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- Don't Kid Yourself, Republicans Are Never Going to Turn on Trump December 17, 2018Removing the president from office will require GOP senators to break with him. That doesn't seem likely, no matter what Robert Mueller uncovers.Eoin Higgins
- Eric Andre Should Be Trump's Next Chief of Staff December 14, 2018The comedian has an innate understanding of chaos—and he would end politics as we know it.Eve Peyser
Signs of the Times
- Likelihood of a shooting war between NATO and Russia on the increase December 17, 2018George Szamuely is a Hungarian-born scholar and Senior Research Fellow at London's Global Policy Institute. He lives in New York City. I spoke to him about escalating hostilities on Russia's Ukrainian and Black Sea borders and about Exercise Trident Juncture, NATO's massive military exercise on Russian borders which ended just as the latest hostilities began. […]
- SOTT FOCUS: Holiday Greetings to Our Readers! Get Your 2019 Sott.net Calendar Here! December 17, 2018Dear readers, We would like to wish you all a Happy Holiday Season and our very best to you for 2019. Wait... did we say holiday?! Yes, we know, world events - like SOTT editors - don't do 'holidays'. Just as there's 'no rest for the wicked', those paying attention to an increasingly crazy world […]
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- 'Project Blitz’: Here's the new plan Christian nationalists have to seize even more power December 16, 2018Christian nationalism is the most important and most overlooked factor behind Donald Trump’s presidency. In the 2016 election, Trump got 81 percent support from white evangelical Christians, and a study by Clemson sociologist Andrew Whitehead and two colleagues (Salon story here) found that “the ‘religious vote’ for Trump was primarily the result of Christian nationalism,” an Old Testament-based […]Paul Rosenberg, Salon
News from Africa
- South Africa: Transport Start-Up Gometro Opens a UK Office and Gets New Contracts Using Its Flx Transport Data Platform December 17, 2018[Innovation in Africa] GoMetro has created a data software tool to analyze, plan and roll out transport routes. As public transport changes, it is in a key position to take advantage of these changes. Last year it opened a UK office to capture new contracts to build its portfolio of clients and plans to expand […]