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The Day Of US Dollar Supremacy Is Nearing It’s End: De-dollarisation: India, Japan Activate $75 Billion Currency Swap Agreement

  De-dollarisation: India, Japan Activate $75 Billion Currency Swap Agreement CC0 Business Last year, several countries including India began taking measures to reduce their dependency on US currency to make…

Pakistan in the Crosshairs of New US Aggression

Pakistan in the Crosshairs of New US Aggression

Tom LUONGO Pakistan in the Crosshairs of New US Aggression With events escalating quickly in Kashmir it’s incumbent to ask the most pertinent questions in geopolitics. Why there? And, Why…

Military Intervention and Mercenaries, Inc. (MIAMI)

Military Intervention and Mercenaries, Inc. (MIAMI)

Wayne MADSEN Military Intervention and Mercenaries, Inc. (MIAMI) The city of Miami, Florida may have started out as a retirement mecca for winter-worn pensioners from northern climes. However, after the…

US General: Russia’s Avangard Missile May Reach America Within 15 Minutes

US General: Russia’s Avangard Missile May Reach America Within 15 Minutes

US General: Russia’s Avangard Missile May Reach America Within 15 Minutes © Photo: Ministry of Defence of the Russia Federation World Addressing the Russian Federal Assembly on 20 February, President…

Sounding The Alarm: US’ 2018 GDP Report Highlights Trend in Economic Slowdown

Sounding The Alarm: US’ 2018 GDP Report Highlights Trend in Economic Slowdown

Sounding The Alarm: US’ 2018 GDP Report Highlights Trend in Economic Slowdown © Photo : Pixabay Business The latest numbers released by the US Department of Commerce on Thursday revealed…

‘Bout to Get This Free College’: US Students Condemned for Racist Post (PHOTO)

‘Bout to Get This Free College’: US Students Condemned for Racist Post (PHOTO)

‘Bout to Get This Free College’: US Students Condemned for Racist Post (PHOTO) © Flickr/ Max Klingensmith Society Students and administrators at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, have continued to…

US government intent on grabbing Venezuela’s oil: Scholar

US government intent on grabbing Venezuela’s oil: Scholar

  US government intent on grabbing Venezuela’s oil: Scholar James Petras The United States is attempting to overthrow the Venezuelan government by force and grab the country’s oil which is…

Cuba snubs Trump’s anti-socialist crusade with massive constitution vote

Cuba snubs Trump’s anti-socialist crusade with massive constitution vote

  What you are witnessing internationally is the world moving outside of American influence & domination. This means that America’s wealth, power, culture, tech power, trade, politics, and geopolitics are…

Junk food’s immediate impact on your cells: State-of-the-art scans reveal burgers and greasy fries cause instant stiffening that lead to heart issues

Junk food’s immediate impact on your cells: State-of-the-art scans reveal burgers and greasy fries cause instant stiffening that lead to heart issues

Junk food’s immediate impact on your cells: State-of-the-art scans reveal burgers and greasy fries cause instant stiffening that lead to heart issues State-of-the-art scanning techniques of human cells by the…

BRICS countries to create own payment system to cut dependence on West

BRICS countries to create own payment system to cut dependence on West

BRICS countries to create own payment system to cut dependence on West © Getty Images / Jasmin Merdan The five major emerging economies – Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South…

Perpetual state of disaster in California: Another EXTREME atmospheric river FLOODS northern California with over 520mm of rain in 48h – Russian River 14 feet above its flood stage – Guerneville is land locked!

Perpetual state of disaster in California: Another EXTREME atmospheric river FLOODS northern California with over 520mm of rain in 48h – Russian River 14 feet above its flood stage – Guerneville is land locked!

Perpetual state of disaster in California: Another EXTREME atmospheric river FLOODS northern California with over 520mm of rain in 48h – Russian River 14 feet above its flood stage –…

Mangled wreckage is strewn across the highway in shocking footage of the largest crash in Wisconsin’s HISTORY, which killed one and left 171 hospitalized over the weekend as 131 vehicles crashed in a blizzard

Mangled wreckage is strewn across the highway in shocking footage of the largest crash in Wisconsin’s HISTORY, which killed one and left 171 hospitalized over the weekend as 131 vehicles crashed in a blizzard

Mangled wreckage is strewn across the highway in shocking footage of the largest crash in Wisconsin’s HISTORY, which killed one and left 171 hospitalized over the weekend as 131 vehicles…

(Video) Trump Makes Deficits Greater Again w/ China U.S. Trade Deal

(Video) Trump Makes Deficits Greater Again w/ China U.S. Trade Deal

  Trump Makes Deficits Greater Again w/ China U.S. Trade Deal…

Scientists are warning of a California mega-storm that could cause twice as much damage as the next big earthquake

Scientists are warning of a California mega-storm that could cause twice as much damage as the next big earthquake

Scientists are warning of a California mega-storm that could cause twice as much damage as the next big earthquake Aria Bendix Residents in southern California were evacuated due to heavy…

(Video) You Owe $66,000! The Fed Is Warning About A Default On U.S. Debt When Debt Ceiling Expires March 1

(Video) You Owe $66,000! The Fed Is Warning About A Default On U.S. Debt When Debt Ceiling Expires March 1

  You Owe $66,000! The Fed Is Warning About A Default On U.S. Debt When Debt Ceiling Expires March 1…

Russians Say They Have Strategic Military Parity With the US, What They Really Have Is Absolute Military Superiority

Russians Say They Have Strategic Military Parity With the US, What They Really Have Is Absolute Military Superiority

Russians Say They Have Strategic Military Parity With the US, What They Really Have Is Absolute Military Superiority For 200 years the US believed the oceans to its left and…

Everybody knows that ISIS is controlled by America….Protected by US, Daesh leader al-Baghdadi travels across Iraq’s western desert: MP

Everybody knows that ISIS is controlled by America….Protected by US, Daesh leader al-Baghdadi travels across Iraq’s western desert: MP

Protected by US, Daesh leader al-Baghdadi travels across Iraq’s western desert: MP This file photo shows the leader of the Daesh terrorist group, Ibrahim al-Samarrai aka Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi during…

More than 680 stores close today as the retail apocalypse rips through Tesla, JCPenney, Gap, and Victoria’s Secret

More than 680 stores close today as the retail apocalypse rips through Tesla, JCPenney, Gap, and Victoria’s Secret

More than 680 stores close today as the retail apocalypse rips through Tesla, JCPenney, Gap, and Victoria’s Secret Another historic day in the retail apocalypse. According to multiple Business Insider…

Trump lies as North Korea disputes Trump’s account of summit breakdown

Trump lies as North Korea disputes Trump’s account of summit breakdown

North Korea disputes Trump’s account of summit breakdown Pyongyang says it seeks partial – not total – sanctions relief, laments US wasted opportunity that ‘may not come again’. Donald Trump…

Trump concedes defeat, North Korea retains nuclear arsenal Thu Feb 28, 2019 06:03PM [Updated: Thu Feb 28, 2019 11:29PM ] HomeUSForeign Policy US President Donald Trump (R) walks with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un during their second summit in Hanoi, Vietnam, on February 28, 2019. (AFP photo) US President Donald Trump (R) walks with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un during their second summit in Hanoi, Vietnam, on February 28, 2019. (AFP photo) By Dennis Etler The second summit between Chairman Kim Jong-un of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK aka North Korea) and President Donald Trump of the US recently held in Hanoi, Vietnam has ended in failure. The summit took place at a time when Trump is faced with the damaging testimony of his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen before Congress and the impending release of the Mueller Report. The US president is in desperate need of foreign policy wins to serve as a distraction from his domestic woes. As a result, the failure to reach an accord with Kim was cast in as positive a light as possible with Trump continuing to heap praise on the Korean leader, emphasizing his promise not to conduct any further nuclear or missile tests. The stumbling block however was Trump’s refusal to lift economic sanctions against North Korea. Without the removal of sanctions, Kim has no incentive to fully commit to denuclearization. The bottom line is that Kim has played Trump like a fiddle. He has gained a level of recognition from a US president that would have been previously inconceivable and he has retained both a credible nuclear arsenal and missile delivery system. In addition, both Beijing and Moscow are now far less likely to go along with Washington’s sanctions regime than in the past. Elsewhere, Trump’s foreign policy initiatives in Syria and Afghanistan, calling for troop reductions and eventual withdrawal of US forces, have faced blow back from deeply entrenched forces within the US military-industrial-congressional complex and have been largely scuttled. His foreign policy team, made up of neocon die-hards, has also upped the ante in Venezuela, explicitly calling for regime change and sponsoring a coup d’état by a US trained Quisling politician. So why is Trump willing to put the Korean question on the back burner? Trump’s foreign policy cabal of Israeli sycophants and Christian Zionists are more concerned with attempts to isolate Iran than North Korea, indulging Trump his infatuation with Kim Jong-un. They are focused on destabilizing oil rich Venezuela and containing oil rich Iran. In their estimation, Venezuela looks ripe for the plucking, but Iran is a much harder nut to crack. Neither has nuclear weapons so they are fair game for regime change. As may be remembered, the first DPRK-US summit in Singapore occurred after Kim indicated his willingness to meet with Trump, a first for leaders of the two nations. But, as the recent summit failure demonstrates, it was North Korea’s nuclear arsenal, not Trump’s sanctions, that brought Kim and Trump together at the negotiating table. Trump jumped at the chance to back away from his war-mongering rhetoric. Kim’s talk of denuclearization was enough to start the process of reconciliation but it has not been met with any meaningful concessions from the US side, such as a reduction, if not elimination, of US imposed economic sanctions. On the other hand, both North and South Korea have continued their rapprochement. President Moon Jae-in of South Korea has spoken in favor of a continued relaxation of tensions between the two. Both China and Russia have also voiced their support for the reconciliation process and the need for removal of US sanctions. There was some speculation that the US would finally relent and call for an end to state of war that still exists on the Korean peninsula by calling for a formal peace treaty with the two Koreas and the US as signatories. That all came to naught however as the US was not prepared to make the necessary commitments to normalize economic and political relations with the North. Trump does not seem in a hurry to reach a final deal, instead opting for a continuation of the current status quo. The same appears to apply to the aborted trade war with China. With the 2020 presidential election season looming, Trump wants to resolve the trade dispute with China ASAP in order to shore up his base of support which has been adversely impacted by reductions in US exports to China and tariffs on Chinese imports. Both the Hanoi summit and the trade talks with China are based on expediency, not principal. Trump at this point has more to gain than lose by dampening down conflicts with both North Korea and China. (The views expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect those of Press TV.) *Dennis Etler is an American political analyst with a decades-long interest in international affairs. He is a former professor of Anthropology at Cabrillo College in Aptos, California.

Trump concedes defeat, North Korea retains nuclear arsenal Thu Feb 28, 2019 06:03PM [Updated: Thu Feb 28, 2019 11:29PM ]      HomeUSForeign Policy   US President Donald Trump (R) walks with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un during their second summit in Hanoi, Vietnam, on February 28, 2019. (AFP photo) US President Donald Trump (R) walks with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un during their second summit in Hanoi, Vietnam, on February 28, 2019. (AFP photo)  By Dennis Etler  The second summit between Chairman Kim Jong-un of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK aka North Korea) and President Donald Trump of the US recently held in Hanoi, Vietnam has ended in failure.  The summit took place at a time when Trump is faced with the damaging testimony of his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen before Congress and the impending release of the Mueller Report.  The US president is in desperate need of foreign policy wins to serve as a distraction from his domestic woes. As a result, the failure to reach an accord with Kim was cast in as positive a light as possible with Trump continuing to heap praise on the Korean leader, emphasizing his promise not to conduct any further nuclear or missile tests.  The stumbling block however was Trump’s refusal to lift economic sanctions against North Korea. Without the removal of sanctions, Kim has no incentive to fully commit to denuclearization.  The bottom line is that Kim has played Trump like a fiddle. He has gained a level of recognition from a US president that would have been previously inconceivable and he has retained both a credible nuclear arsenal and missile delivery system. In addition, both Beijing and Moscow are now far less likely to go along with Washington’s sanctions regime than in the past.  Elsewhere, Trump’s foreign policy initiatives in Syria and Afghanistan, calling for troop reductions and eventual withdrawal of US forces, have faced blow back from deeply entrenched forces within the US military-industrial-congressional complex and have been largely scuttled.  His foreign policy team, made up of neocon die-hards, has also upped the ante in Venezuela, explicitly calling for regime change and sponsoring a coup d’état by a US trained Quisling politician.  So why is Trump willing to put the Korean question on the back burner? Trump’s foreign policy cabal of Israeli sycophants and Christian Zionists are more concerned with attempts to isolate Iran than North Korea, indulging Trump his infatuation with Kim Jong-un.  They are focused on destabilizing oil rich Venezuela and containing oil rich Iran. In their estimation, Venezuela looks ripe for the plucking, but Iran is a much harder nut to crack. Neither has nuclear weapons so they are fair game for regime change.  As may be remembered, the first DPRK-US summit in Singapore occurred after Kim indicated his willingness to meet with Trump, a first for leaders of the two nations. But, as the recent summit failure demonstrates, it was North Korea’s nuclear arsenal, not Trump’s sanctions, that brought Kim and Trump together at the negotiating table.  Trump jumped at the chance to back away from his war-mongering rhetoric. Kim’s talk of denuclearization was enough to start the process of reconciliation but it has not been met with any meaningful concessions from the US side, such as a reduction, if not elimination, of US imposed economic sanctions.  On the other hand, both North and South Korea have continued their rapprochement. President Moon Jae-in of South Korea has spoken in favor of a continued relaxation of tensions between the two.  Both China and Russia have also voiced their support for the reconciliation process and the need for removal of US sanctions.  There was some speculation that the US would finally relent and call for an end to state of war that still exists on the Korean peninsula by calling for a formal peace treaty with the two Koreas and the US as signatories. That all came to naught however as the US was not prepared to make the necessary commitments to normalize economic and political relations with the North.  Trump does not seem in a hurry to reach a final deal, instead opting for a continuation of the current status quo. The same appears to apply to the aborted trade war with China.  With the 2020 presidential election season looming, Trump wants to resolve the trade dispute with China ASAP in order to shore up his base of support which has been adversely impacted by reductions in US exports to China and tariffs on Chinese imports.  Both the Hanoi summit and the trade talks with China are based on expediency, not principal. Trump at this point has more to gain than lose by dampening down conflicts with both North Korea and China.  (The views expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect those of Press TV.)  *Dennis Etler is an American political analyst with a decades-long interest in international affairs. He is a former professor of Anthropology at Cabrillo College in Aptos, California.

Trump concedes defeat, North Korea retains nuclear arsenal US President Donald Trump (R) walks with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un during their second summit in Hanoi, Vietnam, on February 28,…

Exclusive: Amid unrest in Ferguson, police used text burner app

Exclusive: Amid unrest in Ferguson, police used text burner app

Exclusive: Amid unrest in Ferguson, police used text burner app In 2014, US law enforcement officers began using secret messaging app Silent Phone which destroys text messages. by Jeremy Young…

US Unable to Down Advanced Russian Missiles – STRATCOM Chief

US Unable to Down Advanced Russian Missiles – STRATCOM Chief © Photo: YouTube/Pravda Report World In his Federal Assembly address last March, President Vladimir Putin for the first time unveiled…

Sierra Nevada braces for up to eight feet of snow and winds in excess of 100mph as huge winter storm barrels across the West

Sierra Nevada braces for up to eight feet of snow and winds in excess of 100mph as huge winter storm barrels across the West

Sierra Nevada braces for up to eight feet of snow and winds in excess of 100mph as huge winter storm barrels across the West Winter storm was battering the Sierra…

America has become a joke internationally….‘Ask Snowden’: Huawei exec pokes fun at US spying during tech show

America has become a joke internationally….‘Ask Snowden’: Huawei exec pokes fun at US spying during tech show

‘Ask Snowden’: Huawei exec pokes fun at US spying during tech show © Reiters / Sergio Perez A Huawei executive hit the US where it hurts by making fun of…

US Must Accelerate Deployment of Space Sensors to Counter Russian Threat – NORAD

US Must Accelerate Deployment of Space Sensors to Counter Russian Threat – NORAD

US Must Accelerate Deployment of Space Sensors to Counter Russian Threat – NORAD CC0 Military & Intelligence WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – The United States needs to accelerate the deployment of sensors…

(Video) Will Russia, China, Turkey and India drop the dollar?

(Video) Will Russia, China, Turkey and India drop the dollar?

  Will Russia, China, Turkey and India drop the dollar?…

(Video) JP Morgan Is SELLING Stocks! U.S. Stock Market Hits Quadruple Top!

(Video) JP Morgan Is SELLING Stocks! U.S. Stock Market Hits Quadruple Top!

  JP Morgan Is SELLING Stocks! U.S. Stock Market Hits Quadruple Top!…

Maryland Dem in Trouble After Calling Majority-Black County ‘N****r District’

Maryland Dem in Trouble After Calling Majority-Black County ‘N****r District’

Maryland Dem in Trouble After Calling Majority-Black County ‘N****r District’ © Photo: Mary Ann Lisanti/facebook US Maryland House of Delegates legislator Mary Ann Lisanti’s claim that “everyone has used” the…

(Video) Big Investors SELLING Stocks! Record Level Central Bank Money Printing From ECB and China!

(Video) Big Investors SELLING Stocks! Record Level Central Bank Money Printing From ECB and China!

  Big Investors SELLING Stocks! Record Level Central Bank Money Printing From ECB and China!…

California Flooding Forces Mass Evacuations, Leaves Towns Under Water

California Flooding Forces Mass Evacuations, Leaves Towns Under Water

California Flooding Forces Mass Evacuations, Leaves Towns Under Water © Twitter/SonomaSheriff Environment Thousands of people in Northern California evacuated their homes Tuesday amid torrential rain and heavy snow. On Tuesday,…