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Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, Have relations between the United States and China finally reached the point of no return?  At this moment, it would be difficult to overstate how angry the Chinese are with the United States.  Chinese officials are firmly blaming the United States for the enormous political protests that we have witnessed in Hong Kong in recent weeks, and on Thursday President Trump slapped another round of tariffs on Chinese imports.  Sadly, most...

Authored by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute, “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.” - H.L. Mencken We’ve been down this road many times before. If the government is consistent about any one thing, it is this: it has an unnerving tendency to exploit crises and use them as opportunities for power grabs under the guise of national security. As David...

The gunman who fatally shot nine people -- including his sister -- and injured more than two dozen others in Dayton, Ohio, early Sunday was reportedly suspended during his high school years for compiling a “hit list” of those he wanted to kill and a “rape list” of girls he wanted to sexually assault.

New York University professor Suketu Mehta recently published a book arguing that 'immigration is a form of reparations' for past American crimes.

Like many of you, I read the news of a single person killing at least 20 people in El Paso, Texas yesterday and another person killing at least 9 people In Dayton, Ohio early this morning. While these are outrageous and horrifying events, they aren’t surprising or shocking in any way in a country where more than 33,000 people die from gun violence each year. America is a stuck in a Groundhog Day loop of gun violence. We’ll keep waking up, stuck in the same reality of oppression, carnage, and...

An economically and militarily weakened Britain is nothing to celebrate

Despite holding the same title, United States governors' salaries range depending on state. According to data from The Council of State Governments (CSG), current annual earnings range from $70,000 to $179,000. Visit BusinessInsider.com for more stories. Though the United States' governors all share the same title, the nation's 50 state leaders do not share the same salary. Using the most recent data from The Council of State Governments (CSG), we compared the salaries of the current governors...