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Ahead of tonight's missile launch across Japan, North Korea warned that The UK “faces a miserable end” should it decide to join the joint military exercises being conducted by the US and South Korea that began last week, according to local media reports cited by Russia Today.

The annual Ulchi Freedom Guardian drills, which have been conducted every year since the Korean War ended in an uneasy ceasefire, involve nearly 20,000 troops and have long provoked the ire of North Korea’s leaders.

Authored by Jeff Thomas via InternationalMan.com,

Capitalism, whether praised or derided, is an economic system and ideology based on private ownership of the means of production and operation for profit.

Live Feed from NHK (in Japanese)

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/realtime-parts/player-live.html 

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Update 4: S.KOREA MILITARY IS RAISING ALERT AFTER N.KOREA MISSILE: YONHAP

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Update 3: According to Richard Haass, president of the CFR, the "N. Korea missile test over Japan will stimulate missile defense buildup as well as intensify consideration of preventive military action"

After President Trump declared "economic war" with China, seemingly following Bannon's strategy to maintain hegemony...

“We’re at economic war with China,” he added. “It’s in all their literature. They’re not shy about saying what they’re doing. One of us is going to be a hegemon in 25 or 30 years and it’s gonna be them if we go down this path.”

 

Authored by Patrick Buchanan via Buchanan.org,

Decades ago, a debate over what kind of nation America is roiled the conservative movement.

Neocons claimed America was an “ideological nation” a “creedal nation,” dedicated to the proposition that “all men are created equal.”

Expropriating the biblical mandate, “Go forth and teach all nations!” they divinized democracy and made the conversion of mankind to the democratic faith their mission here on earth.