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Was Trump's strike all about North Korea?

Submitted by Sunspots on Mon, 04/10/2017 - 12:00pm

Trump's missile strike hasn't made a lot of sense as something directed at Russia or Syria, minimally damaging as it was. Or as a message worth the blowback, to placate the neocons - they'll never be satisfied until we've annihilated ourselves.

So here's another interpretation, from Ilargi:

https://www.theautomaticearth.com/2017/04/symbols-of-strength/

Two Outstanding Essays On "Flyover Country"

Submitted by bobswern on Tue, 11/15/2016 - 7:21am

Raul Ilargi Meijer (a/k/a Ilargi) and Marshall Auerback have published two, truly outstanding essays over at The Automatic Earth and Counterpunch/Naked Capitalism, respectively, over the past 48 hours. They're both exceptionally noteworthy--and they both focus upon "flyover country"--so I'm going to provide a few excerpts and strongly encourage all reading this to DEFINITELY click upon the links and savor both of these salient posts in their entirety.