5/31/19 Mike Swanson on Trump’s Trade War and the Current Bubble

Mike Swanson joins Scott to talk about President Trump's latest tariff announcement against Mexico. Trump and his team may think these trade policies are good for the economy, says Swanson, but they may also just be using the trade war as a way to shift blame elsewhere, should the U.S. have a bad recession during Trump's presidency. Yet another possibility is that Trump knows protectionism is deleterious overall, but believes the effect may be worse on countries like Mexico and China, so that if the world economy takes a hit, America may come out better than others, and still be able to...

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EU Gives Pre-Fab School Rooms to Palestinian Children, Israel Steals and Sells Them

Yumna Patel: A decision by Israeli authorities to auction off prefabricated classrooms that were confiscated from a Palestinian village last year is causing controversy among local and international leaders. A report from the Guardian last Friday said that the Israeli Defense Ministry was planning on holding an auction this coming week to sell the two prefab classrooms, citing an advertisement for the “seized property” in the Israeli Maariv newspaper. The classrooms, along with two tents and three metal sheds, were confiscated by Israeli forces last October from the rural Palestinian village...

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Swedish Court Rules Not to Extradite Assange for Rape Probe

AP: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should not be extradited to Sweden for a revived rape investigation, but should still be questioned in the case while he is imprisoned in Britain, a Swedish court ruled Monday. The ruling by the Uppsala District Court doesn’t mean the preliminary investigation must be abandoned, only that Assange doesn’t face extradition to Sweden any time soon. Eva-Marie Persson, Sweden’s deputy director of public prosecutions, said she has not decided whether to appeal. More.

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Pompeo, Trump Throw Jared Peace Plan Under the Bus

Pompeo trashed it in a maybe-secretly recorded meeting with a Jewish group. Trump then also cast doubt. This goes with what Phil Weiss said the other day. It's dead, not because it was horrible, but because of Netanyahu's failure to form a government, which means it can't be debuted before Israel can hold new elections in September, but then after that will be the U.S. campaign season so they can't do it then either. The whole point was just a PR stunt anyway. It was another Camp David II: give the Palestinians an offer they cannot possibly accept and then pretend they're the unreasonable...

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