However alas, people do not possess god-like powers, they only possess hubris, therefore all bubbles pop: the more severe the bubble, the more ravaging the pop. Long cycles operate at such a glacial rate they’re quickly dismissed as either inventions of fevered imagination or this time it’s different. However given that Nature and human nature […]
If the Fed set out to destroy the monetary system, they’re really near completing the job. If you set out to ruin markets and the financial system, your essential weapon is moral danger, the disconnection of threat and consequence. You disconnect threat from repercussion by rewarding those making the riskiest bets and bailing out bettors […]
By what right does a personal corporation presume to determine to its users what they may or may not think or publish? Gleichschaltung is a German word with a rich history. It represents the pushed harmonisation of all forms of public expression with the main line. That concept is presently going through a renaissance, however […]
Russia and Turkey are typically erroneously cast as allies. Their active rivalry in some of Eurasia’s greatest zones of conflict is only likely to grow as Ankara looks for a seat at the Huge Table. By Yeghia TASHJIAN Under Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyib Erdogan, foreign policymaking in both nations has […]
I just rattle the asking bowl as soon as a fiscal year, and this is it. Beneath the Photoshopped complacency, the level of uncertainty about the future is pegged to 11 (recall that 10 is the standard max on the guitar amp volume knob). It’s times like this when the crazy-valuable material on Of Two […]
By Caitlin JOHNSTONE If you believed western mass media have been brazenly aggressive with their anti-China propaganda, wait til you see The Hill’s appalling brand-new viewpoint piece entitled “America should get ready for war with China over Taiwan“. “China’s huge investment in individuals’s Liberation Army (PLA) might reveal China is preparing to basically change the […]
The Middle East powder keg will impact all of us when that final spark ignites it, Brian Cloughley composes. There are several powder kegs around the globe, among them the South China Sea where the Pentagon’s surface area warships, surveillance submarines and electronic warfare aircraft try to provoke China to do something about it versus […]
The concept that consequence can be as easily handled as PR is the ultimate artifice and the supreme delusion. The repercussions of the drip-drip-drip of moral decay is hard to determine in daily life. It’s easy to dismiss the ubiquity of artifice, PR, spin, corruption, racketeering, fraud, collusion and narrative control (a.k.a. propaganda) as nothing […]
Russia is not going to endure any further justifications to its nationwide security. The concern now is: can the United States power elite change its belligerent habits? The “uncommon” visit to Moscow last week by CIA chief William Burns indicated an exceptional advancement. The U.S. political facility appears to have had a wake-up call to […]
The chance to reduce our exposure to risk is always present in some style, however welcoming this chance becomes crucial when precarity and change-points increase like restless seas. The Chinese characters that make up the equivalent of “crisis” are notoriously– and incorrectly– equated as “danger” and “chance.” This mis-translation has actually reached the strange prominence […]
