Chris Hedges, Truth Dig – During the financial crisis of 2008, the world’s central banks, including the Federal Reserve, injected trillions of dollars of fabricated money into the global financial system. This fabricated money has created a worldwide debt of $325 trillion, more than three times global GDP. The fabricated money was hoarded by banks and corporations, loaned by banks…
Category: Global Economy
The Weaponization of the US Dollar: Crashing Currency Chaos Spreads Across the Global South
Pepe Escobar, Information Clearinghouse – The Iranian rial: crash. The Turkish lira: crash. The Argentine peso: crash. The Brazilian real: crash. There are multiple, complex, parallel vectors at play in this wilderness of crashing currencies. Turkey’s case is heavily influenced by the bubble of easy credit created by European banks. Argentina’s problem is mostly to do with the neoliberal austerity…
What Should Putin Do?
Paul Craig Roberts, Information Clearinghouse – Andrei Martyanov has answered my question. I agree with everything Martyanov says. But I believe my question remains unanswered. Probably it is my fault. Perhaps I framed the question so sharply that it came across as an attack on Putin’s level-headed policy. Also, my use of the phrase “turning the other cheek” could have…
Humanitarian Crisis: Thousands of Hurricane Maria Deaths in Puerto Rico. New Study
Stephen Lendman, Global Research – Puerto Rico is America’s Okinawa, Japan’s poorest prefecture – the rights, needs and welfare of people on both islands largely ignored. Okinawans are harmed by America’s presence, including rapes, murders, and other crimes committed by US military personnel, unacceptable noise, pollution, environmental contamination, and use of valued public land for imperial purposes – hostile to…
A Currency War against Pakistan? The U.S. Puts “Pakistan on Notice” for Harboring Terrorists as Pakistan Considers Using the Yuan to Trade with China
Timothy Alexander Guzman, Silent Crow News – The Trump administration sent its U.S. Vice President Mike Pence to Kabul, Afghanistan in what was described as a surprise visit and warned Pakistan that they are “on notice” for being a “safe haven” for the Taliban and other terrorist organizations. It seems that the Trump administration is putting any nation on notice…
The Coming War on Lebanon: Israel, Saudi Arabia and the U.S. Prepare for a Long-Planned Middle East War
Timothy Alexander Guzman, Silent Crow News – Washington’s plan to oust Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has ultimately failed. Now Lebanon seems to be in the cross-hairs with tensions between Israel and Hezbollah on the same level that led to the 2006 Lebanon war. There is also the possibility that a new offensive against Syria that might take place as Washington…
A Currency War Will Escalate as China’s ‘Petro-Yuan’ is Set to Challenge the U.S. Military-Backed ‘Petro-Dollar’
Timothy Alexander Guzman, Silent Crow News – One quote that always crosses my mind regarding the decline of the U.S. dollar and the state of geopolitics associated with it, is by Gerald Celente, founder of the Trends Research Institute who said that “When all else fails, they take you to war.” As the U.S. dollar continues to lose its status…
Trump, Israel and the Pursuit of War on Iran: Trump Hopes that Iran will Violate Nuclear Deal
Timothy Alexander Guzman, Silent Crow News – The Trump administration is relentless in its push for war against Iran. The New York Times reported that Trump has ordered his national security aides to find a way to accuse the Iranian government of violating its nuclear agreement they signed in 2015 with what is known as the P5+1 under the Obama Administration.…
Afghanistan and the Curse of Natural Resources: The Trump Administration Continues America’s Longest War
Timothy Alexander Guzman, Silent Crow News – In a 2015 interview with CNN, Trump said that invading Afghanistan in 2001 was a “terrible mistake,” however, he maintained that U.S. troops would need to stay because the Afghan government would collapse. He did say that “we made a terrible mistake getting involved there in the first place,” and that “it’s a…
Trump Administration Green Light’s “Regime Change” in Venezuela
Timothy Alexander Guzman, Silent Crow News – U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley said that the Trump administration “wants to prevent another conflict like Syria, North Korea or South Sudan” in Venezuela which is a code phrase for “regime change.” According to a May 17th report by the Associated Press (AP): Haley said the U.S. intention wasn’t to be “intrusive”…
Trump, Saudi Arabia and the War on Yemen
Trump to Strengthen U.S. –Saudi Alliance to Confront the Iranian Threat in the Middle East Timothy Alexander Guzman, Silent Crow News – On April 2nd, The Yemen News Agency (SABA) reported that US-Saudi war planes struck several targets including private and public properties across several provinces in Yemen: The US-Saudi aggression war planes continued heinous strikes against citizens, causing heavy…
Cambodia Rejects US War Debt, Slams US Imperial Brutality
teleSUR / uj-CM -Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, who has been calling for the cancellation of the debt since President Donald Trump was elected, rejected paying it, saying, “I have not sent an official letter to Trump asking him to cancel the debt … They brought bombs and dropped them on Cambodia and (now) demand Cambodian people to pay.” Speaking at…
Vatican Bankers, CIA Gladios & Trafficantes
This is the first of a new series of videos concerning the Vatican, the CIA and their connections to banking, pedophilia rings, child-trafficking and organ harvesting. We begin this series by providing some historical context so that anyone seeing this information for the first time can quickly verify some of these facts and gradually move on to more recent events…
The U.S. Elections and the Aftermath: Will Hillary Clinton be Indicted? Will Trump Start a News Network Channel?
Timothy Alexander Guzman, Silent Crow News – As the U.S. elections come to a close, the newly-elected President of the United States will run one of the most dangerous empires in human history. Regardless of whatever comes out of the FBI investigation concerning Hillary Clinton’s ‘Classified’ email scandal, she will most likely not go to prison, at least anytime soon. Clinton…
The Brewing Collapse of the Western Monetary System
Peter Koenig, Information Clearing House – Germany has just warned its citizens of an upcoming catastrophe and urged them to stockpile food, water and money for at least 10 days, to be autonomous and independent until the government has caught up putting the necessary public safety systems in place – in case of a ‘catastrophe’. There was no mention on…