Migrant Crisis 2.0: Who’s to Blame and What’s to Be Done?
"If Greece did become like a real country and actually protect its borders it would be demonized by Brussels, but then again, so what?"
7 March 2020 - 22:48
Tom Luongo: Russia Just Told the World, “No.”
"The Achilles’ heel of the U.S. empire is the debt."
7 March 2020 - 13:48
Pipelines Produce Peace and Prosperity; So Why Oppose Them?
Nordstream 2 is "a logical development stemming from the facts that Russia wants to provide gas and Germany wants to buy it, which led to a mutually acceptable agreement and commitment of many billions of dollars, largely by the firms Uniper and Wintershall of Germany, Royal Dutch Shell, Austria’s OMV and Engie of France in association with Russia’s Gazprom — an impressive example of European pragmatism."
28 February 2020 - 04:48
Tom Luongo: Has Erdogan Finally Lost His Center?
"At the end of the day, neither Russia nor the U.S. would be sad to see him leave the political stage. And Erdogan’s latest forays have him critically over-extended after years of craftily manipulating events to his advantage."
26 February 2020 - 16:48
Mapped: Visualizing the True Size of Africa
"The African continent has a land area of 30.37 million sq km (11.7 million sq mi) — enough to fit in the U.S., China, India, Japan, Mexico, and many European nations, combined."
24 February 2020 - 07:48
Bill Blain: Meltup or Meltdown?
"...bond markets also soared on the back of record European sovereign order and a blowout Italian bond sale..." (Sic.)
21 January 2020 - 22:48
The Periodic Table of Commodity Returns
And although the broad commodity market finished up 17.6% on the year, the performances of individual commodities were all over the map. For those familiar with the sector, that’s pretty much par for the course.
14 January 2020 - 07:48
Bill Blain: Is Donald Trump Just a Very Lucky Guy?
"The Iranians proved themselves incompetent clowns – successfully managing to miss American troops with multiple missiles, while tragically taking out an airliner instead. Revolution on the streets again."
13 January 2020 - 19:48
Larry C. Johnson: The Facts about Iran and Terrorism
"The actual issues surrounding Iran's growing influence in the region have little to do with terrorism."
11 January 2020 - 04:48
No Hope for the Kurds: Forty Million People without a Country
The Kurds don’t have a country of their own, in spite of there being some 30-40 million of them.
9 January 2020 - 10:48
How Chinese Financing is Fueling the World’s Megaprojects
This is particularly evident in its capital, Addis Ababa, where a slew of transportation projects — from new ring roads to Sub-Saharan Africa’s first metro system — transformed the city.
8 January 2020 - 14:27
Western Campaign against Orthodox Church Turns to Montenegro
In a close replay of the Ukraine situation, the new Montenegrin law sets the stage for state seizures of Church properties and turning them over to an unrecognized schismatic group.
28 December 2019 - 19:48
Ranking the Top 100 Websites in the World
The internet may be a global network, but many of the gatekeepers are still located in the United States. If international domain suffixes of companies like Amazon and Google are counted, 60 of the 100 websites in the ranking are American.
21 December 2019 - 23:55
Freeland’s New Role as Deputy Prime Minister Put’s Her in Second in Command… of the Titanic
Freeland’s role in Canada has never had much to do with Canada, as much as it has with Canada’s role as a geopolitical chess piece in a turbulent and changing world and her current role as Deputy Prime Minister as well as Minister for Intergovernmental Affairs can only be understood in those global terms.
30 November 2019 - 07:48
Iran May Be the Only Winner in Iraq
The Iranians were particularly interested in developing agents who had once worked for the US government and were able to provide information on the CIA and DIA intelligence networks...
29 November 2019 - 19:48
Victor Bulmer-Thomas: While U.S. Empire Retreats, Global Corporations Grow in Strength
"The multinationals have become global, and for them the whole world is their oyster."
22 November 2019 - 16:48
It’s the Federalist Fantasy of a Bolder EU Which Is ‘Brain Dead’, Not NATO
The EU is not working. Its economy is hitting new lows, which is even affecting non-eurozone countries like Sweden, and Britain’s more joined up departure will be one more unedifying message to its members: time for a rethink of the project.
13 November 2019 - 19:48
Deep State on the National Security Council: Colonel Vindman Is an ‘Expert’ With an Agenda
As more than likely the US government’s sole genuine Ukrainian expert, he should have become a source of viable options that the United States might exercise vis-à-vis its relationship with Ukraine, and, by extension, regarding Moscow’s involvement with Kiev.
8 November 2019 - 10:48
The Lebanese ‘Canary in the Mine’ Is Signalling Mid-East Trouble Ahead
The point is, how will the region find a future for a young population that is out-running the continent’s water and (useful) land resources, if fossil fuel cannot be the employment driver?
2 November 2019 - 07:48
Putin Derangement Syndrome: Craziester and More Craziester
Republican Senator doesn’t do what you want? He’s Moscow Mitch.
29 October 2019 - 12:48
The New Reality in Rojava
The current northern border is preserved. That is a huge win for Damascus. Turkey will be sending a substantial number of Syrian refugees back south of the border to areas not now populated by Kurds. This is a major plus for Erdogan.
24 October 2019 - 00:48
Geopolitical Realism Utilized by Obama and Trump
Donald Trump’s stance towards the Turkish intervention in northern Syria has some (stress some) resemblance to his predecessor Barack Obama’s position on Ukraine. Obama like Trump, saw a reasoned basis for limiting US military involvement in Syria.
18 October 2019 - 01:48
America’s Political Implosion
America’s democracy and constitution is being trashed by unelected shadowy forces, aided and abetted by prestigious media outlets like the New York Times. These forces presume to know better or have more privilege than their fellow Americans who “voted the wrong way”.
9 October 2019 - 15:48
Japan and Germany Hysterically Race to Shut Down Nuclear Power (and Their Sovereignty)
For those in Japan and Germany celebrating that the exit from nuclear is providing an opportunity to embrace solar and wind energy, a sad slap of reality has also occurred. Not only have energy costs skyrocketed wherever green energies been built, but the toxic waste caused by those photovoltaic cells far outpaces anything produced by the dirtiest nuclear reactor.
12 September 2019 - 07:48