Editor comments: Desperate measures by a dying empire to maintain its hegemony over the #Petro_Dollar. Losing control of the oil trade will likely spell  a certain decline and even death of the US economy. No wonder the US threatens to enforce their unilaterally imposed sanctions with violent […]

Rosneft Vietnam has started drilling for oil in the South China Sea by Irina Slav Russia’s #Rosneft earlier this week announced that it had started drilling a production well off the coast of #Vietnam in the #South_China_Sea. Today, two sources close to the Vietnamese unit of the […]

“Obviously, the United States did not seize Afghanistan, by rigging its military dictatorship there, in order to build democracy and civil society there.” Imperia News is new site put out by expats in Moscow, Russia, which has good access to high quality Russian government sources. This […]

(Andy Rowell)   Human rights campaigners are warning that further ethnic cleansing in #Burma, which is being exacerbated by land clearances due to economic developments surrounding the Shwe Oil/Gas pipeline, could be imminent. The #Shwe-pipeline, which ironically means Golden in Burmese, […]

Barefoot Warrior comments: Anyone who has spent some time reading world history would be familiar with the signs and actions emanating from a dying #empire, the last gasps of breath of a once strong and proud nation. That such an empire would become more and more autocratic and dictatorial and […]