Update: According to Bloomberg, Trump won't be declaring war (yet), and instead the announcement is sanctions related.
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The Independent reports Spanish police storm Catalan government buildings to stop independence referendum.
As MishTalk's Mike Shedlock details, the Catalan president described the raids as a “co-ordinated police assault” and a “de facto state of emergency”.
Spanish national police have stormed ministries and buildings belonging to Catalonia’s regional government to put a stop to the region’s independence referendum.
Twitter has evolved to become an important outlet for political discussion, debate and commentary. The platform was notably put to use to successfully organize anti-government protests on numerous occasions, and as Statista's Niall McCarthy notes, this put some world leaders on edge, unsurprisingly leading to some countries clamping down on the network's content.
Twitter's latest transparency report shows the number of content removal requests made by different countries as well as the share that were granted.
Authored by Andrei Akulov via The Strategic Culture Foundation,
Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Asia Times,
North Korea, Iran, Venezuela are targets in "compassionate" America's war on the "wicked few." It's almost as though Washington felt its hegemony threatened...
Paul Delaroche, Napoléon à Fontainebleau, 1840. With other global powers increasingly at odds with US foreign policy under Donald Trump, the nation's hegemony on the world stage may soon face its own crisis point.