Thailand

May 2, 2015 (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - There are two kinds of "ambassadors" the US employs across the globe to project its unwarranted power and influence beyond its borders.

April 21, 2015 (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) For months after the 2014 military coup that ousted Thaksin Shinawatra's sister, Yingluck Shinawatra from office in Southeast Asia's nation of Thailand, the West has attempted to destabilize and undermine the military-led government that has since then worked ceaselessly to uproot the political machine that had granted the Shinawatra's impunity and maintained their grip on power for over a decade.

April 1, 2015 (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - The Southeast Asian nation of Thailand is currently wrestling with a particularly contentious issue involving international oil concessions.

February 18, 2015 (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - Corporate-funded think tank, the Council on Foreign Relations, in their magazine Foreign Affairs, recently published an article titled, "Silencing the Shinawatras." In it, author Matthew Wheeler encapsulates current US policy toward Thailand regardin

Princes of the Yen offers a disturbing new look at Japan's post-war economy and the key factors that shaped it. It gives special emphasis to the 1980s and 1990s when Japan's economy experienced vast swings in activity. According to the author, the most recent upheaval in the Japanese economy is the result of the policies of a central bank less concerned with stimulating the economy than with its own turf battles and its ideological agenda to change Japan's economic structure.

When Djukanovic gets thrown out, and that day is inexorably coming, where will he go?
The US political and economic oligarchy has had a long history of using the corrupt rulers of puppet states to do its bidding throughout the world. One of the ways that these rulers perform the services useful for the US clandestine, anti-democratic operations, typically conducted by the CIA or the Pentagon, is by granting citizenship to the persons who, due to their allegiance to the promotion of the US oligarchy's interests, have been forced to leave their native countries.

Comments made in wake of US-backed proxy regime's fall in Thailand further alienate the waning superpower.Image: US State Department's Daniel Russel, a chief proponents of the US"Pivot to Asia" strategy aimed at using Southeast Asian nations as clientstates to encircle and contain China, recently made comments condemningThailand's attempts to reign in a notorious criminal family - one the US sohappens to have backed for the past decade. February 4, 2015 (

February 2, 2015 (Tony Cartalucci - ATN) -  Imagine a bomb going off in New York City's Times Square and the US government making an announcement about the Super Bowl instead.That's just what happened in Thailand Sunday evening when a double bombing took place in the very heart of downtown Bangkok.

Ousted regime that vowed violent reprisals, finally follows through. February 2, 2015 (Tony Cartalucci - LD) - Two powerful bombs exploded in downtown Bangkok Sunday night, just days after ousted prime minster Yingluck Shinawatra was impeached from office amid threats from her political party that violence would follow.Indeed just days ago the Nation would

January 29, 2015 (Tony Cartalucci - LD) - Comments made by Daniel Russel, a representative of the US State Department, condemned the current Thai government's legal proceedings against deposed prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra, the nepotist proxy of her brother, Thaksin Shinawatra, also deposed in a military coup in 2006, and guilty of mass murder, serial co