Commentators bewail Donald Trump’s failed coup d’etat in Washington, yet such mayhem is what the US has imposed upon the rest of the world for decades. The US has instigated and funded an estimated 100 cases of “regime change” — from Iran in 1953 and Chile in 1973 to its present failed efforts to overthrow the governments of Venezuela and Iran. Another example is British “arse-licking” subservience in the travesty of the Julian Assange extradition case for exposing US war crimes.
Thankfully, reckless American militarist obsessions to impose US hegemony on the planet are at last collapsing. The end of financial dominance of the US dollar will follow. Central banks, including the SA Reserve Bank, are investigating digital currencies as alternatives to the dollar. The price of bitcoin has soared...
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