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Trump Anticipates Sending Troops to Occupy Venezuela
(Kyle Anzalone, Antiwar.com) President Donald Trump said the US had no plans to hold elections in Venezuela. He said elections are currently impossible, and the country must first be helped by the US. “We have to fix the country first. You can’t have an election. There’s no way the people could even vote,” Trump said about…
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US Attack on Greenland Would Destroy NATO, Danish PM Warns
(Will Porter, Antiwar.com) Denmark’s premier has warned that US military action against Greenland would unravel the NATO alliance and the entire international order, after President Donald Trump reiterated hopes to take over the country. Speaking to Danish broadcasters on Monday, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen condemned “unacceptable pressure” by the Trump administration to acquire Greenland – an…
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Why Silver Is Not in a Bubble
(Jesse Colombo, Money Metals News Service) Amid silver’s recent surge following a long period of stagnation, a wave of articles and commentaries has emerged calling its rise an unsustainable bubble that’s about to burst and burn investors. It’s worth noting that nearly all of those now calling silver a bubble failed to foresee its bull…
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US Seizes Russian-Flagged Oil Tanker in the North Atlantic, Drawing Rebuke From Moscow
(Dave DeCamp, Antiwar.com) US forces on Wednesday boarded and took by force a Russian-flagged oil tanker in the North Atlantic Ocean that it initially tried to seize off the coast of Venezuela weeks ago, an action that drew condemnation from Moscow. The tanker was named the Bella 1 when the US first tried to capture…
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Danish PM Warns US Attack on Greenland Would Destroy NATO
(Will Porter, Antiwar.com) Denmark’s premier has warned that US military action against Greenland would unravel the NATO alliance and the entire international order, after President Donald Trump reiterated hopes to take over the country. Speaking to Danish broadcasters on Monday, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen condemned “unacceptable pressure” by the Trump administration to acquire Greenland –…
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Trump Lays Out ‘Roadmap for Victory’ During GOP House Retreat
(The Center Square) As the country is about to embark on a pivotal election year, President Donald Trump addressed the GOP U.S. House of Representatives retreat. During a nearly 90-minute speech held at the newly renamed, Trump-Kennedy Center, the president laid out what he calls a “roadmap to victory for the House GOP. He spotlighted…
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Sheriff of Charlotte Metro Area Accused of Threat on State Lawmaker
(The Center Square) Threats to a state lawmaker, extortion, corruption and “willful misconduct and maladministration in office” are charges filed Monday in Superior Court by a state representative and four former employees of a sheriff in North Carolina’s largest metropolitan area. Mecklenburg County Sheriff Garry McFadden, on the same day he agreed to testify before…
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Trump Critic George Conway Launches Bid for Congress
(Chris Wade, The Center Square) Political pundit and Trump critic George Conway has joined a crowded field of Democrats seeking to replace outgoing Rep. Jerry Nadler in New York’s 12th Congressional District. Conway, 62, a lawyer and former Republican consultant, announced his candidacy on Tuesday in a video that stressed his knowledge of Beltway politics…
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De-Dollarization Alert: Zambia Now Accepting Yuan for Mining Tax Payments
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) In yet another sign of growing global de-dollarization, Chinese mining companies in Zambia are now paying royalties and taxes in yuan. As Bloomberg put it, this is the “latest sign of the growing acceptance of the currency on the [African] continent.” Zambia ranks as Africa’s second-largest copper producer. According to the Bank…
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Central Bank Gold Buying Momentum Continued in November
(Mike Maharrey, Money Metals News Service) Central bank gold buying picked up in September and gained momentum in October. That momentum carried into November with gold reserves continuing to climb. Officially, central banks globally added 45 tonnes of gold to their reserves in November. That was down slightly from 53 tonnes the previous month but…
