May 2019 archive

European Commission Unwittingly Echoes '1984' Slogan In Controversial Tweet The EU Commission is taking some heat on Twitter after its account tweeted a message that some blasted for perhaps unwittingly echoing “Orwellian” themes from George Orwell’s seminal novel 1984. <!–[if IE 9]><![endif]–><!–[if IE 9]><![endif]–> Urging Europeans to get out and vote during the upcoming European …

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On America's Hostile Coexistence with China Via ChasFreeman.net, Remarks to the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies China Program Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, Jr. (USFS, Ret.) Senior Fellow, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University Stanford, California, 3 May 2019 President Trump’s trade war with China has quickly metastasized into every other domain …

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The Polar Silk Road Comes To Life As A New Epoch In History Begins Authored by Matthew Ehret via The Strategic Culture Foundation, Speaking at China’s second Belt and Road conference in Beijing featuring 37 heads of state, Russia President Vladimir Putin unveiled the intention to unite Russia’s Northern Sea Route with China’s Maritime Silk Road. This …

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UK-US Row Over Iran Intel Unleashes Storm Of Behind The Scenes Infighting A new report in Britain’s The Times says the UK’s Ministry of Defense (MoD) is standing by its senior officer in the US-led coalition in Iraq and Syria, who earlier this week publicly contracted the Pentagon and US administration by appearing to dismiss US intelligence claims …

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"Significant Slowdown" Spooks Maersk At Mediterranean's Third Largest Port Malta Freeport, the third largest transshipment port in the Mediterranean region and located on the island of Malta, has seen a “significant slowdown in business activity” since 2H18. One of its major clients, Maersk, the largest container ship and supply vessel operator in the world, has …

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Spanish Frigate Peels Off From US Carrier Group Over Iran Conflict Fears With things fast heating up in the Persian Gulf, including a recent US military build-up and the hasty blaming of Iran for a mysterious “sabotage” attack on oil tankers near the Strait of Hormuz, will international powers begin drawing a line in the sand? …

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Turkey Flexes In "Largest Ever" East-Med Naval Drills Amid Cypriot Oil & Gas Grab Turkey kicked off its “largest ever” military drills conducted in the Mediterranean and Aegean Seas on Monday. Though the drills are pre-scheduled “annual” exercises, the massively beefed up Turkish naval presence comes as Cyprus is pressing the EU to address illegal Turkish oil and …

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Kamikaze DroneBullet Knocks Enemy UAVs Out Of The Sky Just a few months back, we were one of the first to cover Kalashnikov’s high-precision suicide drone that delivers a small warhead to target coordinates. Then a month later in March, we discovered schematics for a drone with a shotgun embedded into its airframe on the …

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Is America Ready For John Bolton's War With Iran? Authored by Scott Ritter via The American Conservative, National Security Advisor John Bolton’s announcement this week that the U.S. is deploying a carrier strike group and a bomber task force to the U.S. Central Command region seemed perfectly framed to put America on a war footing with …

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The Origins Of The Deep State In North America, Part 2 Authored by Matthew Ehret via The Duran, <!–[if IE 9]><![endif]–><!–[if IE 9]><![endif]–> “As between the three possibilities of the future: 1. Closer Imperial Union, 2. Union with the U.S. and 3. Independence, I believe definitely that No. 2 is the real danger. I do …

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