Award-winning journalist Gareth Porter reveals in his latest report that national security adviser John Bolton’s new claims of Iran’s “troubling and escalatory indications and warnings” are actually not based on any specific U.S. intelligence at all. There has been no serious debate about Bolton’s concocted claims – dangerously pushing the U.S. towards war with Iran.
The eagle has conveniently forgotten that the original, Ancient Silk Road linked the dragon with the Roman empire for centuries – with no interlopers outside of Eurasia, muses Pepe Escobar. By Pepe Escobar Special to Consortium News Once upon a…Read more →
Authored by Mike Whitney via The Unz Review:
Your Geopolitical Quiz for the Day:
Two countries are embroiled in a ferocious rivalry. One country’s meteoric growth has put it on a path to become the world’s biggest economic superpower while the other country appears to be slipping into irreversible decline. Which country will lead the world into the future?
From April 25-27 Beijing will host a second international forum on the Belt and Road Initiative and it won’t be a small deal.
Iran remains as one of the US and Israel’s primary targets in achieving regional hegemony over the Middle East and Central Asia. As economic warfare against Iran continues, so will a sanctions busting posture with its trade partners.
North Tehran by day. (Photo: Patrick Henningsen @21WIRE)
The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris examine how Italy has decided to defy the west and officially join China’s One Belt One Road initiative. Italy signed on to China’s “One Belt One Road” infrastructure plan on March 23rd, despite warning from the United States and the European Union.
Fireworks lit up Crimea’s skies on Monday, marking the five-year anniversary of reunification of the Crimean Peninsula with the Russian Federation. Watch:
A special message acknowledging the anniversary was delivered by Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova during the weekly briefing on March 15th:
The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss the Munich Security Conference, and Angela Merkel’s stunning defiance of Mike Pence, after the United States Vice President urged Germany to cease its economic activities with Russia and China, starting with Nord Stream 2 and the deepening energy links to Russia.
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#regimechange #venezuela #news A segment of a recent episode of the Sunday Wire I hosted where the first few minutes focused on the modern geopolitical spectrum and how resume change operations occur. From the time of the Inquiry to the Oss to the CIA, regime change operations have become a technology.
