Politics

Life’s natural born winner and Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump, keeps racking up victories in primaries and caucuses in defiance of common wisdom, and the fact has not escaped the well established Neocons who have their own agenda for the upcoming vacancy in the White House. Neoconservative pundit Anne Applebaum predicts “the end of the West as we know it,” should the Donald trump the establishment. The Neocon’s New World Order would come to an end just as it was about to enter its zenith.

Submitted by Ryan McMaken via The Mises Institute,

Last month, we looked at military spending by state, and how some states — South Carolina and Virginia, for example — have military spending as a major component of their local economies. Proposing cuts to government spending via military spending would likely be political suicide in any of these places.

Nasser Arrabyee reviews the effects of the appalling U.S.-backed, Saudi-led war on Yemen:

Just two months ago France was among the most vocal in condemning Saudi Arabia’s New Year mass executions But on Friday the French president Francois Hollande ‘discreetly’ awarded the country’s most prestigious award, the Legion d’Honneur, to the heir to the Saudi throne, Prince Mohammed bin Naif.

Submitted by Claire Bernish via TheAntiMedia.org,

Legislators in Mexico City passed a proposal on Thursday to bar presidential candidate Donald Trump from entering the country.

Though the proposal amounts to a tellingly symbolic gesture, the lawmakers hope the measure will pressure Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto to take a more adamant stand against Trump’s xenophobic rhetoric — including his blanket characterization of Mexican immigrants as ‘rapists and criminals.’