Not So Cold War 2.0

US-NATO vs Russia-China in a hybrid war to the finish

Pepe Escobar:

The unipolar moment is six feet under, the hegemon will try to break Eurasian integration and there’s no grownup in the room to counsel restraint

Houthi rebels overturned the chessboard

 

 

Houthi rebels overturned the chessboard

Standoff in the Persian Gulf

More confirmation of false flag attack…

“As much as 30% of the world’s oil supply transits the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz. Wily Persian Gulf traders – who know better – are virtually unanimous; if Tehran was really responsible for the Gulf of Oman tanker incident, oil prices would be going through the roof by now. They aren’t.“

Nobody with knowledge of the situation believes America’s lies.

Iran is not powerless to retaliate.

Pepe Escobar:

As I previously reported, shutting down the Strait of Hormuz would destroy the American economy by detonating the $1.2 quadrillion derivatives market; and that would collapse the world banking system, crushing the world’s $80 trillion GDP and causing an unprecedented depression.

Iran goes for “maximum counter-pressure”

As Hezbollah’s secretary-general Hasan Nasrallah has been stressing in his speeches, “war on Iran will not remain within that country’s borders, rather it will mean that the entire [Middle East] region will be set ablaze. All of the American forces and interests in the region will be wiped out, and with them the conspirators, first among them Israel and the Saudi ruling family.”

Russian Military Power is No Joke

 

Here’s the real reason the US must talk to Russia

Target China

 

Could this spark WW3? America regularly attacks countries that challenge dollar hegemony. It may be the prime cause of most modern wars…

China plans to break petrodollar stranglehold

It was expected to be rolled out by the end of this year, but that looks unlikely to happen. But when it does get off the ground in 2018, the fundamentals will be clear — this triple oil-yuan-gold route will bypass the mighty green back.

 

Chaos in Arabia

 

Personally I think we should have bombed them on September 12, 2001.

Pepe Escobar:

The inside story of the Saudi night of long knives

The Most Dangerous Man You’ve Never Heard Of

Mohammad bin Salman / “MBS”

 

There’s been a coup in Saudi Arabia, and this asshole–a terrorist mass murderer–has seized power. Pepe Escobar, and a must-read piece in Asia Times:

A coup in the House of Saud?

BONUS:

A German intelligence memo outs the Saudis for sponsoring Al Qaeda.

The BND memo crucially detailed how the House of Saud, in Syria, had bankrolled the creation of the Army of Conquest – basically a revamp of Jabhat al-Nusra, aka al-Qaeda in Syria – as well as ideological sister outfit Ahrar al-Sham.

Confirmed in UK Independent

“The BND lists the areas in which Saudi Arabia is adopting a more aggressive and warlike policy. In Syria, in early 2015, it supported the creation of The Army of Conquest, primarily made up of the al-Qaeda affiliate the al-Nusra Front and the ideologically similar Ahrar al-Sham, which won a series of victories against the Syrian Army in Idlib province. In Yemen, it began an air war directed against the Houthi movement and the Yemeni army, which shows no sign of ending. Among those who gain are al-Qaeda in the Arabian peninsula, which the US has been fruitlessly trying to weaken for years by drone strikes. “

 

Planet of Fear

Pepe Escobar takes on the global chaos…

Planet of Fear

Putin and Hollande go after Erdogan’s racket

It occurs to me that this blog has posted more actual, real news about the most important stories affecting global security, than almost any MSM media outfit based in the United States. It’s a world of censorship and propaganda, people.

 

Putin and Hollande go after Erdogan’s racket

How come the US-led ‘Coalition of Dodgy Opportunists’ (CDO), in over a year, never – and the operative word is never – bombed any of the wheels in the Syrian stolen oil machine?

And how come no one among the CDO – Americans especially – did anything to prevent ‘Mini Me’ and others from actually funding the Daesh racket for so long?

ISIS Tanker Truck “Riddle”

Russia ain’t taking no prisoners

Putin: The bombshell: Daesh’s cash, “as we have established, comes from 40 countries and, there are some of the G20 members among them.” It doesn’t take a Caltech genius to figure out which members. They’d better take the “you can run but you can’t hide” message seriously.

Additionally, Putin debunked – graphically – to the whole G20 the myth of a Washington seriously engaged on the fight against Daesh: “I’ve shown our colleagues photos taken from space and from aircraft which clearly demonstrate the scale of the illegal trade in oil.” He was referring to Daesh’s oil smuggling tanker truck fleet, which numbers over 1,000.

Apparently acting on Russian satellite intelligence, the Pentagon then miraculously managed to find tanker truck convoys stretching “beyond the horizon,” smuggling out stolen Syrian oil. And duly bombed 116 trucks. For the first time. And this in over a year that the ‘Coalition of the Dodgy Opportunists’ (CDO) is theoretically fighting Daesh. The only such bombing that happened before was by the Iraqi Air Force.

The Russia / Saudi Rapprochement

Pepe Escobar sums up the momentous changes sweeping across the Middle East right now. Crucial info.

What’s the big deal between Russia and the Saudis?

Why the U.S. “war on terra” is a fraud

Why the U.S. “war on terra” is a fraud