Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,
It's your choice, America--you can keep your cartels and the captured government that enables and protects them, or you can fix what's broken and unaffordable.
In the latest surprise to come from the Trump administration, the NYT reports that in the Trump administration is preparing a set of executive orders aimed at isolating the US and which would allow the United States to "drastically reduce" its role and involvement in the United Nations and other international organizations, "as well as begin a process to review and potentially abrogate certain forms of multilateral treaties, officials said." The order calls for then enacting “at least a 40% overall decrease” in remaining United States funding toward international organizations.
The Demise of the Left
Paul Craig Roberts
On several occasions I have asked in my columns the rhetorical question: What became of the left? Today I answer my question.
While the Economist's endorsement of Hillary Clinton - and its antipathy toward Donald Trump - is no secret, we are "confident" there is little connection between the economic publication's ideological leanings and the just released report by the Economist's in house Intelligence unit, which has officially demoted the US to a second-class democracy.
A Republican-proposed House Resolution aiming to terminate US membership of the UN has quietly slipped past public radar and been introduced in Congress. The proposed bill sets to rectify Israel’s image on the world stage and save money for the US. At the same time it aims to bypass climate change and gun regulations/controls and to allow Big Oil uninhibited access to pollute the planet. The new bill would set the stage for the United States to terminate its membership in the United Nations. The proposal could throw the world body under the bus at the most crucial time in its history.