What Is the Gold-Oil Ratio Telling Us?

Washington’s Blog by Charles Hugh Smith Based on historical gold-oil ratios, oil appears extraordinarily cheap right now. One way to … More

Oil War on Russia: Ridiculous People and Unintended Consequences

New Eastern Outlook by F. William Engdahl The once rather ordered world we knew even a decade ago is becoming … More

New Middle East Plan: The US Preparing For Another Disaster

New Eastern Outlook by Salman Rafi Sheikh Nothing would seem more absurd than watching the US making its ‘intentions’ clear … More

Western Bankers Have Committed Two Acts of War Against Russia

The Common Sense Show by Dave Hodges   In the past several days, Western bankers have committed two overt acts … More

A Full-Blown Economic Crisis Has Erupted In Russia

The Economic Collapse by Michael Snyder The 8th largest economy on the entire planet is in a state of turmoil … More

Non-Military Reasons Why Russia Will Defeat America in the Upcoming War

The Common Sense Show by Dave Hodges America only has a birth rate of 1.8 among its natural born citizens. … More

We Just Witnessed The Worst Week For Global Financial Markets In 3 Years

The Economic Collapse by Michael Snyder Is this the start of the next major financial crisis?  The nightmarish collapse of … More

UN Climate Conference to Set Record for Carbon Emissions

The New American by Michael Tennant Photo of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaking at the UN Climate Conference in Lima, … More

America’s Epitaph: The U.S. Will Soon Stand Alone vs. the Nations of the World

The Common Sense Show by Dave Hodges This article represents the beginning of the end of the United States. Many … More

Amid “Climate” Circus in Peru, UN Says CO2 Regime is Done Deal

The New American by Alex Newman Amid the ongoing implosion of their man-made global-warming theory, thousands of bureaucrats involved in … More

Freedom of Association: Why Independence Has Become the Preserve of the Far Right

New Eastern Outlook by Seth Ferris For almost all of human history there have been Empires. Even in the ancient … More

Oil Prices and Energy Wars: The Empire of Frack versus Russia

Strategic Culture by Mahdi Darius NAZEMROAYA Energy prices started to move downward in late-2014, when Saudi oil began to flood … More

Escalation of Violence in Iraq – A Mistake or a Premeditated Scenario?

New Eastern Outlook by Alexander Saburov The triumph of Islamists in Iraq has generated a new round of the old … More

The EU to Become a “U.S. Colony”? The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) would Abolish Europe’s Sovereignty

Global Research By Peter Koenig The proposed Free Trade Agreement (sic), the so called Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership – … More

The Oil-Drenched Black Swan, Part 2: The Financialization of Oil

Washington’s Blog by Charles Hugh Smith All the analysts chortling over the “equivalent of a tax break” for consumers are … More

Putin Kills “South Stream” Pipeline, Will Build New Massive Pipeline To Turkey Instead

Zero Hedge In retrospect, it should have been obvious in August. Back then we wrote that the EU’s poorest member … More

Falling Oil Prices Could Cripple ‘Vulnerable’ Russia, Trigger World War III

SHTFplan by Mac Slavo The Cold War 2.0 is going hot, and while it may someday be fought with planes, … More

OPEC Fires First Shot In Global Oil Price War

OilPrices.com By Andy Tully OPEC’s decision not to cut production to shore up oil prices drove down the price of … More

America’s Real Ties to ISIS

New Eastern Outlook by Gordon Duff Reports from Pentagon insiders tell of a strange in inexplicable “bifurcated” US policy. While … More

The Oil-Drenched Black Swan, Part 1

Washington’s Blog by Charles Hugh Smith Given the presumed 17% expansion of the global economy since 2009, the tiny increases … More