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This is one way to get around draconian sanctions – an ‘old world’ approach to bartering your way towards growth and prosperity.

Going long. Again.........In the post:  After Pakistan’s Soft Coup- Imran Khan’s Dangerous Victory The little list highlighting Pakistan's geopolitical importance was included. By no means extensive, but, hopefully enough to understand the great game is at play in Pakistan.

Iran has filed a lawsuit alleging the US violated a treaty by imposing sanctions after it withdrew from the JCPOA aka the ‘Iran Nuclear Deal’ earlier this year.
Signed with a sharpie? President Donald Trump formally declared his intention to withdraw the US from the JCPOA in May, 2018. (Photo: REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst)

At some point along their quest for regime change, US officials must consider how ‘sanctions’ end up hurting everyday working people everywhere.
IMAGE: North Tehran by day. (Patrick Henningsen @21WIRE)
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Teodrose Fikre
21st Century Wire

The U.S. is up to its neck in the quagmire of war (and debt) everywhere, and since 9/11 its oxymoronic “war on terror” has cost almost $6 trillion.
Now, a new study on the “Costs of War” by the Watson Institute finds the impact of this will have societal consequences well beyond what we face in the present day.

 Excerpts from a Bloomberg article

21st Century Wire says…
Gold bugs should be on high alert. We’ve warned of this financial development in the past, but many in the West still think they can get their hands on other people’s gold – this is no longer the case, from Russia, Turkey, Germany, to the Netherlands and beyond.

From Corbett Report

Hate the headline of the WSJ article- it's misleading. Since climate changes.But, do realize that AGW had to be rebranded into "climate change" in order to continue to sell the chosen concept.