Economy
US Destroying Syria’s Oil Infrastructure Under Guise of Fighting ISIS
The US is considering bombing pipelines in Syria, which it claims is in an attempt to cut off the huge profits being made by ISIS from captured oilfields. The Independent quotes Julieta Valls Noyes, the deputy assistant secretary for European and Eurasian...
Gold or Gunfire: Hedging Against the Collapse of the Dollar
A global economic collapse has become unavoidable, said former chief economist of the Bank of International Settlements (BIS William White in response to the BIS' quarterly report in September 2013. Experts forecast that a global economic collapse may...
About Chinese "leadership" in Asia and the world at large
The IMF forecast that by the end of 2014 China's GDP will, for the first time, exceed the American GDP (in terms of purchasing power parity has caused a flurry of different emotions in the world media. This actually looks strange given China’s own critical...
