Zuesse: Americans Are Only Now Beginning To Learn They Live In A Dictatorship Authored by Eric Zuesse via The Strategic Culture Foundation, The first time when it became clear to me that I live in a dictatorship was in 2014 when reading, prior to its publication, the landmark (and still the only) scientific empirical study to address the question as to whether or not …

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Pakistan Plans Replacing Dollar With Yuan In Trade With China Pakistan is considering replacing the U.S. dollar with the Chinese yuan for bilateral trade between Pakistan and China, Pakistan’s Minister for Planning and Development Ahsan Iqbal said according to Dawn Online and The Economic Times. Interior Minister Iqbal, who has been central to the planning …

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How The US Swindled Russia In The Early 1990s Authored by Eric Zuesse via The Strategic Culture Foundation, Due to a historic data-dump on December 10th, the biggest swindle that occurred in the 20th Century (or perhaps ever) is now proven as a historical fact; and this swindle was done by the US Government, against …

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Paul Craig Roberts Rages Against Trump's National Security Speech Authored by Paul Craig Roberts, What do we make of Trump’s national security speech? First of all, it is the military/security complex’s speech, and it is inconsistent with Trump’s intention of normalizing relations with Russia. The military/security complex, using Trump’s position as President, has defined Russia …

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Syria's Assad Calls US-Backed Kurdish Militia "Traitors" Under Foreign Control On Monday Syrian President Bashar al-Assad described US-backed forces in eastern Syria as “traitors” during a meeting with Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin. "When we talk about those referred to as 'the Kurds', they are in fact not just Kurds," Assad said in remarks released through …

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Poland's New PM Wants To "Make Europe Christian Again" Authored by Andrew Korybko via Oriental Review, Poland’s new Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki shared his dream to make Europe Christian again. The newly appointed premier replaced Beata Szydlo and symbolizes that Poland is taking a more combative posture towards the West than in the past. While …

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Trump Attorney Quashes Rumors Of Impending Mueller Firing An Attorney for President Trump has vehemently denied rumors that special counsel Robert Mueller will be fired over revelations of politically motivated malfeasance by the FBI towards Hillary Clinton and against Donald Trump, including disturbing text messages which were sent between top FBI investigators implying the Trump-Russia …

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What Bitcoin "Deserves" From the Slope of Hope: I will preface this by saying I don’t have a dog in this fight. Whether Bitcoin plummets to its intrinsic value of $0.00 and makes people look like idiots, or whether it goes to a trillion dollars per Bitcoin, it doesn’t matter to me. But I want …

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Banks Demand 11th-hour Reprieve On Key Part Of MiFID II The clock is ticking down and there are only about three weeks to go before the dreaded MiFID II regulatory structure is implemented on 3 January 2018. While it’s been difficult to judge the industry’s preparedness for the change, several aspects of the new regulations …

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Mapping World War In Syria & Iraq Via GEFIRA, For some time now Syria and Iraq have been a place where interests of many players are clashing. The region is being devastated by civil war or a war by proxy, fought by a number of participants, where the borderline between friend and foe is sharp …

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