Truck Attack: Year and Brexit Vote

truck attack: The year now concluding looks set to keep throwing out unexpected, often brutal surprises right to its end, according to The Japan Times. If 1989 the year the Berlin wall fell was the point at which globalization, liberal democracy and the Western view of modernity was seen to triumph, 2016 might yet be seen as when the wheels came off. The lethal truck attack that killed 12 in Berlin a few hours later, however, could ratchet up the prospect of yet another political shock in Europe. That may be a dramatic overstatement. The next year could see a step back toward moderation. However, the electoral surprises of the Brexit vote and the election of Donald Trump as well as dozens of other examples across the globe are stark reminders of just how much consensus has unraveled. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.