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China Buys Euros as Fear of World Depression Grows

Webster G. Tarpley
TARPLEY.net
August 25, 2010

The US Treasury has just announced that China’s official holdings of U.S. Treasury securities declined by about $30 billion between April and May of this year, from about $900 billion to some $868 billion. According to the US authorities, this means that Chinese holdings of US government paper are now [...]

Neocon Petraeus Stakes Out Conflict with Obama over July 2011 Afghanistan Pullout; Lays Foundation for GOP Presidential Draft in 2012

Webster G. Tarpley
TARPLEY.net
August 19, 2010

Stock Market Tremors, Fed Pessimism, US Payments Deficit Presage Dollar Disintegration After Failure of US-UK Blitzkrieg Against Euro; Wall Street In Flight Forward Towards Iran War, Oil Price Spike To Prop Up Greenback

Webster G. Tarpley
TARPLEY.net
August 11, 2010

Fidel Castro Warns of Imminent Nuclear War; Admiral Mullen Threatens Iran; US-Israel Vs. Iran-Hezbollah Confrontation Builds On Multiple Fronts

Webster G. Tarpley
TARPLEY.net
August 9, 2010

On July 21, the present writer offered the evaluation that an attack on Iran by the United States and Israel was now emphatically back on the agenda after a two-year hiatus.1 More than two weeks after issuing that warning, it is possible to offer a second installment of evidence to [...]

China Surpasses US in Energy Consumption, While The Malthusian Crackpots of The Obama Regime Fiddle with Cap and Trade

Webster G. Tarpley
TARPLEY.net
July 22, 2010

Harry Reid says he is dropping the insane cap and trade carbon tax legislation, but beware of an attempt to pass this favorite bill of rich elitists and Malthusian fanatics. The attempt to bootleg cap and trade into law may come during the November-December lame duck session, with the votes of [...]

Obama is Preparing to Bomb Iran

Webster G. Tarpley
TARPLEY.net
July 21, 2010

After about two and a half years during which the danger of war between the United States and Iran was at a relatively low level, this threat is now rapidly increasing. A pattern of political and diplomatic events, military deployments, and media chatter now indicates that Anglo-American ruling circles, acting [...]

Obama-Dodd-Frank FinReg Monstrosity Delays Derivatives Curbs until 2022!

Webster G. Tarpley
TARPLEY.net
July 15, 2010

The Obama-Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill, a miserable excuse for real Wall Street reform, is now about to gain final approval in the Senate. This wretched bill is now supported by the New England liberal (meaning Wall Street) Republican clique including Olympia Snow, Susan Collins, and Scott Brown, who are joined [...]

De Gaulle as Economic Dirigist

Webster G. Tarpley
TARPLEY.net
July 14, 2010

Charles de Gaulle

In these dark days for France under the Sarkozy regime, we should recall some of the unique contributions of this great nation to the cause of human civilization and human progress. Over recent decades, these contributions are associated above all with the heritage of French President Charles de [...]

Trichet’s Fake Stress Tests Bring European Banking System to Edge of Abyss

Webster G. Tarpley
TARPLEY.net
July 11, 2010

Seventy-nine years ago this month, the German banking system disintegrated. The Danat Bank closed its doors, and only a government-declared bank holiday saved the Deutsche Bank from liquidation. This July, it may well be that the entire European banking system is poised on the brink of a similar cataclysmic [...]

FBI Indicts Ten as Alleged Russian Spies; Timing of Case and Nature of Charges are Highly Suspect

Webster G. Tarpley
TARPLEY.net
June 28, 2010

In the wake of the Medvedev-Obama hamburger summit, most normalized US-Russian parley of its kind in history, the FBI has launched indictments of 10 alleged Russian spies, who were not government officials and who had no access to US state secrets. There is no indication so far that the accused succeeded [...]