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By Tyler Durden | 24 January 2017 ZERO HEDGE — Leaving Goldman Sachs to work for the government has always been a lucrative career move: eight years ago, it allowed former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson to […]
22 January 2017 RT — Israel has approved an additional 560 housing units to be constructed as part of its illegal settlement-building initiative in occupied East Jerusalem. The announcement comes 48 hours after Donald Trump took […]
By AFP | 21 January 2017 YAHOO — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday he planned to discuss soon with US President Donald Trump how to “counter the threat” from Iran. “I plan to speak soon […]
By William Craddick and Cassandra Hasenstein | 19 January 2017 DISOBEDIENT MEDIA — The Syrian White Helmets, or Syria Civil Defense Force are lauded by mainstream news sources for their humanitarian work during the Syrian Civil War. But research […]
By Jay Yarow | 18 January 2017 CNBC — Alibaba founder Jack Ma fired a shot at the United States in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Ma was asked by CNBC’s […]
By Peter S. Goodman | 18 January 2016 THE NEW YORK TIMES — (DAVOS, Switzerland) You have perhaps noticed that in many countries, history-altering numbers of people have grown enraged at the economic elite and […]
After watching last weekend’s nonstop cartoon rhetoric, I decided it’s time to address the trigger word “fascism.” Fascism is an overused and pejorative term that defies definition and has no real modern meaning. So the word “fascist” […]
He went low, so they went lower. The weekend’s presidential inauguration and #WomensMarch offered up social media imagery that spoke louder than expletives shouted through megaphones. Makes one wonder: Just what kind of brainwashing is […]
By Ross Chainey | 17 January 2017 WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has already removed 86% of his country’s currency from circulation in an attempt to curb tax evasion, tackle corruption and […]
By Federico Guerrini | 16 January 2017 FORBES — In an effort to minimize the effect of false rumors on the social and political debate, Facebook will soon begin to test out a fake news filtering tool […]
The New Nationalist (TNN) will follow Inauguration Day events through our lens during the next several days. If there is anything major (such as Gladio D&D), we will break out separate posts — but come back […]
By Ben Richards | 14 January 2017 DAILY STORMER — A group of violent anti-fascists were able to shut down a planned MILO event on the campus of UC Davis yesterday. Based on how they acted, these […]
Let’s begin with Kennedy’s prescient speech on conspiracy practices and secrecy. He used the words “conspiracy” and “secrecy” repeatedly, and there is little doubt as to what he was referring. No one of importance today could […]
Veritas Project has gone underground and exposed with relative ease plots and schemes by funded diffuse-and-disrupt (Gladio D&D) organizers to blitz Washington, D.C. during and after Donald Trump’s inauguration on Friday. The notion that protests […]
By Andy Greenberg | 12 January 2017 WIRED — As the privacy and civil liberty community braces for Donald Trump’s impending control of US intelligence agencies like the NSA, critics have called on the Obama administration to […]
By Abigail R. Hall-Blanco | 13 January 2017 ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER — In May 2015, in the wake of protests about police killings throughout the U.S., President Obama issued an executive order that restricted police departments’ […]
ZH Preface: Washington’s Blog reached out to Dr. Haering after reading several excellent articles on India’s cash ban. Dr. Haering then combined the information into a single article for us. We lightly edited the article […]
By Jan Martinez Ahrens | 13 January 2017 EL PAIS — Mexico has entered a new political cycle. While US president-elect Donald Trump is ramping up economic pressure on the country, the economy has stagnated, the […]
It looks like a Trump kleptocratic Shock Doctrine will kick into full gear on Jan. 20. The New Nationalist (TNN) made its position about Trumpian neo-feudalism known here and in this podcast. A quick tutorial on the […]
Ruling Fidesz party vice president pledges to ‘sweep out’ NGOs Premier Orban, Trump backer, vowed to build ‘illiberal state’ By Zoltan Simon | 10 January 2017 BLOOMBERG — George Soros now that Donald Trump will […]
By David Dayen | 3 January 2017 THE INTERCEPT — One West Bank, which Donald Trump’s nominee for treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin, ran from 2009 to 2015, repeatedly broke California’s foreclosure laws during that period, according […]
The latest iteration that 18,000 email accounts belonging to high ranking Italian mucky mucks were hacked reveals how the world really works. Regular readers of The New Nationalist (TNN) are probably not surprised to learn […]
The Risk of Contagion of a full-blown Mexican crisis is far greater today than it was during the Tequila Crisis 22 years ago. By Don Quijones | 8 January 2017 WOLF STREET — Things are rapidly […]
A taped conversation between Prime Minister Netanyahu and the owner of a leading newspaper has shocked Israelis – here’s why. By Allison Kaplan Sommer | 9 January 2017 HAARETZ — It’s a revelation that’s shaking up […]
Israeli Embassy made vow to ‘take down’ Foreign Office deputy Sir Alan Duncan Bombshell footage covertly filmed in restaurant, obtained by Mail on Sunday Senior diplomat is egged on by a senior aide to another Conservative […]
By Tyler Durden | 5 January 2017 ZERO HEDGE — Four days after the first sporadic protests emerged in Mexico City, following the infamous “gasolinazo”, or mandatory 15%-20% increase in Mexican gas prices which went into […]
By Jessie Hellmann | 5 January 2016 THE HILL — Donald Trump‘s team is demanding politically appointed ambassadors leave their overseas posts by Inauguration Day, The New York Times reports. The mandate could leave the U.S. […]
By Irish Savant | 11 November 2016 OCCIDENTAL OBSERVER — In common with many Trump supporters on the alt-right I’ve long harboured a horrible doubt that – just maybe – he was a huckster using his […]
By Patrick J. Buchanan | 29 December 2016 BUCHANAN.ORG — Donald Trump has a new best friend. “President-elect Trump, thank you for your warm friendship and your clear-cut support of Israel,” gushed Bibi Netanyahu, after he […]
The collapse of American and European pension funds, as discussed in my podcast and this development in Spain is a component of a neo-feudal kleptocratic master plan. Cabalists are highly interested in tearing up and eliminating pensions and […]