A US withdrawal does not mean abandoning the Afghans. Afghanistan suffers from too much foreign meddling, not a lack of it. And through all of it, the Afghans themselves remain completely helpless to the fate of their own country. [...]
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Could be, says Tikun Olam. Thus, the central bank of Russia is directly fueling the fall of the ruble by lending money to banks to prop up the ruble except the banks are using the money to drive down the ruble further. This and more currency intervention insanity from Mish. The Russia stock market is down 71% from its peak in May. The size of their bubble as well as their corruption, makes ours look small by comparison. Oligarchs who borrowed huge from western banks using stock as collateral are suddenly in serious trouble. But lest we forget, the LTCM collapse in 1998 that nearly [...] “Russia has gone back to being a colony for former KGB agents, who’ve changed in name only — a fuel-rich colony for a small group of oil and gas merchants who give nothing of their riches to anyone living outside the capital.” – Journalist Yelena Tregubova, who was forced to seek asylum in Britain after [...] Factions within the siloviki thugocracy that runs Russia, having exhausted the possibilities of looting outsiders, are turning on themselves and using the courts as weapons to jail each other. This from Robert Amsterdam, international defense counsel for jailed oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky writing in the Inernational Harald Tribune. Russia is far more volatile than anyone [...] This corrupt.. Government-connected raiders use police to arrest business owners on bogus charges then force the owner to sign over their business to them else in return for being released. This happens “thousands” of times a year in Moscow, according to the Moscow Times. Robert Amsterdam, lawyer for jailed oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, posted this video [...] |  | ||||
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