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Beijing notes signs of US decline behind bloated new Pentagon budget
Aug 26, 2018 05:13The emerging multipolar global arrangement has convinced observers that the United States is undeniably confronting an inevitable decline in its status as the world’s foremost hegemonic power.
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Absurdity of US anti-Iran “Action Group” for Government Change
Aug 25, 2018 18:15The US, which over the past forty years tried every trick up its sleeve to change the system of government of Iran and bring the country back into its orbit, has miserably failed, and now as a last desperate attempt to try to browbeat the Islamic Republic into submission through threats, sanctions, bullying other countries against trading with Tehran.
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The American scream
Aug 25, 2018 18:12Just like when the medieval executioners tortured their prisoners to scream out for "mercy", so today two former aides of US President Donald Trump are put being on the rack to extract a begging response. If they finger the president, then maybe mercy will be shown to the prisoners.
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Sanctions, sanctions, sanctions – the final demise of Dollar hegemony?
Aug 25, 2018 18:07Sanctions left and sanctions right. Financial mostly, taxes, tariffs, visas, travel bans – confiscation of foreign assets, import and export prohibitions and limitations; and also punishing those who do not respect sanctions dished out by Trump, alias the US of A, against friends of their enemies.
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Hotel fire kills 19 in northeast China city
Aug 25, 2018 11:48A hotel fire that broke out in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, Saturday morning has left 19 people dead, the provincial fire department confirmed.
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Ten Theses of American Empire-Building
Aug 24, 2018 10:38Few, if any, believe what they hear and read from leaders and media publicists. Most people choose to ignore the cacophony of voices, vices and virtues.
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Inequality and the crisis of the so-called ‘American democracy’
Aug 24, 2018 06:07On Thursday, the Economic Policy Institute reported that average CEO pay at America’s 350 largest companies grew by 17.6 percent between 2016 and 2017. The typical chief executive received $18.9 million in compensation. The wage of a typical US worker, on the other hand, grew by a negligible 0.3 percent.
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Washington’s silent weapon for not-so-quiet wars
Aug 24, 2018 06:03Today by far the deadliest weapon of mass destruction in Washington’s arsenal lies not with the Pentagon or its traditional killing machines.
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UAE’s Overreaching Ambitions Bound to Miserably Fail
Aug 23, 2018 03:39The continuing war crimes in Yemen by the so-called Arab coalition made up of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates has revealed to the whole world the nefarious role being played by the Emiratis to expand their influence in strategic Bab al-Mendeb Strait and the Horn of Africa by using their vast wealth of petrodollars to bribe regional warlords and procures armies of mercenaries.
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Economic war on Iran is war on Eurasia integration
Aug 23, 2018 03:34US sanctions on Iran should be interpreted as a piece in a much larger chessboard, says Brazilian analyst Pepe Escobar in his investigative article for Asia Times, titled: “Economic war on Iran is war on Eurasia integration”.