Pulling Out of Germany: Trump Adjusts the Military Furniture

August 4, 2020

One noisy theme in the Donald Trump Disruption Show in an otherwise chaotic assemblage of messages has remained fairly constant: winding back US troop commitments. The US has fought its complement of …

The Pandemic Reveals a Europe More United than the United States

August 3, 2020

Opinion

During the Trump era, America increasingly seems like a motley collection of states brought together for reasons of territorial contiguity and little else. The conservative South is ravaged by a pande…

US Arrogance is a Gas

July 29, 2020

Opinion

Washington’s arrogance is so out of control it has become impossibly absurd. It is astounding just how "exceptional" American politicians are at spouting double-think and contradictions without even t…

Maxwell Didn’t Kill Herself By Getting Arrested

July 6, 2020

Opinion

Ghislaine Maxwell was caught in New Hampshire. Jeffrey Epstein’s partner-in-crime is now in U.S. custody in the darkest of all places, the Southern District of New York (SDNY). The first thing on ever…

After the Fed Punts, the ECB Throws Another Hail Mary

June 21, 2020

Opinion

Last week FOMC Chair Jerome Powell and company did, essentially nothing, at their June meeting. They held interest rates at 0.25%, did not expand QE nor did they indicate any changes. This wasn’t what…

UAE Targets Turkey and Qatar in the Mediterranean

June 17, 2020

Opinion

Europe is progressively being sucked into the Middle East and North Africa’s myriad conflicts. As if wars on its doorstep in Libya and Syria were not enough, UAE support for an Eastern Mediterranean p…

Venezuela, Minneapolis, Iran, Europe – Trump’s Last Gasps of Collapsing World Control. Or Is It?

June 10, 2020

Opinion

There comes a time when shooting around in circles just hits walls, bullets splinter off sidewalks, and shatter a window here and there. But people are in safety. They watch from a distance and with s…

The Transformation of Societies on the Occasion of COVID-19 Heralds the Militarisation of Europe

May 15, 2020

Opinion

Question: Who do you think manufactured Covid-19? Thierry Meyssan : My analysis is exclusively political. I don’t give an opinion on medical questions, but only on political decisions. An epidemic is …