Mutiny Breaks Out At Venezuela’s Central Bank

While the world obsesses how much longer Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro can remain in power before he loses the support of the local military or the US deploys yet another “humanitarian mission” to depose him, forcing the embattled dictator to place several tons of the country’s dwindling gold on a cargo plane to a non-extradition destination […]

Air strike may have killed Iraqi civilians

The Australian Defence Force (ADF) says its fighter jets may have caused the deaths of up to 18 civilians in a strike on Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq. The incident in 2017 was part of the US-led coalition’s bid to retake Mosul. However, the ADF said it was impossible to “definitively know” whether its […]

It’s fossil fuels that are keeping Americans warm this week

What the AccuWeather service calls “the coldest weather in years” is gripping the nation, from Wisconsin to Alabama. The temperatures, AccuWeather says, “will put millions of people and animals throughout the Midwestern United States at risk for hypothermia and frostbite to occur in minutes during the final days of January.” The only real defense against […]

Treasury sanctions Venezuela state-owned oil firm

The Trump administration will sanction Venezuela’s state-owned oil firm, a move the White House has long put off for fear that it would raise oil prices and hurt American refiners. The move comes after a turbulent week for Venezuela that has created a standoff over the country’s leadership. The sanctions aim to transfer control of […]

Russian Troops Reportedly Descend On Venezuela To Help Protect Maduro’s Regime

Russia has reportedly sent a contingent of shadowy private military contractors to Venezuela to help President Nicolás Maduro fend off a challenge to his authority from the President of the country’s National Assembly, Juan Guaido. It’s unclear what their exact orders might be, but whether they’re in the country to protect Maduro himself, assist government […]

Russia, China, India, & Iran: The Magic Quadrant That Is Changing The World

With the end of the unipolar moment, which saw Washington dominate international relations, the richest and most powerful Eurasian countries are beginning to organize themselves into alliance structures and agreements that aim to facilitate trade, development and cooperation. At the height of the US unipolar moment, Bill Clinton was leading a country in full economic […]

Kunstler: In the Deep Mid-Winter

Ill winds sweep across the fruited plain in the cruel heart of winter. America can resolve nothing. The state-of-the-union is a kind of hysterical nausea, and the nation hunkers into its crib of toxic diverse identities waiting for history to bitch-slap it back on its feet. History’s big sister, Reality, stands by, witnessing all. Spring… […]

Iran to Launch ‘Massive’ War Drills

Iranian military leaders announced on Thursday that the Islamic Republic would be launching a “massive” set of war drills later this week that will include the regime’s Army’s Ground Force and some 12,000 “combat and mobile forces,” according to Iran’s state-controlled media. “The massive Eqtedar 97 war games of the Army’s Ground Force will be […]

Suicide Attack on Kurdish-US Convoy ‘Kills 5’

A suicide bomber attacked a convoy of US troops and their allies in Syria on Monday, killing five members of a Kurdish-led force fighting the Daesh group, a monitor said. The assault, claimed by Daesh extremists, came less than a week after another deadly attack on US forces in Syria, and a month after Washington […]

Most of world population backs globalism, not local movements

Maybe populist political movements don’t have as much support as often presumed. The global public favors cooperation between nations, thinks immigration is a good thing and believes climate scientists, according to a poll of 10,000 people in every region of the world. The poll was commissioned by the World Economic Forum and will be discussed […]

Restart Iran And The Global Awakening

Harrison Smith talks to Infowars reporter Greg Reese about his work with the Iranian populist movement known as Restart.They discuss how the entire world seems to be awakening together in a spiritual battle against deceit, wizardry and elitist control freaks. The Restart movement is a prime example of how the worldwide revolution has the global […]

Iran will not comply with ‘illegal’ U.S. sanctions

Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh said on Thursday U.S. sanctions against his country were “fully illegal” and Tehran would not comply with them. “We believe that we should not comply with the illegal sanctions against Iran,” Zanganeh told a joint news conference in Baghdad with his Iraqi counterpart, Thamer al-Ghadhban. Zanganeh also said Iran would […]

Iran, India Ditch Dollar In Oil Trading To Counter ‘Bullying’ US Sanctions

In an effort to circumvent US-imposed sanctions, India and Iran have reportedly ditched the US dollar and are trading oil in rupees. The reason becomes clear after considering the dynamics at play in the region. In mid-February last year, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani visited India, and the two countries signed nine agreements signalling a strengthening of ties. […]

Trump Administration Works Overtime to Make Sure Shutdown Doesn’t Stop Oil Drilling

The partial U.S. government shutdown has docked fishing boats in Alaska, delayed public meetings on a proposed wind farm off the Massachusetts coast and blocked pharmaceutical companies from seeking approval for new drugs. But the Trump administration is working overtime to make sure the shutdown doesn’t halt oil drilling too — in ways critics say […]

Orlov: Placing The USA On A Collapse Continuum

The West is rotting! Yes, maybe, but what a nice smell… Old Soviet joke The word ‘catastrophe‘ has several meanings, but in its original meaning in Greek the word means a “sudden downturn” (in Greek katastrophē ‘overturning, sudden turn,’ from kata- ‘down’ + strophē ‘turning’). As for the word “superpower” it also has several possible […]

Kunstler: Swamp Thang

Chuck and Nancy coming onto the TV audience as “Mommy and Daddy” Tuesday night was a nice gag, putting the “nanny” into the Nanny State, which is getting more and more like the Tranny State — the Deep State in drag. Will the supply of “undocumented” nannies be cut off to the Creative Classniks of […]

‘Venezuela will be respected’: Maduro defends rule as legitimate

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has defended his government’s legitimacy amid growing opposition and international condemnation of his bid for a second six-year term. In a Tweet on Sunday, Maduro, who is to be sworn in on Thursday, said the Venezuelan people had given “legitimacy” to his administration “with their vote”. “To those who hope to break […]

Hedge Fund Manager Sees Dollar Losing Reserve Currency Status

With the end of 2018 marking the 40th anniversary of China opening up & reforming (and with an increasingly loud group of market participants questioning the foundations of China’s economic miracle – and more importantly, it’s future), Bridgewater founder Ray Dalio believes now is a good time to reflect on China’s last 40 years. “Since […]

What America can learn from the fall of the Roman republic

Romans ruins of the city of Salamis, near Famagusta, Northern Cyprus.Shutterstock If you were a Roman citizen around, say, 200 BC, you probably would have assumed Rome was going to last forever. At the time, Rome was the greatest republic in human history, and its institutions had proven resilient through invasions and all kinds of […]

In just a few short days, China has proved that investors who have been underestimating the geopolitical risks stemming from the simmering tensions between the US and China over the latter’s territorial claims in the South China Sea and paranoia over the fate of Taiwan – a de facto independent state that President Xi Jinping […]

Iran says despite U.S. sanctions, it has found new ‘potential’ oil buyers

All countries that were granted waivers from the United States to continue buying a certain amount of Iranian oil imports are complying with U.S. sanctions, a senior Iranian energy official said, noting that Tehran was hopeful to find new buyers. The United States withdrew from a nuclear deal with Iran last year and snapped sanctions […]

Actually, 2018 Was a Pretty Good Year

The year 2018 will be deplored by pundits as a bad year of more unpredictable Donald Trump, headlined by wild stock market gyrations, the melodramas of the Robert Mueller investigation and the musical-chair tenures of officials in the Trump administration. The government is still shut down. Talk of impeachment by the newly Democrat-controlled House of […]

Global Revolt Against Climate Change Policies

2018 saw a global revolt against policies aimed at fighting global warming Australia, Canada, France and the U.S. have all seen push back against global warming policies That included weeks of riots in France against planned carbon tax increases Despite increasingly apocalyptic warnings from U.N. officials, 2018 has seen a number of high-profile defeats for […]

Kunstler: Ding Ding ! Margin Call USA

Welcome to the American hall of mirrors… and mind the broken glass all over the floor. That’s Nature’s way of saying the country has run out room to punk itself. 2018 was the consolidation of bad faith in everything we do: politics, the news media, economics & finance, show biz, regular biz, jurisprudence, medicine, education, […]

Brexit: Stage One In Europe’s Slow-Burn Energy Collapse

Everyone’s talking about Brexit. Some about the French riots. But no one’s talking about why they are happening, and what they really mean. They might think they are, but they are usually missing the point. On 6th May 2010, the Conservative Party took the reins of power for the first time since 1992, propped up […]

The Battle For Syria’s Oil Region

The Syrian Civil War has gone through several phases over the course of seven years and it now appears to be entering another one. Government forces have regained control over much of Syria with Russian air support and Iranian ground forces. Only Idlib and the territories east of the Euphrates river remain out of the […]

Kunstler and Bill Holter: Financial and Political Turmoil

Bill Holter writes and is partnered with Jim Sinclair at the newly formed Holter/Sinclair collaboration. Prior, he wrote for Miles Franklin from 2012-15. Bill worked as a retail stockbroker for 23 years, including 12 as a branch manager at A.G. Edwards. He left Wall Street in late 2006 to avoid potential liabilities related to management […]

Iran in talks with Afghan Taliban

Iran has been holding talks with Afghanistan’s Taliban with the knowledge of the Afghan government, a senior Iranian security official was quoted by the official news agency IRNA as saying on Wednesday during a visit to Kabul. The news came days after reports last week of talks between U.S. and Taliban officials over proposals for […]

The Coming Scramble for Africa

China, and Russia to a degree, are ahead of the game, but the U.S. has the advantage going forward. In the 19th century, Europe’s great powers were caught up in what historians have dubbed “the scramble for Africa,” as Britain, France, Germany, and Italy competed with one other to establish colonies and control over the […]

Trump Takes On The FED And The Military Industrial Complex

Trump Takes On The FED And The Military Industrial Complex

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