Politics

Amid speculation and doubts that UK Prime Minister Theresa May could be forced to resign as soon as Christmas amid a mutiny of Tory MPs following her disastrous conference speech, which resulted in the pound's biggest weekly decline since last October’s flash crash, moments ago the UK Press Association reported that Theresa May said she is providing “calm leadership” with the “full support” of her cabinet, which sent the pound surging in kneejerk reaction.

Has The Israel Lobby Destroyed Americans’ First Amendment Rights?

Paul Craig Roberts

Authored by Zainab Calcuttawala via OilPrice.com,

Iraq, Iran, and Turkey are taking a unified stance against Kurdistan’s oil sector after the region elected to seek independence from Baghdad in a referendum in September, according to a new report by Rudaw.

“In the case of northern Iraq; Iran, Iraq and Turkey will form a tripartite mechanism and will decide on shutting down the oil,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said after a meeting with leaders from the other two nations on Thursday.

Authored by Andrew Korybko via Oriental Review,

Catalonia’s drive for “independence” has unleashed a chain reaction of viral social media support that’s frighteningly resurrected civil war-era rhetoric, but the most dangerous consequences of this domino effect are yet to come if the separatists are ultimately successful in their quest.

The Nostalgia Narrative

According to forecasts from the 'Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln', Germany's population is going to increase to 83.1 million by 2035.

As Statista's Martin Armstrong notes, the main reason for this is the record number of immigrants and asylum seekers which arrived in the country in 2015.

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