December 2018 archive

The Establishment Will Never Say No To A War Authored by Andrew Sullivan via New York Mag’s Intelligencer, The question before us is a relatively simple one: What would be the criteria for removing our remaining troops from the Iraqi, Syrian, and more general Middle Eastern conflicts? Or, for that matter, from Afghanistan, where we …

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Retailers Rejecting Customers' Cash As More Ban Paper Money “Your cash is not wanted here”, a growing number of retailers and restaurants throughout the US and UK are telling customers. But are reasons being given by companies for the new “cashless” approach — speed, efficiency, and the safety of store employees — valid enough to require something as utterly and …

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The Biggest Critics Of Trump's Syria Withdrawal Fueled Rise Of ISIS Authored by Max Blumenthal via ConsortiumNews.com, Too many of those protesting the removal of U.S. forces are authors of the catastrophe that tore Syria to pieces… President Donald Trump’s announcement of an imminent withdrawal of US troops from northeastern Syria summoned a predictable paroxysm …

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Turkey And EU: Can This Marriage Be Saved? Authored by Burak Bekdil via The Gatestone Institute, In Freedom House’s democracy index, Turkey belongs to the group of “not free” countries, performing worse than “partly free” countries including Mali, Nicaragua and Kenya. Just as there cannot be a “not free” member of the EU, there cannot …

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First China, Now Russia: Kremlin Considers Changing Constitution To Extend Putin Presidency After last March’s not so shocking vote by China’s National People’s Congress to overwhelmingly pass a constitutional amendment to eliminate China’s presidential term limits, paving the way for President Xi Jinping to stay in power after his second term ends in 2023, it appears Russia is …

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US Navy Could Abandon Major Israeli Port After Chinese Firms Begin Operations The US and Chinese navies may find themselves unlikely neighbors in the Mediterranean as Israel’s partnership with Beijing on constructing sea ports at two sites where the US 6th Fleet deploys is set to begin, which is raising eyebrows in Washington and could …

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Trump Derangement Goes International Authored by Raul Ilargi Meijer via The Automatic Earth blog, Dirk Kurbjuweit, deputy editor-in-chief of Germany’s Der Spiegel magazine for the past 4 years, unwittingly put his foot a mile deep in his mouth this week when he reacted to a letter written by US Ambassador to Berlin Richard Grenell. His …

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Otto Warmbier's Parents Sue North Korea For $1.05 Billion (2.5% Of Total GDP) The parents of Otto Warmbier, the student who was imprisoned and tortured in North Korea before slipping into a coma and dying, have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the North Korean government for more than $1 billion, or about 2.5% of …

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Sorting Out The Brexit Chaos Authored by Kai Weiss via The Mises Institute, “Everything is happening, nothing has changed,” Alex Massie wrote over at CapX last week, perhaps summing up best the political situation in the UK right now. What has happened in the Brexit debate in the last few months, but in the last week in …

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America's Technology & Sanctions War Will Bifurcate The Global Economy Authored by Alastair Crooke via The Strategic Culture Foundation, “The true reason behind the US-China ‘trade’ war has little to do with actual trade … What is really at the basis of the ongoing civilizational conflict between the US and China … are China’s ambitions …

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