Norway On The Way To Become Unfriendly Neighbor In Russia's Eyes
Authored by Peter Korzun via The Strategic Culture Foundation,
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The Fallacies Of The 'Russia-Truthers'
Authored by James Carden via ConsortiumNews.com,
The anti-Russia hysteria – now rivaling past Red Scares with Russians hiding under every bed – has led to factual errors in press accounts and has erased standards of political fairness.
NATO Holds Defense Drill Simulating Russian Invasion Of Baltics
NATO officials are growing increasingly nervous about the possibility of an invasion of the Baltic states ahead of Russian wargames planned this fall on the border of Belarus and Poland that could involve as many as 100,000 troops. That "anxiety" was on display this week, when US and British troops carried out the first NATO military exercise that involved a simulated defense of the Suwalki Gap, an area in northern Poland on the border with Lithuania that serves as the gateway to the Baltic region.
We're In A Boiling-Point Crisis Of Exploitive Elites
Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,
The "fixes" to the stagnation of postwar Capitalism in the 1970s were financialization, globalism, and the sustained expansion of debt--all have run out of steam.
When Will The Fed Tighten Enough To Cause The Next Recession?
In addition to the wildly popular topic of the market's record low volatility, coupled with speculation what could break the current spell of "endemic complacency" and what its impact would be on asset prices (yesterday we posted a fascinating take by DB's Aleksandar Kocic on the issue of the markets current "metastability"), another question that has fascinated the economic community is when will the next recession hit.