General Milley’s address at the Aspen Security Forum is a major piece of news and something to chew on. We live in times of media insanity in which it is ever so simple to become cynical or desensitized to even the most heinous or theoretically stunning news. So it might be difficult to even get […]
Amid worries the brand-new US-UK-Australia military agreement may provoke a future confrontation with China, past and present cooperation between Australian and British elites in military, intelligence, nuclear and immigration policies supply numerous causes for issue. By Antony LOEWENSTEIN, Peter CRONAU Australia’s independence from Britain has been objected to ground since the country’s birth in 1901– […]
The U.S. Is Set to Make Nuclear War More Likely By Dave LINDORFF The US is about to move towards a far more likely first usage of nuclear weapons, with word that the Flying force has “completed flight testing” of the cost-and-performance-plagued F35A Lightning fighter, all systems of which are being “upgraded” to carry atomic […]
It is only the native neighborhoods who are clarifying the importance of their inclusion in political decision-making with concerns to the environment. The Indigenous Missionary Council’s (CIMI) annual report on violence against indigenous communities in Brazil in 2020 illustrates an expansion of human rights offenses dedicated throughout Jair Bolsonaro’s second year of his presidency. Under […]
Brussels is shirking its legal obligations in order to prevent internal tensions with populist opposition to capitalist corporate-controlled Europe. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has made a stark accusation versus Belarus and Russia, claiming they are weaponizing the migration problem on the border with Poland. This is an afraid relocate to divert blame. […]
Considered that political power in America is a pay-to-play auction in which the highest bidder wins, how this incomprehensibly lopsided ownership of wealth plays out is an open question. Wealth inequality quickly falls under an abstraction unless we contextualize it in significant ways. I’ve annotated 2 St. Louis Federal Reserve (FRED) charts– the net worth […]
Bloomberg CIA Apologia Inadvertently Vindicates China’s Strict Domestic Policies By Caitlin JOHNSTONE In a new post promoting the CIA’s brand-new mission center focused on China and the requirement to put more resources into countering Beijing, Bloomberg also accidentally makes the case that a lot of the Chinese government’s questionable domestic policies are totally warranted and […]
Despite Newton’s remarkable intelligence and experience, he succumbed to the bubble in addition to the huge herd of credulous greedy punters. Among the most well-known examples of smart people being sucked into a bubble and losing a package as an outcome is Isaac Newton’s forays in and out of the 1720 South Seas Bubble that […]
Who knew it would be so simple? All we have to do is gather urine and we’ll be flying our electrical air taxi tomorrow! While the private-jet crowd is hectic selling a future of 1 billion electrical lorries, 1 billion windmills, 1 billion solar selections, hundreds of thousands of electrical aircraft, countless new nuclear reactor […]
Which is more valuable: Wall Street’s debt/asset bubbles or the international empire? You can’t have both, so pick wisely. The consensus makes sense: the U.S. dollar is doomed since the Federal Reserve and the Treasury will conjure trillions of brand-new dollars out of thin air to prop up the status quo entitlements, monopolies, cartels and […]
