What follows is a full repring of John Varoli’s writing in his own newsletter. It is useful to try to expand his audience – hopefully those reading this, especially in the USA, will take action and contact their representatives and the White House in a “melt the phone lines” campaign – ostensibly to save the […]
Chicago billionaire realtor and casino magnate Neil Bluhm owns the two best hotels in Chicago, the Four Seasons and the Ritz Carlton. But he's probably best known, outside of billionaire real estate circles, for having thrown a 49th birthday party for Obama where the minimum price for admission was $30,000 (checks made out to the DNC). He's shoveled immense amounts of money into the political careers of neo-liberals and crooked pols like Rahm Emanuel, Hillary Clinton, Rod Blagojevich, the Madigans, Melissa Bean, etc. He writes big checks too.
The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris take a look at how Russia continues to aggressively disengage from the dollar dominated neo-liberal world order. The Russian government has announced that it has cut its foreign debt to decade lows, while boosting national reserves.
Meanwhile the Russian economy moves ever closer to China, in economic and geopolitical spheres.
Remember to Please Subscribe to The Duran’s YouTube Channel.
At 87, Billionaire George Soros is pledging another $18 billion of his fortune to his neo-liberal Open Society Foundation (leaving Soros with a personal wealth of $8 billion) to further “support” European Union initiatives that continue to destroy and destabilize the nation-state.
In May, Soros addressed the European Council on Foreign Relations, issuing a warning that “the European Union is in an existential crisis. Everything that could go wrong has gone wrong.”
Europe’s existential danger is “no longer a figure of speech… it is the harsh reality,” said Soros.
Bill Maher: “Bring on the recession.”
Comedian and neo-liberal Trump hater Bill Maher wants economic collapse for America in order to “get rid of Trump.”
Alex Christoforou with Alexander Mercouris discuss the reasons behind Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to stick with the government that successfully piloted Russia through the sanctions and the oil price fall.
Is there an active and conspiring “Fifth Column” in Putin’s new government, and is Russian Prime Minister Medvedev an ‘Atlantic Integrationist”?
What can we expect from Foreign Minister Lavrov and Defence Minister Shoigu going forward, in what may be Putin’s final term as Russian President?
Elizabeth Esty is a New Dem backbencher from northwestern Connecticut (CT-05)— Meriden, Waterbury, Danbury, New Farfield, Mew Milford, Salibury… Obama won the district both times (with 56.4% in 2008 and 53.5% in 2012) and Hillary beat Trump 49.9% to 45.8%. The district’s PVI is D+2, least blue in the state.
Yesterday on Face the Nation Bernie made a boo-boo, fallng into an old neo-liberal trap while discussing the GOP Tax Scam.
One month into the Trump era, it’s merely stating the obvious to say that Donald Trump has been a veritable earthquake to the powers-that-be in the USA.
As Trump himself often reminds audiences, he is not alone, but has taken the mantle of leadership of a true conservative movement.
As The Duran’s Peter Lavelle and Alex Christoforou (off camera) discuss in the following video, the political left in its arrogance was totally blind to the fact that the right also had the capacity to organize – that is had agency.
President-elect Donald Trump gave two interview’s yesterday that will shake the neo-liberal, globalist, world order to its very core.
Both interviews are currently behind paywalls.
The first interview was with London’s Sunday Times.
