This week, the United States and its NATO allies pledged to increase their troop presence in Europe seven-fold, in order to prepare for what they called “warfighting against nuclear-armed peer-competitors”–that is, war against Russia and China.
Who will pay for Biden’s new “forever war”?
Related:
Glenn Hubbard’s WSJ Op-Ed: NATO Needs More Guns and Less Butter
Hubbard is a nonresident senior fellow at the right-wing think tank, American Enterprise Institute!
Ex-Treasury Secretary Larry Summers warned that millions of currently employed Americans must lose their jobs in order for the Federal Reserve to succeed in its bid to cool inflation.
Larry Summers warns unemployment must rise to cool inflation
Related:
Larry Summers Says US Needs 5% Jobless Rate for Five Years to Ease Inflation
Maybe he can ship some more jobs overseas [/sarcasm]?! I’d suggest shipping him, overseas, but I wouldn’t even wish that on my enemy!
On Tuesday, an estimated 10,000 Indigenous people took to the streets of Quito.
Indigenous protester dies in Ecuador as violence increases
Video via Peoples Dispatch
June 19 marks the 40th anniversary of the death of Chinese-American draftsman Vincent Chin, who was beaten to death in Detroit by Chrysler plant superintendent Ronald Ebens and his unemployed stepson Michael Nitz. The murder took place amid a wave of anti-Japanese hysteria fanned by the United Auto Workers and Democratic Party politicians.
Forty-year anniversary of Vincent Chin killing marked amid surge of anti-Asian violence
The president warned carriers that new regulations could be coming as he called on Congress to pass the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022.
‘The rip-off is over’: Biden urges shipping reform during Port of Los Angeles visit
The televised spectacle of the January 6th hearings will not restore democracy or halt the rise of the far right. The hearings are a desperate ploy by a doomed political class.
Society of Spectacle
H/T: THE NEW DARK AGE
Jun 11, 2022 — In the wake of the UN human rights chief’s visit to Xinjiang, China – the Western media and US government-funded organizations have concluded that the UN is not sufficiently repeating Western claims about China’s alleged treatment of its Uyghur minority.
In reality, the US is spreading false narratives about China just as it did regarding Iraq in 2003 – all to undermine and isolate China on the global stage in a bid to prevent it from surpassing the US, and because the US is not capable of competing with China fairly.
US Coerces UN Human Rights Chief Following Xinjiang China Visit (Odysse) — The New Atlas on YouTube
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Read More »The chairman of the US Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, said his goal is “to get wages down.”
US Federal Reserve Says Its Goal Is ‘To Get Wages Down’
H/T: THE NEW DARK AGE
No wonder they’re creating a Disinformation Governance Board. As their critics grow, so will the state’s need to silence them in order to keep the compliant masses in their place — forever oblivious to the crimes of their leaders.
Under the guise of improving the plight of Lebanon’s Palestinian refugees, an initiative by the British Foreign Office has ulterior motives that impact Lebanese domestic politics.
Leaked files expose Britain’s covert infiltration of Palestinian refugee camps
Ms. Cat’s Chronicles 
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