globalization

There has been a backlash against Trump’s executive order against seven predominantly Muslim countries, but the president says the system is working [Xinhua]
There are fears on both sides of the Pacific that the executive order signed by President Donald Trump to ban visitors from seven predominantly Muslim countries will adversely affect America’s tech industry.
Neflix chief Reed Hastings, for example, has said that “Trump’s actions are hurting Netflix employees around the world, and are so un-American it pains us all”.

Patrick Henningsen
21st Century Wire
So the trade wars have begun. Less than 72 hrs into to his first term, President Donald Trump has wasted no time making good on a number of campaign pledges, including today’s signing of an executive order to pull the US out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal.

Today Donald J. Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States of America. 
The new president gave a resounding speech that was a major break from tradition – clearly an anti-establishment and anti-Washington speech, resuming his campaign stance of characterizing Washington DC as a corrupt, elitist cadre of career-minded, self-serving politicians. Oligharchs in attendance looked noticeably uncomfortable with Trump’s words.
Trump also went into full populist mode, casting aside globalism in favor of the national interest:

Xi Jinping makes historic speech in Davos.

21st Century Wire says…
Brussels just trembled this week. The BREXIT populist wave is now sweeping into southern Europe, but now it’s not just about EU membership – it’s about the single currency. 

Deep inside the archetypal psyche of Pepe the Frog…

Branko Malić
21st Century Wire
While Richard Spencer’s half-joke of hailing Donald Trump with Roman salute rose a lot of dust, some remarks in his NPI speech point into rather sinister direction. A posthuman one.
 

The accidental president

Gilbert Mercier
Counterpunch
If humans were largely moral and ethical beings, then globalization could be a workable proposition. Unfortunately, the dark behavioral narcissism expressed by compulsive greed and an infinite appetite for power seems to have become the guiding precept of our collective nightmare.

21st Century Wire says…
It’s hard to not to draw a comparison between the Brexit referendum and the stunning surprise victory of Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election in America. Many now argue that both were a repudiation on globalization.
Indeed, anxiety over the global economy as a whole contributed to 2016’s historic rejection of the status quo: big trade, big banks and Wall Street.

“We live in interesting times when protesters act out the tantrum of a super-rich man who did not get his way despite all his money.” Dady Chery