ICH: The US in 2016: No Money for Social Programs, Cash to Burn For The military, What Hillary Knew about Libya, Russia Breaking Wall St Oil Price Monopoly

Russia Breaking Wall St Oil Price Monopoly By F. William Engdahl

The move is part of a longer-term  strategy of decoupling Russia's economy  and especially its very significant export  of oil, from the US dollar.   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article43934.htm This Is How You Do a Putin Interview By Alexander Mercouris The fact Ukraine has not brought a claim  against Russia to the International  Court of Justice shows it knows - and  has been warned by Western  governments - it would lose.   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article43936.htm Towards the Collapse of Saudi Arabia By Thierry Meyssan While the Saud family enjoys the last few  moments of its dictatorship, the  decapitation of the leader of the opposition,  Nimr al-Nimr, deprives half of the Saudi  population of all hope.   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article43941.htm What Hillary Knew about Libya By Robert Parry Blumenthal's emails provide a useful  window into what was actually happening  behind the scenes - and what Secretary  of State Clinton knew.   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article43937.htm Exceptionalism: A Wile for Imperialism By Kim Petersen and B. J. Sabri No one harnessed the power of militant  ideological Wahhabism better than the  United States of Jimmy Carter and  Zbigniew Brzezinski.   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article43935.htm The US in 2016: No Money for Social Programs,  Cash to Burn For The military By Andre Damon The US government has poured hundreds  of billions of dollars into military programs  like the F-35 fighter, while slashing assistance  for the poor, homeless, and hungry.   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article43938.htm Obama's Final State of the Union: Lies, Evasions and Threats By Patrick Martin Obama indulged in the glorification of  killing that has become an essential part  of the degraded spectacle that passes  for political discourse in America.   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article43940.htm