Europe

Update: Reuters reporst that according to Spanish police, they had "shot down" a person on Monday who appeared to be wearing an explosive belt and Spanish public television said the man was the suspected perpetrator of last week's Barcelona van attack. Catalan police declined to say if the man, shot in the area of Subirats, west of Barcelona, was dead or wounded.

• Trump to present vision for U.S. strategy in Afghanistan war (Reuters)
• Trump Struggles to Move Past Bannon, Starting With Afghanistan (BBG)
• Final Plans Under Way as Solar Eclipse Nears (WSJ)
• Yellen, Draghi Head to Jackson Hole Amid Inflation Unease (BBG)
• Moscow calls U.S. visa move attempt to stir up unrest in Russia (Reuters)
• Cohn Solidifies Lead in Race to Replace Yellen, Economists Say (BBG)
• Britain confident of moving onto second phase of Brexit talks (Reuters)

Trump and American History Have Been Assassinated

Paul Craig Roberts

When Trump was elected I wrote that it was unlikely that he would be successful in accomplishing the three objectives for which he was elected—peace with Russia, the return home of offshored US jobs, and effective limits on non-white immigration—because these objectives conflicted with the interests of those more powerful than the president.

Via GEFIRA,

The Western globalist elites have not digested Trump’s victory or Brexit yet. They are having a hard time dealing with their ideological failures, and when the reality dares not to comply with their day dreaming, they go online and create a parallel world, where their “expert” predictions always turn right and their failures cannot be questioned.  

Authored by Saher Fares via The Gatestone Institute,