If You've Got Gold, You've Got Money; If You Haven't Got Gold, You've Got a Problem

Posted with permission and written by Rory Hall, The Daily Coin (CLICK FOR ORIGINAL)

Akin to ancient Rome, the United States has over-extended herself. She has created a climate that could easily be transformed into a war on a slight pretext. Wars, as it is well known are also a means a nation can extricate itself from debt and financial responsibility. – The U.S. Endgame, Jeremiah Johnson (nom de plume, retired U.S. Special Forces, excerpt from Zero Hedge

One would have to be blinded from either denial or ignorance not see the escalating political and military tension between the U.S. and Russia/China. While the U.S. media spins the story into a tall-tale in which BRIC nation leaders are the provocateurs, the truth is that the U.S. has transformed its illegitimate "war on terror" into war on the world in a
last-gasp attempt hold onto the economic and geopolitical hegemony it has enjoyed for several decades.