Cora Currier Aug. 3 2015, 6:10 a.m. A new report from a group of journalists and researchers says that hundreds of civilians have died during airstrikes by the U.S. and other nations fighting the Islamic State, a marked contrast to the […]
By Michael Snyder Is Barack Obama trying to kill the economy on purpose? On Sunday, we learned that Obama is imposing a nationwide 32 percent carbon dioxide emission reduction from 2005 levels by the year […]
Submitted by Tyler Durden On Friday, we checked in on the Pentagon’s ongoing effort to recruit, vet, and train ambitious “freedom fighters” to join the battle against ISIS in Syria. It goes without saying that […]
by Raúl Ilargi Meijer DPC Heart of Chinatown, San Francisco, after earthquake and fire 1906 Nicole Foss: Our consistent theme here at the Automatic Earth since its inception has been that we are facing a […]
Cold wars freeze despotism in place, and thaws in foreign relations melt it away The recent Iran nuclear deal represents a thaw in the American cold war against that country. It is a welcome sequel […]
By Binoy Kampmark “National security secrecy may be appropriate to protect us from our enemies; it should not be used to protect our politicians from us.” Margot E. Kaminski, NYT, April 14, 2015. It’s coming to […]
By Tyler Durden of Zero Hedge China is slowly learning. On a day when market participants will care about only one thing – how hawkish (or dovish) the FOMC sounds at 2:00 pm (no Yellen press […]
While the Western Press salutes the authorisation given by Turkey to the United States, allowing the US to use its military bases in order to fight Daesh, Thierry Meyssan looks at the nation’s internal tensions. […]
By Tyler Durden Early last month in, “The Noose Around Syria’s Assad Tightens [11]” we outlined the latest developments in the country’s prolonged civil war. Here’s what we said then: The US-led alliance realizes very […]
by John Rubino The whole “market economy” thing is turning out to be a little trickier than China’s dictators expected. To set up the story: After the 2008 crash the country borrowed about $15 trillion […]
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