Mike Norman Economics

US-Russian relations continue hanging in the balance with NATO's expansion in Eastern and Central Europe and the Pentagon's controversial actions in Syria. While the US continues portraying Moscow as an adversary, the standoff is unlikely to translate into a nuclear conflict, American academic Vladimir Golstein told Sputnik.The US and the NATO are no longer hiding their goals, they are beefing up their military presence on Russia's borders, Vladimir Golstein, Associate Professor of Slavic...

U.S. President Donald Trump made it clear last week that he is close to withdrawing from the Iran accord unless Iran agrees to make changes. His chances for success are slim - and his blustering risks a dangerous escalation.… European diplomats are also concerned about the effects of a collapsed Iran accord might have on the conflict with North Korea. The Iran deal, after all, is the only blueprint available for how talks with the regime in Pyongyang might be initiated. "The worst thing...

Wilkerson sees war approaching.TRNNOn Iran, Trump Follows Iraq War Neocons Aaron Maté interviews Lt. Col. Lawrence Wilkerson See also In the U.S., Russia-hating liberals are joining the neocons in seeking more war in Ukraine, as the prospects for a rational and peaceful resolution to the crisis continue to fade, explains James W. Carden. Consortium NewsFueling More Bloodshed in Ukraine James Carden Also US forces conducted airstrikes against two ISIS training camps in Yemen on...

Ha ha. Gives "echo chamber" new meaning.The notion that "Russian" amplification of what Americans were already saying played a significant part in US politics or the elections is simply absurd, especially considering the relative amounts spent.HRC is making a fool of herself, the Democratic Party is self-destructing, and the Establishment is toying with imposing censorship over this, all to control the narrative.US politics operates not on issues but on narratives. Whoever controls the...

Kazakhstan's government-supported Astana International Finance Center (AIFC) said Tuesday it had signed a deal of cooperation with Maltese firm Exante Exante said it would work with the AIFC to develop the ex-Soviet nation's untapped cryptocurrency market Kazakhstan's entry into the digital currency ecosystem would be underpinned by Exante's new blockchain platform, 'Stasis' When it rains it pours. In August, Estonia proposed its own state-backed digital asset, which would be called...

Sanctions-buster? The anonymity of a cryptocurrency also provides Russia with a tremendous opportunity to circumvent sanctions. As Handelsblatt reports, the CIA has already expressed suspicion that Russia’s interest in the matter may be related to this. The Director General of the Russian e-money system, Qiwi Sergej Solonin, sees at least the possibility that the CryptoRuble could provide a replacement to the international banking transaction system Swift. The disconnection of Russia from...

Today, I have translated two interviews I did while I was in Europe recently. The original interviews were in Spanish. The first interview was with Andrés Villena Oliver for CTXT and was published in the Spanish newspaper Público. It was conducted at Ecooo in Madrid on September 28, 2017. The the second interview was with journalist Marta Luengo Garcés from the progressive newspaper El Salto Diaro. It was conducted at the Principe Pio Hotel in Madrid on September 29, 2017. You can get a...

I've been fascinated by Jason Goodman's YouTube videos for few days now since I came across him last week. He's a conservative who supports Trump and he has these broadcasts with interesting people on the right who are really sick of the neoliberal order, the Deep State, the CIA, the MSM, and all the creatures in the swamp, left and right. In this video Jason Goodman talks to Charles Ortel and Stuart Dean of Medium.com about the Clinton Foundation. It's a real insight into the inner workings...

“Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.” This is Article 23 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights declared by the UN in 1948. It sounds like a pretty good right to me. That’s why when I learned about “right-to-work” states in America I was dumbfounded. I thought we were fulfilling this right in my own country and I hadn’t even heard about it! Why were people still unemployed if we...

Well-reasoned analysis from an cryptocurrency advocate's point of view:  A win for cryptocurrency and a win for Putin that will be a win for Russia. Gold Goats n GunsRussia’s Crypto-Ruble Just Changed the Game Tom Luongo also The DuranCrypto-Rouble: Russia to launch first state sanctioned cryptocurrency in the worldAdam Garrie