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U.S. President Donald Trump’s declaration of trade war with just about everybody is really just a case of Trump negotiating a Chapter 11-style bankruptcy for the United States.  A kinder way of putting it would be to say that the U.S. is revolting against an international system that has looted its people on behalf of globalist oligarchs.  Yet another way of putting it is to say the world is negotiating a replacement for the petro-dollar system.  In any case, we can now expect a lot more shouting and bluster, and possibly even the odd nuke or two, as these negotiations proceed. […]

As it is so fond of reminding its viewers ad infinitum, CNN is a global network. So this column on its ‘dip into sensationalim’ from Mexico’s El Universal is perhaps fitting. Columnist J. Jaime Hernandez writes that rather than being a counterweight… […]