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Say Hello to the Russia-China Mobile Operating System
By Pepe Escobar
Google cuts Huawei off Android; so Huawei may migrate to Aurora. Call it mobile Eurasia integration; the evolving Russia-China strategic partnership may be on the verge of spawning its own operating system – and that is not a metaphor. Read more...

Poland Just Became America’s Most Important NATO Ally
By Andrew Korybko
The US’ decision to dispatch 1,000 additional “rotational” troops and even a squadron of surveillance drones to Poland makes the Central European country its most important NATO ally because of the threat that this poses to Russian strategic interests in Kaliningrad, Belarus, Crimea, and Eastern Ukraine, which in turn revives the historical rivalry between these two regional powers over the shared space between them. Read more...

Behind the Scenes and Elections: Koch-Oil Big Lies and Ecocide Writ Large in Canada

By Prof. John McMurtry
A US Big-Oil backed juggernaut of Conservative provincial governments and the federal Opposition are well advanced in a Canada campaign to reverse longstanding parliamentary decisions, environmental laws, climate action initiatives, Supreme Court directions, first-nations negotiations, and bring down the government of Canada. Read more...

Will China’s Automobile Market Trigger Next Economic Downturn?
By F. William Engdahl
Sales of new cars in China, today the world’s largest automobile market, plunged a dramatic 16.4% in May, making the worst month in the history of the relatively new China auto industry. Read more...

The War Hoax Redux
By Edward Curtin
After the Gulf War in 1991 and the invasion of Iraq in 2003, it slowly became apparent what alternative media and war critics had insisted was the case before and during these wars: That the U.S. government had achieved a propaganda coup by tightly controlling the media access to the truth and by getting the mainstream media (MSM) to do their bidding. Read more...

Trump and the Taiwan Gambit
By Peter Koenig
Trump wants to make Taiwan an ‘ally’ – dreaming of setting up a US base on the island, thus further encircling China. It is the old game, divide to reign. Read more...

False-Flagging the World to War: A Gulf of Tonkin Incident in the Gulf of Oman
By Timothy Alexander Guzman
It is the same script that was once used on August 2nd, 1964 in what was to become the ‘Gulf of Tonkin Incident’ which based on a false claim of an alleged attack by North Vietnam on a U.S. ship, the USS Maddox. Read more...