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President Trump and his son-in-law bet that the young Saudi crown prince could execute a plan to reshape the Mideast, but the scheme quickly unraveled revealing a dangerous amateur hour, writes ex-British diplomat Alastair Crooke. Consortium NewsTrump’s Saudi Scheme Unravels Alastair Crooke | founder and director of the Conflicts Forum, and former British diplomat and senior figure in British intelligence and in European Union diplomacyalsoThe AntiMediaThe Truth About Why Saudi Arabia and...

To think in just 30 years the Chinese have created all this, look and gasp. The downside, the pollution and the hardship that working people went through, but this happened to us too as we built our civilization. Now China is raising wages to create more home demand and is also trying to do something about the pollution. [embedded content]

Why economics is not a science and how it is being used prescriptively rather than descriptively.Adam Smith's Lost Legacy More Criticism Of Mathematical Economic Theorising Gavin Kennedy | Professor Emeritus, Heriot Watt University

What the evidence points to is – as Jared Kushner has admitted – a chaotic and disorganised Trump campaign, incapable of carrying out any sort of secret or illegal collusion not just with the Russians but with anyone, with unpaid and junior staffers like George Papadopoulos and Carter Page amateurishly attempting – in one case enthusiastically, in the second case calculatedly – to do foreign policy with Russia all by themselves, without receiving guidance or encouragement from the Trump...

The censorship saga continues In a corporatist system of government, corporate censorship is state censorship. When there’s no meaningful space between corporate power and government power, it doesn’t make much difference whether the guy silencing your dissent is Mark Zuckerberg or Jeff Sessions. America most definitely has such a system. If they’re going to get us locked down and propagandized into their vapid brain boxes, this will be how they’ll do it. Not by government censorship, but...

Micheal Maloof, a former Pentagon official, will now be on the Washington hit list for appearing on RT. But he didn't care, good on him! [embedded content] A secret deal between the US and UK reportedly helped Islamic State leaders flee the besieged city of Raqqa, Syria. Former Pentagon official Michael Maloof tells RT America’s Ashlee Banks that the report raises questions about the United States’ role in screening the supposed refugees leaving the city.

More fake news, no doubt these commies were brainwashed. They must have been held at gunpoint to say this because they're being too nice. They are not free like us and believe that society is more important than selfish desires. Outrageous! The greatest leader of all time, Margaret Thatcher, said there is no such thing as society. Getting ahead in the rat race and kicking someone else off the ladder is all that counts. [embedded content] What coverage should the media offer? Journalists from...

Intended consequences of "spreading freedom and democracy" with bombs. Not that slavery isn't endemic in some parts of the world. But not in Gaddafi's Libya. That was then.CNNPeople for sale [in Libya] Nima Elbagir, Raja Razek, Alex Platt and Bryony Jones

The Russian Justice Ministry has sent letters to nine media outlets on their possible registration as foreign agents. Voice of America and Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty are among those that could be recognized as foreign agents, the ministry said.The ministry also sent letters to the administration of the Kavkaz.Realii, Krym Realii and Sibir Realii websites, as well as Radio Azatliq – all of which are Radio Liberty branches based in Russia. The Current Time TV channel, a joint project...

So how close, or how far from Machiavelli’s model ruler, is Putin the frontrunner, and what does the president himself think of Machiavelli?.... Good backgrounder on Russia and refresher on Machiavelli.Dances with BearsMachiavelli’s Thirteen Rules For The Successful Ruler – Two Vladimir Putin Did Learn; Eleven He Didn’t, Not YetJohn Helmer