Showing posts with label war politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label war politics. Show all posts
Friday, July 07, 2017

Quote of the Day: Is War What Makes a President 'Great'?

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“War is seen as a great challenge,” Bueno de Mesquita reflects, “so people don’t really question how we got into it unless it fails. All p...
Friday, March 04, 2016

Infographics: The Middle East Arms Race

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One of the reason for today's massive use of inflationism by governments have been to finance the war economy. Yet when government...
Thursday, January 07, 2016

Graphics: 67 Countries which the US Government is Obliged to go to War for

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The policeman of the world has defense treaties with 67 countries, which means US government is obliged to go to war to defend them during ...
Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Geopolitical Risk Theater Links: Russia joins Arms Race?, ISIS gets Modern Weaponry, A Russia-US arms deal? and more…

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1 Russia joins Space arms race? Object 2014-28E – Space junk or Russian satellite killer? Financial Times November 7, 2014 For the past...
Monday, August 25, 2014

China to US: America is a disgusting thief spying over his neighbor’s fence, The Role of Inflationism

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A recent dangerous aerial close encounter between a US government Navy P-8 surveillance craft and a Chinese Chinese interceptor at the Hain...
Monday, August 18, 2014

Ron Paul: What Have We Accomplished in Iraq?

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Ron Paul on the US Government’s favorite battleground: (from Ron Paul Institute ) [bold mine] We have been at war with Iraq for 24 year...
Saturday, August 09, 2014

US Finances Israel’s Gaza War via Foreign Aid

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The Israel Central Bank estimates the cost of the Gaza War to the Israel at $1.4 billion From Reuters : The month-long Gaza war cost Is...
Friday, August 08, 2014

Breaking: US President Obama Authorizes Air Strikes in Iraq, Global Equity Markets Convulses

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The US government (and vested interest groups) has been itching to get involved in wars. So the 2009 Nobel Prize for Peace awardee US Pres...
Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Showbiz Politics: The Myth of US-Philippine Defense Pact Promoting Regional Peace

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As I said yesterday, showbiz has practically consumed most of social affairs in the Philippines. More evidence of showbiz in the conte...
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Friday, April 18, 2014

Quote of the Day: War is a Racket

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War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a smal...
Saturday, April 12, 2014

Quote of the Day: War fever feeds on ignorance

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Ignorance is a primary fuel of nationalism and aggression. Patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrel, as Dr . Johnson observed, and the f...
Wednesday, December 18, 2013

China Buys Record US Treasuries; Keeps Financing US military

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The Chinese government and the private sector bought record amounts of US treasuries last October. From the Wall Street Real Time Econo...