In his speech Friday at the Federal Reserve’s annual summit in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell made one thing clear: America’s financial oligarchy is determined to make the working class bear the cost of the deepening economic crisis.
Pledging “pain,” Federal Reserve declares war on the working class
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Tariq Ali: Terrorism Charges Against Pakistan’s Former PM Imran Khan Are “Truly Grotesque” + How To Manipulate Readers With ‘Expert’ Slanted Reporting
Tariq Ali: Terrorism Charges Against Pakistan’s Former PM Imran Khan Are “Truly Grotesque”
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Succeeded: Regime Change in Pakistan
They’re trying to prevent Imran Khan from running in the next election.
Did the Syrian Revolution Have Popular Support?
by William Van Wagenen | Aug 3, 2022
In the mainstream view, the armed groups fighting the Syrian government since 2011, collectively known as the Free Syrian Army (FSA), were part of a Syrian revolution that represented the Syrian people. At the same time, the Syrian government, or Assad regime, allegedly represented only a small number of loyalists, in particular from President Assad’s minority Alawite community. Such a view undergirded demands by Western and Gulf-funded think tank scholars, who claimed that the Syrian people wished for FSA groups to be armed, and even for Western military intervention on behalf of the FSA, whose fighters they sympathetically described as rebels.
Did the Syrian Revolution Have Popular Support?
How the Taiwan lobby helped pave the way for Pelosi’s trip
The resources promoting Taipei’s interests in DC are growing, and include close ties and financial support for major think tanks, too.
How the Taiwan lobby helped pave the way for Pelosi’s trip
US “Iran Nuclear Deal” Ploy Coming Full Circle
By Brian Berletic – New Eastern Outlook – 22.07.2022
Hopes for the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) simply known as the Iran Nuclear Deal seemed to fade further during US President Joe Biden’s recent trip to Israel where the US and Israeli governments signed a pledge to use force against Iran should it pursue nuclear weapons (weapons both the US and Israel possess).
US “Iran Nuclear Deal” Ploy Coming Full Circle
Poland’s Position as the “Next Ukraine”
While Western governments and the Western media continue clinging to the hope of an eventual “victory” for Kiev’s forces in Ukraine, the “frontline” is quietly being moved back to western Ukraine and even Poland just across the border. Recent pledges by NATO as well as arms deliveries this year and next appear to be headed in the direction of using Poland as the next battering ram with which US-led NATO will use against Russia.
Poland’s Position as the “Next Ukraine”
Sri Lanka: Debt Trap Diplomacy & Putin Price Hikes? Or Something Else?
Jul 10, 2022 – Sri Lanka’s dire economic and political conflict is being blamed by the Western media on Chinese “debt trap diplomacy” and “Putin Price Hikes,” however buried within the same Western media sources, is the truth.
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Sri Lanka: Debt Trap Diplomacy & Putin Price Hikes? Or Something Else? (Odysee)
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Read More »Biden’s visit to Israel poses political risk — as Abu Akleh family demands a meeting
The family of Shireen Abu Akleh, a Palestinian American journalist killed by Israel, wrote to Biden, that the U.S. “has been skulking toward the erasure of any wrongdoing by Israeli forces.”
Biden’s visit to Israel poses political risk — as Abu Akleh family demands a meeting
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The People Crafting U.S. Policy Aren’t in America
In a piece of news that shocked the mainstream media, but which shocked no one familiar with the academic industry writ large, retired U.S. Army general John Allen was forced to resign as president of the Brookings Institution after it was revealed the FBI was investigating him for lobbying on behalf of the Qatari monarchy.
The People Crafting U.S. Policy Aren’t in America
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