America’s Military and Diplomatic Power in Visible Decline
China and Russia are trying to ensure that Washington no longer exercises unrestrained power, and with a good bit of success.
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Could Falling Chinese Oil Production Kill The OPEC Deal?
Why China will influence any OPEC deal in November, and some broader implications.
Read more...How Trump and Clinton Gave Bad Answers on US Nuclear Policy….And Why You Should Be Worried
As tensions with Russia rise, neither Presidential candidate gave a straight answer on the use of nuclear weapons.
Read more...John Helmer: Four MH17 Questions – The Answers to Which Prove the Dutch Police, Ukrainian Secret Service, and US Government Are Faking the Evidence of the MH17 Shootdown
A skeptical look at the latest MH17 findings.
Read more...John Helmer: Did Hillary Clinton Take Money From Russia Oligarch Oleg Deripaska for a Favor in the General Motors-Opel Deal?
The curious tale of a Russian’s oligarch’s donation to the Clinton Foundation and his failed attempt to make an acquisition from General Motors.
Read more...Deutsche Bank and a $10Bn Money Laundering Nightmare: More Context Than You Can Shake a Stick at
Deutsche Bank’s $10Bn: the shell company back story
Read more...Putin-Erdogan Meeting a Dud: No Common Ground on Syria
Erdogan met Putin in Moscow last week but as Helmer explains, failed to achieve any rapprochement in its relations with Russia
Read more...John Helmer: The Collapse of Russian Real Estate Investment – Will Children and Chinese Tourists Save the Mall?
Why the plunge in Russian commercial real estate prices reveals the large role of money laundering.
Read more...Strengthening Russo-Turkish Alliance Stokes US-Russian Cold War
John Helmer describes why an upcoming meeting between Erdogan and Putin could represent a significant geopolitical shift.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Obama Said Hillary Will Continue His Legacy – and Indeed She Will!
An update on Hillary’s coronation.
Read more...John Helmer: The New Byzantine Alliance – Will Russia and Turkey Revolutionize the Center of the Old World?
Putin and Erdogan are meeting in August. Cooperation between Russia and Turkey would represent a major geopolitical realignment.
Read more...Dodgy New Zealand Companies: Mapping Their Global Footprint Since 2009
New Zealand’s scam companies: a map of their global footprint
Read more...Michael Hudson: US-NATO Border Confrontation with Russia Risks Nuclear War and Loss of European Partners
On the rising nuclear war risk due to NATO-Russia confrontation.
Read more...John Helmer: Armchair General Sells Australian Involvement in Ukraine….On Behalf of Arms-Maker-Funded Think Tank
An effort to enlist Australia as an ally of NATO in Ukraine reveals the reach of the military-industrial complex, as well as its methods.
Read more...Patrick Cockburn: How Neoliberalism and Cold War Obsessions Fractured the Middle East
How neoliberalism, the resource curse, and military interventions by Washington and its allies, profoundly destabilized the Middle East.
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