The Legacy Of Reagan's Civilian 'PsyOps' Authored by Robert Parry via ConsortiumNews.com, When the Reagan administration launched peacetime “psyops” in the mid-1980s, it pulled in civilian agencies to help spread these still-ongoing techniques of deception and manipulation… Declassified records from the Reagan presidential library show how the U.S. government enlisted civilian agencies in psychological operations …

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Forget Catalonia, Flanders Is The Real Test Case Of EU Separatism! Authored by Andrew Korybko via Oriental Review, Catalonia’s separatist campaign has dominated European headlines for the past couple of weeks, but it’s really the northern Belgian region of Flanders which will serve as a barometer over whether large chunks of the EU will fall …

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Retired Green Beret Fears North Korea Is On "Death Ground" – No Recourse But To Fight Or Die Authored by Jeremiah Johnson (nom de plume of a retired Green Beret of the United States Army Special Forces) via SHTFplan.com, Fox News reported this on October 11, 2017, in the article North Korea says Trump ‘Lit …

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China Launches Yuan-Ruble Payment System The monetary regimes of China and Russia, two of the world’s most resource-rich nations, are drawing closer with every passing day. In the latest push for convergence, China has established a payment versus payment (PVP) system for Chinese yuan and Russian ruble transactions in a move to reduce risks and …

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The European Countries With The Most Psychiatrists If Europe is driving you nuts, we have some simple advice… head to Finland! As Statista's Niall McCarthy notes, according to new Eurostat data released to mark World Mental Health Day, the European Union has about 90,000 psychiatrists in total and Finland has the most per 100,000 inhabitants (23.60) followed by Sweden …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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. …

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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 …

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