John Collier Street Corner, Monday after Pearl Harbor, San Francisco 1941 • Trump Team Denies Report Of Meeting With Putin In Iceland (Fox) • Trump is Hand Grenade Thrown by American Working Class Against the System (Sp.) • Americans Overwhelmingly Support Bernie Sanders’ Economic Policies (Salon) • Tulsi Gabbard Has a Bill to Stop the US Arming ISIS (RI) • We Are Getting Worried About Paul Krugman (ZH) • RealVision’s 15 “Killer Charts” For Q1 2017 (ZH) • Aid In
Read More...
Arnold Genthe 17th century Iglesia el Carmen, Antigua, Guatemala 1915 • Investors Are Bracing For A Massive Stock-Market Selloff (MW) • Trump Suggests He May Drop Russia Sanctions If Moscow ‘Is Helpful’ (G.) • Tucker Carlson and Glenn Greenwald Discuss Deep State War Vs. Trump (ZPN) • As VW Settles, Probes Open Into Fiat, Renault Emissions Test Cheating (BBG) • Senior VW Managers Warned Not To Travel To US (R.) • Tulsi (Midweek) • Generate Your Own Personalized Insulting Trump
Read More...
Rene Burri Alexandria Egypt 1962 2016 brought a lot of changes, or rather, brought them to light. In reality, the world has been changing for many years, but many prominent actors benefitted from the changes remaining hidden. Simply because their wealth and power and worldviews are better served that way. It’s entirely unclear whether we will ever get a chance to see to what extent the efforts to hide developments have been successful, or even been perpetrated at all, because
Read More...
Edgar Degas Dancers in Blue 1895 • Assange Agrees To Extradition If US Releases Chelsea Manning (AFP) • China Posts Worst Export Fall Since 2009 As Fears Of US Trade War Loom (R.) • Fiat Chrysler Shares Plunge 13% After EPA Cheat Software Accusation (CNBC) • Wages For Lowest-Paid UK Men Have Been Stagnant For Two Decades (Ind.) • Abolish Central Banks And Slay The Zombies (Planet Ponzi) • WHO Warns Of Outbreak Of Virulent New ‘Economic Reality’ Virus (Steve
Read More...
Matisse Icarus 1944 • Trump Slams BuzzFeed As “Failing Pile Of Garbage”, CNN As “Fake News” (ZH) • Scorching Press Conference Shows Trump Won’t Have An Easy Presidency (GT) • Tillerson Says China Can’t Have Access to South China Sea Isles (BBG) • The Deep State Goes to War with President-Elect (Greenwald) • America Versus the Deep State (Jim Kunstler) • 160 Million Americans Can’t Afford To Treat A Broken Arm (BI) • Suddenly, Home Sale Agreements Are Falling Apart
Read More...
Dorothea Lange Hoe culture in the South. Poor white, North Carolina 1936 • Trump Said to Be Told of Unverified Russian Intelligence (BBG) • BuzzFeed Publishes Unsubstantiated Report On Trump (G.) • 4Chan Claims To Have Fabricated Anti-Trump Report As A Hoax (ZH) • Michael Cohen: ‘It Is Fake News Meant to Malign Mr. Trump’ (Atlantic) • Tillerson To Face Questions On Russian Ties At Confirmation Hearing (R.) • Meryl Streep, Obama Prosecuted Whistleblowers & Bombed Weddings (Ryan) • Banks
Read More...
Jack Delano Truck service station on U.S. 1, NY Avenue, Washington, DC 1940 • Pity the Sad Legacy of Barack Obama (Cornel West) • State Dep.: Presenting Evidence Of Russian Hacking Would Be Irresponsible (ZH) • Breakaway Senate Republicans Push to Delay Obamacare Repeal (BBG) • If Trump Tries To Lower Drug Prices, God Help Him: Top Medicare Official (MW) • Democrats Seek 9/11-Style Commission To Investigate Russian Hacking (G.) • Jeremy Corbyn: UK Can Be Better Off Out Of
Read More...
AFP Photo/Johannes EISELE Giant Trump Chicken • Locating Fascism on the Home Map (Ford) • ‘The Bull Market Is In Its Final Inning’ (CNBC) • Chinese Warns Trump: End One China Policy And China Will Take Revenge (R.) • It’s Gonna Be Huge: China Factory Hatches Giant Trump Chickens (AFP) • How Meaningful Will China “Opening Up” Markets To Foreigners Be? (BBG) • China Tightens Rules After Anti-Corruption Staff Caught Up In Graft (R.) • China’s Pyrrhic Growth Victory Spurs
Read More...
• Trump: Only ‘Fools’, ‘Stupid People’, See Good Ties With Russia as Bad (BBG) • At Home and Abroad, Obama’s Trail of Disasters (BGlobe) • Russians Ridicule US Charge That Kremlin Meddled to Help Trump (NYT) • How RT Became The Star Of CIA, FBI & NSA’s Anticlimactic ‘Big Reveal’ (McD) • No One Can Afford To Stop The New Consumer Credit Crisis (G.) • China’s Foreign Exchange Reserves Fall To Lowest Since February 2011 (R.) • The Growing Threat
Read More...
Arthur Rothstein Highway marker in Polk County, Florida 1937 • Here Is The US Intel Report Accusing Putin Of Helping Trump Win (ZH) • A Case Study in the Creation of False News (Paul Craig Roberts) • Obama Set For Pardon Frenzy As He Leaves Office (AFP) • Worst. Recovery. Ever. (ZH) • How Many Bombs Did the United States Drop in 2016? (CFR) • Le Pen Says Brexit Isn’t a Disaster and France Should Be Next (BBG) • Economics
Read More...