Félix Vallotton Sunset, Bronze-Purple 1911 • Wildfire Kills At Least 50 Near Athens, Families Flee To Beaches (R.) • Ecuador ‘Close To Evicting’ Julian Assange From UK Embassy (Ind.) • NATO Trumped (SCF) • Dying Groundskeeper Testifies In Monsanto Roundup Cancer Trial (G.) • Russia Attacked Us (Jim Kunstler) • Cost To Insure Tesla’s Debt Rises On Growing Default Fears (R.) • The Low-Priced Home Shortage Continues (CNBC) • Exposing the American Okie-Doke (CP) • End ‘Botched’ Brexit, Corbyn
Read More...René Magritte Man in a bowler hat 1964 • Martyrs to the Cause: Carter Page and Julian Assange (Raimondo) • British Assassination Campaign Targeting Russian Exiles? (SCF) • The Burden Of Proof Is On The Russiagaters (CJ) • Russian Hysteria An Exercise In PsyOps (Kunstler) • Liquidity Crisis: Tesla Asks Suppliers For “Cash Back” (ZH) • Portugal Dared to Cast Aside Austerity. It’s Having a Major Revival. • How The Fracking Revolution Broke OPEC’s Hold On Oil Prices (Rapier)
Read More...Paul Gauguin The Vision after the Sermon (Jacob wrestling with the Angel) 1888 • Ecuador Will Imminently Withdraw Asylum for Julian Assange (Greenwald) • In Historic First, DOJ Releases Carter Page FISA Application (ZH) • Breannan And The 2016 Spy Scandal (Strassel) • UK To Refuse To Pay Brexit Bill Without Trade Deal (AFP) • Warning On Australia’s Looming Interest-Only Crisis (SMH) • German Industry Groups Warn US On Tariffs Ahead Of EU-US Meeting (R.) • NATO: Doomed To
Read More...Roy Lichtenstein Hopeless 1963 • Ecuador President Arrives In UK; Assange’s Fate Hangs In The Balance (Cogan) • Be Prepared To Shake The Earth If Julian Assange Is Arrested (CJ) • One FBI Text Message In Russia Probe That Should Alarm Every American (Hill) • Anatomy of a Displacement-Projection Syndrome (Kunstler) • Trump ‘Ready’ To Put Tariffs On All $505 Billion Of Chinese Imports (CNBC) • EU Rips Up Theresa May’s Chequers Plan (Ind.) • May’s Brexit Proposals Died
Read More...Edward Hopper Western Motel 1957 • Possible Hand-Over Of Julian Assange To The UK May Be Imminent (Vos) • Spanish Court Drops International Warrant For Carles Puigdemont (G.) • Trump Lays Into The Fed, Says ‘Not Thrilled’ About Interest Rate Hikes (CNBC) • Trump Plans To Formally Invite Putin To US Later This Year (G.) • American Cold War Experts: “The Real Threat Is Russophobia” (ZH) • No-Deal Brexit Would Harm EU Countries As Well As UK, Warns IMF
Read More...Félix Vallotton The balloon 1899 • Is Goldman Sachs Really a Bank? Really? (Whalen) • Everyone Is Smart Except Trump (Fischer) • Russiagate Is Like 9/11, Except It’s Made Of Pure Narrative (CJ) • Kudlow: US Expecting Significant Trade Offer From EU Soon (CNBC) • Mega Tech’s Trillions Of Market Value In Eye-Popping Perspective (MW) • Amazon Now Accounts For 49% Of US Online Retail (ZH) • EU Commissioner On $5 Billion Fine: Google Has To ‘Stop This Behavior’
Read More...Paul Gauguin Van Gogh painting sunflowers 1888 • Russia Dumped Most/All Of Its US Treasury Holdings, Disappeared from List (WS) • Japan, EU Sign Trade Deal To Eliminate Nearly All Tariffs (AP) • Going, Going Gone For Australia’s House Price Boom (R.) • Australia’s Expensive Real Estate Problem Remains A Dirty Little Secret (D.) • Right Now, We Are In A New Cold War – Stephen Cohen (Fox) • Is President Trump A Traitor Because He Wants Peace With
Read More...Ivan Aivazovsky Among the waves 1898 Yeah, just keep ’em coming, right, so that when the last one falls flat on its face people will have already forgotten about it and instead focus on the new one. It’s been the modus operandi of the US MSM ever since Donald Trump emerged as an actual presidential candidate, and they haven’t let go. They realize by now that it divides the nation, it costs them a large chunk of their potential
Read More...René Magritte The human condition 1935 • IMF Warns Trump Trade War Could Cost Global Economy $430 Billion (G.) • Detente Bad, Cold War Good (Murray) • Mueller’s Latest Indictment Contradicts Evidence In The Public Domain (Carter) • Has Mueller Caught the Hackers? (RN/NC) • Putin Rejects UK’s ‘Ungrounded Accusations’ Over Novichok Poisoning (AFP) • Vote Leave Fined For Breaking Electoral Law (BBC) • May Narrowly Heads Off Defeat After Caving In To Brexit Hardliners (G.) • Brexit Is
Read More...René Magritte The human condition 1935 • Trump Cautious Ahead Of Putin Summit (BBC) • Kremlin Takes Trump To Task Over His Gas Pipeline Comments (R.) • Trump Calls European Union A ‘Foe’ – Ahead Of Russia And China (G.) • Xi’s Overly-Ambitious Goals Triggered US-China Trade War (Nikkei) • The Global Reset Will Come Like A Thief In The Night (von Greyerz) • Theresa May’s Grand Plan Has Left Her Stranded In No Woman’s Land (G.) • Theresa
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