What Saudis Hope To Get Out Of Russia Ties Authored by M.K. Bhadrakumr viaThe Strategic Culture Foundation, The mishap at the Moscow airport on Wednesday when the Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz arrived on a historic visit, was a wake-up call that even the most carefully choregraphed enterprises may hold unpleasant surprises. When Salman exited …
October 2017 archive
Oct 10
Today’s News 10th October 2017
Are Russia And China Right On North Korea? Authored by Matthew Jamison via The Strategic Culture Foundation, With the nuclear standoff between North Korea and the United States having heated up significantly over the summer, it has been the Governments of Russia and China who have sought to be the responsible, mature and wise international …
Oct 09
Today’s News 9th October 2017
A Mysterious Virus Has Infiltrated America's Drone Program There’s something deeply wrong at Creech Air Force Base, the notorious home of America’s drone program, where pilots remotely order US Reaper and Predator drones to unleash destructive missile strikes on unsuspecting villagers in Yemen, Libya, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and other war zones. Less than a week …
Oct 08
Today’s News 8th October 2017
Fire Breaks Out On The Roof Of The New York Fed Dozens of firefighters are fighting a blaze which broke out on the top of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, NBC New York reports. The fire broke out sometime before 8:40 p.m. on the roof of the 14-story building at 33 Liberty St. …
Oct 07
Today’s News 7th October 2017
Is Saudi Arabia's Grand Strategy Shifting? Authored by Andrew Korybko via Oriental Review, Even in this era of global paradigmatic changes, Saudi Arabia’s shifting grand strategy is perhaps one of the most surprising developments to occur thus far, but the fast-moving Russian-Saudi rapprochement is likely to provoke an Iranian “zero-sum” reaction which could complicate Moscow’s …
Oct 06
Today’s News 6th October 2017
Germany's East Is Shrinking According to forecasts from the 'Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln', Germany's population is going to increase to 83.1 million by 2035. As Statista's Martin Armstrong notes, the main reason for this is the record number of immigrants and asylum seekers which arrived in the country in 2015. You will find more statistics at …
Oct 05
Today’s News 5th October 2017
Fukushima Operator Given Green Light To Restart Nuclear Reactors Via TheAntiMedia.org, The Japanese utility Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) has received approval to operate reactors for the first time since the 2011 Fukushima meltdown. On Wednesday, the Nuclear Regulation Authority said TEPCO’s two reactors in northern Japan met new and stricter safety standards. The authority unanimously approved the draft …
Oct 04
Today’s News 4th October 2017
Caracas Or Catalan – Nightstick Democracy At Its Finest… Authored by Simon Black via SovereignMan.com, The last several days in Venezuela have been absolutely mind-blowing. Pretty much all the stories you’ve heard are true– countless people eating out of garbage cans, the appalling shortages of basic staples like food, medicine, and even soap… and the …
Oct 02
Today’s News 2nd October 2017
Google Reports Record Level Of Government Data Requests Google has just released its biannual transparency report disclosing the number of requests governments send for users' private data. As Statista's Niall McCarthy details, in the first six months of this year, the search engine giant received 48,941 requests for data while 83,345 accounts were specified in those requests. You will …
Oct 01
Today’s News 1st October 2017
"This Is A Crisis Greater Than Any Government Can Handle": The $400 Trillion Global Retirement Gap Submitted by John Mauldin of Mauldin Economics Today we’ll continue to size up the bull market in governmental promises. As we do so, keep an old trader’s slogan in mind: “That which cannot go on forever, won’t.” Or we …
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