Politics

There was cheering among the libertarian community when, in the last months of his administration, Barack Obama decided to halt some arms sales to Saudi Arabia, following "allegations" of war crimes perpetrated by the kingdom in Yemen. However, it appears that Saudi Arabia - despite its clear predisposition toward Hillary Clinton in the presidential race - has made even deeper inroads into the White House than many suspected because according to the Washington Times, the Trump Administration is poised to "quickly approve" not only the deal rejected by Obama.

Has The American Establishment Opted for Thermo-Nuclear War?

Paul Craig Roberts

If you want to be an American TV talking head or a Western presstitute, you are required to be braindead and integrity-challenged like Bill O’Reilly, CNN, MSNBC, and the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and all the rest.

In an interview with President Donald Trump, O’Reilly said: “Putin is a killer.”

One day after Trump unexpectedly won the presidential election, a no less surprising announcement came from hedge fund legend and central bank skeptic, Stanley Druckenmiller, who on November 10, told CNBC "I sold all my gold on the night of the election." Why? Because “all the reasons I owned it for the last couple of years seem to be ending", first and foremost his expectations that inflation is now set to spike, forcing money out of safe assets - like gold and Treasuries - and into the US Dollar.

Hungary is submitting a proposal to the EU that would allow for all asylum seekers to be detained and kept in special camps until their applications are reviewed.

Turn on any 'news' channel and you are bombarded by images of individual discontent, civil unrest, and breakdowns in societal norms as 'The Left' deals with being Told "no" for the first time in their lives. But, as Reuters reports, the scorched earth tactics in evidence in Berkeley last week hide a deeper breakdown in American society as burning passions over Donald Trump's presidency are taking a personal toll on both sides of the political divide.