America

Authored by Daniel Lang via SHTFplan.com,

It’s not an exaggeration to say that battle lines are being drawn in America today. You can see it in the news everyday. As time goes on, people in this country are becoming very tribal, as Americans of different races, religions, and political persuasions turn on each other. What we saw in Charlottesville last weekend was just the latest sign that America is turning into a very dark place, where conflict between different demographics is the norm. And it probably won’t be the last indicator to emerge.

Absurdity Number 1: The reason Wall Street, Washington DC and corporate America are allowed to continue their non-stop economic gang bang of the American middle class, including in particular, economically distressed minorities, is a bunch of weathered confederate army statues and the activities of American neo-nazis.

Absurdity Number 2: Vladimir Putin owns your ass.

Absurdity Number 3: The H1B visa program promotes upward mobility for gender based, ethnic and racial minorities.

Alt Right, that amalgam of racists made up of Neo Nazis, Klansmen, white supremacists, assorted Crackers, and ‘fashy’ coiffed metrosexuals, took their Tiki Tour 1939 to Charlottesville in the hope of gaining a greater footprint in society and widen the base of folks able to hear their ‘message’. They got what they wanted, sort of. By the way, the Alt Right PC term for racist is ‘Identitarian’. How sweet!

Authored by Dmitri Simes via The Strategic Culture Foundation,

Current mutual hostility threatens an explosive confrontation

Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com,

Though a lot of people in my line of work (alternative economic and geopolitical analysis) tend to be accused of "doom mongering," I have to say personally I am not a big believer in "doom." At least, not in the way that the accusation insinuates. I don't believe in apocalypse, Armageddon or the end of the world, nor do I even believe, according to the evidence, that a global nuclear conflict is upon us. In fact, it annoys me that so many people seem desperate to imagine those conclusions whenever a crisis event takes shape.