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I'm sure Tom put out Part 1 on this (embedded). Here's Part 2. It's shocking, the Neocons are neo-fascists. [embedded content] However much Russiagate may annoy Trump personally, administration officials like H.R. McMaster are seizing on it to advance a militarist agenda at home and abroad. Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss

This is the first of three election reports which the author will publish in the coming month culminating in his findings as an officially invited international observer to the 18 March elections. Detailed report on all candidates except Putin, who is well-known and expected to win handily.Putin's only credible challenger seems to be Communist Party candidate, Pavel Grudinin. He is not a Communist Party member himself, but is being put forward as a unifying choice for the Left.However,...

Historians will note the tremendous irony of the United States engaging in subversion and election meddling in Ukraine that surpasses anything attempted by Russia. The ideological fissures that are growing in the United States are beginning to resemble the warring camps that characterize the Ukrainian political world. The divide in Ukraine pits groups who are described as "right wing" and many are ideological descendants of real Nazis and Nazi sympathizers against groups with a strong...

The Cold War displaced the legacies of the New Deal. Time and Trump are now displacing Cold War legacies. Where capitalism was questioned and challenged in the 1930s and into the 1940s, doing that became taboo after 1948. Yet in the wake of the 2008 crash, critical thought about capitalism resumed. In particular one argument is gaining traction: capitalism is not the means to realize economic equality and democracy, it is rather the great obstacle to their realization.... Economic...

[embedded content] Lee Camp's excellent take on Russiagate. Yes, a foreign internet company did help Trump win the election, but it was British. In fact, this British company has helped the Republicans to win 44 elections when including state ones. But guess what, this is not uncommon, many Western companies help foreign political parties to win elections because it's their business? Many of these companies are marketing and advertising firms, and many American companies do it too. It's a...

Former Texas Congressman and leading libertarian thinker Dr. Ron Paul has shared his views on President Trump's job as president after his first year in office, the situation in Syria and the renewed debate on gun control in the wake of the Florida school shooting.... Sputnik International'We Can't Continue to Run the World': Ron Paul's EXCLUSIVE Interview for Sputnik

American lawyer and historian, Alfred de Zayas, an expert in the field of human rights, warned about the use of the term humanitarian crisis to intervene in Venezuela and overthrow the current government.Alfred de Zayas, the independent expert of the United Nations (UN) on the Promotion of an International Democratic and Equitable Order, concluded after his visit to Venezuela that this country does not suffer a humanitarian crisis, unlike countries in Africa or Asia where there are wars and...

Avoiding mathiness and economism. Conversable EconomistSome Thoughts About Economic Exposition in Math and WordsTimothy Taylor | Managing editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives, based at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota

Crypto is quickly moving into all the shit holes...First Venezuela, then Iran, now Turkey - Are national #cryptocurrencies the new normal? https://t.co/3MjKSZKIhz— Crypto Dost (@TheCryptoDost) February 23, 2018

In an exclusive, Reuters reports that the Trump administration is going into the Iraq reconstruction conference in Kuwait this week with no plans to contribute a dime to the effort. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will attend. Iraqi Prime Minister Haydar al-Abadi estimates that Iraq needs $100 billion to rebuild. The country is still devastated from the 2003 US war of aggression and 8.5 year military occupation, which spurred Sunni insurgencies and led to the collapse of the US- and...