Submitted by Charles Hugh-SMith via OfTwoMinds blog,
In this war of the rising and fading elites, there is no common ground or incentive to compromise.
Historian Michael Grant identified profound political disunity in the ruling elite as a key cause of the dissolution of the Roman Empire. Grant described this dynamic in his excellent account The Fall of the Roman Empire.
Robert Kagan avoids the obvious in his description of the presidential campaign:
Internationalists such as Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio went nowhere this year; Bernie Sanders joined Mr Trump in attacking global involvement; and Hillary Clinton was hit from all sides for being too internationalist and too wedded to the idea of the US as the “indispensable nation”, the Bill Clinton phrase that encapsulated the thinking of every president from Harry Truman to George W Bush.
In the latest in a series of protests against the North Dakota oil pipeline project, overnight an estimated 400 protesters clashed with police who fired tear gas at the scene of a similar confrontation last month. The protesters mounted the Backwater Bridge and attempted to force their way past police in what the Morton County Sheriff's Department initially described as an "ongoing riot." Protesters say the pipeline threatens water resources and sacred tribal lands.
Submitted by a reader of Zero Hedge, living in Norway, who wishes to remain anonymous
President Trump: :An American Perspective from Living in Norway, by Anonymous
Background – Moving and Living in Norway.
According to Hillary, I am a “deplorable.” I would like to share my story how this came about and what this election meant to me.