Washington’s Blog | 17 March 2015 UK, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and India All Sign On … South Korea Next? Update: The Financial Times now reports that France, Germany and Italy have all agreed to join the China-led international development bank as well, “delivering a blow to US efforts to keep leading western countries out…
Tony Cartalucci | Land Destroyer Report | March 07, 2015 Not unlike other US-backed “color revolutions” around the world, Myanmar’s “Saffron Revolution” is sold as an ultra-liberal pro-democracy, progressive movement, with one of the West’s most successful neo-colonial creations to date, Aung San Suu Kyi, portrayed and revered as a modern day, secular “saint” of neo-liberalism and…
Simon Maloy | Salon | 6 Dec 2014 In the 1990s, Ashton Carter wanted to bomb a North Korean nuclear reactor — even if it meant all-out war Today, President Obama announced that he’s nominating Ashton Carter to be the next Secretary of Defense. Carter has had a long career in national security, including two…
Pepe Esocbar | RT | 11 Nov 2014 There’s hardly a more graphic illustration of where the multipolar world is going than what just happened at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Beijing. Take a very good look at the official photos. This is all about positioning – and this being China, pregnant with…
By Inder Comar | Global Research | November 13, 2014 South Korea’s struggle towards greater democracy has taken significant setbacks in the last few months, and basic freedoms are now at risk in a manner reminiscent of the Park Chung-hee dictatorship. For example, did you know that members of parliament have been jailed for their political speech?…
Barbara Demick | The New Yorker | 12 Nov 2014 North Korea’s government rarely does anything for free. Aid agencies working in the country are routinely asked to contribute expensive trucks and equipment. In 2005, the Pentagon suspended a search for the remains of U.S. soldiers declared missing in action during the Korean War after…
By Saul Takahashi | Global Research | October 31, 2014 The efforts of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to change Japan’s pacifist Constitution has received much attention overseas. This attention is very justified, and one hopes it will continue. However, most foreign media outlets fail to convey just how dramatically, and how rapidly, the public debate…
Pepe Escobar | Tom Dispatch | 6 Oct 2014 A specter haunts the fast-aging “New American Century”: the possibility of a future Beijing-Moscow-Berlin strategic trade and commercial alliance. Let’s call it the BMB. Its likelihood is being seriously discussed at the highest levels in Beijing and Moscow, and viewed with interest in Berlin, New Delhi,…
Tony Cartalucci | Land Destroyer | 1 Oct 2014 Just as the US admitted shortly after the so-called “Arab Spring” began spreading chaos across the Middle East that it had fully funded, trained, and equipped both mob leaders and heavily armed terrorists years in advance, it is now admitted that the US State Department through…
Tony Cartalucci | NEO | October 1, 2014 Protesters of the “Occupy Central” movement in Hong Kong shout familiar slogans and adopt familiar tactics seen across the globe as part of the United States’ immense political destabilization and regime change enterprise. Identifying the leaders, following the money, and examining Western coverage of these events reveal with…