The next Great Depression is already happening – it just hasn’t reached the United States yet by The Economic Collapse Blog Things in Europe just continue to get worse and worse, and yet most people in the United States still don’t get it. All the time I have people ask me when the “economic collapse” is going to happen. Well, […]
Bomb thrown at Al-Baraka police station destroys what remained of building, causes no casualties by MEO A bomb destroyed a police station in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi early on Thursday but caused no casualties, a security source said, in a second attack targeting the building. “An explosive device was thrown at Al-Baraka police station in Benghazi, destroying what […]
Libya will join its neighbors in tackling sensitive fuel market reforms and plans to do away with all subsidies within three years, Oil Minister Abdel-Bari al-Arusi said Tuesday by Jessica Donati, Ghaith Shennib The International Monetary Fund estimates over 14 percent of Libya’s budget or about $7 billion will this year be swallowed up by subsidies for food and fuel, which […]
This eminently Bushist Obama “red line” business, applied to Syria, Iran or both, is becoming a tad ridiculous by Pepe Escobar Take Pentagon head Chuck Hagel’s tour of Israel and the “friendly” GCC (the de facto Gulf Counter-revolution Club) last week. US defense contractors had the Moet flowing as Hagel merrily congregated with that prodigy of democracy – United Arab […]
The EU Al-Qaeda Oil Consortium by Gearóid Ó Colmáin The decision of the European Union to lift the embargo on Syrian government’s energy exports by importing oil from the ‘armed opposition’ is another flagrant violation of international law. It violates the UN General Assembly declaration of 1962 on Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources and is yet another violation of the […]
For Washington and its allies, the real red line in Syria is the defeat of Syrian opposition fighters. Once the opposition fighters start losing battles — and they do — alarm bells will start ringing in Western capitals by Mahir Zeynalov Last year, Washington drew a line in the sand and said once the Syrian regime uses chemical weapons, calculations will […]
Absurd “chemical weapons” claims begin to fall apart amidst NATO’s desperate bid to save its collapsing terror front in Syria by Tony Cartalucci According to the White House itself, there is no evidence that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons of any kind during the two year conflict the West itself has created and continues to perpetuate. Indeed, a […]
