Inter-Imperialist Rivalry

Neoliberalism Has Met Its Match In China

August 9, 2019 Ellen Brown, Truthdig.com Educate! China, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Neoliberalism, New Economy

When the Federal Reserve cut interest rates last week, commentators were asking why. According to official data, the economy was rebounding, unemployment was below 4% and gross domestic product growth was above 3%. If anything, by the Fed’s own reasoning, it should have been raising rates. Market pundits explained that we’re in a trade war and a currency war. Other central banks were cutting their rates, and the Fed had to follow suit in order to prevent the dollar from becoming overvalued relative to other currencies.

Recession On The Way, Global Trade & Currency War Has Begun

August 9, 2019 By Staff, Jackrasmus.com Educate! China, Economics, Global Finance, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, New Economy

Over this weekend, China’s Yuan currency broke out of its band and devalued to more than 7 to $1. At the same time China announced it would not purchase more US agricultural goods. The Trump-US Neocon trade strategy has just imploded. As this writer has been predicting, the threshold has now been passed, from a tariff-trade war to a broader economic war between the US and China where other tactics and measures are now being implemented.Trump will no doubt declare that China is manipulating its currency. A devaluation of the Yuan has the effect of...

US Sanctions Threaten Famine In Venezuela, Leading Economist Warns

August 8, 2019 Aaron Maté, Thegrayzone.com Educate! Famine, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Latin America, Sanctions, Venezuela

Top Venezuelan economist Francisco Rodríguez says the Trump administration’s sanctions have cost Venezuela $16.9 billion per year – and caused food shortages that threaten hundreds of thousands of deaths. Guest: Francisco Rodríguez, Chief Economist at Torino Economics in New York, former head of the Venezuelan National Assembly’s Economic and Financial Advisory Office, and former adviser to opposition Venezuelan presidential candidate Henri Falcon.

US Strangulation Of Venezuela’s Economy Officially Becomes An Embargo

August 8, 2019 Staff, Mision Verdad Educate! Embargo, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Latin America, Venezuela

Monday, the Trump Administration reached a new zenith in its destructive acts against the Venezuelan economy and society by extending to the category of embargo the coercive and unilateral measures against the Bolivarian Republic. According to The Wall Street Journal, this measure consists of a “total economic embargo”. Once again through his often used Executive Order the U.S. president is strengthening all actions prohibiting any relationship with the Venezuelan state by any company on U.S. soil or related to that country.

From 2006 To 2019: After Failures In Syria, Iraq, Palestine And Yemen, War Is No Longer An Option For Israel

August 7, 2019 By Elijah J. Magner, Ahtribune.com Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Middle East, Wars and Militarism

During the summer war of 2006, Israel managed to destroy a large number of Hezbollah’s rocket and missile stocks. Most Hezbollah missile units were destroyed and, in the suburb of the capital Beirut, over 250 buildings (mainly but not exclusively hosting Hezbollah offices, warehouses and officers’ homes) were flattened by Israeli precision bombs targeting Hezbollah (and many civilians) in the suburbs of Beirut. Hundreds of houses were completely destroyed in the south of Lebanon.

The Declining Empire Of Chaos Is Going Nuts Over Iran

August 7, 2019 By Federico Pieraccini, Strategic-culture.org Educate! China, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Iran, Russia, United States

In 2014 we were almost at the point of no return in Ukraine following the coup d’etat supported and funded by NATO and involving extremist right-wing Ukrainian nationalists. The conflict in the Donbass risked escalating into a conflict between NATO and the Russian Federation, every day in the summer and autumn of 2014 threatening to be doomsday. Rather than respond to the understandable impulse to send Russian troops into Ukraine to defend the population of Donbass...

US To Ring China With Missiles In Nuclear Arms Race

August 6, 2019 Andre Damon, Wsws.org Educate! China, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Nuclear Weapons, United States

Within hours of the official withdrawal by the United States on Friday from the world’s most important nuclear treaty, the Pentagon made clear that it intends to ring China with missiles amid a rapidly accelerating nuclear arms race. Speaking to reporters during a trip to Australia, US Defense Secretary Mark Esper said the Pentagon would deploy missiles prohibited under the treaty “sooner rather than later.” “I would prefer months,” Esper said. The deployment of medium-range missiles in the Pacific would turn the Chinese coast and the Pacific islands surrounding it into a nuclear battlefront...

Economic Sanctions Will Kill Tens Of Thousands Of Innocent Iranians

August 3, 2019 Muhammad Sahimi, Lobelog.com Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Iran, Sanctions

The illegal economic sanctions that the Trump administration has imposed on Iran are ruining its economy by increasing the inflation rate—from nine percent before the sanctions to 35-40 percent today—as well as unemployment, and forcing countless numbers of small businesses to close. Whereas Iran’s economy grew by 12.5 percent in 2016, it has shrunk by six percent in the first six months of 2019. These are the results that President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and National Security Advisor John Bolton constantly brag about.

The US-NATO Military Alliance Continues Confrontation Along Russia’s Borders

July 27, 2019 Brian Cloughley, Strategic-culture.org Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, NATO, Russia

The Pentagon and its sub-office in Brussels, HQ NATO, in its new billion dollar building, are intent on maintaining military pressure around the globe. The US itself is much more widely spread, having bases tentacled from continent to continent, with the Pentagon admitting to 514 but omitting mention of many countries, including Afghanistan, Syria and Somalia. Independent researchers came up with the more realistic total of 883 bases, and examination of the current US defence budget shows that the Pentagon’s spending priorities are far from modest in regard to spreading its wings...

March Of The Uyghurs

July 27, 2019 Andre Vltchek, Informationclearinghouse.info Educate! China, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Propaganda, Uyghurs

July 25, 2019 "Information Clearing House" - They are everywhere, where their Western, Gulf states and Turkish handlers want them to be. Their combat as well as political cells and units are based in Syria and Indonesia, in Turkey and occasionally in Egypt. When they are told to kill, they murder with unimaginable brutality; decapitating, or cutting to pieces priests, infants, old women. They are China’s worst nightmare. They are unleashing religious fundamentalism and foreign-sponsored militant nationalism and separatism.

An American Tragedy: Empire At Home And Abroad

July 26, 2019 Maj. Danny Sjursen, Truthdig.com Educate! History, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Wars and Militarism

Empires in decline tend to behave badly. Indeed, whether British, French or Russian, the twilight years of imperialism often brought brutal repression of subjects abroad, the suppression of civil liberties at home and general varieties of brutality toward foreigners, be they refugees or migrants. The British built concentration camps and killed tens of thousands in Kenya during the 1950s Mau Mau rebellion. The French tortured and killed subjects in Algeria and nearly lost their own democracy in the process.

Tiananmen Redux? West Pushing Baba Beijing To Send Plain To Hong Kong. China Rising Radio Sino Land 190724

July 25, 2019 Jeff J. Brown, Chinarising.puntopress.com Educate! China, History, Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Occupation

On July 1st, 1997 Britain finally renounced its 110-year colonial control over Hong Kong (HK). Margaret Thatcher and Deng Xiaoping had hammered out the Basic Law, which set the course for China’s reintegrated Special Administrative Region (HKSAR). The concept was a novel one, One Country, Two Systems, which was to last for 50 years, until 2047. It stipulates that Hong Kong is an inseparable part of China, over which the Mainland has the ultimate right to make all necessary administrative and policy decisions, but the SAR would have a high degree of independence in its legislature and judiciary.

‘US Economic Terrorism Will Backfire’: Iranian Foreign Minister Calls For Unity In Nicaragua

July 24, 2019 Ben Norton, Thegrayzone.com Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Iran, Nicaragua, Sanctions

The Grayzone reports from Managua, the capital of Nicaragua, which just celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution that ousted a US-backed dictatorship. Iran’s foreign minister, Javad Zarif, has just arrived here from Caracas, Venezuela, where he was attending the international summit of the new Non-Aligned Movement, where Iran, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, among other nations, were discussing ways to get around crippling US sanctions that are being imposed on all of these countries. We asked Minister Zarif several questions about the US economic warfare and the recent seizure of several oil tankers.

What Sanctions Mean For My Iranian-American Family

July 23, 2019 By Mina Shahinfar, Otherwords.org Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Iran, Sanctions, US Imperialism

As innocent people suffer, break-ins are on the rise — including at my grandparents’ house. “What’s wrong?” I asked my mother, as I saw her broken expression. She was on the phone, speaking with my grandparents in Iran. “A terrible thing has happened,” she replied. My grandparent’s home in Tehran had been broken into. The thieves took everything they could carry — my grandmother’s jewelry, my uncle’s prized watch collection, his wedding band, and some cash. Perhaps the only thing left untouched was the grand, ornate Persian rug in their living room.

Scapegoating Iran

July 23, 2019 Chris Hedges, Truthdig.com Educate! Inter-Imperialist Rivalry, Middle East, Wars and Militarism

NEW YORK—Seventeen years of war in the Middle East and what do we have to show for it? Iraq after our 2003 invasion and occupation is no longer a unified country. Its once modern infrastructure is largely destroyed, and the nation has fractured into warring enclaves. We have lost the war in Afghanistan. The Taliban is resurgent and has a presence in over 70 percent of the country. Libya is a failed state. Yemen after three years of relentless airstrikes and a blockade is enduring one of the world’s worst humanitarian disasters.

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