Source – russia-insider.com – “For the first time, too, we see the end of the petro-dollar as a system for recirculating oil revenues to Wall Street.” “The fall in the price of oil has suddenly created huge financial turbulence, which is endangering the global financial system.” is a former MI6 official, the director and founder…
Source – lewrockwell.com – Looking at a map of current American military engagements overseas, one cannot help but notice their wide geographical spread and their seemingly interminable nature. Battles have raged in Europe (Yugoslavia and Ukraine), in Africa, in the Middle East, and in central Asia. The American Empire has launched this country into a…
Source – rt.com – An official government document revealing the true extent of this ‘special relationship’ is now available for the world to see. It surely would not have been possible for the Israelis to acquire the H-Bomb without American help, and now we know for sure that the US did indeed help – allegedly…
Source – sputniknews.com – Getting involved in Ukraine would provide NATO with raison d’être and justify its existence and billions of dollars spent on military defense. North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) desperately wants to get involved in the Ukrainian conflict, French newspaper Le Point reports. © AFP 2015/ SERGEI SUPINSKY Making Ukraine a NATO Member Almost Puts…
Source – globalresearch.ca – Part I Insurrection and Military Intervention: The US NATO Attempted Coup d’Etat in Libya? The geopolitical and economic implications of a US-NATO led military intervention directed against Libya are far-reaching. Libya is among the World’s largest oil economies with approximately 3.5% of global oil reserves, more than twice those of the…
Source – sovereignman.com – On August 13, 1961, the government of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) began to establish an “Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart”. The idea was to, you know, protect people… from fascist terrorists who intended to do harm in the country. Just weeks after government officials stated that they had ‘no intention of…
Source – motherjones.com – Last week, Politico and USA Today reported about a secret 2008 Pentagon study which concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s defining characteristic is…autism. The Office of Net Assessment’s Body Leads project asserted that scrutinizing hours of Putin footage revealed “that the Russian President carries a neurological abnormality…identified by leading neuroscientists as…
Source – sputniknews.com – According to the office of a German parliament member, the conflict in Ukraine is used to cover up a sale of farmlands in the interest of major corporations. © AP Photo/ Sergei Chuzavkov McCain to Sputnik: Ukraine’s Use of Cluster Bombs Is US’ Fault MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The armed conflict in Ukraine is…
Source – reuters.com – Pol Pot’s chief torturer told Cambodia’s “Killing Fields” tribunal on Monday that U.S. policies in Indochina in the 1970s contributed to the rise of the Khmer Rouge. Duch, the first of five Pol Pot cadres to face trial for the 1975-79 reign of terror in which 1.7 million Cambodians died, said…
Source – russia-insider.com – “I want to appeal to the Ukrainian people, to the mothers, the fathers, the sisters and the grandparents. Stop sending your sons and brothers to this pointless, merciless slaughter. The interests of the Ukrainian government are not your interests. I beg of you: Come to your senses. You do not have…
Source – historycommons.org – In 1954, Egyptian President Gamal Abddul Nasser’s nationalist policies in Egypt come to be viewed as completely unacceptable by Britain and the US. MI6 and the CIA jointly hatch plans for his assassination. According to Miles Copeland, a CIA operative based in Egypt, the opposition to Nasser is driven by the…
Source – theepochtimes.com, By Matthew Robertson – Cai Guoqiang, a nationalist Chinese artist, is famous in China for blowing up symbols of the West in front of paying Westerners. But what must have been one of his best performances took place on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., in late 2012, when he blew up…
Source – benswann.com – The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), which is currently storming its way through Iraq, was funded for years by rich donors from our supposed allies in Kuwait, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. According to The Daily Beast, Kuwait’s involvement is an ironic twist since back in 1990, the U.S. attacked…
Source – rense.com – Once again, our nation is undergoing very rough sailing towards yet another attempt to bring peace in the South. This time around, more than 44 precious lives were sacrificed in order to deliver a ‘mission’ that up to this time is filled with ‘mystery’. So many questions left unanswered and speculations…
Source – occupy.com – The Central African Republic is now awash in media coverage over the ongoing sectarian violence and general upheaval in the country. But while many outlets discuss the volatile situation in the CAR, few analyses have put the violence in a historical context to discuss the way that countries like France, Chad…
Source – tribune.com.pk – ISLAMABAD: Yousaf al Salafi – allegedly the Pakistan commander of Islamic State (IS) or Daish – has confessed during investigations that he has been receiving funds through the United States. Law enforcing agencies on January 22 claimed that they arrested al Salafi, along with his two companions, during a joint raid in…
Source – readersupportednews.org – After the seismic victory of Greece’s leftist Syriza party in national polling Sunday, the country’s new prime minister, 40-year-old Alexis Tsipras, is leading all of Europe down an uncertain path. Syriza has vowed to renegotiate the crippling debts saddled on the Greek economy by European lenders — a move that some…
Source – earth-heal.com – With everything that’s happening in the world today, from Iraq to Syria to Ukraine, Saudi Arabia and Iran, this has to be the most exciting and volatile period in the history of mankind. In a significant political and economic development, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met Jan. 23 with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The meeting…
Source – theguardian.com – Tony Blair wrote to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi to thank him for the “excellent cooperation” between the two countries’ counter-terrorism agencies following a period during which the UK and Libya worked together to arrange for Libyan dissidents to be kidnapped and flown to Tripoli, along with their families. The letter, written in…
Source – stratfor.com – “Russia’s Plans for Arctic Supremacy is republished with permission of Stratfor.” Although the crisis in Ukraine continues to focus attention on Russia’s western border, Moscow is seeking to exploit a more lucrative prize along its vast northern frontage: the Arctic Circle. Melting ice has opened up new transit routes and revealed…
Source – presstv.ir – Elements within the US intelligence community knew of the Paris terror attack but did not reveal the information because the attack served their “hidden agenda,” says a former American intelligence linguist. Speaking to Press TV on Thursday, activist and political commentator Scott Rickard said the US intelligence tends to “look the…
Source -boingboing.net – Zimbabwe’s dictator Robert Mugabe unleashed a storm of brutal, genocidal violence after losing the 2008 elections — and now we know that it was funded by western hedge-funds and banks, led by Och-Ziff Capital Management, the largest publicly traded fund, with assistance from Blackrock, GLG Partners, and Credit Suisse, who raised $100M…
Source – veteranstoday.com – Vietnam Special Forces Air Combat Controller, US Army pilot flying classified missions during the US invasion of Grenada Iran-Contra pilot flying cocaine shipments labeled as medical supplies member of the ultra-secret, international G7-run Pegasus “hit team”, … this is the extraordinary story of Gene “Chip” Tatum. From sensitive, highly…
Source – motherjones.com – In an extract from his explosive new book, New York Times reporter James Risen reveals the bungles and miscalculations that led to a spectacular intelligence fiasco. State of War, by James Risen – She had probably done this a dozen times before. Modern digital technology had made clandestine communications with overseas…
Source – 21stcenturywire.com – The relationship between the CIA and organized crime is a well-established one. The overlap between Washington’s covert operations and the mafia’s black market business interests seems to be a fertile environment for trading and profiting off drugs, vice, arms, extortion, protection, contract killing, double-crossing and most importantly, avoiding any prying eyes.…
Source – globalresearch.ca – On 12 January the French Parliament approved with almost unanimity with one abstention only the budget for Frances continuous and enlarged involvement in the new war on Iraq, a new war engagement led by Washington and supported by its vassals, UK, Canada, Australia and France. Aircraft carriers and troops…
Source – charleshughsmith.blogspot.ca – The U.S. Deep State is in favor of Saudi Arabia’s strategy of forcing production cuts on its rivals and marginal producers for two profound reasons. It is widely presumed that if the U.S. government isn’t actively concerned about the financial carnage being visited upon the domestic oil/gas sector, it should be…
Source – eventhorizonchronicle.blogspot.ca – The latest news out of Beijing is that the Chinese and the Latin American and Caribbean bloc (CELAC) have entered into agreements that are projected to result in $250 billion of Chinese investment in the CELAC region over the next 10 years, and to rise to $500 billion of annual bilateral trade…
Source – consortiumnews.com – Much like the 9/11 attacks, the Cold War plunged the U.S. government into the “dark side,” especially in Latin America where the CIA colluded with torturers and assassins, leading to grisly murders and enduring mysteries, as Samuel Blixen described in 1999. By Samuel Blixen (First published on Jan. 13, 1999 and…
Source – naturalnews.com – Thomas Gallagher points out in Paddy’s Lament, that during the first winter of famine, 1846-47, as perhaps 400,000 Irish peasants starved, landlords exported 17 million pounds sterling worth of grain, cattle, pigs, flour, eggs, and poultry — food that could have prevented those deaths. Throughout the famine, as Gallagher notes, there…
Source – presstv.ir – With Saudi Arabia’s 90-year-old King Abdullah breathing from a tube in a hospital bed after being diagnosed with pneumonia, questions over what the succession process will look like in the world’s largest oil producer loom large over energy markets across the globe. Earlier in the week, Crown Prince Salman, the next…
Source – presstv.ir – US President Barack Obama is fighting hard against the military-industrial complex which is influencing American foreign policy, a political commentator and peace activist says. Alice Slater, who is NY Director of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, made the remarks in a phone interview with Press TV on Tuesday while commenting on…
Source – theconversation.com – The Obama administration announced the intention to restore diplomatic relations with Cuba the same week that Congress approved sanctions against Venezuela for human rights violations. The timing was coincidental and unrelated. The Obama administration had been negotiating eighteen months with Cuba to arrange a prisoner exchange that allowed for progress on…
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