Russian Strike Kills 14 at Ukrainian Train Station as Ukraine Launches Over 1,200 Drones Into Russia

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has informed allies that the White House is not preparing new attacks on Iran and will instead focus on enforcing sanctions against the Islamic Republic.  US officials speaking with Axios said Rubio told allies that the US was not planning any attacks on Iran, and any strikes on the Islamic […]

US Restricts Direct Return Of US Citizens From Congo Over Ebola Outbreak Non-citizens had already been prohibited from entering the United States within 21 days of being in Congo, Uganda, and South Sudan, and now, the Trump administration has begun using federal authority to bar U.S. citizens who have been in Congo from entering the United States until they spend at least three weeks in another country, an official said on July 14. The administration on Monday started using authorities under a transportation statute called Title 49 to place U.S. citizens who...

The "Good News" Is Always The Same: The Stock Market Is Up... Until It Isn't Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Cloaking a fake "market" with artifice to maintain its asymmetrical distribution of wealth and income also cloaks its detachment from the real world. I often refer to the dynamics of self-correction and self-liquidation. Systems that use feedback to rebalance extremes are self-correcting: rather than accelerate as they approach a cliff, they slow down and reorganize to avoid runaway self-reinforcing feedback (i.e. positive feedback), a.k.a. run to failure. Some things are self-liquidating by...