Europe

Despite Italian Prime Minister Mateo Renzi's solemn denials that he will resign when, not if, the Italian constitutional referendum fails on December 4, it is now obvious that the Italian government is on the verge of collapse. And in yet another U-turn Renzi admitted as much himself, when according to La Repubblica, he told his entourage this weekend that the government would fall if he loses Dec. 4 constitutional referendum. “It’s very simple: if I lose the referendum this government falls.

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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.

This summer, I told you that J.D. Vance was the man to listen to if you wanted to understand what was happening in contemporary American politics. Now, please hear me when I say that Ryszard Legutko is another critically important voice for our time.

The pollsters have done it again. Just four days after the Independent reported that pollsters said  Marine Le Pen has "next to no chance" of winning the French presidency...

Pollsters say Marine Le Pen has next to no chance of winning the French presidency https://t.co/b6pi8zjmdY

— The Independent (@Independent) November 16, 2016

As China's president Xi was setting the stage for a new regional free-trade deal dubbed the Free Trade Area of Asia-Pacific at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Lima, Peru now that Obama's TPP has suffered a quiet death, a new geopolitical axis was being formed.