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Some audience members came up to me after a speech I gave in downtown Tokyo in late April. They were hopping mad at Rahm Emanuel, the man whom Washington sent a little over a year ago to do its business in Japan. And what does that business entail? If Emanuel’s April tweets are any indication, it entails interfering in internal Japanese political matters. (snip) In my April speech in Tokyo, I referred to the American Embassy down the street as the “sotokufu,” the “governor-general” of Japan. The audience broke into thundering applause. I said that it was time to throw...

Historians will mark the low point of Pax Americana in the Middle East by several rather brutal humiliations that American prestige has undergone under President Joe Biden’s presidency. Examples would include having phone call requests by the US president declined by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in March last year and mass media pictures of the impersonal fist-bump between Joe Biden and de facto ruler and Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed Bin Salman (or “MBS” as he is familiarly called) in July. The US president had come to Riyadh with a begging bowl but failed to convince...

We recently learned a lesson which was more than three decades in the making. The lesson partially stems from two seemingly unrelated events. The world noted the one-year anniversary of the war in Ukraine at the end of February. And after an air incursion by a spy balloon, saber-rattling over Taiwan and TikTok dance videos blowing up everyone’s phone, the U.S. Congress suddenly grew more serious about China. This culminated in a prime-time House hearing over the winter studying the threat posed by Beijing by a special House committee designed just to study problems between the U.S. and China. The...

Part 2 of the discussion of current events in the middle east and how it fits with long-term goals of various countries, ethnic groups and religious factions. Too many topics covered to easily summarize. The video is 1 hour long and went by very quickly when I watched it last night.

Great interview by an excellent military historian.

FARMINGTON – Services were Monday in Albuquerque for international energy industry expert and Farmington Daily Times columnist Dr. Daniel Fine, 88, who died Sept. 26 in a Miami hospital following complications due to a surgical procedure, his son, William Fine, said. Fine, widely acknowledged as an expert in world energy markets and geopolitics, was held in high esteem by many state and regional business leaders. He had been set to give a lecture alongside local businessman T. Greg Merrion in Farmington last month. “He was pretty great at getting a read at what was coming down the pike,” said Merrion,...

Will 2022 turn out be a hinge year, as a moment when long-standing trends in geopolitics suddenly shifted in a different direction? This week, two important writers, one a long-established and prolific historian, the other a provocative presence on the internet, have argued persuasively that the answer is yes. But there's one other interesting point in common: Neither sees the United States as having played a decisive role in the sudden shift. Over the years, Niall Ferguson has written admiringly about the 19th-century Rothschilds and the 20th century’s Henry Kissinger and has highlighted the positive achievements of Britain’s empire and...

The invisible government of the Deep State has long worked with the Nazis to accomplish its nefarious objectives, going back to the rise of Hitler. =============================================================== Witness Osh, Kyrgyzstan, a modest outpost in Central Asia. Boiling clouds enliven the sky as a breeze lazily strums the tall grass. Meanwhile a farmer tends his yaks, as clouds of gnats move across a meadow in a body like a mournful specter. Life here has gone on in a relatively unbroken pattern for thousands of years. But peasants have noticed something unusual appearing in the soil of late: train tracks. The construction is...

Trouble in South Pacific, Solomon Islands. WW3 is fast approaching [17:10] April 8, 2022 - @ 1:00pm EDThttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GdHYwxPIAQAlex Christoforou - 3 updates today.Von der Leyen visits Kiev. Mariupol factory, radio communication in European languages. Update 1 [26:41]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTLoEBkjyqw on Odysee:https://odysee.com/@alexchristoforou:7/von-der-leyen-visits-kiev.-mariupol:0Pakistan heading for regime change. Russian MOD warns of false flag. Update 2 [17:54]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7-lDmPnNBU on Odysee:https://odysee.com/@alexchristoforou:7/pakistan-heading-for-regime-change.:7UK's Truss wants more weapons. Cyprus press exposes Elensky. Maduro weighs-in on conflict. Update 3 [19:38]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7-lDmPnNBU on Odysee:https://odysee.com/@alexchristoforou:7/uk's-truss-wants-more-weapons.-cyprus:0Alexander Mercouris - 1 update today.Russia Gains Control Mariupol Port, Cuts Interest Rates as Inflation Slows, Pakistan Regime Change [38:32]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2qx7W2jQdg on Odysee:https://odysee.com/@AlexanderMercouris:a/russia-gains-control-mariupol-port,-cuts:c

Neocons/EU push to prolong conflict to achieve Putin regime change goal [45:50] April 8, 2022 - @ 1:00pm EDThttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phu1Caw-gbYAlex Christoforou - 2 updates today.Nuland ends EastMed gas. Elensky tour hits Cyprus. Russia out of UN Human Rights Council. Update 1 [27:15]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3E6_XCfxVg on Odysee:https://odysee.com/@alexchristoforou:7/nuland-ends-eastmed-gas.-elensky-tour:7Kremlin Spokesman Peskov gives strange interview to Sky News. Update 2 [23:28]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNzbcIx7ll8 on Odysee:https://odysee.com/@alexchristoforou:7/kremlin-spokesman-peskov-gives-strange:1Alexander Mercouris - 1 update today.Ukraine Asks NATO for Western Weapons as Donbass Military Crisis Deepens [33:43]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPipLZsvdl8 on Odysee:https://odysee.com/@AlexanderMercouris:a/ukraine-asks-nato-for-western-weapons-as:e

This interview is an hour and 18 mins. It's well worth the time to listen. Historian Stephen Kotkin has written 2 volumes on the biography of Stalin and is working on the 3rd and final volume. His knowledge of Russia leading up to Putin is comprehensive. He's optimistic about America and the western world.

It is easy to think the Taliban is the biggest winner in Afghanistan, since it has overtaken the entire nation in days as the United States, once clearly the most powerful nation on earth, pulled out of Afghanistan in the most humiliating fashion. But in the larger geopolitical context, the real biggest winner in Afghanistan is the Chinese Communist Party.The CCP has benefited from America’s military engagement in Afghanistan for the last 20 years. As the United States spent trillions of dollars and sent thousands of troops to fight a futile “war on terrorism,” successions of U.S. administrations, regardless of...

A Japanese official tells the truth about China’s Taiwan ambitions.Japan’s government played clean-up this week after Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso indicated the country would intervene to repel a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. Such Chinese military expansion, he said Monday, could threaten Japan’s “survival,” and “if that is the case, Japan and the U.S. must defend Taiwan together.” Japan officially embraces a “one-China” policy and favors a diplomatic resolution between Beijing and Taipei. China’s state media on Wednesday published a piece in response warning that if Japan is involved in a conflict over Taiwan, it “will become the target...

A TOP Ukrainian general has warned the country it must prepare for the worst and be ready to go to war with Russia at any time.However Major General Serhii Kryvonos said he did not believe that the threat of war had been eliminated and argued that all the country must get ready for further conflict. While the army was ready for war, the rest of the country was not and was "in a panic", he told Espresso TV He added: "In the war, we need to expect the worst scenario and prepare for it." The Deputy Secretary of the Ukrainian...

Every few years, the U.S. National Intelligence Council, or NIC, gazes into its crystal ball and imagines the world 20 years hence. The latest installment, released on April 8, is a harrowing read. “Global Trends 2040: A More Contested World” anticipates an era even more chaotic and divided than our own, in which institutions at all levels struggle to adapt to abrupt demographic shifts, economic turbulence, runaway climate change and technological innovation. The COVID-19 pandemic, which has left governments thrashing and multilateral institutions flailing, is the shape of things to come. “Global Trends 2040” is the fourth in a series...

Entrepreneur and author of “Woke, Inc” Vivek Ramaswamy claimed China is using “woke” politics to manipulate Americans during a Wednesday appearance on “Fox and Friends.” China has positioned itself as “uniquely off-limits” for identification as the origin country for the novel coronavirus despite the country clearly being so, Ramaswamy argued. “The Zika virus, the Marburg virus, and Ebola, were all named after the places of origin. In fact, MERS stands for the Middle Eastern respiratory virus. That’s an older coronavirus,” Ramaswamy told “Fox & Friends.” Ramaswamy continued, noting other COVID-19 strains — such as the U.K. variant, Brazilian variant and...

One of the Brixham boats was under attack as 15 boats surrounded himFish wars have broken out in the English Channel as French scallopers confronted their Devon counterparts - firing flares and throwing FRYING PANS. Two Brixham boats, the Girl Macey, skippered by Scott Glover, and the Golden Promise, by Brian Whittington, were involved in the deep-sea skirmish last night. They were surrounded by around 20 French vessels and were pelted by objects including frying pans and rocks and a dangerous flare was fired into the wheelhouse of the Girl Macy. The hostile French crews also threw oil at the...

“It is not often that nations learn from the past, even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.” – Henry Kissinger American students are notoriously bad at geography, and have been for some time. In 2002, for instance – the year after the 9/11 attacks – only 17% of American students could find Afghanistan on a map. In 2016, less than one third were able to score a minimal pass of 66% on the National Geographic Global Literacy Survey. In 2015, the United States Government Accountability Office reported that 75% of eighth grade students don’t even know what...

Foreign Affairs Expert and Asia Analyst, Gordon Chang, Weighs In

This is what the bears don’t get about oil stocks: These are no longer the reckless, wasteful, binge years of the shale boom. The smart companies have adapted to a new reality. close [x] Pause Unmute Remaining Time -1:33 Fullscreen Now, it’s about dramatic new offshore discoveries that are being brought online in record speed. It’s about brilliant new well-completion designs that enhance productivity. It’s about integrated giants who win, either way. It’s about extremely ambitious small-caps that slip into new venues and scoop up massive basins when no one’s looking. It’s about ingenuity on multiple levels that translates into...