America

September has seen...

More missile tests from a nuclear-capable nation than ever before.

The biggest storms ever in America (a quarter of all Atlantic Cat 5 landfalls on record have occurred in the last two weeks).

The worst quake in Mexico in over 30 years.

US threats to cut China from the global financial system.

The Fed attempting to do what no central bank has done before.

And economic data disappointments worldwide.

In the Fed's latest Flow of Funds report, today the Fed released the latest snapshot of the US "household" sector as of June 30, 2017.

Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,

Democracy (i.e. political influence) and ownership of productive assets are the exclusive domains of the New Aristocracy.

I have often used the words neoliberal, neocolonial and neofeudal to describe our socio-economic-political status quo. Here are my shorthand descriptions of each term:

Authored by Andrei Akulov via The Strategic Culture Foundation,

Authored by Caitlyn Johnstone via Medium.com,

When it comes to 9/11, there are two groups of people: those who don’t know exactly what happened, and those who orchestrated it.