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The Implosion Of The House Of Saud
By Pepe Escobar The Panama Papers psyops revealed that – ailing – King Salman of Saudi Arabia is among a roast of notorious offshore profiteers “in relation” to “associates”. The House of Saud used British Virgin Islands shell companies to take out at least $34 million in mortgages for lavish houses in London and “a luxury yacht the size … Continue reading
The Militarization Of The Middle East In Numbers
By Jeff Desjardins, Visual Capitalist The global arms trade is huge. While it’s hard to pin down an exact value of arms transfers, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute estimates that the number was at least $76 billion in 2013, with the caveat that it is likely higher. The volume of transfers have been trending upwards now … Continue reading
South China Sea Tensions Set To Rise As China Adapts New ‘Deep Sea Exploration Law’
The stage is set for further tensions in the South China Sea as Beijing announced on Friday that it has adopted its first law on deep sea exploration, in the nation’s latest move to assert itself as a maritime power. On Friday, China’s top legislature passed the country’s first law on deep seafloor resource exploration to “protect the maritime environment” and “ensure … Continue reading
China Deploys Fighter Jets To Disputed Island In South China Sea, Fox News Says
As tensions in the South China Sea continue to boil to all-time highs, China has deployed fighter jets to one of the disputed islands in the South China Sea, Fox News reports, citing two U.S. officials. Fox News says the fighter jets have been deployed to the same island where China deployed two batteries of eight HQ-9 surface-to-air … Continue reading
Russia Has 25% Of Global Arms Sales, Second Only To US – Study
Russia and the US remain the largest arms sellers in the world, holding 58 percent of the global military market, latest research by the Stockholm Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) says. Other top exporters languish far below in the list. The Sweden-based Stockholm Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), one of the most respected think tanks in the … Continue reading
A Glimpse Into China’s Military Presence In The South China Sea
By Stratfor Global Intelligence Widely published satellite imagery from Feb. 14 shows the presence of new Chinese air defense systems on Woody Island in the South China Sea, highlighting continuing maritime frictions in the area. But new imagery obtained by Stratfor provides a higher-resolution view of the deployment and activities taking place across the island. Specialists at … Continue reading
Russia’s New ‘Nuclear Torpedo’ Can Create Giant Tsunamis And Wipe Out Entire Coastal Cities
By Michael Snyder While the eyes of the world are on ISIS, Russia is creating weapons unlike anything the world has ever seen before. Plans for a giant self-propelled nuclear torpedo that can create a giant tsunami more than 1,000 feet tall were recently “leaked by mistake” by the Russian media. Apparently the warheads on … Continue reading
The Pentagon Goes “Nuclear” On Russia – OpEd
By Pepe Escobar We all remember how, in early June, President Putin announced that Russia would deploy more than 40 new ICBMs “able to overcome even the most technically advanced anti-missile defense systems.” Oh dear; the Pentagon and their European minions have been freaking out on overdrive ever since. First was NATO Secretary-General, Norwegian figurehead Jens … Continue reading
Russia And Egypt Conduct Joint Naval Drills In The Mediterranean Sea
Russian and Egyptian warship crews have started naval maneuvers within combined force teams and drilled an “encounter sea battle,” the Russian Defense Ministry reported on Thursday according to Tass. “On June 11, crews of Russian and Egyptian warships involved in the Bridge of Friendship-2015 naval exercise started to fulfill tasks at sea within combined tactical … Continue reading
NATO’s Black Sea Bloc: Spreading The “New Cold War” Beyond Eastern Europe Into New Theaters
By Andrew Korybko NATO’s Black Sea bloc gets busy (I), Via Oriental Review The shaky truce in Ukraine has given NATO ample opportunities to spread the New Cold War beyond Eastern Europe and into new theaters, one of which has been the greater Black Sea region. The recent destabilizations in Macedonia and Moldova that endanger Russian … Continue reading
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