Distinguished economist Dr. Paul Craig Roberts warns that although the neoconservatives (neocons) have been discredited, they still have a dangerously powerful influence on US foreign policy. Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has been reportedly advising US president-elect Donald Trump on pursuing the neoconservative agenda of pivoting toward China while bringing in Russia from the cold. Dr.
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Last weekend, when commenting on China's public demonstration of its one and only aircraft carrier, which China then proceeded to sail in close proximity to Taiwan to make a clear diplomatic "statement", we noted something tangentially troubling: " a quick look at the latest positioning of US aircraft carriers, amphibious ready groups, and other navies around the globe shows a gaping hole in the region of the East or South China Sea, and even in proximity to Japan, a place where the US navy traditionally has maintained at least one carrier group. In fact, according to Stratfor, the only ac
The German police are learning from their past mistakes: one year after last year's notorious New Year's Eve mass attacks by migrants on German women in the city of Cologne, security forces in the city said they screened hundreds of North Africans at the main railway station on the last day of 2016 to prevent a repeat of last year's events.
“Hundreds of Nafris [North Africans] screened at main railway station,” Cologne police tweeted.
To Russia with hate.
While Putin took the "high road" and refused to retaliate tit-for-tat to last week's decision by the Obama administration to impose sanctions on the Kremlin, for dozens of Russian diplomats stationed in the US the first day of the new year meant taking what is likely a last, one way flight out of the US in direction Moscow, simply because it was Russia's duty to be the scapegoat for Hillary Clinton's loss in the presidential elections after Vladimir Putin himself, according to the narrative, "hacked the US elections."