Colonialism & Occupation, Geopolitics, Global Economy

Is Puerto Rico on the Brink of Economic Disaster?

Mass Migration, Poverty, Unemployment and the “VAT” Initiative Timothy Alexander Guzman, Silent Crow News – Puerto Rico’s unemployment rate hovers around 14 percent but of course, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) does count those who dropped out of the labor force completely. If you did count every working age person not participating in the labor force, you would probably…

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Geopolitics, Media Analysis

Propaganda on Steroids: Iran Might have “Secret Nuclear Weapons in North Korea”?

Timothy Alexander Guzman, Silent Crow News – It is unclear that a nuclear deal between the U. S. and Iran will take place. However, if there is a deal, it is guaranteed that those who opposed it from the start will try to sabotage it. The Republicans and several Democrats in Washington, the Likud government of Benjamin Netanyahu and special…

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Colonialism & Occupation, Geopolitics

Israel Welcomes Complicit Amnesty International Report: Palestinian “Armed Groups” Allegedly “Guilty of War Crimes”

Timothy Alexander Guzman, Silent Crow News – Amnesty International (AI) is at it again. The Western-based human rights organization says the armed wing of the Palestinian resistance against Israeli aggression has committed war crimes against Israeli and Palestinian citizens alike. The timing could not be more perfect for an Israeli propaganda campaign against its Palestinian neighbors. Will Prime Minister Benjamin…

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Geopolitics

U.S-Cuba Relations and the Long Road to Nowhere. “Regime Change is on the Table”

Will Obama’s Cuba Initiative Lead to Peace and Prosperity or an Orchestrated Coup? Timothy Alexander Guzman, Silent Crow News – The much anticipated U.S-Cuba talks continues this week as Reuters reported “Cuba and the United States meet for talks on restoring diplomatic relations on Monday, seeking more progress toward an agreement while not allowing differences over Venezuela to impede their historic rapprochement.”  The meeting…

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Colonialism & Occupation, Geopolitics, World History

The U.S-Israel Alliance: War, Chaos and Netanyahu’s Big Lie

Timothy Alexander Guzman, Silent Crow News – The relationship between the U.S. and Israel in the last 6 years under the Obama administration has never been stronger.  In 2012, The National Jewish Democratic Council (NJDC) declared that President Obama’s aid package for Israel was the largest in U.S. history, a fact that is hard to ignore:  President Barack Obama requested…

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Science & Medicine

Puerto Rico Considers “Fat” Tax on Obese Children: A Fight for Children’s Health or a Tax Collection Scheme?

Timothy Alexander Guzman, Silent Crow News – It seems that the Puerto Rico government is scrambling to find ways to collect tax revenues to satisfy its debt obligations. Why? Well there is a new controversial “Fat” tax bill filed by Puerto Rican Senator Gilberto Rodriguez to combat child obesity. The plan calls for school teachers to identify and locate obese…

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Geopolitics

Obama’s Syria Gambit: New “War Powers” Can Expand Military Action Against Assad Government

*Editor’s Note: ‘Obama’s Syria Gambit: The Endgame of Expanded Syrian Action Against ISIS is Regime Change’ was Updated on February 12th, 2015 under ‘Obama’s Syria Gambit: New “War Powers” can Expand Military Action Against Assad Government Timothy Alexander Guzman, Silent Crow News –In 2011, U.S. President Barack Obama said in a written statement that “The future of Syria must be determined by…

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Geopolitics, Media Interviews and Opinions

Opinion: US Sticks to Tried and True Policy of Supporting Coups

Timothy Alexander Guzman, Silent Crow News – US President Barack Obama revealed the United States’ involvement in the Ukrainian crisis from its outset and admitted that the United States “had brokered a deal to transition power in Ukraine.”  MOSCOW, February 2 (Sputnik) — US President Barack Obama’s recent interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakiria reveals the United States’ involvement in the Ukrainian…

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Global Economy

Politics, Financial Fraud and the “Big Three” Credit Ratings Agencies

China and Russia to Launch Credit Rating Agency that will Challenge U.S. Financial System Timothy Alexander Guzman, Silent Crow News – The “Big Three” Credit rating Agencies Moody’s, Standard & Poor’s and Fitch Ratings are a powerful monopoly and a very influential actor in the World of finance. Since 1975, these same rating agencies gained power with assistance from the…

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Education & Society, Media Analysis

Playing Politics: How The New York Times Misrepresents Womens Rights in Saudi Arabia

Timothy Alexander Guzman, Silent Crow News – The New York Times and other main-stream media outlets in the U.S. are cautious on how they portray one of the most important political figures in the Arab World, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. The Saudi Monarchy is close to Washington and Tel Aviv and has an abundant supply of oil and gas…

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Geopolitics, Media Analysis

WMD Redux? Germany’s ‘Der Spiegel’ Claims Syria is Attempting to Build Nuclear Weapons

Timothy Alexander Guzman, Silent Crow News –A new report published by a German news magazine Der Spiegel has published a report claiming that the Syrian government under President Bashar al-Assad has a “secret underground Plant” with the specific goal “of developing nuclear weapons.”   The report suggests that unidentified “Western intelligence agencies” has evidence against the Syrian government because they “intercepted” private conversations between an Hezbollah…

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Geopolitics

Israeli-Palestinian Relations and the International Criminal Court (ICC): Will the U.S. Retaliate with New Sanctions on Israel’s Behalf?

Even a “deaf, blind and mute judge” knows that the Palestinians are responsible for the “indiscriminate murder of men, women, children and babies for the last 100 years” Israel Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman Timothy Alexander Guzman, Silent Crow News – Fresh off the Main-Stream Media’s (MSM) mixed reaction of President Barack Obama’s proposal on why the U.S. should lift Cuba’s…

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Media Analysis

Demonizing Fidel Castro: “Normalization” and the Thrust of Anti-Cuba Propaganda

Timothy Alexander Guzman, Silent Crow News – The Main-Stream Media (MSM) is targeting a young and diverse population through Fusion, a new multimedia news service launched in 2013 and it is described as a “news, pop culture and satire TV and digital network.” Fusion is an American digital cable and satellite TV network that is jointly owned by the Disney-ABC…

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Geopolitics

Smoke and Mirrors Diplomacy: Will the US Prevent a Palestinian State for “Israel’s Security”?

Timothy Alexander Guzman, Silent Crow News – Palestinian officials are hoping that a U.N. resolution will receive the votes needed for a Palestinian state. But recent reports on how Washington is reacting to the proposals within the U.N. resolution seem that the dream for a Palestinian state is all but a dream. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says that…

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