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US Congress plots to save dollar dominance amid global de-dollarization rebellion
The US Congress held a hearing titled “Dollar Dominance: Preserving the U.S. Dollar’s Status as the Global Reserve Currency”, as countries around the world join the de-dollarization rebellion. Continue reading
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60 Minutes Australia Keeps Churning Out War-With-China Propaganda
60 Minutes Australia has been playing a leading role in saturating Australian airwaves with consent-manufacturing messaging in support of militarising to participate in a US war against China. A segment they ran a year ago is titled “Prepare for Armageddon: China’s warning to the world,” and features an image of Xi Jinping overlaid with war… Continue reading
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US post-9/11 wars caused 4.5 million deaths, displaced 38-60 million people, study shows
Wars the US waged in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Pakistan following September 11, 2001 caused4.5 million deaths and displaced 38 to 60 million people, with 7.6 million children starving today Continue reading
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Sabotage of Nord Stream won’t go unpunished
Next Monday, an uneasy anniversary arrives. It will be 20 years since the invasion of Iraq by the United States. Britain was a pillar of the US-led ‘coalition of the willing.’ The Guardian columnist John Harris wrote on Sunday that it was “the greatest political and humanitarian disaster the UK had been involved in since the second… Continue reading
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Michael Hudson: Why the US banking system is breaking up
The California-based, cryptocurrency-focused Silvergate Bank collapsed on March 8. Two days later, Silicon Valley Bank went down as well, in the largest ever bank run. The latter was the second-biggest bank to fail in US history, and the most influential financial institution to crash since the 2008 crisis. Economist Michael Hudson, co-host of the program Geopolitical Economy Hour, analyzes the… Continue reading
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Nordstream blame game begins – The Grayzone live
Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss the controlled leaks aiming to deflect blame for the Nordstream attacks onto “pro-Ukrainian” elements, the failed attempt by Republican populists and Democratic progressives to withdraw US troops from Syria, and the dramatic congressional Twitter files hearing. Continue reading
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It is Zugzwang for Biden in Ukraine
Wednesday, 8 March 2023 — Indian Punchline by M. K. BHADRAKUMAR New York Times reported Tuesday that a ‘pro-Ukrainian group’ sabotaged Nord Stream pipeline in the Baltic on Sept. 27, 2023 There is a cardinal difference between the Washington Post report of June 18, 1972 by Alfred Lewis breaking the news of the Watergate burglary and Continue reading
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Nord Stream Attack – ‘Officials’ Throw More Chaff To Hide The Real Perpetrators
Right at the same moment the New York Times publishes a shoddy ‘officials say’ story about alleged intelligence about the Nord Stream terror attack the Germany weekly Die Zeit, which has strong U.S. secret services ties, comes up with an equally unbelievable tale of a ‘Ukrainian owned’ sailing boat playing the major role in the attack: Continue reading
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Attack Of The “Pro-Ukrainian Group”: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
The latest New York Times report on the Nord Stream pipeline bombing is something else. According to NYT’s anonymous US government sources, the pipelines were blown up by a “pro-Ukrainian group” who had no known connections to any military or intelligence agency, but somehow had all the information, skills, diving equipment and military explosives necessary to carry out… Continue reading
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Nord Stream Attack – White House Counters Hersh’s Reputation With Weak ‘Intelligence’
On September 28 2022, a day after the Nord Stream pipelines were blown up, I published the available open source evidence which strongly suggested that the U.S. had done it: Continue reading
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US occupation of Syria will continue
Monday, 6 March2023 — Indian Punchline by M. K. BHADRAKUMAR US Joint Chiefs Chair, General Mark Milley (L) paid an unannounced visit to a US military base in Northeast Syria, March 3, 2023 The sudden unannounced arrival of the top US military officer General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at a dusty Continue reading
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‘Progressives’ Strike Out – Again
Monday, 6 March 2023 — The GrayZone The House voted 414-2 last week to maintain US sanctions on Syria despite the earthquakes that have killed thousands of Syrians in the last few weeks. AOC and the Squad voted for the measure. The only opposition came from two Republicans including Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia. Continue reading
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Zelensky’s Comic Insults… Gimme HIMARS, Tanks, F-16s and Now America’s Sons & Daughters
The glib talk of people dying for no good cause, but rather only for a clique of clowns and their imperial circus, is the ultimate sick joke. Continue reading
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‘They’ve got money for wars but can’t feed the poor’ – Tupac
Since the proxy war in Ukraine began, the Biden administration and Congress have directed more than $100 billion in assistance to their proxy forces fighting Russia in Ukraine. MintPress Senior Staff Writer Alan MacLeod asks why all of that money is going to Ukraine while Europe and the United States neglect their own populations. Continue reading
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War party target lists expands from Crimea to China
The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate cover the growing pressure on the Biden administration to take its Ukraine proxy war to Crimea, while military leaders openly discuss plans for war with China over Taiwan, while acknowledging the inevitability of Taiwan’s destruction. The militaristic fever comes as antiwar rallies gain momentum across the Atlantic and… Continue reading
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Not Just The China Balloon, US Has A History of Hysteria
The downing of a Chinese balloon by the United States was a clear episode of hysteria. In fact, the US has a history of unhinged responses to perceived threats. Continue reading
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NATO’S WAR IN UKRAINE BRINGS MCCARTHYISM BACK W/ OMALI YESHITELA
The chairman of the African People’s Socialist Party will join Margaret Kimberley and I as we discuss the FBI raid on the organization as NATO’s war in Ukraine accelerates a new McCarthyism Continue reading
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Quoth the Vultures “Evermore”
On the short roof outside the bedroom window, two black vultures sit, staring in. They have come to remind me of something. I put my book down and peer back at these strange looking creatures. The book: Our War: What We Did in Vietnam And What It Did to Us by David Harris. I had read it… Continue reading
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Behind the Self-Defeating Approach Toward the National Protest against the US War on Russia in Ukraine
Those who brought us Rage Against the War Machine recognized if we are to defeat the non-stop imperial war machine that rules over our lives, we must work with all people possible under its boot. Until we all do, we defeat ourselves. Continue reading
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Radhika Desai & Michael Hudson: rise of US dollar imperialism
Saturday, 25 February 2023 — Global South The rise of US dollar imperialism, and why it failed – with Radhika Desai & Michael Hudson Economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson explain the relations between money and debt, their role in imperialism, and the rise of the US dollar system. Transcript from https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2023/02/10/money-dollar-system-radhika-desai-michael-hudson/: Continue reading
The New Dark Age 