Mike Whitney - Archive

The Anti-Assad Wahhabi Confab: The Saudi-Hosted “Opposition Talks” Fiasco By Mike Whitney, December 14, 2015
Destroying Syria to Create Sunnistan. US Bombs Syrian Military Base. Turkey Invades Northern Iraq By Mike Whitney, December 09, 2015
Erdogan Blackmails NATO Allies By Mike Whitney, December 04, 2015
Putin’s Revenge? The Fight for the Border By Mike Whitney, December 02, 2015
Turkey Downs Russian Fighter to Draw NATO and US Deeper into Syrian Quagmire By Mike Whitney, November 25, 2015
Hillary’s War Whoop: Get the Picture? ISIS is Everywhere, Syria, Iraq, Europe, the US By Mike Whitney, November 21, 2015
“No Ground Troops to Syria:” Obama’s Smartest Move in Eight Years? By Mike Whitney, November 18, 2015
Targeting ISIS Terrorists in Syria: Grandmaster Putin Beats Uncle Sam at His Own Game By Mike Whitney, November 15, 2015
US-Turkey Invasion Derailed by Syrian Army Triumph, Recapture of Kuweires Military Air Base By Mike Whitney, November 12, 2015
Turkey Goes to War. Plan to Annex Sovereign Syrian Territory By Mike Whitney, November 07, 2015
Putin Makes Obama an Offer He Can’t Refuse By Mike Whitney, October 30, 2015
Putin Forces Obama to Capitulate on Syria By Mike Whitney, October 22, 2015
Putin Forces Obama to Capitulate on Syria By Mike Whitney, October 21, 2015
Quantitative Easing Was a Bust; Let’s Try Higher Wages Instead By Mike Whitney, October 19, 2015
Did Russia’s Intervention Derail Turkey’s Plan to Invade Syria? By Mike Whitney, October 16, 2015
Did Russia’s Intervention Derail Turkey’s Plan to Invade Syria? By Mike Whitney, October 15, 2015
Putin’s “Endgame” in Syria By Mike Whitney, October 11, 2015
The Oil Coup By Mike Whitney, October 09, 2015
How Putin will Win in Syria By Mike Whitney, October 07, 2015
Putin’s Lightning War in Syria By Mike Whitney, October 04, 2015
Putin’s Blitz Leaves Washington Rankled and Confused By Mike Whitney, October 01, 2015
Markets Gone Mad: Shaking Off Six Years of the Fed’s Zero Rates and Liquidity Injections By Mike Whitney, September 25, 2015
Putin’s “Line in the Sand”: No “Regime Change” in Syria By Mike Whitney, September 17, 2015
Market Volatility. It’s All About Expectations; Why Are Stocks Going Berserk? By Mike Whitney, September 12, 2015
Return to Crisis: Things Keep Getting Worse By Mike Whitney, September 02, 2015
Looting Made Easy: the $2 Trillion Buyback Binge By Mike Whitney, August 28, 2015
Swan Song for the Donald? GOP Party Bosses Plan to “Take Out” Trump By Mike Whitney, August 10, 2015
Donald Trump’s Triumph: Billionaire Blowhard Exposes Fake Political System By Mike Whitney, August 08, 2015
The Politics of Betrayal: Obama Backstabs Kurds to Appease Turkey By Mike Whitney, July 31, 2015
Picked Out a Coffin Yet? Take Ibuprofen and Die By Mike Whitney, July 26, 2015
Is the Iran Nukes Deal Aimed at Crushing Putin? By Mike Whitney, July 17, 2015
Putin Leads BRICS Uprising By Mike Whitney, July 13, 2015
The Pentagon’s “2015 Strategy” for Ruling the World By Mike Whitney, July 05, 2015
Putin Gobsmacks Uncle Sam … Again By Mike Whitney, July 03, 2015
China Syndrome: Why the PRC Won’t Get Sucked Into a Pointless War with the United States By Mike Whitney, June 24, 2015
Seven Days in May? US Global Hegemony, “Asymmetric Warfare” Directed against China By Mike Whitney, June 17, 2015
Seven Days in May? US Global Hegemony, “Asymmetric Warfare” Directed against China By Mike Whitney, June 17, 2015
U.S. Policy towards China: The Skirmish in the Spratlys By Mike Whitney, June 08, 2015
U.S. Policy towards China: The Skirmish in the Spratlys By Mike Whitney, June 08, 2015
Pivot Insanity: Why is Obama Goading China? By Mike Whitney, May 30, 2015
Splitting Up Iraq By Mike Whitney, May 09, 2015
The Rich Get Richer: Titanic Stock Bubble Fueled by Buyback Blitz By Mike Whitney, May 08, 2015
If You’re Black in America, the Rules are Different By Mike Whitney, May 02, 2015
Obama’s “No Growth, No Jobs, No Recovery” Economy Gives Up The Ghost By Mike Whitney, May 01, 2015
Why Obama Wants to Lift Sanctions on Iran By Mike Whitney, April 27, 2015
US and the Lausanne Negociations: Another Idiotic Plan to Hurt Russia By Mike Whitney, April 20, 2015
Saudis Face Defeat in Yemen and Instability at Home By Mike Whitney, April 14, 2015
Washington’s War on Russia By Mike Whitney, March 19, 2015
NATO Lies and Provocations: Splitting the Atlantic Alliance By Mike Whitney, March 10, 2015
How Putin Blocked the U.S. Pivot to Asia By Mike Whitney, March 09, 2015
Varoufakis vs. the Troika. Showdown in Athens By Mike Whitney, March 01, 2015
Varoufakis Keeps Greece in the Eurozone, by its Fingernails By Mike Whitney, February 24, 2015
Ironman Varoufakis’s Revolutionary Plan for Europe By Mike Whitney, February 19, 2015
Greece and the Eurozone By Mike Whitney, February 18, 2015
Crunch Time in Minsk: Will the German Chancellor Bring Peace to Ukraine? By Mike Whitney, February 11, 2015
The Fallujah Option for East Ukraine By Mike Whitney, February 08, 2015
The Fallujah Option for East Ukraine: The Real Reason Washington Feels Threatened by Moscow By Mike Whitney, February 06, 2015
Draghi’s “No-growth”: Quantitative Easing Money for Stocks, Zilch for the Economy By Mike Whitney, January 26, 2015
Are Plunging Petrodollar Revenues Behind the Fed’s Projected Rate Hikes? By Mike Whitney, January 21, 2015
Down the Plughole: 40 years of Economic Policy in One Chart By Mike Whitney, January 15, 2015