The Lira tumbled nearly 300 pips in seconds after the US Attorney's Office announced it charged Turkey's Halkbank, one of the country's largest banks, for its participation in a "mltibillion-dollar Iranian sanctions evasion scheme."
Every nation that today believes it has an implied or a treaty guarantee that the U.S. will fight on its behalf should probably recheck its hole card...
"State and Energy Department officials were quietly reviewing plans for evacuating roughly 50 tactical nuclear weapons that the United States had long stored."
How did a Damascus-Kurdish SDF reunion occur seemingly overnight between the two "enemies"? A brief history through the lens of photographer Joey Lawrence.
"It is morally wrong, at this time, to show public support for the EU, unless you balance it by showing your disgust at the fascist repression of the Catalans and the EU’s support for that repression..."
For close to 40 years the IMF has weaponized its handle on the western economy through the dollar-based western monetary system, and brutally destroyed nation after nation, thereby killed hundreds of thousands of people...
...given our very dubious record (at best) in the Middle East, our efforts at “democratization” and “peace-keeping” should have taught us a lesson or two.
On the evening of October 14, Turkish-backed miltiant groups officially announced an advance on the town of Manbij, which was controlled by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces.
