Mike Norman Economics

Stephen Bryen is a neoconservative whose mentor was Richard Perle. A hawk, he is an unlikely person to be warning about developments, but he is also a realist. He is also an insider and speaks from experience in and knowledge of the US foreign policy and military apparatus from the POV of the right. He is looking at the unfolding situation from the point of view of a foreign policy realist rather than a foreign policy idealist. The is where neoconservatism meets in US politics. At this...

Gilbert Doctorow — International relations, Russian affairsRussian Media Today, 26 April 2022Gilbert Doctorowhttps://gilbertdoctorow.com/2022/04/27/russian-media-today-26-april-2022/A Son of the New American RevolutionRussia Ratchets Up the PressureLarry C. Johnson | CEO and co-founder of BERG Associates, LLC, an international business-consulting firm with expertise combating terrorism and investigating money laundering, formerly Deputy Director in the U.S. State Department’s Office of...

MMT. Short.The Peterborough Examiner — OpinionPeterborough letter: Canadian ‘debt’ propaganda is based on mythHerb Wiseman, Village Crescenthttps://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editors/2022/04/27/canadian-debt-propaganda-is-based-on-myth.html

The Tweets have started already demanding an interest rate rise in May at the next RBA Board meeting. Bankers, media commentators who just are conduits for the bankers – all with vested interests. Today’s data release from the Australian Bureau of Statistics – Consumer Price Index, Australia (April 27, 2022) – has fuelled their mania. Inflation in the March-quarter 2022 rose to 2.1 per cent (5.1 per cent for the 12 months) on the back of rising automotive fuel costs (uncompetitive cartel and...

The Vineyard of the SakerSitrep: Operation ZNightvisionhttp://thesaker.is/sitrep-operation-z-15/Short message from the SakerThe Sakerhttp://thesaker.is/short-message-from-the-saker-4/The Ukraine and the End of the History (a Russian worldview)Batiushka for the Saker Bloghttp://thesaker.is/the-ukraine-and-the-end-of-the-history/Moon of AlabamaA Recap Of The War In Ukraine - by Gonzalo Lirahttps://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/04/a-recap-of-the-war-in-ukraine-by-gonzalo-lira.htmlReminiscence of...

[embedded content]Q and A session off the cuff.Andrei Martyanov, former USSR naval officer and expert on Russian military and naval issues. Martyanov was born in Baku, USSR in 1963. He graduated from the Kirov Naval Red Banner Academy and served as an officer on the ships and staff position of Soviet Coast Guard through 1990. He took part in the events in the Caucasus which led to the collapse of the Soviet Union. In mid-1990s he moved to the United States where he currently works as...

This brings up the issue of worldview and interpretation of perception as information ("reality," "the facts"). Everyone's experience is shaped by subjective factors. One such factor is one's worldview, which is based on cultural and individual factors and circumstances.Thus, it is possible to speak of particular national points of view, religious points of view, political points of view, class-based points of view, etc., and how these different categories intersect in particular individuals...

Gilbert Doctorow — International relations, Russian affairsRussian media today, 25 April 2022Gilbert Doctorowhttps://gilbertdoctorow.com/2022/04/25/russian-media-today-25-april-2022/ Consortium NewsUS Makes It Clear Its Aim Is to ‘Weaken’ RussiaJoe Lauriahttps://consortiumnews.com/2022/04/25/us-makes-it-clear-its-aim-is-to-weaken-russia/Sputnik International (Russian state-sponsored media)Biden Admin. Rolls Out ‘Whole-of-Government’ Drone Plan, Admits There’s No Actual ‘Specific...

If stocks crater, it won't be because of rates, it will be from record taxes being collected by the government. The deficit is already down $1T compared to last year.

The Vineyard of the SakerThe Moskva Riddle (If you could not access this post at SCF, try this link.)Pepe Escobarhttp://thesaker.is/the-moskva-riddle/Reminiscence of the FutureIt Is Becoming A Sports Of Sort (Larry Johnson). (The Larry Johnson post was linked to here at MNE yesterday. Most Western military analysts stating their views publicly still seem to be deceived by the initial Russian feint toward Kiev that masked the real objective, Mariupol, which has fallen. Probably the ones that...