The Fifth-Largest Diamond In History Was Just Discovered Shares of Gem Diamonds surged +15% on Monday after the miner said it had unearthed one of the biggest diamonds in history. According to Bloomberg, Gem Diamonds Ltd. discovered a massive 910-carat diamond, about the “size of two golf balls” from the Letseng mine in Lesotho, the …

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Paul Craig Roberts: "Amnesty International Is Barking Up The Wrong Tree" Authored by Paul Craig Roberts, I have received a letter from Margaret Huang, Amnesty International’s executive director. She is fundraising on the basis of President Trump’s “chilling disregard for our cherished human rights” and his exploitation of “hatred, misogyny, racism and xenophobia,” by which …

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Is There Such A Thing As A "Shithole Country"? Authored by Andrew Korybko via Oriental Review, The question should be rephrased to whether there’s such a thing as a “shithole” period, and yes, there is, but the stereotypical “Third World” socio-economic and physical conditions that the word often embodies are also widely present in parts …

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Army Strategist Exposes The Disturbing Parallels Between US Domestic Policing & Military Tactics Abroad Authored by Major Danny Sjursen via TheNation.com, “This…thing, [the War on Drugs] this ain’t police work… I mean, you call something a war and pretty soon everybody gonna be running around acting like warriors… running around on a damn crusade, storming …

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U.S. Policies Continue To Fail In 2018 Authored by Jeremiah Johnson (nom de plume of a retired Green Beret of the United States Army Special Forces) via SHTFplan.com, As of this writing, the Russian military has had three of their bases attacked by drones. They destroyed six of them and captured another seven. The significance: …

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Military Intelligence Has Weaponized Democracy Worldwide Authored by Andrew Korybko via Oriental Review, It doesn’t matter whether it’s the US’ brand of “democracy” for export or the national-specific model of government that strengthens non-Western states, the theoretical concept behind this system has been weaponized by military intelligence agencies worldwide in a back-and-forth competition to change …

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Israel Confirms It Has Spies Operating Inside Iran In a rare admission an Israeli intelligence chief confirmed early this week that Israel has spies currently operating on the ground in Iran. Yossi Cohen, the director of Israel’s Mossad – the country’s powerful national intelligence and special operations agency, addressed Israeli policy and the recent Iran …

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Highly Classified Satellite Plummeted Into Indian Ocean After SpaceX Launch, Official Confirms After the launch of the secretive Zuma satellite into outer space aboard the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral, reports circulated that the new eye in the sky, which is worth billions, “is presumed to be a total loss after it failed …

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Only 1-In-5 South Koreans Expect Korean War In 2018 Last week, U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted that he has a bigger nuclear button than North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. The tweet was the latest in a series of spats between the two and many observers fear the squabbling could spiral into nuclear war. Despite the tensions, …

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How Three European Oligarchs Looted 100s Of Millions From Ukraine Via AlJazeera.com, Three Ukrainian oligarchs traded part of around $1.5bn in illicit assets traced to cronies of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich, an exclusive investigation by Al Jazeera revealed on Sunday. They did so as the war-torn country struggled to return suspected misappropriated funds to …

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