Politics

Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,

Why do things never seem to change no matter who we send to Washington? 

In an unprecedented move, the Chinese Embassy in North Korea has advised Korean-Chinese residents to return home amid concern that the North's military provocations may trigger a U.S. attack on the North.

The Korea Times reports that the embassy began sending the message on Apr. 20, five days before the North celebrated the 85th anniversary of the Korean People's Army with a show of military power, according to Radio Free Asia (a U.S.-based station specializes in North Korea).

Authored by Federico Pieraccini via The Strategic Culture Foundation,

The U.S. Air Force is set to conduct a second test launch of a Minuteman III nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile on Wednesday morning, one week after a similar successful test took place and in the wake of a series of defiant actions by the rogue North Korean regime, including a failed ballistic missile launch on Saturday. The launch will occur between 12:01 and 6:01 a.m. from  Vandenberg Air Force Base, northwest of Santa Barbara, according to the LA Times.

American Democracy: A Dead Man Walking

Paul Craig Roberts

Trump’s “sell-out,” as it is called, coming on top of Obama’s eight-year “sell-out,” is instructive. We have now had a Democratic president who sold out the people who elected him and a Republican president who has done the same thing. This is a very interesting point, the meaning of which most people miss.

But not Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin. At the Valdai discussion club, Putin summed up Western democracy: