Middle East
The Crude Oil Export Ban - "What, Me Worry About Peak Oil?"
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/28/2015 14:40 -0500Congress ended the U.S. crude oil export ban last week. There is apparently no longer a strategic reason to conserve oil because shale production has made American great again. At least, that’s narrative that reality-averse politicians and their bases prefer. Congress’ decision to lift the 40-year U.S. ban on crude oil exports reflects the same misinformed and distorted thinking that declares that the world’s highest cost producer - tight oil - can somehow also be the world’s swing producer.
Washington's "Empire Of Chaos" & The Cold War 2.0 'New Normal'
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/26/2015 22:00 -0500It’s all here: unilateral Exceptionalistan in action against anyone who dares to defy imperial diktats. From Ukraine to Syria, and all across MENA (Middle East and North Africa), the proxy war between Washington and Moscow, with higher and higher stakes, won’t abate. Imperial despair over the irreversible Chinese ascent also won’t abate. As the New Great Game picks up speed, and Russia supplies Eurasian powers Iran, China and India with missile defense systems beyond anything the West has, get used to the new normal; Cold War 2.0 between Washington and Beijing-Moscow.
Guns, Gas, & "Selling Kidneys" - 'Off The Grid' Indicators Signal Slowing Economy
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/26/2015 15:30 -0500Our quarterly survey of “Off the Grid” economic indicators finds that the U.S. economy is still growing, but the pace seems to be slowing from Q3 2015.
Dave Barry Answers - Was 2015 The Worst Year Ever? (Spoiler Alert: Yes)
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/26/2015 14:20 -0500- Apple
- B+
- Bernie Sanders
- Black Friday
- Carbon Emissions
- Comcast
- Donald Trump
- FBI
- Florida
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- International Monetary Fund
- Iran
- Iraq
- Japan
- Joe Biden
- KIM
- M1
- Mexico
- Middle East
- NBC
- New York Times
- Nomination
- North Korea
- Obama Administration
- Ohio
- President Obama
- Reality
- Same-Sex Marriage
- SWIFT
- Treasury Department
- Tribune
- Vladimir Putin
- Volkswagen
- Volvo
- Washington D.C.
- White House
We apologize, but 2015 had so many negatives that we’re having trouble seeing the positives. It’s like we’re on the Titanic, and it’s tilting at an 85-degree angle with its propellers way up in the air, and we’re dangling over the cold Atlantic trying to tell ourselves: “At least there’s no waiting for the shuffleboard courts!” Are we saying that 2015 was the worst year ever? Are we saying it was worse than, for example, 1347, the year when the Bubonic Plague killed a large part of humanity? Yes, we are saying that.
The After-Christmas Hangover: Why There Is No Peace On Earth
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/26/2015 13:10 -0500- Afghanistan
- Brazil
- Bulgaria
- China
- Eastern Europe
- ETC
- Exxon
- First Amendment
- France
- Henry Kissinger
- Iran
- Iraq
- Israel
- Kuwait
- Middle East
- Mohammad
- National Debt
- national intelligence
- national security
- Nationalism
- Neocons
- Newspaper
- None
- Nuclear Power
- OPEC
- Reza Shah
- Robert Gates
- Romania
- Salient
- Saudi Arabia
- Slovakia
- Totalitarianism
- Turkey
- Ukraine
- Uranium
- White House
101 years after the Christmas truces along the Western Front there is still no peace on earth. And the long suffering American taxpayers, who foot the massive bills generated by the War Party’s demented and destructive policies, have no clue that Imperial Washington is the principal reason.
Exclusive: "And It's Gone... It's All Gone" - The One Gold Scandal That Goes To The Very Top
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/25/2015 22:20 -0500Following the yellow brick road leads us deep, very deep inside the rabbit hole...
Islam & The West - "Moving Towards A Head-On Collision"
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/25/2015 18:15 -0500"...the march towards secularism and freedom is not inevitable. In fact, it’s problematic because we have a situation where every year the West becomes more secular, open, tolerant and liberal while many parts of the Muslim world are going the other way. So it would seem that we might be moving towards a head-on collision of some sort... In most Muslim countries the majority of people are tolerant. They want to live in a more inclusive society and have a more liberal religious doctrine. The problem is that Islam seems to have been hijacked by a vocal minority of people who are prepared to use violence to advance their very intolerant and conservative version of Islam."
How Turkey's Erdogan "Risks The Destruction Of The Country"
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/24/2015 15:10 -0500"Erdogan's adventurism has been quite successful so far, but it amounts to an extraordinary departure for Turkish foreign policy, and maybe even risks the destruction of the country. How on earth could this happen? The background is an inferiority complex, and megalomania."
Mapping The Ongoing 'World War' In Syria & Iraq
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/23/2015 19:00 -0500This cannnot end well...
Paul Craig Roberts 'Evaluates' Donald Trump
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/23/2015 18:00 -0500Trump is popular not so much for his stance on issues as for the fact that he is not another Washington politican, and he is respected for not backing down and apologizing when he makes strong statements for which he is criticized. What people see in Trump is strength and leadership. This is what is unusual about a political candidate, and it is this strength to which voters are responding. For that reason, the corrupt American political establishment has issued a “get Trump” command to its presstitute media.
Obama Warns World's Anti-Christians: "The Wrong Shall Fail, The Right Prevail"
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/23/2015 17:30 -0500President Obama has released a statement on the persecution of christians around the world...
The War On Terror Has Created 6500% More Terrorism
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/23/2015 11:11 -0500An analysis of terror attacks since 2002 suggests U.S. efforts to combat terrorism - i.e., the "War on Terror" - have led to a dramatic increase in death and suffering from terrorism.
Seymour Hersh Bombshell: US Military Shared Intelligence With Assad In Defiance Of Obama, CIA
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/22/2015 23:15 -0500In a shocking new report, Seymour Hersh reveals what he says was a covert operation run by the Joint Chiefs of Staff who sought to undermine the Obama administration and the CIA's goal of overthrowing the Assad regime in Syria. "If the American public saw the intelligence we were producing daily, at the most sensitive level, they would go ballistic."
Christmas 2015: Will Syria & Iraq Become Washington's Stalingrad?
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/22/2015 22:35 -0500"I hope I'm wrong but I fear Washington is trying to provoke a war in the Middle East to cover the coming collapse of the Petrodollar system and the American economy when the dollar is no longer the world reserve currency. The war is necessary to blame the coming dollar and debt collapse on Russia and China rather where it belongs on Wall Street, the central banking cartel and Washington political establishment. Remember while a Washington provoked war or conflict is likely to start in the Shia Crescent; it could spread across the Middle East and into Europe."
US "Ally" Saudi Arabia's Phony War On Terror
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/22/2015 10:32 -0500The main shortcoming of today’s militarized approach to fighting terrorism is simple - unless the expansion of dangerous ideologies like Wahhabism is stopped, the global war on terror, now almost a generation old, will never be won. No matter how many bombs the US and its allies drop, the Saudi-financed madrassas will continue to indoctrinate tomorrow’s jihadists.


