China and Russia are coming into the final stage of replacing the US dollar as the world's reserve currency. The first step is to trade with each other in their own currencies. This will greatly reduce the impact of the current US economic sanctions against Russia. The US dollar will lose $59.5 billion in foreign-exchange support – and that is just the beginning. [...]

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Steve Bannon, President Trump's senior advisor on his National Security Council, has stepped down, claiming that his mission is complete. Bannon says his role was to monitor the transition. New members, including Rick Perry, were added to the Council. [...]

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Ron Paul analyses recent nuclear threats by North Korea and concludes that, while one should never be complacent about such things, we should be aware that the greatest power of nuclear weapons is psychological, meaning that merely threatening to use them can produce benefits that could not be achieved by actually using them. Paul says that, in the past, North Korea manipulated the US by making threats in order to receive large amounts of money to cease the rhetoric. On the other side, the US military industrial complex profited immensely by using the nuclear threat to justify even more military spending. The ongoing threat of war can be profitable for both sides in this game. [...]

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President Trump authorized the launching of 50 Tomahawk cruise missiles against a Syrian airbase, allegedly in retaliation for a chemical attack earlier this week that was blamed on Syrian President Assad – in spite of the fact that Assad has nothing to gain and everything to lose from such an attack. [...]

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President Trump warned Obama in 2013 to avoid war with Syria following the chemical attack in Ghouta, because there was no advantage to it. The current attack is highly suspicious – because of issues described in this analysis. [...]

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The German cabinet is backing a law to prohibit free speech on the Internet. Under the guise of preventing so-called fake news and hate speech, they have proposed fining social-media outlets, such as Facebook and Twitter, as much as $53 million if they fail to delete undesired content within 24 hours. [...]

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The German government, supported by Angela Merkel, granted nearly 270,000 Syrians in Germany the right to bring in family members. More than a million migrants flocked to Germany in 2015 and 2016, but arrivals have dropped significantly. This new rule is expected to cause Merkel and her Party to fall in popularity in the upcoming September elections. [...]

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