Posted by seumasach on December 24, 2018
David P.Goldman
24th December, 2018
China’s Ministry of Commerce stated on its website today that the US and China “made new progress” at a vice-minister-level call. Chinese TV spoke of “hopes raised in recent weeks of a significant breakthrough” in the trade negotiations.
Posted in Multipolar world | Tagged: china us trade deal, strategic partnership between US and China, US-China: clash of world systems | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on December 20, 2018
M.K.Bhadrakumar
20th december, 2018
The US President Donald Trump’s announcement on Wednesday regarding the withdrawal of American military from Syria has predictably run into strong headwinds in the Washington Beltway. A formidable coalition appeared overnight – comprising the Deep State, US defence and security establishment, leading members of the Congress, major media organs –branding Trump as a maverick. However, the fact of the matter is that Trump made a considered decision.
Posted in Syria | Tagged: End of empire, Victory in Syria!, endgame inSyria | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on December 20, 2018
18th december, 2018
This first EU 5G Appeal was initially submitted in September 2017 to the European Commission demanding a moratorium on the increase of cell antennas for planned 5G expansion. Concerns over health effects from higher radiation exposure include potential neurological impacts, infertility, and cancer.
Posted in Studies and statements showing mobile phone health risk | Tagged: EM radiation health hazard, Stop 5G! | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on December 20, 2018
As with Mahathir in Malaysia so, now with Imran Khan: both are driving hard bargains with China and the Belt and Road Initiative is by no means one-way traffic. A genuine multipolarity is emerging with strategic autonomy as the watchword as all players seek to benefit from the greatest development project in human history.
Pepe Escobar
20th December, 2018
On top of the graceful Baltit Fort, overlooking the Hunza Valley’s Shangri-La-style splendor, it’s impossible not to feel dizzy at the view: an overwhelming collision of millennia of geology and centuries of history.
Posted in Multipolar world | Tagged: China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on December 18, 2018
14th December, 2018
It is increasingly clear the global economy is slowing down. And a few months ago the epicenter for that slowdown was Turkey.
The Turkish Lira melted down as fears over its massive pile of corporate debt, most of it denominated in dollars, began selling off. And that had contagion effects into Europe since yield-starved banks went looking for some thanks to the ECB’s negative interest rate policy.
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Posted by seumasach on December 16, 2018
Talk about the shift of power from West to East!
14th december, 2018
Prosecutors in Malaysia filed yet another round of new graft charges against disgraced former prime minister Najib Razak this week after investigators questioned him and Arul Kanda Kandasamy, a former chief executive at 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), over allegations of tampering with a 2016 government audit of the graft-linked state fund.
Posted in Multipolar world | Tagged: 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), Goldman Sachs | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on December 16, 2018
Pepe Escobar
13th december, 2018
The concept of Greater Eurasia has been discussed at the highest levels of Russian academia and policy-making for some time. This week the policy was presented at the Council of Ministers and looks set to be enshrined, without fanfare, as the main guideline of Russian foreign policy for the foreseeable future.
Posted in Multipolar world | Tagged: eurasian project, Greater Eurasia, New Eurasian Century | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on December 15, 2018
14th December, 2018
Forces are aligning against Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince, lead by elements within the CIA and strong players in the mainstream media. But what is really behind this deterioration in relationship, and what are its implications?
Posted in Currency Wars | Tagged: petro-yuan, saudi russia rapprochement | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on December 15, 2018
Britain is descending into political chaos as May is seemingly playing for time. Meanwhile, attempts to unseat Trump reach a crescendo at least in the press. The impeachment of Trump would restore the Special Relationship and perhaps put Brexit back on the road to Oceania.
15th December, 2018
The interview that Michael Cohen gave ABC News on Friday morning should show Donald Trump one thing; that until he surrenders to begin a three-year prison sentence next March, he is unlikely to go away.
Posted in brexit crisis, Oceania | Tagged: oceania, tripping up trump, Trump impeachment | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on December 15, 2018
It is clear now that the meaning of this statement has to be revisited in the light growing American hostility to UK financial interests culminating in Trump’s election and embodied in his tax reforms, and the growing campaign to render British Overseas Territories more transparent finally concretised in 2018 legislation. Dodgy financial operations are not only under threat by EU regulations but by US competition. and have been for some time. Hence the need for a deepening of the City of London’s role as a haven for illicit money flows.
15th January, 2017
The chancellor, Philip Hammond, has suggested Britain could transform its economic model into that of a corporate tax haven if the EU fails to provide it with an agreement on market access after Brexit.
In an interview with the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag, Hammond said that if Britain were closed off from European markets after leaving the EU, it would consider abandoning a European-style social model with European-style taxation and regulation systems, and “become something different”.
Posted in brexit crisis | Tagged: Brexit and the hedge funds, City of London, End of empire, UK as offshore tax haven | Leave a Comment »
Posted by seumasach on December 15, 2018
7th April, 2016
David Cameron intervened personally to prevent offshore trusts from being dragged into an EU-wide crackdown on tax avoidance, it has emerged.
In a 2013 letter to the then president of the European council, Herman Van Rompuy, the prime minister said that trusts should not automatically be subject to the same transparency requirements as companies.
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