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As almost everyone predicted, nothing substantive appears to have come from the Trump-Putin palaver. Whether the US and Russia will indeed work together in support of Israel's security remains to be seen, given Iran's activities in Syria. Russia wants Iran out of Syria. Syria is Russia's client sta...

Protectionism has the sum total effect of transferring wealth from one set of hands into another. One set of hands abroad to another set of hands at home. Which is not meaningless... But it makes things more expensive. So there is a net loss. OPEC does not practice free trade. If fact they were try...

So, after seeing headline after headline going on about how disastrous Brexit and these "trade wars" will be, I see markets up, employment up and no evidence of inflation. Is it time to declare protectionism works? Everyone is assuming that Trump doesn't want a real trade war So what we are seeing ...

So, after seeing headline after headline going on about how disastrous Brexit and these "trade wars" will be, I see markets up, employment up and no evidence of inflation. Is it time to declare protectionism works? Everyone is assuming that Trump doesn't want a real trade war So what we are seeing ...

So, after seeing headline after headline going on about how disastrous Brexit and these "trade wars" will be, I see markets up, employment up and no evidence of inflation. Is it time to declare protectionism works? Everyone is assuming that Trump doesn't want a real trade war So what we are seeing ...

We're skating on the edge here, but we can unpack this a bit further: ".....Resentment and retribution are often attributed towards evil motives and acts, but they are legitimate entities that can be negotiated and reasoned with......" Jordan Peterson pounds a copy of Gulag and decries resentment a...

They seem to be few in number of bots but large in the amount of spam they are posting regarding selling a product to get around google spam detection. My guess is that a real person is registering and then pretending to be a bot to encourage sales of their fake product.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/iranians-chant-death-to-palestine-at-economic-protests/ Iranians chant ‘Death to Palestine’ at economic protests in Tehran Demonstrations indicate growing anger at regime's support for regional terror groups at expense of country's troubled economy http://strategypage....

cassowary wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 27, 2018 8:53 pm

neverfail wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 27, 2018 6:42 pm

If it takes a heavy dose of democratic socialism to change that for the better then I can only cheer "bring it on, pal!"

It will result in poverty. Look at Venezuela, Greece.

Socialism's main means of "change for the better" seems to be killing people it deems as the problem.

Iranians I know(whixch is a pretty large number) don't care about Israel and think the Palestinians are cry babies. They want the Mullahs' regime gone as they see it as causing great harm to the Iranian people. Sanction do not endear them to the Mullahs. If you want to unite Iranians, invade Iran. ...