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Steve Bannon goes there, after being out of the headlines for some time. “What you saw the other day was as serious as it can get. This is a direct attack on the institutions,” Bannon said during a flying visit to Italy. “This is a coup, okay”.… “This is a crisis. The country has only ever had such a crisis in the summer of 1862 when General McClellan and the senior generals, all Democrats in the Union Army, deemed that Abraham Lincoln was not fit and not competent to be commander in...

Another trumped-up charge (pun-intended).The Unz ReviewCase Against Maria Butina Continues Falling Apart Anatoli Karlin

I just want to comment briefly on a few points that I saw some disagreements. Bond Economics Jayadev/Mason Article On MMTBrian Romanchuk

Business InsiderGOLDMAN SACHS: Chinese tech giants are dominating North America in VC funding for the first time, and it could be the start of an unprecedented boom (BABA, BIDU, JD)Ethel Jiang ReutersNorth Korea military parade features floats and flowers, not missiles Josh Smith The Vineyard of the Saker Russia’s Asymmetric Response to the US in Syria Aleksandr KhaldeyTranslated by Ollie Richardson and Angelina Siard

Yet again, it's a conservative that is talking peace, while Bernie Sanders increases hostility with Russia. KV. Republican State Senator Richard Black of Virginia has met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and claimed to have knowledge of an alleged Western plot to stage a chemical weapons attack there as a pretext for military action. Black, an Army veteran, traveled to Syria on Wednesday to express his support for the government's war against insurgents and jihadis who rose up in a...

US President Donald Trump has held secret meetings with traitorous Venezuelan troops to discuss plans to oust President Nicolás Maduro, the New York Times reported. According to a former Venezuelan commander whose name was not revealed, at least three different groups within the Venezuelan army planned a coup against Maduro’s government, the New York Times reported. The blows would have occurred in the summer of 2017, March and May 2018, but none of the plans proved to be successful....

George Galloway is a very skilled performer; there is no hesitation or pauses in his speaking, no ers and ums. I think he is formidable and it's a shame he's not the Labour shadow deputy leader. [embedded content] "The two suspects are more Austin Powers than James Bond" says George Galloway as Theresa May hits out at Russia saying that the Skripal attack was authorised at the highest level of the Russian state.

Tucker Carlson argues with a libertarian on why should the tax payer subsidise his workers with food stamps when he is the richest man in the world and can easily afford to pay them more. Any Peikoff says it's not Jeff Bezos fault that the government subsidizes his workers and the benefit should be done away with.Libertarians believe in the meritocracy and so to them if a person is poor then it's their own fault. And so if a person suffers because he is poor, and if he gets exploited by the...

For what is afoot here is something America specializes in — regime change. Only the regime our establishment and media mean to change is the government of the United States. What is afoot is the overthrow of America’s democratically elected head of state.... Patrick J. Buchanan Official WebsiteRegime Change — American Style Patrick J. Buchanan

'Ex-GRU officer', Ivan Tarasov, claims that the Skripal event was too amateurish to have been the work of a professional.Ivan Tarasov told Russia's Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper that professionals would have done it 'quietly, without fuss, and brought him to Russia in a mail bag, and no one would have known where he had gone'. Photos of the novichok suspects, Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov,  but look at the photo-shopped images, see the blurry bits. But there is no sign of any snow...