America

Submitted by Lance Roberts via RealInvestmentAdvice.com,

What a change a couple of weeks can make. As my colleague, Michael Lebowitz, wrote this past week:

Everyone's doing it, just follow them...

An interesting week:

A new ‘anti-Russian propaganda’ bill is to be signed into law which will make it illegal to run an alternative media website in the United States.  Under the guise of combatting “Russian propaganda,” the House of Representatives passed the H.R.6393 bill, also known as ‘Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017‘. The bill is an attempt to counteract “measures by Russia to exert covert influence” in America. Worryingly, the definition of what constitutes “Russian influence” includes references to so-called ‘fake news’ websites and any site deemed anti-establishment.

McCarthyism Is Breaking Out All Over

Paul Craig Roberts

Seasoned journalist, White House official, and historian Pat Buchanan has responded to the Washington Post’s fake news about the independent journalists on the 200 List being Russian agents by reminding us that the US government has always been a major disseminator of fake news. http://original.antiwar.com/buchanan/2016/12/01/fake-news-war-party-lies/

Trump’s Appointments

Paul Craig Roberts

What do they mean?