1770’s moment of Realpolitik candor: “Nations have no permanent friends nor permanent enemies, just permanent interests.”…the backfiring of Western sanctions against Putin (de-dollarization, inflationary tailwinds and increasingly discredited central banks) were not only plain to foresee, but placed the West in an almost comical (yet tragic)…

G.O.D (GUNS, OIL & DRUGS) THE ‘UNHOLY’ TRINITY: No Way Out But War – By Chris Hedges

Source – scheerpost.com “…Trump is too unfocused and mercurial to offer serious policy solutions. He did set a timetable to withdraw from Afghanistan, but he also ratcheted up the economic war against Venezuela and reinstituted crushing sanctions against Cuba and Iran, which the Obama administration had ended. He increased the military budget. He apparently flirted with carrying…

SCORCHED EARTH: The Greatest Casualty Of The Ukraine War Could Be Planet Earth Itself – By Michael Klare

Source – tomdispatch.com “…The war in Ukraine is the last thing on Earth (so to speak) that we need right now. For reasons he explains vividly, it seems to ensure the worst when it comes to climate change on a planet where humanity is already at war with nature and it’s starting to strike back…

OILIGARCHY: The Real Reason Behind The EU’s Drive To Embargo Russian Oil – By Tom Luongo

Source – tomluongo.me “…Unfortunately, we are living through a time where the most powerful people in the world (at least in their minds) are openly trying to destroy the petroleum market for their own purposes and agenda. They are actively working to make oil and gas prices volatile to the point of destroying investment in…

CORPRO-FASCISM: ‘Steven Donziger’, A Tale For Our Times – By Craig Murray

Source – craigmurray.org.uk “…On Oct. 21, 2021, she sentenced Donziger to six months in prison; the maximum for contempt of court in the U.S. (I was sentenced to eight months in Scotland)…He was released on April 25. Donziger has been disbarred as a lawyer. Chevron have a lien on his home and all his assets…

OILIGARCHY: The Rockefeller Legacy of Monopolized Control & How “Big Oil’ Vanquished True Medicine A Century Ago

Source – articles.mercola.com “…The Flexner Report, published in 1910, paved the way for Rockefeller to completely overhaul the American medical system. Naturopathic and homeopathic medicine — anything that couldn’t be patented — was abolished. Natural remedies and known cures were dismissed as quackery. The only medicines deemed reputable were patentable synthetic drugs, invented in the…

OILIGARCHY: The Outrageous (..& Largely Hidden) $5.9 Trillion Annual Subsidy To ‘Big Oil’ That Is Killing Us

Source – commondreams.org “…The IMF estimated that global fossil-fuel subsidies in 2020 totaled $5.9 trillion…Only those who previously swallowed Western governments’ insincere green rhetoric, rather than examining the reality, should be surprised by this turn of events. These governments have been heavily subsidizing their own fossil-fuel industries even as they exhorted much poorer countries to…

OILIGARCHY: ‘Bitch-Slapped’, Not The New World Order You Ordered – By Dimitry Orlov

Source – stuartbramhall.wordpress.com “…The long and short of it is, the US has managed to cut itself out of the international oil market. First, it refused to import Russian oil because of the special military operation in the (former) Ukraine. Second, Biden sent a high-level delegation to Venezuela, to try to sweet-talk Nicolas Maduro into…

DAS KAPITAL: Say Hello To Russian-Gold & Chinese-Petroyuan – By Pepe Escobar

Source – thecradle.co “…The Russia-led Eurasia Economic Union and China just agreed to design the mechanism for an independent financial and monetary system that would bypass dollar transactions…The Eurasian system will be based on “a new international currency,” most probably with the yuan as reference, calculated as an index of the national currencies of the…

CROSSROADS: Dr. Steven Greer – Towards A Level 1 Or DEFCON 1 Civilization

Source – gaia.com “…As Dr. Greer puts it, matters of diplomacy with higher beings cannot be left to the military industrial complex. Rather, the world should unite around a nonviolent vision for the future focused on becoming a peaceful civilization. To usher in the delta of change we will need to implement free energy and…

OILIGARCHY: ‘Petrodollar Cracks’, Saudi Arabia Considers Accepting Yuan For Chinese Oil Sales

Source – zerohedge.com “…And so the pieces of the endgame are falling into place: Russia starving the western world of much needed resources, sending commodity prices ever higher, while its silent partner China quietly picks up the monetary pieces and takes advantage of the Western scramble to secured resources at all costs, and approach all…

REALPOLITIK: ‘Ukraine’, The Deeper Global Suicide Agenda – By F. William Engdahl

Source – journal-neo.org “…The question is whether this years-long provocation by Washington and NATO…is aimed at destroying the viability of Russia as a sovereign nation and military power. Is it a calculated move to use sanctions against Russia to cause global collapse and energy crises, food shortages and worse, all to advance the Davos 2030…

OILIGARCHY: The Battlefield Is Drawn’, Russia’s Judo Kick To The Western Financial Gut – By Pepe Escobar

Source – thecradle.co “….Washington’s sanctions on Moscow will destroy Europe, not Russia…The official Russian blacklist of hostile sanctioning nations includes the US, the EU, Canada and, in Asia, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore (the only one from Southeast Asia). Notice how that ‘international community’ keeps shrinking…The Global South should be aware that no nations from…

OILIGARCHY: Two Oil Price Scenarios – One Bad, And One Catastrophic

Source – zerohedge.com “…The commodity world is splitting in two: a bidless market for Russian oil, and (increasingly) offerless for non-Russian…In practical terms, this translates into two cases for the future of oil prices: an ugly, painful case which however does not crash the global economy, and a potentially devastating, global recession (if not depression)…

THE MEDIA MONOPOLY: ‘Deafening Silence’, Almost 400,000 Civilians Murdered By US/Saudis In Yemen

Source – veteranstoday.com “…The insane racism of lurid mainstream media histrionics about Ukraine—while the US and its Saudi clients have been waging a vastly bloodier and more inexcusable war on Yemen for SEVEN WHOLE YEARS… Its only rationalization is a dubious calculation that putting our arms around the shoulders of the psychopathic butcher Mohammed bin-Salman…

REALPOLITIK: ‘Revisionist Power’, Russia & The New Art Of War

Source – zerohedge.com “…The West has rich digital economies based on the ‘output’ of on-line influencers, pet therapists, yoga and Pilates classes, mobile gaming, YouTubers, lifestyle planning, Marie Kondo helping people get rid of their too-much-stuff, asset bubbles –and selling tranches of said bubbles to each other– all book-ended by endless central-bank liquidity…The ‘revisionist’ powers…

OILIGARCHY: How Ukraine Fits Into The Global Jigsaw – By Alasdair Macleod

Source – goldmoney.com “…Being keenly aware that its dominant role in NATO is under threat, America has been trying to escalate the Ukraine crisis to suck Russia into an untenable occupation….The danger for us all is not a boots-on-the-ground war — that’s likely to only involve the pre-emptive attacks on military installations Putin initiated last…

REALPOLITIK: ‘Careful What You Wish For’, The Russian Bear Hibernates No More…

Source – veteranstoday.com “…For 8 years, top Ukrainian officials were claiming that their regime was in war with Russia protecting Europe from ‘hordes from the East’. Now, when it seems that the Russians are really coming to war, NATO puppets are terrified. As the old saying goes ‘be careful what you wish for, you might…