Mike Whitney

MIKE WHITNEY lives in Washington state. He is a contributor to Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion (AK Press). Hopeless is also available in a Kindle edition. He can be reached at fergiewhitney@msn.com.

Putin’s Aleppo Gamble Pays Off

Peace Talks “Paused” After Putin’s Triumph in Aleppo 

Oil Price Treachery: Are the Saudis Blackmailing Putin for Concessions on Syria?

Western Media Ignores Putin’s Progress in Syria

Seven Years of Monetary Quackery; Can the Fed Admit it Was Wrong Yet?

Stock Buybacks and the Wall Street Sharktank: “A Whole Lotta Stealin’ Goin’ On”

Could This be “The Big One”?

The Fed’s Role in the Stock Market Slide

The Chart That Explains Everything

Does North Korea Need Nukes to Deter US Aggression?

Wall Street Kicks Off 2016 With a Faceplant

Putin’s Progress in Syria Sends Kerry Scampering to the United Nations

John Kerry’s Moscow Lovefest

Trump’s Triumph in Glitter City

Putin Throws Down the Gauntlet

The Saudi-Hosted “Opposition Talks” Fiasco

Destroying Syria to Create Sunnistan

Putin Must Seek Justice For Peshkov

Erdogan Blackmails NATO Allies

Putin’s Revenge? The Fight for the Border

Turkey Downs Russian Fighter to Draw NATO and US Deeper into Syrian Quagmire

Hillary’s War Whoop

“No Ground Troops to Syria:” Obama’s Smartest Move in Eight Years?

Grandmaster Putin Beats Uncle Sam at His Own Game

US-Turkey Invasion Derailed by Syrian Army Triumph at Kuweires  

Turkey Goes to War

Kerry’s Debacle in Vienna

Everything You Needed to Know About Syria in 8 Minutes

Putin Makes Obama an Offer He Can’t Refuse

Putin Forces Obama to Capitulate on Syria

Quantitative Easing Was a Bust; Let’s Try Higher Wages Instead

Did Russia’s Intervention Derail Turkey’s Plan to Invade Syria?

Putin’s “Endgame” in Syria

How Putin will Win in Syria

Putin’s Lightning War in Syria

Putin’s Blitz Leaves Washington Rankled and Confused

Markets Gone Mad

Has the Fed Lost its Mojo?

Putin’s Line in the Sand: No Regime Change in Syria

Why Are Stocks Going Berserk?

Return to Crisis: Things Keep Getting Worse

Looting Made Easy: the $2 Trillion Buyback Binge

Wall Street Panic

Ankara: the New Capital of Jihad

Is Putin Planning to Sell-Out Assad? 

Swan Song for the Donald? GOP Party Bosses Plan to “Take Out” Trump

Trump’s Triumph: Billionaire Blowhard Exposes Fake Political System

The Brookings Institute Plan to Liquidate Syria 

Power-Mad Erdogan Launches War in Attempt to Become Turkey’s Supreme Leader

The Politics of Betrayal: Obama Backstabs Kurds to Appease Turkey