WORLD, FEATURED STORY

America’s dollar hegemony has proved toxic to the rest of the world in very many ways, and Trump is fueling antagonism towards dollar hegemony (if not yet towards America per se).

With its chronic debts, deficits and dodo-like dollar, America will be ruined beyond salvation. Ruined by a president who brags about his “art of the deal”.

For decades atrocity porn has been essential for selling military action in wars of choice unconnected to the actual defense of the US.

The reality is that we live in a multipolar world at least since 2001. However, this obvious truth will continue to be denied in the West in flat defiance of the abundantly clear facts.

How other nations will adapt to American rule over outer space and the planets is difficult to predict, but if the past seventeen years of Washington’s assertion of its supremacy are anything to go by, the result will be very, very bad.

In short, Russia today is essentially no different, as far as its inclinations and objectives are concerned, from the rest of the world. So where are the distinctions?

Lewis’s real heritage is clear: It lies in more than a million dead in Iraq since 2003, more than 600,000 killed in Syria and in the continuing specter throughout the region of wars without end.

The knives are coming out in Germany against Merkel and it is only the pro-EU Social Democrats who are coming to her defense.

Only days after coming to power, Italy’s new populist government has won in an early showdown with the European Union establishment over the contentious issue of migration.

Our “allies” cede geostrategic control of their own countries and are rewarded at the expense of domestic American economic interests.