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(2 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, September 27, 2017
Unravelling the riddle of the Kurds' Iraqi pipedream Baghdad is actually getting stronger -- as part of the "4+1" (Russia, Syria, Iran, Iraq plus Hezbollah) that for all practical purposes has won the war in Syria. None of these actors -- or Turkey, which is involved in the Astana negotiations -- wants partition of either Syria or Iraq. Moreover, Russia is also back as Iraq's partner on the military front, selling it a "large batch" of T-90 tanks for US$1 billion.

(3 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, July 8, 2020
Barbarism Begins at Home Greeks thought it was morally uplifting to help friends and repel enemies, and in the latter case Greeks had to enslave them. So Greeks should by definition rule barbarians.

(3 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, April 8, 2015
Bomb Iran? Not now: bomb Yemen Royally paid Saudi lobby hagiographers are once again frantically spinning the Sunni versus Shi'ite sectarian narrative -- which totally ignores the mind-boggling tribal/class complexity of Yemeni society. In a nutshell, this laughable Saudi defense of democracy is paving the way for a ground war; a long, bloody and horribly expensive ground war.

(11 comments) SHARE        Thursday, August 28, 2014
From Minsk to Wales, Germany is the key Taxes -- and budget cuts -- are up. The currency, the hryvnya, has plunged 40 percent since early 2014. The banking system is a joke. The notion that the EU will pay Ukraine's humongous bills is a myth. Germany (which runs the EU) wants a deal. Fast.

(10 comments) SHARE        Thursday, May 12, 2016
Hillary Clinton, the Conveniently Negligent Queen So here we're right into gross negligence territory -- which is a minefield compare to mere convenience. The vast, powerful Clintonista army has gone full convenience mode. So it will be up to the FBI -- and the Department of Justice -- to prove intent and motive, as in establishing, without a shadow of a doubt, that the subterranean server enabled substantial political dividends/profiteering.

(3 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Checkmate Washington never joins a coalition that it cannot control at will. Thus a possible road map of what may lie ahead -- as debated by Obama and Putin, face to face, for 90 minutes in New York; a two-headed coalition, one led by the US, the other led by Russia, but "coordinating" on the ground.

(9 comments) SHARE        Saturday, September 24, 2016
Les Deplorables Trump will push to organize an immediate rapprochement with Russia in case he's elected, so the US industrial-military-surveillance complex can catch up and at least try to remedy the danger of losing the next war Hillary and her own neocon bag of deplorables are so bullish on.

(9 comments) SHARE        Monday, July 28, 2014
Ready, Reset, Go! ...to Cold War 2.0 The real, no-holds-barred reason for the Empire of Chaos's obsessive economic war on Russia is that Moscow, as a BRICS member, alongside especially China and Brazil, is at the leading edge of emerging powers challenging the global financial/political (dis)order -- wallowing in the mire of casino capitalism -- dictated by the Empire of Chaos.

(2 comments) SHARE        Friday, March 16, 2018
It's all Putin's fault... but still he wins Putin detailed how MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) is now back with a vengeance -- implying that the whole US missile defense apparatus may be, by now, useless. And this had absolutely nothing to do with "Russian aggression," as the usual suspects spin it. This was Moscow's response to over two decades of NATO encroaching on Russia's borders.

(1 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Kirkuk redux was a bloodless offensive. Here's why What we have just witnessed is the near breakout of warfare between two alleged US "clients" in Southwest Asia. And yet civil war -- along with the balkanization of Iraq -- was prevented. The facts on the ground speak for themselves.

(1 comments) SHARE        Friday, April 3, 2020
China rolls out the Health Silk Road In the Belt and Road framework, China is supplying much of the world -- including virus-hit Europe --with medicine and healthcare items

(3 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, March 8, 2016
Lula and the BRICS in a fight to the death "BRICS" is the dirtiest of acronyms in the Beltway/Wall Street axis, and for a solid reason: the consolidation of the BRICS is the only organic, global-reach project with the potential to derail Exceptionalistan's grip over the so-called "international community." Hell hath no fury like Exceptionalistan scorned. Like the Mob, it never forgives; Lula one day would have to pay.

(44 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Hybrid war hyenas tearing Brazil apart So Wall Street, US Big Oil and the proverbial "American interests" win this round at the circus -- thanks to the, once again proverbial, vassal/comprador elites. Chevron execs are already salivating with the prospect of laying their hands on the pre-salt oil deposits; that was already promised by a trusted vassal in the Brazilian opposition.

(2 comments) SHARE        Friday, October 11, 2013
Fear and loathing in House of Saud The House of Saud's nightmare is amplified by paranoia. After all those warnings by King Abdullah for Washington to cut "the head of the snake" (Iran), after all those supplications for the US to bomb Syria, install a no-fly zone and/or weaponize the "rebels" to kingdom come, this is what the House of Saud gets: Washington and Tehran on their way to reaching a deal at the expense of Riyadh.

SHARE        Wednesday, January 11, 2017
Shadow play: the New Great Game in Eurasia The "urbane," "cerebral," "legendary" Kissinger is now advising Trump. The long-term strategy might be characterized as classic Divide and Rule, but slightly remixed: in this case an attempt to break the Russia-China strategic partnership by allying with the -- theoretically -- weaker node, Russia, to better contain the stronger node, China.

(3 comments) SHARE        Saturday, December 7, 2013
A bunch of sexy, badass patriots Prince had me howling with laughter when he stresses that Blackwater maintained "the highest ethics while dealing with these contacts"; I pictured a Bunuel-esque Discreet Charm of the Afghan Bourgeoisie shot by Scorsese. Or Tarantino. Still one favor led to another, and by 2002 an incorporated offshoot, Blackwater Security Consulting, was tasked to provide security for the CIA headquarters in Kabul.

(29 comments) SHARE        Sunday, March 6, 2016
The Brazilian Earthquake A top priority of the Empire of Chaos is to prevent the emergence of regional powers fueled by abundant natural resources, from oil to strategic minerals. Brazil amply fits the bill. Washington of course feels entitled to "defend" these resources. Thus the need to quash not only regional integration associations such as Mercosur and Unasur but most of all the global reach of the BRICS.

(1 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, July 19, 2017
The Korean Matrix A minimally competent US "attack" would requires a lot of infiltrated US Special Forces, as in boots on the ground, with no guarantee of success. In a nutshell; Washington, realistically, is incapable of eliminating North Korea's nuclear and missile programs.

(1 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, May 5, 2020
The deeper roots of Chinese demonization The US hybrid war against China is bound to go on frenetic overdrive, as economic reports are already identifying Covid-19 as the tipping point when the Asian -- actually Eurasian -- century truly began.

SHARE        Friday, October 4, 2019
Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman (MBS) Must Shelve His Vicious War in Yemen After Abqaiq and Operation Nasrallah, to say that MBS is wallowing in a vicious blowback swamp is an understatement. The relentless bombing of Yemen for over four years during his term as minister of defense is his Frankenstein baby.

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