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Say hello to Russian gold and Chinese petroyuan
The Russia-led Eurasia Economic Union and China just agreed to design the mechanism for an independent financial and monetary system that would bypass dollar transactions. It was a long time coming, but finally some key lineaments of the multipolar world’s new foundations are being revealed. Continue reading
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China & US Power
Can China do much to fight back against the power wielded by the US in the world economy? At first sight, that looks unlikely. China is big, but world trade is conducted in dollars, and the US has economic, political and military influence across the globe. The usual result of a tally of US might… Continue reading
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Enron 2.0: Wall Street Manipulates Energy Prices … and Every Other Market
The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission says that JP Morgan has massively manipulated energy markets in California and the Midwest, obtaining tens of millions of dollars in overpayments from grid operators between September 2010 and June 2011. Continue reading
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Is the US or the World Coming to an End? By Paul Craig Roberts
Two pressures are building on the US dollar. One pressure comes from the Federal Reserve’s declining ability to rig the price of gold as Western gold supplies shrivel and market knowledge of the Fed’s illegal price rigging spreads. Continue reading
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Obama “Wins” the Korean War. Celebrating the Destructive Nature of US led Wars By Jack A. Smith
“Here, today,” Obama told a cheering crowd of elderly U.S. and South Korean veterans, “we can say with confidence that this war was no tie. Korea was a victory!” The Korean War, of course, was at best a stalemate for the U.S. It was decidedly not a victory, at least until President Obama, using the… Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 2-8 June 2013: Iran / Gold / Afghanistan-Pakistan / India-Nukes / Brics / Finland / Russia
8 June 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation Hydropolitics Propel Balkanization 08.06.2013 | 00:00 | Wayne MADSEN Wherever there are reports of melting glaciers and a future of diminished water resources, there is an increasing Balkanization of nation-states. Those who manipulate world events for maximum profit understand that it is much easier to control water resources if Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 12-18 May 2013: Syria / Venezuela-US / Libya / Gold / Pakistan
18 May 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation Can There be Rapprochement in Syria? (II) 18.05.2013 | 12:04 | Najmuddin A. SHAIKH New routes for supplying the Syrian opposition with arms have now been opened through Jordan. Qatar is said to have expended $3 billion for providing arms to the opposition and assistance to the Syrian refugees. Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 5-11 May 2013: Syria / Fukushima / Boston Bombing / Israel- Syria / Gold
11 May 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation Kerry Takes up Syria in Moscow: Start of Bumpy Road or Attempt to Inveigle into Foul Play? 11.05.2013 | 00:00 | Dmitry MININ …The Assad’s government remains stable enough; Russia, China and other states are staunch preventing an outside intervention. But by endorsing the Russian initiative Washington pursues its Continue reading
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New at SCF 20-27 April 2013: Gold / Korea / Chechnya / EU / Caucasus / Afghanistan / Serbia /Pakistan / Tsarnaev
26 April 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation Gold: Back to Money World (II) 27.04.2013 | 00:00 | Valentin KATASONOV There are two interpretations of the reasons behind the military intervention against Libya – the defense of human rights and the desire to grab the Gaddafi’s oil. Both are wrong. The real reason is the fact, that Continue reading
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Week in Review: Preemptive Wars and Ponzi Schemes
14 April 2013 — Global Research News Venezuelans Vote: Presidential Elections. Maduro vs. CaprilesBy Stephen Lendman, April 14, 2013 On Sunday, April 14, PSUV’s Nicolas Maduro (United Socialist Party of Venezuela) faces opposition Rountable of Democratic Unity (MUD) candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski.Most Venezuelans deplore him. They do so for good reason. He represents oligarch power, ties Continue reading
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Reducing production: How should socialists relate to struggles against capitalist growth By Don Fitz
The question is not should we advocate reducing production within capitalist society but rather: How do we best relate to those struggles that are already occurring? Activists across the globe are challenging the uncontrollable dynamic of economic expansion which threatens the survival of humanity. It has never been more urgent to provide a vision of… Continue reading
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Audio: Economic Policy Deception By Michael Hudson
Another in the series of interviews on the Renegade Economists radio show (Australia), a wide ranging analysis of the advantages to wealth that money printing and poor tax policy produce. Topics include land and housing policy, German gold repatriation, Occupy, Bradley Manning, Iran, Obama and Kruegar. Continue reading
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Billionaire Burglar Breaks into Obama's Cabinet By Greg Palast
A parade of media reports this week name Penny Pritzker as Obama’s prime choice for Secretary of Commerce. No longer will criminal bankers have to lobby the administration – because now they’ll have one of their own in the Cabinet. Continue reading
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The Global Water Grab: Meet the “New Water Barons” By Shiney Varghese
“[U]nless African governments and foreign interests lend support to these farmer-driven initiatives, rather than undermine them through land and water deals that benefit large-scale, commercial schemes, the best opportunity in decades for societal advancement in the region will be squandered.” Continue reading
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“The War is Worth Waging”: Afghanistan’s Vast Reserves of Minerals and Natural Gas By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
This article, first published in June 2010, points to the “real economic reasons” why US-NATO forces invaded Afghanistan eleven years ago. Continue reading
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From the Algerian Terror to Al Qaeda Meets Mali: The West’s Hidden Agenda By Victor Kotsev
mali When it comes to unfamiliar, far-off places, we trust our mainstream media to tell us what is going on with interminable conflicts raging through much of the world, and why—and most media trust Western governments’ explanations. Continue reading
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Africa: Planning Black Deeds to Reshape Black Continent By Nikolai MALISHEVSKI
The beginning of the XXI century is the time France and the USA started to reshape the African borders, as well as to redistribute the resources of the Black Continent in their favor. A deputy head of US State Department said the African oil has become a sphere of strategic interests for the United States. Continue reading
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France Launches War in Mali in Bid to Secure Resources, Stamp Out National Rights Struggles By Roger Annis
France, the former slave power of west Africa, has poured into Mali with a vengeance in a military attack launched on January 11. French warplanes are bombing towns and cities across the vast swath of northern Mali, a territory measuring some one thousand kilometers from south to north and east to west. Continue reading
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2013 and the new Scramble for Africa By Chris Marsden
France’s military aggression in Mali is only the latest expression of a renewed Scramble for Africa being undertaken by all of the continent’s former imperialist overlords. This involves not only those powers that directly ruled Africa from the late nineteenth century through to the 1960s, such as France and Britain, but above all the United… Continue reading
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The War on Mali. What you Should Know: An Eldorado of Uranium, Gold, Petroleum, Strategic Minerals By R. Teichman
Whatever is reported by the mainstream media, the goal of this new war is no other than stripping yet another country of its natural resources by securing the access of international corporations to do it. What is being done now in Mali through bombs and bullets is being done to Ireland, Greece, Portugal and Spain… Continue reading
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