Mike Norman Economics

But since the West has been fighting World War III against itself, its victory will also be its defeat. Indeed, not only is it losing, but it is also being invaded—by mobs of migrants from the various countries it has destroyed, having used them as surrogate enemies in its notional battle against Russia. Give it a few more decades, and at this rate the West will be no more, its slow-breeding population replaced by the much more fecund newcomers. The countries that make it up will dissolve...

The curious case of Mariia Butina, a Russian national arrested in Washington, takes a truly astonishing turn. Despite being portrayed as an agent of the Russian government, in reality she seems to be tied with the politicians opposing President Putin, and even actively participated in anti-government protests in Moscow.Butina was arrested Sunday on the charge of conspiring to act as a foreign agent of Russia, according to a Department of Justice (DOJ) statement and indictment released...

Putin's view of what transpired as he has stated it publicly.Fort RussBEYOND THE NOISE: What ELSE did Trump and Putin discuss at Helsinki? Paul AntonopoulosSee also by the same author.Putin: US EFFORTS TO ISOLATE RUSSIA HAVE FINALLY FAILEDAlsoTRUMP: Open Dialogue Vital for U.S, Russia & World See also at Fort Russ In contrast to US MSM, German foreign minister calls for more US-RF rapprochement as a necessity Maria Kormbaki reporting via MAZ.online.de

Prepped by Peskov, Putin Began at Minute 31 to “Suggest That Your Relevant Commission Led by US Special Counsel – What Is His Name, Mr Mueller or Meller? – Should Send Us, in Compliance With This Treaty, an Official Request for Interrogating the People That He Believes to Be Guilty of Committing a Crime. Our Prosecutor-General’s Office and Investigative Agencies Can Interrogate These People and Forward the Relevant Materials to the United States. “Moreover, We Can Take Another Step to Meet...

Tucker Carlson of Fox News hosts US Russian expert and Professor Emeritus Stephen F. Cohen, who is a contributor to The Nation. He is married to The Nation's publisher, Katrina vanden Heuvel.We are unlikely to see him on the Rachel Maddow Show at MSNBC, where one would expect a liberal.It's turning into a topsy-turvy world.Fox News InsiderRussian Studies Prof: Criticisms of Trump Over Putin Presser Are 'Like Mob Violence' Tucker Carlson Tonight

17 Jul 2018 — The Times writes that Ecuador and the UK are in high-level talks to evict Assange. In times of dissent and with the most conservative Supreme Court of Justice ever, the expulsion of Julian Assange from the Ecuadorian Embassy and subsequent prosecution will reverse the rights of those who dare to challenge power and tell the truth, in the US and all over the World. His crime is to expose war crimes and government conspiracies against the rights of the many. Prosecuting Julian...

Paul Diesing: "The most serious deficiency of implicit formal theories is that the verbal language disguises the abstractness of the theory … The consequence of the fallacy of misplaced concreteness is that the theory looks too convincing to its proponents​ … He becomes​ the prisoner of his own logical model and is rendered incapable​ of seeing reality from any other standpoint …" Mistaking a map for the territory.  Classic error.  Virtually everyone makes it by mistaking their map...

Live right now. I know this show can be like watching paint dry but it's quite good at the moment. It's all about Russiagate, [embedded content] President Trump's refusal to accept U.S. Intelligence agencies assessments regarding Russian election interference is being heralded by mainstream as "defiant" a "blunder" and all manner of negative descriptors. Are these not the same intel agencies that insisted Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, hurling the world into 17 years of...

The entire “liberal” media and political establishment of the Western world reveals its militarist, authoritarian soul today with the screaming and hysterical attacks on the very prospect of detente with Russia. Peace apparently is a terrible thing; a renewed arms race, with quite literally trillions of dollars pumped into the military industrial complex and hundreds of thousands dying in proxy wars, is apparently the “liberal” stance. Political memories are short, but just 15 years after...

In the last few decades, China has made huge progress in science and technology. This new age of innovation has seen the birth of ‘unicorn’ tech companies like media giant Tencent, the ‘Uber of China’ Didi Chuxing, and the world’s biggest drone builder, DJI.Now, for the first time, China has broken into the top 20 of a global list of the most innovative economies.The latest Global Innovation Index singles out China for its rapid transformation into an innovation powerhouse. It has risen...