Donald Trump’s Looney Tunes Trade Policy. Ron Unz

 

Donald Trump’s Looney Tunes Trade Policy. Ron Unz By Ron Unz Overly arrogant individuals sometimes find it difficult to recognize that they are not the center of the universe, and that instead they might actually be considerably less large and powerful than those they intend to overawe, cut off, or isolate. Read here

Spain’s Prime Minister Leads the EU’s Rapprochement with China Despite Pressure from Washington By Ahmed Adel Brussels is seeking to diversify relations with other powers due to the threat of economic recession. For this reason, Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is leading the European Union’s rapprochement with China in an effort to expand markets and reduce the trade deficit. Read here

Video: China Cuts Off Boeing: Crippling US Manufacturing By Breaking Points China accounts for 20-25% of Boeing’s global aircraft deliveries. And now, the Airbus stock is soaring, which means that Airbus, the major European competitor and frankly much better safety record in the last decade or so, is one that is going to be the major beneficiary. Read here

Trump’s Fading Nobel Peace Prize By Renee Parsons Days before the US Presidential election on November 5th, front-runner and GOP candidate Donald Trump told a Michigan rally that “I am the candidate of peace.” The first President in two generations to not start a war, Trump had already made his commitment, if re-elected, to end the Ukraine war during his first 24 hours in office.  Read here

Ukraine Neo-Nazi Junta Uses Civilians as Human Shield in Sumy By Drago Bosnic The Kremlin launched hundreds of long-range strikes so far, targeting high-priority assets, particularly command centers, foreign troop gatherings, NATO-sourced weapon shipments, etc. One of the more recent such precision strikes was on Krivoy Rog, a city in central Ukraine, when the “Park House” hotel was hit after Russian military intelligence found out it was being used as a joint command post. Read here

How They Drive Us Crazy … Or Try to By Dr. Emanuel Garcia If I learned nothing else during my medical training, it was that direct causal connections in medicine are very hard to establish definitively. There are so many additional factor and co-factors and complexities to be teased out, and these can only be teased out by large studies and epidemiological input generally. Read here

The Anatomy of the Greek-Israeli Greek-Cypriot Alliance in the Eastern Mediterranean and Türkiye By Ret Admiral Cem Gürdeniz During the Ottoman period, Jews who lived under Turkish rule in different regions for roughly 400 years and Greek/Greek Christian Orthodox could not get along. There was a 1500 year-old blood feud between them because of Jesus and Judas. Read here