Posts Tagged ‘
Iran ’
Apr 4th, 2012 |
By Jeffrey Tucker |
Category: Economics, Featured, Politics
Maybe U.S. energy independence isn't such a great thing after all. Some years ago, when the American political class was whooping it up for war with China, what stopped the push were the American commercial interests who essentially said, "What, are you crazy? This is bad for business. We need ...
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Tags: China, energy independence, Iran, Iraq, sanctions, U.S.
Posted in Economics, Featured, Politics |
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Mar 6th, 2012 |
By Jeffrey Tucker |
Category: Featured, Politics
Gary Gibson, Introduction...
"We can kill you whenever we want to."
We confess to a gross distortion. Those are not Attorney General Eric Holder's exact words. But we vigorously insist that they were his meaning.
In the wake of the the president's murder-by-drone of U.S. citizen Anwar al-Awlaki, the Attorney general explains why ...
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Tags: 9/11, domestic terrorism, Iran, Iraq, total state response to terrorist act
Posted in Featured, Politics |
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Feb 1st, 2012 |
By Charles Goyette |
Category: Featured, Gold, International, Politics
It looks just like a reality show that's not going to be renewed for another season. President Obama's State of the Union ratings are headed in the same direction as American Idol's so far this season – down.
Let me make a secret confession right here. For years, the producer of ...
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Tags: Gold, India, Iran, Oil, petrodollar, State of the Union Address
Posted in Featured, Gold, International, Politics |
3 comments
Jan 3rd, 2012 |
By Michael Pento |
Category: Featured, International, Oil
As this tumultuous and volatile year draws to an end, it's time to turn your thoughts to 2012. What will the new year bring…and what can you do to prepare for it?
I've given it a lot of thought, drawing on my decades of market-watching experience. In the end, I came ...
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Tags: drone, Iran, Israel, Oil, oil prices
Posted in Featured, International, Oil |
4 comments
Nov 22nd, 2011 |
By Whiskey Contributor |
Category: Featured, Politics
War, war and more war seem to be the primary objective of the U.S. government and its military. Of course, the corporations dependent on these merchants of death for their booty are also salivating for more foreign carnage by this nefarious government. After all, so long as foreigners and the ...
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Tags: China, Iran, nuclear weapons, Pakistan, Russia, wars of aggression, World War
Posted in Featured, Politics |
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Aug 14th, 2007 |
By Byron King |
Category: Emerging Markets
On Aug. 6, 2007, Iran’s state-run television announced that Iran has begun the large-scale domestic production of an indigenously designed combat aircraft. Dubbed the Azarakhsh (Farsi for “lightning”), the aircraft is reportedly designed for close air support.
Iran's defense minister, Mostafa Mohammad Najjar, was quoted in state-run media as saying, ...
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Tags: aerial warfare, azarakhsh, fifth generation aircraft, Iran, irani aircraft
Posted in Emerging Markets |
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May 29th, 2007 |
By Whiskey Contributor |
Category: Macro Economics
If President Bush is getting cold feet about launching an attack on Iran, Vice President Cheney might be arranging things so that he’ll have no choice.
That’s the most eye-opening headline about Iran in a whole slew of them last week, coming after two months of, well, not much.
In March, the ...
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Tags: Bush, cheney, Iran, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, UN security council
Posted in Macro Economics |
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Jan 25th, 2007 |
By Doug Casey |
Category: Macro Economics
Q.: What about Iran?
A.: I'm desperately looking for the time to visit Iran while that's still possible. But my take, from reading and talking to overseas Iranians, of whom there are more than a million in North America alone, is that attacking it would be insane. One reason is that ...
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Tags: inflation, Iran, Israel, Soviets, Syria, terrorism, WWIII
Posted in Macro Economics |
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