Mike Norman Economics

When we published our latest book – Reclaiming the State: A Progressive Vision of Sovereignty for a Post-Neoliberal World – last September, Thomas Fazi and I approached the UK Guardian to see if they would publish an Op Ed by us summarising the main arguments presented in the book. We received no response. Pluto tell us that the book is one of their better sellers since it was published. And it is not as if the topic is irrelevant in the Guardian’s assessment. That is clear from the fact...

If only more people in the MSM were saying things like this. Tucker Carson isn't towing the line. [embedded content]

Syria is perhaps also an opportunity to have a big go at the S-400... see what that thing has under the hood... “Russia's advanced radar, variety of capable missiles and systems that try to integrate large amounts of data for a more potent air defense will increasingly segregate Western air forces into two benches. In a future where these systems have proliferated to China, Iran and other regional powers there will be those that can penetrate and survive against advanced air defenses in a...

Why use the frowning Vlad picture?  I would think Putin would be glad to see the Russian "oligarchs!" nemesis take a big hit like this no? He should be calling Trump to say thanks...Our report on what’s happening in Russia after the latest sanctions were announced. https://t.co/5CEHTpFoOh— Elena Holodny (@ElenaHolodny) April 10, 2018

These 3 would seem to be the unfinished business in the GWOT...Seems like Kim is perhaps capitulating but the other two? The report listed fifteen Syrian engineers among the dead, “dozens” of Iranians and three North Korean technicians. Indeed, North Korea had played a key role in supplying both Syria and Iran with chemical weapons and ballistic-missile technology with which to launch them at distant targets. North Korea, Iran and Syria: The Chemical Weapons Axis of Evil?...

I beseech you, sir, to consider the possibility that the supposed chlorine gas attack at Douma, Syria may have been a carefully constructed propaganda fraud on the part of the rebels encircled in Douma.... Sic Semper TyrannisAn appeal to James Mattis Col. W. Patrick Lang, US Army (ret.) At the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lang was the Defense Intelligence Officer (DIO) for the Middle East, South Asia and counter-terrorism, and later, the first Director of the Defense Humint Service. At the...

The US, UK and France are the only countries with significant blue water naval capabilities and the US and Britain are sea powers (thalassocracies). China is a former sea power and is again reasserting itself on blue water rather than just in its littoral zone.This is of utmost importance geostrategically owing to the transport of oil by sea. The powers that control the shipping routes control this militarily and industrially vital resources, as well as logistics in general. Logistics is...

3:49 minute video.Russia InsiderWhat Really Happened With the Gas Attack in Syria - SYRIANGIRL Is Back! Also Russians ready for war. The Russian view is simple: the West is ruled by a gang of thugs supported by an infinitely lying and hypocritical media while the general public in the West has been hopelessly zombified. The authority of the so-called “western values” (democracy, rule of law, human rights, etc.) in Russia is now roadkill.... The Vineyard of the SakerListening to...

Washington’s “weaponization” of the dollar has triggered a paradigm shift.

Assessment from the US POV.The Cipher BriefHayden: A World Both Dangerous and More Complicated Michael Hayden, former director of CIA and NSA