Rising Dragon, Wounded Eagle

When China`s former vice premier, Qian Qichen, was asked 20 years ago about the future of Sino-US relations, he reportedly responded: `They [Sino-US relations] will never be as good as they should be; and never be as bad as they can be.` This prognosis holds true today for the world`s `most important bilateral relationship`. Munir […]

What is Direct Action?

Direct Action is a phrase that gets thrown around a lot when describing anarchist tactics…. and rightly so, since it’s one of the main ways anarchists put our values of autonomy, self-organization and mutual aid into practice. So… what is it exactly?

North Korea warns ‘nuclear war could break out at any moment’

The country’s foreign minister threatened the US with an ‘all out war’ if Trump is reckless enough to use military means’ NORTH Korea has warned “nuclear war could break out at any moment” as the country vowed to test missiles WEEKLY. The country’s foreign minister threatened the US with an “all out war” if Trump is “reckless […]

Is The Deep State Creating Another “Crash Of 1929”?

Regarding the Great Depression… we did it. We’re very sorry… We won’t do it again. – Ben Bernanke   Waiting too long to begin moving toward the neutral rate could risk a nasty surprise down the road—either too much inflation, financial instability, or both. – Janet Yellen In his speech above, future Federal Reserve Chairman […]

Kunstler: Buy the Dip?

The military frolics of spring have distracted the nation’s attention from the economic and financial dynamics that pose the ultimate mortal threat to business as usual. Note the distinction between economic and financial. The first represents real activity in this Land of the Deal: people doing and making. The second, finance, used to be a […]

Russia could soon take over a chunk of U.S. oil infrastructure

Russia may soon take control of American oil and gasoline infrastructure in a deal U.S. lawmakers warn represents a threat to energy security. Rosneft, Russia’s state-controlled oil company, could end up with a majority stake in Texas-based Citgo after the entity that owns Citgo, Venezuela’s state-owned oil and natural gas company PDVSA, used almost half […]

Is That Armageddon Over The Horizon?

The insouciance of the Western world is extraordinary. It is not only Americans who permit themselves to be brainwashed by CNN, MSNBC, NPR, the New York Times and Washington Post, but also their counterparts in Europe, Canada, Australia, and Japan, who rely on the war propaganda machine that poses as a media. The Western “leaders,” […]

Tillerson made $27.4 million last year

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson received compensation worth $27.4 million last year when he was chief executive of Exxon Mobil Corp, the world’s largest publicly traded oil producer, regulatory filings showed on Thursday. He and other senior executives got raises even though Exxon’s net income fell more than 50 percent in 2016 as the […]

Kunstler: What Could Go Wrong?

“Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.” Yeats wrote. The funny thing is, we didn’t seem to miss the center all that much after it was gone. America is perfectly satisfied hunkering down at the margins these days. Especially the margins of thinking. One thing that used to occupy the center was public discussion, debate, […]

The New World Order: Failing States and Collapsing Systems

Donald Trump is a symptom of imperial decline, and not really the problem. The world faces not a “clash of civilizations” with radical Islam (although the dust-up remains a significant challenge), but a crisis of civilization that includes riotous climates, poisoned oceans, failing forests and collapsing economies. And if you think those two statements ring […]

Waking up to World War III

GOOGLE searches for the term “World War 3” are at the highest level since records started back in 2004 in a clear reflection of the nervous global mood in these diplomatically tumultuous times. Recent military manoeuvring and chest beating from both the Trump administration and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un has set the world on […]

Tillerson meets with Putin amid deepening tensions over U.S. missile strikes in Syria

The rift between the United States and Russia was laid bare Wednesday when Secretary of State Rex Tillerson held his first direct talks with Russia’s president. Their discussions failed to ease deepening tensions over Syria and Washington’s demands that Moscow abandon its main Middle East ally. “There is a low level of trust between our […]

In surprise move, Iran’s Ahmadinejad to run for president

Iran’s former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday stunned the country by unexpectedly filing to run in the May presidential election, contradicting a recommendation from the supreme leader to stay out of the race. Ahmadinejad’s decision could upend an election many believed would be won by moderate President Hassan Rouhani, who negotiated the nuclear deal with […]

The Syrian conflict could actually send oil prices lower

Geopolitical tensions could be a double-edged sword for oil prices and threaten the complicated alliance among the world’s biggest producers. The oil market is closely eyeing the Syrian situation, where a U.S. attack last week increased tensions between the U.S. and Russia, but drew praise from Saudi Arabia. For now, the market assumes OPEC, including […]

The Flies of Summer

“Any faith that China will be standing at the base of the burning building with a fireman’s net is misplaced. “ A portion of the Silk Road passing through Northern Fujian Province, October 2016 image by Albert Bates As national Republican political strategist Rick Wilson said on The Last Word, what we witnessed this past […]

US Chemical Safety Board faces elimination

US President Donald Trump has proposed eliminating the US Chemical Safety Board, a somewhat obscure agency that has angered so many groups over the years that no one is likely to leap to its defense. The group is an independent government agency, much like the National Transportation Safety Board. While the NTSB investigates plane accidents […]

Kunstler: Wonderland

There are times in the course of events when a society cannot tell what the fuck is going on, or what to do about it, and this is one of those moments in history here in the USA. The quandaries of life on the home front — how to make a living, how to care […]

Is This The Beginning Of The End For U.S. Empire?

Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. Before I get into the meat of this post, I want to revisit something I wrote back in January. From the post, Very Powerful People in the U.S. Government Want War – This is Their Sales Pitch: We need to understand that those who want […]

Roubini Says Syria Strike Has ‘Wag the Dog’ Element

Nouriel Roubini, chief economist at Roubini Global Economics, comes to us from the Ambrosetti Workshop in Cernobbio, Italy and discusses geopolitical ramifications of U.S. military strikes on Syria. He speaks with Tom Keene and Guy Johnson on “Bloomberg Surveillance.”

Kunstler: Bombs Away!

Close your eyes, click your heels three times, and tell me if you actually know what the fuck is happening in Syria. There’s an awful lot about the poison gas attack that doesn’t add up for the casual observer. It was only a week ago that the US enunciated a new policy that we would […]

Why Oil Could Be At Risk From U.S. Airstrikes in Syria

At around 8:40 PM ET, U.S. warships launched 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at a Shayrat airbase in Syria. This was the first U.S. military action against Bashar al-Assad‘s regime during a six-year civil war. This was in reaction to chemical attack on a rebel-held town in northwestern Syria on Tuesday that killed dozens. “Geopolitics is once […]

Trump Ends Funding For Population Control

The Department of State laid out why it no longer funds the United Nations’ family planning arm in a memo sent to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relation. The department said U.S. government money will not be given to the United Nations Population Fund (UNPF) and any other organization that “supports or participates in the […]

Venezuela’s Oil-Based Economic Woes

In today’s “QuickTake,” Bloomberg’s Vonnie Quinn takes a look at economic and political issues in Venezuela. She speaks on “Bloomberg Markets.” (Source: Bloomberg)

Know Your Enemy

Sometimes the biggest enemies to our movements live amongst us and call themselves our allies. In this extract for Trouble #1, we explore the damaging effects that environmental NGO’s and Tribal Governments have had on indigenous resistance in Turtle Island.

Chomsky Repeats Assertion That Trump Could Stage Terror Attack

Liberal activist Noam Chomsky has doubled down on comments he made last month, saying he believes that President Trump may stage a terrorist attack in order to distract from unfulfilled promises and to bolster support. Chomsky made the comments on Democracy Now, when asked to clarify his previous assertion that Trump may concoct a false flag attack and […]

A Heightened Sense Of Vulnerability

The gap between the happy-story fantasies of easy fixes to institutionalized corruption and systemic stagnation and the fraying-rope reality is widening, straining the bonds holding the whole contraption together to the breaking point. Am I the only one sensing an increase in systemic vulnerability? I’m not talking about TEOTWAWKI (the end of the world as […]

The American Empire And Economic Collapse

Despite the widespread hope among libertarians, classical liberals, non-interventionists, progressive peaceniks, and all those opposed to the US Empire that it may have some of its murderous reins pulled in with the election of Donald Trump, it appears that such optimism has now been dashed.  While the hope for a less meddlesome US foreign policy […]

Putin Exploits Europe’s Divisions in Bid to Dominate Gas Supply

KARLSHAMN, Sweden—This small port town offers a textbook case of how Russian President Vladimir Putin has thwarted U.S. and European efforts to rein in Moscow’s most powerful source of leverage and cash: energy. Karlshamn’s local leaders in January opened its port to Russia’s state-owned energy company, PAO Gazprom, in defiance of Swedish national authorities alarmed […]

Moscow And Beijing Join Forces To Bypass US Dollar In Global Markets, Shift To Gold Trade

The Russian central bank opened its first overseas office in Beijing on March 14, marking a step forward in forging a Beijing-Moscow alliance to bypass the US dollar in the global monetary system, and to phase-in a gold-backed standard of trade. According to the South China Morning Post the new office was part of agreements […]

The Peace Police

Who are the “Peace Police” and why there were an obstacle for people fighting the Dakota Access Pipeline? Watch this entire episode of “Trouble” at sub.Media

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