March 2017 archive

US' Main Target In Syria Is Iran; ISIS Comes Second Authored by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar via The Strategic Culture Foundation, The common thread running through the two major ‘hot spots’ in the Middle East today – the conflicts in Syria and Libya – is undoubtedly the threat to international security from the extremist groups operating in …

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Why The Press Is Hated… Authored by Eric Peters via EricPetersAutos.com, The press wonders – or pretends to wonder – why it’s held in contempt by more than just a small handful of  people. Maybe the pressies should read what they publish. The other day, Automotive News published the following: “Dozens of U.S. cities are willing …

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Beijing Goes Global: China Expands Marine Force 400%; First Overseas Military Base Almost Complete Authored by Daniel Lang via SHTFplan.com, For most of its recent history, China has largely been a land power with no significant naval capabilities. They haven’t been able to exert much military influence beyond their coastline for hundreds of years. In …

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From Nuisance To Threat: The High Cost Of Truth Authored by Paul Craig Roberts, I am convinced that the US, and probably the entire Western world, that is, the American Empire, has entered an era in which respect for truth does not exist in public and private institutions. We have been watching this develop for …

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Will Chrystia Freeland Finally Ruin Canadian-Russian Relations? Authored by Michael Jabara Carley via The Strategic Culture Foundation, On 10 January 2017 Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau fired his minister of external affairs, Stéphane Dion, and replaced him with Chrystia Freeland, who was then minister of international trade. This cabinet shuffle might not have gotten much …

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This Map Shows US States Renamed For Countries With Similar GDPs The U.S. economy is so big that all of the individual states are comparable to entire countries…       As Visual Capitalist's Jeff Desjardins notes, not surprisingly – big states like California, New York, and Texas are very similar in size to other …

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New European Regulations Set To Crush Equity Research Budgets By $300 Million Literally no one knows the true ‘value’ of equity research, not even the investment banks that are selling it.  Up until now, equity research has been treated as a ‘freebie’ given away to institutional clients in return for trading commissions but that is …

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How Shale Is Reshaping The World: Three New Wars Via The Gavekal USA Team, We recently met with geopolitical strategist Peter Zeihan to discuss world events since the American election and his new book, “The Absent Superpower: The Shale Revolution and a World without America.” In the book, Peter credits energy and resource innovations with …

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The Empire Should Be Placed On Suicide Watch Via The Saker, In all the political drama taking place in the USA as a result of the attempted color revolution against Trump, the bigger picture sometimes gets forgotten. And yet, this bigger picture is quite amazing, because if we look at it we will see irrefutable …

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The Strategic Triangle That Is Changing The World Authored by Federico Pieraccini via The Strategic Culture Foundation, While the world continues to decipher, or digest, the new Trump presidency, important changes are afoot within the grand strategic triangle that lies between Russia, Iran and China Away from the current chaos in the United States, major …

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