Commentary

Dmitri Orlov: “Watch This!”

November 13, 2020 0

There are times in my career as a collapse observer and systematizer when my running commentary can quite reasonably be pared down to just two words: “Watch this!” The current severe stage of the financial […]

Commentary

The New World Disorder – How Empires Die

December 22, 2015 0

Submitted by Tyler Durden Submitted Jeff Thomas via InternationalMan.com, The state-owned Bank of China has been ordered by an American court to hand over customer information to the US. The bank has refused to comply, […]

Government

Iraq, Afghanistan, and Other Special Ops “Successes”

October 26, 2015 0

America’s elite forces deploy to a record-shattering 147 countries in 2015 by Nick Turse ‘Over the years,’ writes Turse, ‘special operators have regularly been involved in all manner of mishaps, embroiled in various scandals, and implicated […]

Commentary

Tomgram: Michael Klare, Superpower in Distress

June 1, 2015 0

by Michael Klare Think of this as a little imperial folly update — and here’s the backstory.  In the years after invading Iraq and disbanding Saddam Hussein’s military, the U.S. sunk about $25 billion into “standing up” […]