Day: September 18, 2017

China’s Great Leap in Space Warfare Creates Huge New Threat

September 18, 2017

China is building an array of high-technology space arms – anti-satellite missiles, lasers, GPS jammers and killer satellites – that Beijing says will give its military strategic advantage in a future…

Washington Continues Transforming Afghanistan into Massive Graveyard

September 18, 2017

Opinion

On August 31, US Secretary of Defense James Mattis signed an order to deploy additional US troops in Afghanistan. He noted that this decision was made in accordance with the overall strategy in South …

Reputational Repair: Iran Tries to Capitalise On Myanmar’s Rohingya Crisis

September 18, 2017

Opinion

The Iranian leader, Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, made a strikingly strong statement on the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar this week, berating “hypocritical” (presumably Western) governments for their dou…

Venezuela Publishes Oil Prices in Yuan for First Time

September 18, 2017

Politics

In a move that is largely seen as Maduro giving Washington the middle finger, Venezuela has made good on its promise to layoff the U.S. dollar, publishing its oil prices in yuan on Friday. Last Friday…

China Helps Venezuela and Iran Against Unilateral US Sanctions

September 18, 2017

Opinion

China walks through the doors the US has left wide open. In economic warfare, like in traditional battle, one’s weapons are only as powerful as the shields which they are up against. This simple conce…

How Bush’s “New World Order” Became Trump’s “No World Order”

September 18, 2017

Opinion

George H.W. Bush made a bold pronouncement on September 11, 1990. Even though Iraq had recently invaded Kuwait and the collapse of the Soviet Union was still more than a year away, Bush proclaimed the…

Double Standards? Europe’s Five “Undeclared Nuclear Weapons States”. Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Turkey

September 18, 2017

Opinion

Author’s Note This article was originally published by Global Research in February 2010 under the title:Europe’s Five “Undeclared Nuclear Weapons States” The media, politicians and scientists have rem…

14 Cutting Edge Tech Firms Funded by the CIA

September 18, 2017

Miscellaneous

The CIA has its own investment capital firm called “In-Q-Tel,” and it’s been funding innovative tech firms for years. This is both good news and bad. One the one hand, it allows the CIA to invest in t…