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August 07, 2019 " Information Clearing House " -   When will Americans start to wake up and realize what is happening?  At the end of last week, President Trump announced that the U.S. would be imposing a 10 percent tariff on 300 billion dollars worth of Chinese imports, and that marked a dramatic escalation in our trade war with China.  This move by Trump came as a total shock to Chinese officials, and global financial markets were thrown into a state of turmoil.  Since that announcement, we have been waiting for the other shoe to drop, because we knew that the Chinese would retaliate.  But honestly, very few of the experts expected something like this.  On Monday, China announced that it is going to completely stop buying U.S. agricultural products … China confirmed reports that it was pulling out of U.S. agriculture as a weapon in the ongoing trade war.  A spokesperson for the Chinese Ministry of Commerce said Chinese ...

The ship was seized in the Panama canal according to the Venezuela government.  Venezuela’s Vicepresident Delcy Rodriguez denounced Wednesday that a ship containing 25 thousand tons of soy-made products has been seized in the Panama Canal due to the U.S. blockade while calling on the United Nations to take action against the "serious aggression" that impede Venezuela "right to food". RELATED: Arreaza: US Total Blockade Will Make People Suffer But Won't Break Venezuela "Venezuela denounces before the world that a boat that holds 25 thousand tons of tons of soy, for food production in our country, has been seized in the Panama Canal, due to the criminal blockade imposed by Donald Trump," the vice president said in a tweet.  "Venezuela calls on the UN to stop this serious aggression by DonaldTrump's govt against our country, w...

Gretchen Mullen is an award-winning journalist and the author of the blog Skeptic Review . Michael Isaacson has a PhD in economics. He is the cofounder of the Antifa group, Smash Racism DC . Mullan and Isaacson’s long on-going correspondence on Letter tackles free speech, policing, media coverage, fascist recruiting techniques and Antifa. Halfway through their exchange, the journalist Andy Ngo was attacked by members of Antifa , while covering a rally. This event shifted the focus of the conversation from the nature of fascism to violence as a political tactic. The writers address inflammatory topics in a way that would surely descend quickly into insults in the gladiatorial arena of Twitter. Instead, with tact and care, Mullen prompts Isaacson to outline his political worldview in an attempt to find common ground. While I find some of Isaacson’s views very troubling, he is palpably honest. There is no spin here: this is a man with deep convictions. He also has some helpful insi...