Iran in the Crosshairs

 

Iran in the Crosshairs. Mike Whitney By Mike Whitney Trump’s push for a ceasefire in Ukraine has less to do with Ukraine than it does with Israel. In other words, Trump’s hasty negotiations with Putin are not aimed at ending the proxy war with Russia as much they are with shifting the frontlines from the Donbas to Iran. Read here

Trump’s Policy Toward Latin America: Crippling Sanctions Against Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua By Steve Ellner Unlike Trump’s policies on immigration, trans rights, and taxation, his Latin American policy is plagued by vacillations and uncertainties, a sign of his deepening reliance on a transactional approach to foreign policy. The anti-communist hardliners in and outside of the Republican party are not pleased. Read here

The EU Criminalization of Politics. President of the European Central Bank (ECB) Has a Criminal Record, Christine Lagarde By Prof Michel Chossudovsky The IMF has a longstanding record of triggering poverty and economic destruction under its so-called “Structural Adjustment Programme” (SAP). The latter consists in the imposition of drastic macroeconomic reforms as a condition for debt relief on more than 100 developing countries. Read here

US Desperation for European Eggs Exposes Trump’s Double Standards By Ahmed Adel The US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) desperate endeavor to purchase eggs from Europe exposed the double standards of US President Donald Trump, who only promotes cooperation when it benefits Washington. Although the US is turning to Europe to fill its egg shortage after 35 million chickens were culled, the Old Continent cannot meet the demand. Read here

Elon Musk and Donald Trump. Who Serves Whom? A Technocratic Future By Michael Welch, Dr. Naomi Wolf, and Iain Davis On this week’s chapter of the Global Research News Hour, we are focusing on what the billionaire tech brothers like Musk might be after, and that it goes even beyond even more wealth. There are dreams afoot to transform our democracy into something even more surreal and frankly dystopian…a technocracy! Read here

The Fall of US Imperialism: A United Front Against Trump’s Desperate Agenda By Prof. Ruel F. Pepa Donald Trump’s political and economic maneuverings are not merely the erratic outbursts of an unhinged leader; rather, they are deliberate and calculated attempts to uphold American global supremacy in an era where the United States’ dominance is steadily eroding. Read here

Poland and the Baltics Want to Plant Mines on NATO’s Eastern Flank By Lucas Leiroz de Almeida Apparently, some European countries are ready to take all sorts of belligerent measures, putting the continent’s regional security architecture at serious risk. Anti-Russian paranoia and pressure from the EU itself to expand military policies are leading to a dangerous escalation of tensions, the consequences of which could be devastating in the future. Read here