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Authored by Paul Craig Roberts,

As readers know, I have seen some optimism in voters support for Trump and Sanders as neither are members of the corrupt Republican and Democratic political establishments. Members of both political establishments enrich themselves by betraying the American people and serving only the interest of the One Percent. The American people are being driven into the ground purely for the sake of more mega-billions for a handful of super-rich people.

Submitted by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute,

“The qualifications for president seem to be that one is willing to commit mass murder one minute and hand presidential medals of freedom to other war criminals in the next. One need only apply if one has very loose, flexible, or non-existent morality.”—Author and activist Cindy Sheehan

The commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, General Qassem Soleimani is helping to coordinate the battle to retake Fallujah from ISIS. Fallujah has been the scene of some of the worst atrocities of war since the U.S. invasion in 2003. It was twice attacked viciously by the occupying army after the fall of Saddam Hussein, where the population and the environment suffered radioactive poisoning from the ammunition used by the American forces.

Over the weekend we reported that in the latest unspoken mockery of the Obama administration, the Iranian military had successfully carried out another two launches of short-range ballistic missiles - the Nazeat and the Fajr-5 - during ground forces exercises.

Submitted by Patrick Watson via MauldinEconomics.com,

Negative interest rates are all the rage at central banks, a symptom of the deflation that is slowing spreading worldwide. The Bank of Japan, European Central Bank, and Swiss National Bank already peg rates below zero. Even if the Federal Reserve doesn't formally join them, US rates are solidly negative in real terms.