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The dynamics of the standoff between the US and North Korea have shifted dramatically in the past week.

First, the North started with an unexpectedly sharp provocation - launching a missile over the Japanese island of Hokkaido - before following that up with its sixth nuclear test. Also, judging by the size the earthquake detected in the country’s mountainous North on Sunday morning, North Korea may have been telling the truth when it said it conducted what it described as its first hydrogen bomb test.

Authored by James George Jatras via The Strategic Culture Foundation,

They say that most of the world’s real dangers arise not because of what people don’t know but because of what they do 'know' that just ain’t so.

As a case in point, consider three things about Korea that the bipartisan Washington establishment seems quite sure of but are far removed from reality:

Delusion 1: All options, including U.S. military force, are «on the table.»

Authored by John Lanchester via The London Review of Books,

Via StockBoardAsset.com,

In part one of this series called: ‘Why America Needs a Wall’, we showed a video of an intense firefight between Government forces and drug cartel members. The widespread death and destruction rippling through Mexico this year is not widely being reported by the mainstream media. 

In the first 6-months of 2017, more than 12,000 murders have been registered, making it the deadliest year in over two decades.

Authored by Daniel Lang via SHTFplan.com,

Nothing epitomizes the failure of Europe’s immigration policies more than the notorious “no-go zones.”

For decades the West has opened its borders to people who don’t share their values, and the West has utterly failed to encourage these people to assimilate. To even suggest that is now considered racist in many European countries.