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(2 comments) SHARE Monday, March 23, 2020 Welcome to Sweatshop Amerika!
The next bailout will be our last
Imagine if the Central Bank was given the green-light to devour the Treasury, control the country's "purse strings", and use nation's taxing authority to shore up its trillions in ultra-risky leveraged bets, its opaque financially-engineered ponzi-instruments, and its massive speculative debts
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 18, 2020 The Fed's Latest Welfare Payout to the Crooked Wall Street Banks
The Fed's real goal is to prevent the markets from working the way they are supposed to work, to prevent basic price discovery, which will dramatically reduce valuations leaving banks and other financial institutions deep underwater.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, February 28, 2020 Why Are Stocks Crashing?
Investors buy stocks with the expectation that their investment will grow over time. In periods of crisis, when the environment becomes unfamiliar and opaque expectations are crushed under the weigh of uncertainty.
(2 comments) SHARE Saturday, February 1, 2020 The "Repo" Fiasco; the Fed's Cash Injections Send Stocks Soaring
The greatest threat posed by the Fed's reckless "repo" policy is not the threat of another giant asset bubble but the possibility that US Treasuries will lose their exalted role as the world's preeminent "risk free" asset of choice.
(14 comments) SHARE Saturday, January 18, 2020 Pompeo Says Gangland-Style Hit on Soleimani Was "Restoration of Deterrence"
America's "shadow president," Mike Pompeo, has acknowledged that the assassination of Iran's highest-ranking military general, Qassem Soleimani, was part of a broader strategy to restore "real deterrence" by eliminating presumed enemies of the United States.
(4 comments) SHARE Tuesday, May 14, 2019 Judgment Day for John Brennan
The agents and officials who conducted this seditious attack on the presidency never thought they'd be held accountable for their crimes. But they were wrong, and now their day of reckoning is fast approaching. The main players in this palace coup are about to be exposed, criminally charged and prosecuted. Some of them will probably wind up in jail.
(7 comments) SHARE Friday, May 3, 2019 China and Russia - Whoopin' Uncle Sam at His Own Game
Your Geopolitical Quiz for the Day: Two countries are embroiled in a ferocious rivalry. One country's meteoric growth has put it on a path to become the world's biggest economic superpower while the other country appears to be slipping into irreversible decline. Which country will lead the world into the future?
(1 comments) SHARE Sunday, April 28, 2019 Tit for Tat? Why Did Mueller Let Trump Off the Hook?
Why did Robert Mueller end the Russia investigation when he did? He could have let it drag it out for another year or so and severely hurt Trump's chances for reelection. But he didn't do that. Why?
(3 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 12, 2019 The Media's 6 Biggest Lies About North Korea
The Trump delegation surprised Kim with a take-it-or-leave-it ultimatum that included the "elimination of the DPRK's "chemical and biological weapons, "their ballistic missile program" along with complete denuclearization.
(6 comments) SHARE Monday, April 30, 2018 Trump Did NOT Convince Kim to Ditch His Nukes. China Did
Donald Trump thinks his "maximum pressure" campaign persuaded North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons program. But it's a bunch of baloney. The reason Kim Jong-un is planning to denuclearize is because China adamantly opposes nuclear weapons on the peninsula. That's the whole deal in a nutshell.
(7 comments) SHARE Tuesday, March 13, 2018 Washington's Century-Long War on Russia
Washington's war on Russia has ebbed and flowed depending on the political situation in Moscow -- it has never completely ended. The US has always treated Russia with suspicion, contempt and brutality. During the Cold War, when Russia's global activities put a damper on Washington's depredations around the world, relations remained stretched to the breaking point.
(20 comments) SHARE Saturday, February 17, 2018 The Obnoxious Pence Shows Why Korea Must End US Occupation
Pence flaunted his contempt for the Korean people by humiliating their leaders, shrugging off their hospitality, and scoffing at their joint efforts for peace. He acted like an arrogant proconsul who only deigns to visit his subjects in order to treat them with condescension and scorn.
(11 comments) SHARE Tuesday, February 6, 2018 If There's a War in Korea, Blame Trump
The United States has never lifted its sanctions on North Korea, never treated their leaders with anything except contempt and brutality, and never made any sincere attempt to end the hostilities. Washington will not even sit down with a delegation from the DPRK to air their differences or discuss a path forward.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, February 1, 2018 Turkish Invasion Pits Neocons Against Traditional Imperialists
The present disaster that is unfolding in the Afrin canton in Syria's northwest corner could have been avoided had the Trump administration abstained from announcing that it planned a permanent military presence in east Syria, which implied its tacit support for an independent Kurdish state. This, in fact, was the trigger for the current crisis, the provocation that set the dominoes in motion.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, January 29, 2018 Washington Widens the War in Syria by Provoking Turkey
On January 18, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson announced the creation of a 30,000-man Border Security Force (BSF) to occupy East Syria. Tillerson's announcement may have prompted some unexpected apologies and back-tracking, but the policy remains the same. Washington will persist in its effort to divide the country and remove Assad until an opposing force prevents it from doing so.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, January 19, 2018 Trump's Plan B for Syria: Occupation and Intimidation
The Russian president is gradually replacing Washington as the guarantor of regional security. This is a tectonic development and one that US power brokers will definitely regret in the future. A "changing of the guard" is underway in the energy-rich Middle East, and Washington is the odd-man-out.
(24 comments) SHARE Friday, January 12, 2018 Oprah for President, Really?
The fact that Oprah really has no understanding of how to negotiate with congress, staff an administration, or appoint judges to the bench, makes one think that Democratic honchos are merely using her as a stalking horse to shoehorn themselves back into power so they can -- once again -- enjoy the spoils of war.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, January 5, 2018 Will Trump Use "Human Rights" to Kill the Iran Nukes Deal?
If the president does in fact reimpose sanctions, (sometime after January 13) the United States will be in "material noncompliance" with the terms of the nuclear agreement and all bets will be off.