Just days after Pyongyang launched its most advanced ICBM, one which experts warned has the potential to hit a target anywhere on the territory of the United States, North Korea said the U.S. is “begging” for a nuclear war by planning the “largest-ever” joint aerial drill with South Korea just after concluding an exercise with nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, Bloomberg reported.
Authored by M K Bhadrakumar via The Asia Times,
As on the soccer field in his youth, so in a tumultuous political career spanning four decades: Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has consistently shown his mettle as a fighter who won’t be satisfied with anything short of total victory.
But in the battle that is now unfolding around him, and which is besieging him, there isn’t going to be a winner.
Submitted by South Front
On Friday a senior US official told Reuters that US President Donald Trump may deliver a speech next Wednesday recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
Some Middle East experts speculate that such a move will be a major blow to the US relations with Arab countries and the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. No US president or any western leader have ever recognized Israel’s control over all of Jerusalem.
Via CaseyResearch.com,
Communism is better than capitalism... At least, that’s what a growing number of young people in the U.S. think.
I wish I were joking. But a recent study from the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, a D.C.-based nonprofit, found that half of the millennials it surveyed would rather live in a socialist or communist country than a capitalist society.
Authored by Saxo Bank's Head of Macro Strategy, Dembik Christopher, via TradingFloor.com,
The year 2018 starts with four main questions:
Is economic growth on a solid footing?