Politics

Submitted by Glenn Greenwald via The Intercept,

The US Deep State coup against Donald Trump has taken a new twist, with claims that Russian agents have “explosive” compromising and embarrassing blackmail material on the billionaire businessman. Anonymous US officials, citing anonymous intelligence agents, are leaking “unverified reports”to the corporate media alleging that Russian spies have “compromising” personal information on the president-elect….claims that both Trump and the Russian government have rejected as “fake news”.

The USD Index whipsawed higher and lower as Trump teased and un-teased comments on trade policies, only to tumble to the day's lows by the end as details were missing and thus disappointed...

This rippled through risk assets, leaving gold higher, stocks lower, peso higher (after initial crashing), but idiocyncratic issues slammed drug stocks, and aircraft makers.

The Biotech battering is most notable so far... after Trump accused them of "getting away with murder" on pricing...

Submitted by Nick Bernabe via TheAntiMedia.org,

Long-simmering social tensions in Mexico are threatening to boil over as failing neoliberal reforms to the country’s formerly nationalized gas sector are compounded by open corruption, stagnant standards of living, and rampant inflation.

The Ongoing Campaign to Destroy Trump

Professor Michel Chossudovsky

This report is worth reading many times. Learn it by heart.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/u-s-foreign-policy-and-the-campaign-to-destabilize-the-trump-presidency/5565825

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