Source – journal-neo.org – “…In 1820,China’s economy was the largest in the world, as it had been for centuries. Then the Opium Wars initiated by the British Empire foisted Indian opium upon the country. By mid-century the ruling Qing dynasty had been so weakened that China came within a hair’s breadth of being carved up…
Source – original.antiwar.com – Although the 2016 presidential election is still in the primaries phase, contenders have already brought up America’s failed foreign wars. Hillary Clinton is taking flak over Libya, and Donald Trump has irked the GOP by bringing up Iraq. But what of Kosovo? The US-led NATO operation that began on March 24,…
Source – tomdispatch.com – “…Since humanity’s first empire formed in the Fertile Crescent, at least 200 empires have risen, collided with other imperial powers, and in time collapsed. In the past century alone, two dozen modern imperial states have fallen and the world has managed just fine in the wake of their demise” Climate Change…
Source – consortiumnews.com – “..Nixon – reached out to Johnson seeking his help in squelching Democratic-led investigations of the Watergate affair and slyly noting that Johnson had ordered wiretaps of Nixon’s campaign in 1968. Johnson reacted angrily to the overture, refusing to cooperate. On Jan. 20, 1973, Nixon was sworn in for his second term.…
Source – strategic-culture.org – “…It is no surprise that Miami and South Florida, once again, buzzes with activity as Trump’s CIA launches coups in Latin America. While dodgy CIA contractors meet with one another in Miami bars that resemble Rick’s Café in the movie “Casablanca,” ‘MIAMI’, Military Intervention and Mercenaries, Inc. – By Wayne Madsen…
Source – europereloaded.com – “…Chinese economic power, combined with Russia’s military deterrence as well as European reliance on Russia for its energy supply, shows that Europe cannot afford to follow its American ally in acting provocatively against the Sino-Russian axis” Final Steps of the Multipolar Revolution – By Federico Pieraccini We discussed in the previous…
Source – veteranstoday.com – “…I have always understood that despite his minor flaws, Trump is the anti-Empire President. He is a nationalist not a globalist, and that means that he is on the side of people who work with their hands, not people who steal money with computers (bankers) – David Robert Steele” What Trump…
Source – strategic-culture.org – “…By building the world’s most cost-effective designers and producers of weaponry, Russia wouldn’t only be responding to America’s ongoing hostility — or at least responding to the determination of America’s aristocracy to take over Russia, which is the world’s largest trove of natural resources — but would also expand Russia’s export-earnings and international influence…
Source – ticotimes.net – “…The truth is the Frente gave the order to place the bomb, but at a camp. They gave the order to place the bomb under a hammock, since that was what Torbiörnsson had recommended, not at a press conference. It was a decision by Torbiörnsson and Vital Roberto Gaguine to place…
Source – addictedtowar.com – “…We launched the largest; this is something that Jimmy Carter did, Admiral Turner brags about it, the operation in Afghanistan. The biggest single operation I am told in the history of CIA secret wars and sure enough very quickly we produced the Golden Crescent which is still the largest source of…
Source – sjlendman.blogspot.com – “…Venezuela is being slowly suffocated by US asymmetrical warfare…Making Venezuela’s economy scream aims to crush it into submission, leaving it vulnerable to stealing the nation by the US” ‘Grand Theft Venezuela, Stealing a Nation’, Financial Warfare Precipitates Economic Collapse – By Stephen Lendman Michael Hudson explained that Washington “treat(s) Venezuela as an…
Source – journal-neo.org – “…There is hardly any soul-searching drive that can be detectable in the West, amongst the ‘common people’. They live, work, consume, enjoy the highest living standards on earth, and as long as they benefit, no crimes committed by their governments, corporations and individuals disturb their conscience” Year Of The Pig Is…
Source – globalresearch.ca – “…I don’t see Exxon responding,” he told the crowd in Baltimore. “I don’t see other major oil companies heating the homes of the poor…They all said no,” Kennedy added, “except for CITGO, President Chávez and the people of Venezuela” Venezuela Donated Free Heating Oil to 100,000 Needy US Households, 2005-2013 For…
Source – themillenniumreport.com – The greatest nuclear disaster of all time on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the city of Pripyat was then located in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union. This historical fact is extremely significant. For this carefully planned terrorist operation was one just…
Source – michaelparenti.org – Imperialism has been the most powerful force in world history over the last four or five centuries, carving up whole continents while oppressing indigenous peoples and obliterating entire civilizations. Yet, it is seldom accorded any serious attention by our academics, media commentators, and political leaders. When not ignored outright, the subject…
Source – grayzoneproject.com – “…Juan Guaidó is the product of a decade-long project overseen by Washington’s elite regime change trainers. While posing as a champion of democracy, he has spent years at the forefront of a violent campaign of destabilization” The Making of Juan Guaidó: How the US Regime Change Laboratory Created Venezuela’s Coup Leader…
Source – voltairenet.org – “…For the President, there is a clear and present danger. The United States have already lost their first economic status to China, and now their first military place to Russia. It is necessary to cease being the one-eyed man leading the blind, but first to look after ones own” The United…
Source – liveleak.com – “…Alexander Petrovsky, born Nalekreshvili, nicknamed “Narik” and Emil Harutyunyan, well known mafia bosses from Ukraine of Caucasian origin…Poroshenko’s own general procurer Yuriy Lutsenko described Petrovsky-Nalekreshvili in the past as “criminal authority” Meet Godfathers of Ukraine’s New Church – CIA, Neo-Nazis & Mafia Bartholomew I, patriarch of Constantinople (today known as Istanbul in…
Source – nationalinterest.org – “…This fight will go until a political settlement,” Army Gen. Scott Miller…told CNN when asked whether the Afghan campaign against the Taliban had reached a stalemate. “These are two sides that are fighting against one another, and neither one of them will achieve a military victory at this stage.” Did the…
Source – libertynation.com – “…Many may have read Khashoggi’s pieces in The Washington Post and assumed that he was a simple activist fighting against the tyranny of the Saudi Arabian government. This may be true, but it does not tell the entire story. If the recent allegations are true – and the evidence is compelling…
Source – voltairenet.org – “…Having understood that the US Air Force will not be able to pass the Syrian anti-air barrage without unacceptable losses, any US intervention becomes inappropriate. This is why the US has just announced that it will start to withdraw 2,000 soldiers from Syria” Why is the United States suddenly withdrawing from…
Source – voltairenet.org – “…The world of the après-Soviet Union is one of free circulation, not only of merchandise, but also world capital, under the unique control of the United States. In other words, the passage from capitalism to financialisation – not the triumphant culmination of free exchange, but an exacerbated form of colonial exploitation…
Source – consortiumnews.com – “…We need to understand that we all live within the context of globalized capitalism.. In Congo, it creates permanent chaos so as to maintain people in that chaos, with no boundaries to the violence because the state exists only as the most minimal simulacra of Western institutions. These are the prerequisites…
Source – consortiumnews.com – “…There were few figures in recent American life who dedicated themselves so personally to the perpetuation of war and empire as McCain. But in Washington, the most defining aspect of his career was studiously overlooked, or waved away as the trivial idiosyncrasy of a noble servant who nonetheless deserved everyone’s reverence”…
Source – thedailysheeple.com – For most people who grew up in the ’80s, the year 1983 probably doesn’t stand out in any particular way. At least, no more than any other year from that decade. As time goes on, however, and more information is released to the public, that year is beginning to take on…
Source – veteranstoday.com – “…The perception that Amin was CIA was all that was needed to spook the Kremlin’s Soviet gerontocracy into taking the bait that Brzezinski had laid out for them. And as his plot moved forward into January of 1979, Ambassador Dubs found himself at the center of a Saudi-funded Safari Club operation…
Source – strategic-culture.org – “…Like him or hate him, President Trump has played a major part, if only by saying the unsayable. ..Trump’s intuitive ‘discourse of saying the unsayable’ has taken most of the bolts out of the former Burnham-type, ideological structure” The Beginning Of The End Of The Bilderberg/Soros Era – By Alistair Crooke…
Source – hendersonlefthook.wordpress.com – “…Aristide went into exile in the US. He eventually cut a deal with the World Bank which would allow him to return to Haiti. The deal involved leaving FRAPH members in government, privatizing 300 state-owned companies, slashing Haiti’s tariffs and import duties, and rewriting Haiti’s corporate tax and investment laws. Aristide’s Lavalas…
Source – hendersonlefthook.wordpress.com – Not long ago, Chocolate Oligarchs and their fascist gendarmes seized Ukraine’s fertile wheat and barley fields, whilst bankster-funded Islamist rebels took Mosul & the adjacent Kirkuk oilfield – one of the world’s largest – for Exxon Mobil. BRIC nations saw imperial over-reach and, led by Putin, busied themselves preparing for the…
Source – journal-neo.org – “…the Russian President revealed development of Avangard, a hypersonic missile that flies at speeds in excess of Mach 20: “In moving to its target, the missile’s gliding cruise bloc engages in intensive maneuvering – both lateral (by several thousand km) and vertical. This is what makes it absolutely invulnerable to any…
Source – strategic-culture.org – “…The neo-colonial powers will be sure to exact a terrible price from their Caribbean colonies for the meager amount of assistance they are receiving. The first victim will be any notion of autonomy or self-determination previously enjoyed by the islanders. The first rebuilding will of be the luxurious hotel and yacht…
Source – journal-neo.org – “…Generals as diplomats, and idiot U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley as cheerleader for the ultimate game of war? The insanity is at “Biblical” on the reality meter today. Half the world is on the brink of starving, and most of the rest feels milked dry by the elitist order, so naturally World…
Source – rt.com – “…But the holy of the holies – and it’s never enough to stress it – is what I call the Triple Win triad of the future: oil-yuan-gold. This is one of the prime outcomes of a strategy the BRICS have been discussing, behind closed doors, at their summits since the previous…
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