America

Via The Daily Bell

Plunder Capitalism

Paul Craig Roberts

• Stock futures jump after Senate approves tax bill (Reuters)
• Tax Bill Marked by Blinding Speed (WSJ)
• Corporate Winners and Losers in the GOP Tax Bill (BBG)
• Flynn’s Guilty Plea Sparks Clashing Interpretations (WSJ)
• Irish border deal reported settled as May meets Juncker (Reuters)
• Houthi radio says ex-president Saleh killed in Yemen fighting, no confirmation (Reuters)
• Oil falls after U.S. drilling picks up (Reuters)
• FBI Agent Removed From Russia Probe Had Key Role in Clinton Email Investigation (WSJ)

Authored by Eric Zuesse,

The Stanford mathematician William J. Perry was a strategic nuclear advisor to U.S. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, and then he became U.S. Secretary of Defense under President Bill Clinton.

Authored by JP Sottile via ConsortiumNews.com,

Polls show that Americans are tired of endless wars in faraway lands, but many cheer President Trump’s showering money on the Pentagon and its contractors, a paradox that President Eisenhower foresaw...