The Tariff War: First Step Towards a Slave Society

 

The Tariff War: First Step Towards a Slave Society. Emanuel Pastreich By Emanuel Pastreich The imposition of these tariffs will cause damage to the economies off all nations of the world. It is best seen as an effort by a handful of elites in the US, and globally, to destroy the entire global trade system, and with it the global economy. They will do so because they think they, a tiny handful of families, will benefit. Read here

McKinley or Lincoln? Tariffs vs. Greenbacks. Ellen Brown By Ellen Brown The federal debt has reached $36.2 trillion, the annual interest on it is $1.2 trillion, and the projected 2025 budget deficit is $1.9 trillion – meaning $1.9 trillion will be added to the debt this year. It’s an unsustainable debt bubble doomed to pop on its present trajectory. Read here

What Comes Next After Trump’s Decision to Withdraw Troops from Poland? By Andrew Korybko The Pentagon announced on Monday that US forces will withdraw from Poland’s Rzeszow logistics hub for Ukraine and reposition elsewhere in the country according to (a hitherto undisclosed) plan. Read here

Global Vacancy: Russia-Ukraine Peacemaker By Kester Kenn Klomegah Putin has said that any peace agreement must address what Moscow sees as the root causes of the conflict: essentially a tug of war between Russia and the West over Ukraine’s future and the post-Soviet enlargement of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) towards Russia’s borders. Read here

Birmingham Sanitation Strike Spawns Public Health Emergency in Second Largest Municipality in Britain By Abayomi Azikiwe A sanitation workers’ strike in the second largest city in England, Birmingham, has prompted the local authorities to declare a major incident in the municipality. Reports indicate that approximately 17,000 pounds of garbage has piled up in the streets attracting cat-sized rodents which are roaming the streets in droves. Read here

Evolution of NATO Aggression Against the World – From Serbia to Russia. “NATO’s First Official War Against a Sovereign Country.” Part II By Drago Bosnic Professor Chossudovsky stressed the importance of dismantling NATO. His assessment is that NATO is the geopolitical extension of the US Defense Department and that its members obey the orders of the Pentagon. Read here

Trump Tariffs Seen from Contradictory Angles. Prof. Patrick Bond By Prof. Patrick Bond Donald Trump’s paleo-conservative, isolationist attack on global capitalist trade is already having formidable impacts. If tariff levels and targeted announced on ‘Liberation Day,’ April 2, are sustained, a full-blown economic catastrophe could result, perhaps reminiscent of 1930s-scale Make America Great Depression Again. Read here