Michael Krieger
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The US Ponzi Economy Is Systematic Looting on a Massive Scale
The United States has historically bragged about its free and transparent markets. But what the Fed is doing today is pulling a dark curtain around the financing of this so-called free and transparent market. The public has no idea which Wall Street firms have received this $3 trillion or why they can’t borrow it elsewhere. This kind of obfuscation by the Federal Reserve could → Read More
Sociopaths - The Most Privileged and Promoted Class in the US Political, Industrial Systems
Ryan Murphy, an economist at Southern Methodist University, recently published a working paper in which he ranked each of the states by the predominance of—there’s no nice way to put it—psychopaths. The winner? Washington in a walk. In fact, the capital scored higher on Murphy’s scale than the next two runners-up combined. → Read More
The Epstein Case Is A Rare Opportunity To Focus "On The Depraved Nature Of America's Elite"
Perhaps, at long last, a serial rapist and pedophile may be brought to justice, more than a dozen years after he was first charged with crimes that have brutalized countless girls and women. But what won’t change is this: the cesspool of elites, many of them in New York, who allowed Jeffrey Epstein to flourish with impunity. → Read More
The U.S. And China Will Never Return to the Ways Things Were. That World Is Over.
Today’s the first day in a long time financial markets appear willing to at least consider the reality of the geopolitical situation on the ground for what it is, as opposed to what most people would like it to be. As I’ve noted for months, the “trade war” is just one battle in a much larger, increasingly unstable struggle between the U.S. and China for global power and → Read More
Trade War With China Won't Help the US Stay Number 1 for Long
Yesterday, Trump took to Twitter and unexpectedly threatened to raise tariffs on Chinese goods this coming Friday. This caught most people by surprise given incessant commentary over the past several months about how good trade talks were going and how close both sides were to signing a monumental deal. → Read More
Remove Trump? Nah. RussiaGate Was a Trojan Horse for Censorship All Along
I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don’t believe anything the government tells me. Nothing. Zero. – George Carlin Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community and they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you. – Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer in a 2017 interview on MSNBC → Read More
Oblivious US Elites Squabble About How to Market a Crumbling Empire
A hefty case can be made that the Empire of Chaos currently has no allies; it’s essentially surrounded by an assortment of vassals, puppets and comprador 5th columnist elites professing varied degrees of – sometimes reluctant – obedience. The Trump administration’s foreign policy may be easily deconstructed as a crossover between The Sopranos and late-night comedy. → Read More
US, China Compete to Build World's First Nationwide Cyber-Gulag
By now it’s no longer restricted to individual companies or even to the internet sector. It has spread across a wide range of products, services, and economic sectors, including insurance, retail, healthcare, finance, entertainment, education, transportation, and more, birthing whole new ecosystems of suppliers, producers, customers, market-makers, and market players. → Read More
YouTube Will Determine What ‘Conspiracy’ Is and Stop Recommending Such Videos
While the evolution of Google’s YouTube from a free expression platform into something entirely different has been underway for a while, it just took another step in a very short-sighted and restrictive direction. NBC News reports: → Read More
People Aren't Having Intelligent Conversations Anymore, They're Just Yelling at Each Other
More and more people are becoming aware of and concerned about the level of political dialogue going on right now. We’ve gotten to a point where I’m seeing almost no intelligent debate about any serious issue. Russiagate now consumes such a massive amount of our collective energy, it feels we’ve become nearly incapable of discussing anything else. Even worse, Russiagate has → Read More
Russiagate Is a Religion
As the Snowden documents and David Sanger’s great new book and other books make plain, and as U.S. officials are wont to brag, the U.S. intelligence services break into computers and computer networks abroad at an astounding rate, certainly on a greater scale than any other intelligence service in the world. Every one of these intrusions in another country violates that → Read More
American Media and Punditry Remain a Dishonest, Militaristic Embarrassment
When it comes to U.S. presidents, experience has taught me to always assume the worst. Irrespective of what the winning candidate said on the campaign trail, a few things things tend to happen once they’re sworn into office. We almost always end up with a further expansion of the imperial presidency, more pointless wars, growth in the surveillance state and continued → Read More
Intel Agencies Don't Even Try to Hide Infiltration of the Media
In the old days, America’s top spies would complete their tenures at the CIA or one of the other Washington puzzle palaces and segue to more ordinary pursuits. Some wrote their memoirs. One ran for president. Another died a few months after surrendering his post. → Read More
Europe May Fold, But China And Russia See Opportunity
Although European leaders are talking a big game about keeping the Iran deal (JCPOA) alive following Trump’s unilateral withdrawal, there’s a good chance nations across the pond, especially the UK and France, will ultimately fold to U.S. demands. This is despite the fact these countries stand to lose far more economically than America. Acquiescing to U.S. imperial demands as → Read More
Netanyahu Is Once Again Trying to Push the U.S. Into a Disastrous War
On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu put on a little song and dance about Iran and WMDs intended to provide cover for Trump’s upcoming decision on whether or not to scrap the Iran deal (JCPOA) on May 12th. Of course, this isn’t the first time Netanyahu aggressively pitched the U.S. on war in the Middle East. He did the exact same thing, using the exact same → Read More
Russia and China Have Had Enough
Part 1 of this series focused on how the U.S. empire no longer provides any real benefit to the average American citizen. Rather, the spoils of overseas wars, the domestic surveillance state and an overall corrupt economy are being systematically funneled to a smaller and smaller group of generally unsavory characters. → Read More
The Road to 2025 (Part 1) – Prepare for a Multi-Polar World
If pressed to describe what I think the next several years will look like as concisely as possible, I’d simply provide the following quote, often misattributed to Lenin: “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” There will be many such weeks from now until 2025, with the end result an emergence of a multi-polar world that will permanently unseat the… → Read More
The Time for a Massive Anti-War Movement Is Now
An alleged new ‘chemical incident’ in Syria reminds of a similar series of events we saw last year. We are told to believe that each time the U.S. pulls back from the war on Syria the Syrian government is responding with a ‘chemical attack’ that pulls the U.S. back in. – From Moon of Alabama article: Syria – Timelines Of ‘Gas Attacks’ Follow A Similar Scheme → Read More
As Trump Moves Toward War, 'The Resistance' Refuses to Resist
Tuesday’s post, It’s Impossible to Overstate How Terrible Mike Pompeo Is, laid out the view that Trump’s firing of Rex Tillerson represents a major shift toward war footing for the Trump administration, with Iran the specific target. This pivot was easily predictable, and I wrote numerous articles doing just that during 2017. → Read More
Foreign Lobbying is an Abomination and Should Be Eradicated Now – Part 2
The sensitivities are especially important when it comes to the Qatari government — the single biggest foreign donor to Brookings. → Read More