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Will Grounding of Boeing’s 737 MAX 8 Planes Affect US-China Trade Relations? Russia’s Competing Aircraft Irkut MC-21
By Stephen Lendman
Following two 737 MAX 8 crashes, killing all passengers and crew members onboard, China was the first nation to ground the planes. It’s the largest buyer of Boeing’s most popular passenger aircraft – with 97 of its 371 planes delivered to customers so far. Read more...

Huge Defeat for Imperialists: The U.S. Broke Its Teeth in Venezuela
By Alison Bodine
The miserably failed “humanitarian aid” delivery into Venezuela on February 23 is another nail in the coffin of the U.S. government’s coup attempt against President Nicolas Maduro and the Bolivarian revolutionary process in Venezuela. Read more...

Is It Really All that Surprising that Trump Wants Brazil in NATO?
By Andrew Korybko

Feigning shock and publishing moralizing polemics isn’t going to change the fact that it was entirely predictable that Trump’s “Fortress America” grand strategy would ultimately see the US seek to expand its premier multilateral security structure across South America in order to formally incorporate its most important country of Brazil in one capacity or another. Read more...

Video: The Expanding Global Footprint of US Special Operations
By South Front
Although the total number of U.S. special operators deployed to Syria may have approached as many as 5,000, the current headlines have not mentioned that the United States has special operations units deployed not just in Syria, but in a majority of the nations of the world. Read more...

Goodbye to the Internet: Interference by Governments Is Already Here
By Philip Giraldi
The United States Congress started the regulation ball rolling when it summoned the chief executives of the leading social media sites in the wake of the 2016 election. Read more...

The “American Party” within the Institutions of the European Union
By Manlio Dinucci
“Russia can no longer be considered as a strategic partner, and the European Union must be ready to impose further sanctions if it continues to violate international law” – this is the resolution approved by the European Parliament on 12 Mars with 402 votes for, 163 against, and 89 abstentions. Read more...

Beware Foreign Policy ‘Experts’ Who Are Shills for Imperialism
By Yves Engler
Aside from government officials the dominant media is fond of quoting “experts” from foreign policy think tanks when discussing Canada’s role in the world. While presented as neutral specialists, these opinion shapers are generally entangled with powerful, wealthy, elites. Read more...

For Whom the Bell Tolls? Capital and Labor and the Global Financial Crisis
By Prof. James Petras and Prof. Henry Veltmeyer
With the onset of the so-called “global financial crisis” in 2008 the world capitalist system suffered a shock that shook its very foundations, threatening the functioning of key financial institutions and the economies at the centre of the system. Read more...

China-US Relations: From Trade War to Hot War?
By Dr. Leon Tressell
According to the Trump regime, a US-China trade deal is on the horizon. If a trade deal is reached then no doubt global stock markets will surge even further into over inflated bubble territory. Bloomberg estimates a trade deal could add 10% to global equities. Read more...