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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.
Death Of Top Syrian Rebel Commander May Derail "Peace" Process, Evacuation Efforts
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/26/2015 16:05 -0500“For sure it will cause a big delay and it may kill the whole process. Whoever committed this crime is pushing for a military solution, not a political process solution.”
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."
Oil Bankruptcies Hit Highest Level Since Crisis And There's "More To Come", Fed Warns
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/25/2015 11:30 -0500"Oil and gas sector bankruptcies have reached quarterly levels last seen in the Great Recession. At least nine U.S. oil and gas companies, accounting for more than $2 billion in debt, have filed for bankruptcy so far in the fourth quarter."
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."
In Bizarre Alliance, Russia Teams With The Taliban In ISIS Fight
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/24/2015 10:25 -0500The fight against ISIS makes for some strange bedfellows. “The Taliban interest objectively coincides with ours. We've already said earlier that we and the Taliban have channels for exchanging information."
US Had "Secret" Discussions With Assad "Regime", Tried To Start Military Coup
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/24/2015 08:23 -0500According to WSJ, "the Obama administration pursued secret communications with elements of Syria’s regime over several years in a failed attempt to limit violence and get President Bashar al-Assad to relinquish power, according to U.S. and Arab officials. Early on, the U.S. looked for cracks in the regime it could exploit to encourage a military coup, but found few.”
India To Pay $4.5 Billion For Putin's "Jewels" In Largest Defense Deal In A Decade
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/23/2015 18:30 -0500"The best thing [about Putin] is that he knows how to maintain relations. He has a special strength to sacrifice for the relations. It is rarely found."
Assad: Europe, Turkey, Qatar, And Saudi Arabia Made Syria A "Hotbed Of Terror"
Submitted by Tyler Durden on 12/23/2015 14:31 -0500"Many Europeans have sold their values ??against petrodollars.You have Wahhabi organizations from Saudi Arabia allowed to bring their dark and extremist ideology to Europe. Therefore from there terrorists now are exported to us. We have no export, all came to Syria and then go back to Europe.The three criminals who are responsible for the attacks in Paris have all lived in Europe and not in Syria."
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."


