TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
A recent USAID audit report found that some of its humanitarian programs for war-torn Syria and Iraq might have assisted terrorist groups. The assistance in question amounts to nearly $700 million. The agency in charge of foreign aid provided by Washington has done a poor job to mitigate risks for its projects to end up Read More…
The US military will deploy 5,000 troops to the southern border – up from initial estimates of 800, according to the Wall street Journal, citing US officials. The troops will be sent to Texas, Arizona and California as Central American migrant caravan makes its way north through Mexico. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told reporters Sunday that the military has Read More…
It’s been praised by a number of top Army officials privy to it, and many think it’s a vital to make clear the lessons learned in the disastrous occupation of Iraq. But “The United States Army in the Iraq War” study remains unpublished, and may never see the light of day. With officials citing the Read More…
We reported over the weekend that Israel has mustered its largest build-up of tanks and armored personnel carriers since 2014 at a deployment area along the border with Gaza and that “all-out war” looks inevitable after weeks of heightened tensions with Hamas. This after special UN envoy for the Middle East, Nickolay Mladenov late last week warned the UN Security Council that “we Read More…
An International group has called for a major rethink of global policy on narcotics and an end to the failed efforts that governments refuse to relinquish. Another major study designed to assess how national governments wage their so-called “war on drugs” shows that the last ten years of such policies have not only failed to Read More…
“Fortress balance sheets?”… “It’s different this time”… “Greatest economy ever.” If all of that is true, then why are the stocks of the most systemically important banks in the world collapsing? And the banking collapse is leading global stocks lower – probably not coincidentally as global central bank balance sheets contract… As The Economic Collapse blog’s Read More…