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When it comes to Trump’s behavior, perhaps it is too easy to get carried away with the idea that we are in uncharted territory, somehow without historical precedent.

There are clues about Canada's upcoming China policy.... in Washington. In the China-obsessed U.S. capital, there's an extensive paper trail on what the coming era might look like. At its core: a new digital iron curtain over certain sensitive technology.

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

Caitlin Johnstone says it should disturb everyone in the nuclear age that writers at influential publications frame the rise of a multipolar world as something that must inevitably bring on unspeakable violence and human suffering.  By Caitlin Johnstone CaitlinJohnstone.com Listen to

The S&P500 jumped 4.0% this week, boosting the index’s two-week rally to 8.9%. UK 10-year gilt yields sank 58 bps this week to 3.78%, with yields down 116 bps from October 12th highs.

It is time peace brokers step up their efforts to end the war in Ukraine. UAE President Sheikh Mohammad bin Zayed Al Nahyan joined their number when he visited Moscow on Oct.12

Restrictions on semiconductor exports to China, announced by the US on 7 October, will also affect Australia, an academic says in an op-ed for Austral...

The consequences of such a conflict would spread globally, with much greater impact than the Russo-Ukraine war. Think about that.

Recent remarks from the Chinese president point to a regime that will be both increasingly ambitious and difficult to check.

THE FOUNDATION "We are, heart and soul, friends to the freedom of the press. It is however, the prostituted companion of liberty, and somehow or other, we know not how, its efficient auxiliary. It follows the substance like its shade; but while a man walks erect, he may observe that his shadow is...