The battle for Aleppo is over, and Assad has won, with AP quoting the Syrian leader that "history is being made with the defeat" of the insurgents contained in the city.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Thursday the events taking place in the city of Aleppo are a historic moment, and said the world will be different after what he called the "liberation of Aleppo".
Submitted by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,
The Democratic Party has become everything it once was against.
Let's get one thing straight right at the start: criticizing the Democratic Party and its ruling elites is not the same as "supporting Trump."
Remember when everyone was excited about wage growth re-appearing and escape velocity, and textbook wage inflation appearing thanks to tight labor markets... well that's all gone! Average weekly earnings grew at just 0.5% YoY in November - the slowest pace of wage growth since July 2014.
In fact real average weekly earnings decline 0.4% in November MoM (despite the post-Trump exuberance)
Probably time for calls for $20 minimum wage.. or how about $30?
Presented below with little comment is an epic rant, culminating in what might have been an actual on-air nervous breakdown, by Keith Olbermann about the "Russian coup" that is currently in process and threatens "the end of the United States as an independent country."
Authored by Pepe Escobar, originally posted op-ed via SputnikNews.com,
This is the way the Obama administration ends; not with a bang, but a pathetic whimper.