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Contrary to popular opinion, mass shootings by right-wingers are not being driven by Donald Trump’s sometimes obnoxious political rhetoric. One of the principal drivers, if not the principal driver, of right-wing terrorism in recent years is, ironically, the political left itself. The left-wing US power structure’s illiberal crackdown on rightist dissent has left too many on the right reeling, rage-filled, and feeling that they have no way to influence society other than by violence.

There’s no way to follow the complex inner workings of the Eurasia integration process without considering what takes place annually at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok.

The two companies signed the deal that formally establishes the new joint venture during this week’s Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok.

America, like Russia, has always been interested in expansion. Through the Louisiana Purchase, the conquest of the American West and the incorporation of Alaska, the US became the world power it is today. In this vein it is only natural that President Trump wants to buy Greenland from Denmark. As global temperatures rise, Greenland and the Arctic will become more valuable.

This is a first: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday suggested Turkey should seek its own nuclear weapons in comments sure to gain Washington's attention at a moment NATO's most controversial member is busy deploying Russia's S-400 anti-air defense system. 

This is some high class trolling by Russia's President Vladimir Putin:

On August 31st, the brilliant anonymous German intelligence analyst who blogs as “Moon of Alabama” headlined “Syria – Coordinated Foreign Airstrike Kills Leaders Of Two Al-Qaeda Aligned Groups”, and he reported that,“Some three hours ago an air- or missile strike in Syria’s Idleb governorate hit a meeting of leaders of the al-Qaeda aligned Haras-al-Din and Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) aka Jabhat al-Nusra.

The author is an economist who served as assistant Treasury secretary in the Reagan administration, was associate editor at the Wall Street Journal, and is a former professor at Georgetown University. (Full bio).

Australian journalist and BAFTA award-winning documentary filmmaker John Pilger says the “psychological torture” of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange continues “unabated” while he remains in British custody.

By Eric Kraus

Some ten years ago, as a financial strategist/fund manager in post-crisis Moscow, while laboring away over my strategy monthly “Truth and Beauty (and Russian Finance)” with its recurrent theme that Russia was embarking upon her New Asian Century (i.e. turning away from the West to build bridges to China), I was surprised to receive a polite rejoinder from one of my readers: the prominent Stanford academic Michael McFaul – even then seen as a rising star in Eastern European policy for the US Democrat Party. Читать дальше...