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Prof. Harry Targ, in his important piece “United States foreign policy: yesterday, today, and tomorrow,” (MR online, October 23, 2919), reminds us of the factional dispute among U.S. foreign policy elites over how to maintain the U.S. empire. On the one hand are the neoliberal global capitalists who favor military intervention, covert operations, regime change, strengthening NATO, thrusting China into the enemy vacuum and re-igniting the Cold War with Russia. All of this is concealed behind...

MAGA (Make America Great Again) was a campaign promise that sold Trump. Andrei Martyanov observes that "the real Donald J. Trump" consistently believed in MAAA (Make America Aggressive Again). Now that the campaign mask is off, his erstwhile supporters who voted for him expecting MAGA are wondering what happened to him. Nothing happened to him. He appointed the neocon cabal to power. He was always like that.Reminiscence of the FutureMAGA All The Way. Andrei MartyanovSee alsoMoon of...

"Neoliberal order." There, fixed it for you. In a twist on Trump’s “America First” policy, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Trump was not abandoning its global leadership but instead reshaping the post-World War Two system on the basis of sovereign states, not multilateral institutions. “In the finest traditions of our great democracy, we are rallying the noble nations to build a new liberal order that prevents war and achieves greater prosperity,” Pompeo told diplomats and...

Trump as a Jacksonian standing against the Wilsonian establishment. This is a chief reason he cannot be too obvious about what he is really up to.Voltaire NetworkWhat Donald Trump is preparingThierry MeyssanSee alsoInfoRosThe Battle of the Three Seas Andrew Korybko

First Michael Savage. Then Sarah Palin. Now Alex Jones. Trump's base is cracking apart. The Gateway Pundit [Alt Right]ALEX JONES Breaks Down Crying on Air After Trump Bombs Syria (VIDEO) Jim HoltThe Daily Caller [Alt Right]FLASHBACK: Here’s A List Of The Times Trump Warned Against Getting Involved In Syria Justine CarusoAlsoVox Populi [alt right]Flirting with WWIII See alsoG. W. Bush, Barack Obama, and now (actually again) Donald Trump — war criminals.Common DreamsIn 'Clear Violation...

The question is becoming, "Who lost Europe?"Moon of AlabamaTrump Offloads Foreign Policy Problems - Lets EU Grow A Spine brelatedUne parole francheRex Tillerson in "The New York Times": Pride and PrejudiceGilbert Doctorow | European Coordinator of The American Committee for East West Accord Ltd.

The BRICS group of emerging economies must promote trade liberalization and an open world economy, Chinese President Xi Jinping said at a business meeting on Sunday at the start of a three-day summit being held in southeastern China.The heads of state from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa will gather in the city of Xiamen through Tuesday, giving China as host its latest chance to position itself as a bulwark of globalization in the face of U.S. President Donald Trump’s “America...

Backgrounder on what to expect.Zero HedgeTrump Warns Xi: Trade War With China Begins Monday Tyler Durden

Participants Lakshman Achuthan, Cofounder and Chief Operations Officer, Economic Cycle Research Institute Robert J. Barbera, Codirector, Center for Financial Economics, The Johns Hopkins University Fernando J. Cardim de Carvalho, Senior Scholar, Levy Institute; Emeritus Professor of Economics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) Michael E. Feroli, Chief US Economist, JPMorgan Chase & Co. Scott Fullwiler, Professor of Economics, University of Missouri–Kansas City Esther L. George,...