Joachim Hagopian, ‘Peacemaker’ Trump Threatens War against Venezuela’s Maduro Government

Joachim Hagopian   First on July 25th, the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated Venezuela’s Cartel de los Soles (of the Suns) a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) entity. This simply offers the excuse for US to continue waging its forever “War on Terror” much closer to home inside the Western hemisphere. And just like clockwork just two weeks later, Trump Attorney General Pam Bondi sanctimoniously announced on August 7th a doubled $50 million bounty on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s head, as US history’s highest bounty ever issued on a sitting world leader. In one…

William de Berg, The New Opium War: Revenge of the Middle Kingdom?

William de Berg In the middle of the 19th-Century, Great Britain and its East India Tea Company had a major problem:  Exports from China (silk, porcelain, tea, etc.) were worth much more than the imports to the Middle Kingdom  (mainly precious metals).   So, the British created an import market by selling opium to the Chinese masses, whose growing addictions alarmed the Chinese emperors.   Issuing edicts and burning warehouses didn’t sit well with the British, who along with the French ended up sending their navies upriver to capture the capital cities…