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The Duplicitous Superpower
Post Date: 2017-11-29 07:25:24 by Ada
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How Washington's chronic deceit—especially towards Russia—has sabotaged U.S. foreign policy. For any country, the foundation of successful diplomacy is a reputation for credibility and reliability. Governments are wary of concluding agreements with a negotiating partner that violates existing commitments and has a record of duplicity. Recent U.S. administrations have ignored that principle, and their actions have backfired majorly, damaging American foreign policy in the process. The consequences of previous deceit are most evident in the ongoing effort to achieve a diplomatic solution to the North Korean nuclear crisis. During his recent trip to East Asia, President Trump ...
What Good Are Domestic Military Bases?
Post Date: 2017-11-29 07:14:23 by Ada
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In an excellent 2016 article in the Los Angeles Times entitled “For U.S. Foreign Policy, It’s Time to Look Again at the Founding Fathers’ Great Rule’” (which I highly recommend reading), Texas A&M Professor Elizabeth Cobbs wrote: In 2013, for the first time since the Pew organization began polling Americans on the question five decades earlier, the majority (52%) said the United States should “mind its own business” and allow other countries to get along on their own. Today, Pew finds, the number has risen to 57%. That is an incredible statistic. After the debacles in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Syria, it seems that Americans are finally ...
U.S. Coast Guard operating secret floating prisons in Pacific Ocean
Post Date: 2017-11-29 07:10:13 by Ada
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In the war on drugs, the U.S. Coast Guard is reportedly turning its cutter ships into floating prisons. If you've followed the War on Terror at all, you're almost certainly familiar with the U.S. detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba — a U.S. prison that exists outside the realm of the U.S. justice system. Now, it turns out, there's a secret U.S. detention system in the War on Drugs, too — and this one is aboard U.S. Coast Guard cutters sailing in the Pacific Ocean. In an effort to staunch the flow of cocaine and other hard drugs from South America to Central America and points north, Coast Guard cutters have been deployed farther and farther from the ...
If Cholera Wasn’t Enough, Yemenis Now Face Diphtheria Outbreak from Saudi Siege
Post Date: 2017-11-28 08:28:41 by Ada
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Sana’a (GPA) – The increased Saudi blockade of Yemen has put millions of people throughout at least five major cities in dire straits without access to clean water, food, and medical supplies. Riyadh launched their initial blockade of Yemen shortly after resistance forces took control of the capital city in 2014. This blockade restricted imports such as food, medical supplies, and fuel. Water pumps require fuel to run, so this limits access to clean water for millions of Yemenis. As a result, Yemen is still facing a cholera outbreak completely unprecedented in modern times. Numbers have tapered off, but 1 million will likely become infected by the end of the year. Over 3,000 ...
Let the Colleges Die
Post Date: 2017-11-27 18:18:03 by Ada
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At a symposium in May, Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen predicted that “50 percent of the 4,000 colleges and universities in the U.S. will be bankrupt in 10 to 15 years.” Christensen appears to be onto something. The number of students enrolled in American colleges and universities has dropped every year for the past five years. In 2016, the majority of private and public American colleges failed to meet their enrollment and tuition targets. This is possibly the best news I’ve heard all year. And not because I’m against learning or education—it’s because American colleges no longer teach people how to think; they command people what to ...
Feminist Journal Publishes Study Confirming that Women Find Masculine Men Sexually Attractive—Shocker
Post Date: 2017-11-27 16:58:32 by Horse
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Study confirms that women find masculine men more attractive than beta males Feminist Journal Publishes Study Confirming that Women Find Masculine Men Sexually Attractive—Shocker According to research conducted by the UK’s Coventry and Aberystwyth Universities, and published in the journal Feminist Media Studies, women prefer strong, muscular men to more feminine, low-testosterone “beta” males. Shocking, I know. From the paper’s abstract: We suggest that in TubeCrush, value is directed onto the bodies of particular men, creating a visual economy of post-feminist masculinity of whiteness, physical strength, and economic wealth. This celebration of masculine ...
Don’t Blame Donald Trump for Eclipsing the State Department
Post Date: 2017-11-27 16:19:25 by Ada
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The real culprit is a much older one: our militaristic foreign policy. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson speaks during a meeting for the Global Coalition on the Defeat of ISIS at the State Department in Washington, D.C., March 22, 2017. (DOD photo by U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Jette Carr) The bad news? President Donald Trump may be dismantling the State Department. The good news? No recent president has made much use of those diplomats anyway, so they are unlikely to be missed. And that’s really bad news. Recent stories try hard to make the case that something new and dark has crept into Foggy Bottom. Writing for the December 2017 Foreign Service Journal, American Foreign Service ...
Trump stops sending arms to Syrian Kurds
Post Date: 2017-11-27 08:38:16 by Tatarewicz
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President Donald Trump and his Turkish counterpart on Friday discussed by phone the crisis in Syria and other issues, including ties between the United States and Turkey, according to a White House readout of the call. "President Trump and President Erdogan underscored the need to end the humanitarian crisis, allow displaced Syrians to return home, and ensure the stability of a unified Syria free of malign intervention and terrorist safe havens," the readout said. Story Continued Below The readout said the two leaders "reaffirmed the strategic partnership" between the two countries to "peacefully resolve" the civil war, citing a United Nations Security ...
Russia Wanted Trump As President And It Got Him. Now What Does America Do?
Post Date: 2017-11-27 00:57:41 by Tatarewicz
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― Russia’s tyrant works to help the Republican nominee win America’s presidential election. Members of the nominee’s campaign know of the effort and try to coordinate with it. The nominee wins the election and then, realizing the FBI is looking into the whole mess, fires the person running the investigation in hopes of putting an end to it. As implausible as that scenario sounds even as a Hollywood screenplay, that’s where the nation stands as Donald Trump enters the final weeks of his first year in office: with a Justice Department special counsel running at full speed, two indictments and a guilty plea already under his belt. “The fact pattern that ...
Saudi Coalition Crumbles In Yemen: Sudanese Mercenaries On Front Lines, Foreign Officers, Proxies In Revolt
Post Date: 2017-11-26 23:30:27 by Horse
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Most Americans might be forgiven for having no clue what the war in Yemen actually looks like, especially as Western media has spent at least the first two years of the conflict completely ignoring the mass atrocities taking place while white-washing the Saudi coalition's crimes. Unlike wars in Iraq, Libya, and Syria, which received near daily coverage as they were at their most intense, and in which many Americans could at least visualize the battlefield and the actors involved through endless photographs and video from on the ground, Yemen's war has largely been a faceless and nameless conflict as far as major media is concerned. Aside from mainstream media endlessly ...
Ex-Clinton Foundation Official Tied To Chinese Kindergarten Embroiled In Bizarre Sexual Abuse Scandal
Post Date: 2017-11-26 17:34:18 by Horse
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A former Clinton Foundation official who is now an independent director at a company which operates private schools in China has found himself embroiled in a bizarre child abuse scandal involving needles, pills, “brown syrup,” nudity, and sexual molestation, according to parents. The head of a Beijing kindergarten has been fired after China launched a nationwide investigation into a chain of private schools operated by RYB Education Inc. ($RYB) following claims of abuse at multiple locations. Parents report at least 8 toddlers with mysterious needle marks, while others said their children were forced to take white pills that were supposed to be “a little secret” between ...
Tillerson continues mass dismissal of US diplomats
Post Date: 2017-11-26 00:31:42 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV... US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has initiated a major downsizing of the country’s foreign service staff, even pushing out many senior officials and career diplomats, including the department’s Chief of Security Bill Miller. Miller was pushed into retirement after being granted a five-minute meeting with Tillerson, who had earlier turned down his “repeated and sometimes urgent requests from the department’s security staff to brief him” during the secretary’s first nine months in office, The New York Times reported Saturday citing several former top officials in the Bureau of Diplomatic Security. Miller – who served as the acting assistant ...
Iran to continue support for Syria against terrorism, Rouhani tells Assad
Post Date: 2017-11-26 00:19:52 by Tatarewicz
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PressTV ... Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has reaffirmed the Islamic Republic’s determination to continue its support for Syria in its fight against terrorism. In a Saturday phone conversation with his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad, Rouhani stressed the necessity to fight against terrorist groups in the region and noted, “The strategic ties between Iran and Syria will continue and we will proceed with the right path together to serve the interests of the two nations and the countries in the region.” “The Islamic Republic of Iran is prepared to actively participate in Syria’s reconstruction,” he noted. Rouhani congratulated the Syrian nation and ...
Could Italy's Banking Crisis Drag Down Mario Draghi?
Post Date: 2017-11-25 19:39:42 by Horse
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Just don’t mention “Antonveneta.” A blame game has begun in Italy that risks casting a bright light on the leadership of both the Bank of Italy and Italy’s financial markets regulator Consob. The controversial decision to award the central bank’s current Chairman Ignazio Visco a fresh six-year mandate despite presiding over one of the worst banking crises in living memory has ignited a tug-of-war between political parties and the president, who makes the ultimate decision on who to appoint as central bank chief. The first to cast aspersions was Italy’s former premier Matteo Renzi, who, no doubt in an effort to distract from his own party’s part in the ...
Saudi Arabia Regional and Global Linkages
Post Date: 2017-11-25 09:30:53 by Ada
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Introduction Saudi Arabia has built a powerful network of regional and local political, military and economic relationships incorporating a shared extremist-religious affiliation. As a result, despite its reputation as a backward despotic clerico-monarchy with an extreme dependency on oil sales, it has become a deadly political force in the Middle East and beyond. To understand the dynamics and projections of Saudi power it is important to identify and analyze how it uses its use military, religious and economic weapons. Saudi Arabia: Senility and Mercenary Protection Saudi Arabia has bankrolled and supplied violent mercenary armies in Syria, Iraq, Somalia, Yemen, Libya, Lebanon, ...
Pentagon to Admit to 2,000 Troops in Syria, Number Likely Far Higher
Post Date: 2017-11-25 04:55:11 by Ada
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General Had Previously Said US Had 4,000 Troops There US officials said on Friday that the Pentagon is expected to concern confirm that there are “about 2,000” US ground troops in Syria, a major increase from the roughly 500 that they officially claim is the case. The US has overtly lied about troop levels in Syria consistently throughout their deployment. Less than a month ago, Gen. James Jarrard told reporters the US had about 4,000 troops in the country, though the Pentagon at the time claimed he was wrong and the real number was only 503. Adding to the confusion, the Defense Department had also offered figures to Congress on overseas deployments, and those figures said ...
Seymour Hersh: Hillary Clinton Sold Nerve Gas To Syrian Terrorists To Use Them As an Excuse to Invade Syria
Post Date: 2017-11-25 02:03:27 by Tatarewicz
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govtslaves.... Respected investigative journalist, Seymour Hersh, has claimed that Hillary Clinton sold nerve gas to Syrian terrorists whilst she was acting as secretary of state. Hersh claimed that the Obama Administration falsely blamed the Government of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad for the sarin gas attack, which they were hoping to use as an excuse to invade Syria. Hersh also claims that the Obama administration assisted in approving the transfer of deadly chemical weapons from Lybia to terrorists who were operational in Syria. According to Zero Hedge: “By the terms of the agreement, funding came from Turkey, as well as Saudi Arabia and Qatar; the CIA, with the support of MI6, ...
Beautiful Photographs
Post Date: 2017-11-24 17:40:31 by Lod
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George Soros' $18 Billion Tax Dodge Exposed
Post Date: 2017-11-24 15:00:03 by Horse
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The wealthy have tucked billions into private nonprofits... where the IRS can’t touch it. Congress is still scrambling to find ways to pay for its tax cut, so perhaps it should pay closer attention to last month’s news that George Soros had transferred $18 billion of his fortune to a private charity that he controls. There it will be sheltered from the Internal Revenue Service forever. This may be the single biggest tax dodge in U.S. history, yet no one on the right or left seems to have raised an eyebrow. True tax reform is predicated on the principle that all income should be taxed at a low rate once, and only once. But much of the wealth that Mr. Soros spent years moving into ...
Order Out Of Chaos: The Doctrine That Runs The World
Post Date: 2017-11-24 14:31:02 by BTP Holdings
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Order Out Of Chaos: The Doctrine That Runs The World by Tyler Durden Aug 15, 2014 9:06 PM Submitted by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market blog, “From the days of Spartacus-Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx, and down to Trotsky (Russia), Bela Kun (Hungary), Rosa Luxembourg (Germany), and Emma Goldman (United States), this world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence, and impossible equality, has been steadily growing. It played, as a modern writer, Mrs. Webster, has so ably shown, a definitely recognizable part in the tragedy of the French Revolution. It has been the ...
Special counsel Robert Mueller is now looking into Jared Kushner’s contacts with Israel
Post Date: 2017-11-24 08:06:50 by Ada
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The Wall Street Journal reports that the Special Counsel’s team is looking into meetings that Kushner had with Israeli officials. Robert Mueller is running into dead ends when it comes to proving some kind of Trump-Russia collusion, but that is not stopping the special counsel team from looking elsewhere in order to hang Trump for some sort of crime that will justify the time and money thrown away at a special counsel based off of Hillary’s paid for Fusion GPS fake “dossier.” According to Zerohedge, in a startling illustration of just how expansive Mueller’s investigation of the Trump administration has become, the Wall Street Journal now reports that the ...
Can the world's mightiest naval fleet survive the perfect storm?
Post Date: 2017-11-24 07:58:48 by Ada
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It was a once-in-a-decade display of American firepower. Three US Navy aircraft carriers -- the largest, most sophisticated warships in history -- assembled off the Korean Peninsula, in a move timed to coincide with US President Donald Trump's first official visit to the region. But behind the dramatic show of force, questions are emerging as to whether the US Navy is up to the challenges it faces in the Pacific -- from both a nuclear-armed North Korea and a strengthening China -- at a time when its top leaders acknowledge it lacks the money, manpower and weapons to ensure success. And when a massive corruption scandal threatens the ranks of dozens of its top officers. The ...
Britain’s Incompetent Conservatives Can’t Handle Brexit
Post Date: 2017-11-24 07:28:08 by Ada
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Their response to the 2016 referendum has been deplorable to the point of unforgivable. The world recently commemorated the centennial of the Russian Revolution, which resulted from the flagrant incompetence of that country’s ruling class in confronting a moment of overwhelming national crisis. The barricades are not yet out in the streets of modern-day London, but a certain sense of déjà vu is appropriate. At the least, we are likely witnessing the slow-motion suicide of the Conservative Party, and, conceivably, of British conservatism more broadly defined. In the British case, the crisis involves the nation’s referendum vote in June 2016 to withdraw from the ...
Fusion GPS Paid 3 Reporters to Spin Uranium One,
Post Date: 2017-11-23 21:48:43 by Horse
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Poster Comment:Robert Mueller and Rod Rosenstein implicated too. $145 million from Russians in Pay to Play went to Clinton Foundation.
The Cardinal Sin of International Finance
Post Date: 2017-11-23 09:18:57 by Ada
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As Doug Casey has correctly noted, the prime directive of any organism—whether it’s an amoeba or a person or a corporation or a government—is to survive. That’s why the US government protects the petrodollar so zealously. It needs the system to survive. World leaders who have challenged the petrodollar recently have ended up dead… Why Everyone Uses the US Dollar… for Now In the 1970s, the US government struck a series of deals with Saudi Arabia, creating the petrodollar system. The US promised to coddle and protect the Saudi kingdom. And, in exchange, Saudi Arabia would use its dominant position in OPEC to ensure that all oil transactions happened in US ...
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