Global Economy

  With the rise of cell phones, the Internet, social media, and other forms of electronic communication, the ability to influence public opinions and the social and political life in a country has grown significantly. Furthermore, the speed with which information is made available through social media is unprecedented. Today’s social media spreads information in […]

Tens of thousands of Austrians protested in Vienna on Saturday to stop the lockdowns and Covid vaccine mandates. According to police, 44,000 people were out on the streets protesting against Austria’s new Covid vaccine mandate. Former Austrian Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg recently announced a nationwide lockdown for the unvaccinated. According to Reuters, only 66% of Austria’s population […]

With his extraordinary new book, The Real Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health, RFK Jr. has made it very clear that he will not allow Orwell’s 1984 totalitarian boot to stamp on his face. His is a very rare moral courage, and he is asking us to join him, […]

In this article I am going to write about something that the vast majority of the U.S. population couldn’t care less about.  Sadly, most Americans simply do not care about Ukraine, Russia’s military preparations for war, or pretty much anything else that is happening on the other side of the globe.  But over in Russia, […]

The Chief Scientist of the World Health Organization has just crushed what little credibility the Biden administration’s COVID response team had by confirming what most parents’ common-sense already told them – that there is no evidence that healthy children need booster doses of COVID-19 vaccine. WHO Chief Scientist Dr. Soumya Swaminathan said Tuesday that “there […]

By Eric Peters. Doctors check the patient’s pulse for any signs of abnormality – as an indication of what might happen to the patient going forward. The pulse of another kind of patient – the weaponized hypochondriac – can be checked by scanning the headlines of the organized news. This latter being a better – more […]

As concerns mount over the future of free and fair elections, a debate has broken out about whether the media must protect Biden to save the republic. This week, President Joe Biden hopped onto Zoom in an effort to shepherd the world along the path to stronger global democracy, during a two-day summit with other […]

Despite dollar strength today (and more worrisome ZeroCOVID actions from China), oil prices continued to rise but news after-hours that an explosion knocked out a major pipeline sparked more upside. https://twitter.com/JavierBlas/status/1483566903176146950?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Little is known about the cause, but the explosion at a pipeline connecting Northern Iraq and the port of Ceyhan in the Mediterranean has […]

The video summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Joe Biden was dominated by the topic of Ukraine, but touched on other important issues dogging the relationship between Washington and Moscow. The two-hour conference call on Tuesday also addressed cybersecurity and ransomware in particular, as well as the ongoing crisis in diplomatic […]

A phone call between the Russian President and his US counterpart revolved around the issue of Ukraine and proposals for security guaranties that are set to top the agenda at upcoming US-Russia talks A 50-minute call between Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden touched on a number of security issues that are expected to be discussed […]

On Saturday Russia’s Foreign Ministry issued a statement declaring it has formally ceased participation in the ‘Treaty on Open Skies’ – a belated move which follows the United States already having withdrawn during the last year of the Trump administration. The Kremlin says that without Washington, there’s little reason to continue Russian participation, despite the […]

As can be gathered from recent materials by Asia Times, CNN, and The National Interest, among others, adversarial media forces are claiming that President Tokayev carried out an anti-Chinese coup with Russian military support. The US-led Western information warfare narrative about the CSTO’s limited peacekeeping mission in Kazakhstan that was requested by its internationally recognized government following an unprecedented explosion of urban terrorism there last […]

The radical left has gradually taken over all major institutions in America over the last 50 years, almost without resistance. How could this happen? They did it by weaponizing language, cleverly changing definitions of well-established words, and counting on people not noticing. In this way, they could introduce extremism hidden behind seemingly innocent banners. Critical Thinking You’ve […]

“Let us look at ourselves, if we have the courage, to see what is happening to us” – Jean-Paul Sartre Sartre’s words should echo in all our minds following the grotesque decision of Britain’s High Court to extradite Julian Assange to the United States where he faces “a living death”. This is his punishment for […]

Against the backdrop of the recent war scare over Ukraine, Moscow has put forward a series of proposals, taking US President Joe Biden up on his promise to listen to Russian concerns about potential further NATO expansion. As a result, the Kremlin has now signed off on two drafts for treaties, one addressing the relationship […]

There are many reasons the resounding victory of Gabriel Boric, a millennial left-wing congressman, in Chile’s presidential elections will echo far beyond the borders of that Andean nation. In times that have seen the alarming rise of authoritarianism worldwide, it is a cause for celebration that Chilean voters rejected not only Boric’s opponent, the ultraconservative […]

Fox news host Tucker Carlson on Monday blasted CNN for what he called a “pedo outbreak,” after not one, but two recent busts involving CNN producers who have been accused of child molestation. “One of them is a man called John Griffin, who was just indicted by a federal grand jury for attempting to “induce […]

Germany’s determination to go green despite an energy crisis in Europe could significantly impact the country’s energy security While power prices in Europe have been soaring and natural gas prices have begun to drop, Germany is refusing to change its energy policy Specifically, it is Germany’s decision to phase out nuclear power and accelerate the […]

Amid the 2020 global covid lockdowns and economic dislocations it has caused, Klaus Schwab, a previously low-profile founder of a Swiss-based business forum, emerged on the world stage calling for what he called a Great Reset of the entire world economy, using the pandemic as driver. He even published a book in July 2020 outlining […]

Coupled with the continued global economic uncertainty surrounding COVID-19, the result is that the EU will continue suffering from high prices and unreliable supplies so long as it refuses to pragmatically reach long-term supply agreements with Russia. President Putin recently expressed exasperation at the counterproductive policies being pushed by the EU amidst its ongoing energy crisis. He agreed […]

A sort-of EU army is in the making, or at least on paper in Brussels. It’s radical in that it would probably not involve Germany so therefore leaving France at the helm. But who’s going to pay for it? At the end of November a draft proposal which sketched out a plan for an EU […]

Every sick child, and probably every adult at some point, asks that existential question: why am I suffering?  No answer is satisfying. To be sick is to feel vulnerable, weak, not in control, not in the game. Life is chugging along outside of your room. You can hear laughter, cars going here and there, people […]

The GUARD Act can either be a game-changer for US-Russian relations in the worst way possible or end up in hindsight as the last hurrah of a desperate ‘deep state’ faction prior to its political neutralization. Some Republication Senators introduced the so-called “Guardian Ukraine’s Autonomy by Reinforcing its Defense” (GUARD) Act last week. This proposed piece of […]

December Consumer Price Index data came out on Wednesday (Jan. 12). Month-on-month, it was again even hotter than expected. Peter called it an inflationary freight train that the Fed’s “field of dreams” monetary policy will not stop. “Transitory” inflation has now been running hot for a full year. The year-on-year CPI was 7%. It was […]

The markets continue to brace for the Fed’s impending inflation fight. But as Peter explained in his podcast, they’re not bracing for the Fed to lose that fight. And the Fed is going to lose that fight. Oil hit 7-year highs last week with the price over $92 a barrel. This is yet another indication that […]

US intelligence believes that China is set to establish its first ever permanent naval installation on the Atlantic Ocean. On Sunday The Wall Street Journal revealed key findings of a series of classified intelligence reports that point to China’s military prepping a presence at a deep water port in Equatorial Guinea, on Africa’s east coast. American officials […]

The US has decided against a major military aid package to Kiev amid renewed tensions surrounding Ukraine, a media report says. The White House had prepared a package of $200 million worth of additional military assistance to Ukraine, but held off on delivering the aid, NBC News reported, citing sources familiar with the matter. According […]

Washington is a criminal regime as its illegal wars and deliberate mass murder demonstrate beyond any doubt. An important report published this week reveals in extensive detail the shocking scale of war crimes committed by the United States in the Middle East. Thousands of civilian deaths, including children, are documented as a result of aerial […]

Russia Is the Last Remaining Christian Country And thus under attack by the forces of Satan At his year-end press conference, Russian President Putin said that “a woman is a woman and a man is a man,” and he expressed his confidence that the religious denominations of the Russian Federation would have the moral fiber […]

Professional sports is a cutthroat business. Succeed and the people running the show reap rich rewards. Fail to meet expectations and you get handed your walking papers. American-style war in the twenty-first century is quite a different matter. Of course, war is not a game. The stakes on the battlefield are infinitely higher than on the playing […]

The operation has two primary objectives and will continue as long as authorities in Kazakhstan deem it necessary, according to the CSTO head The main goal of the peacekeeping mission in Kazakhstan is to help maintain stability and keep strategic facilities well-guarded, the head of a Russian-led security alliance said, as violent unrest continues to […]

The new text of the Pentagon funding bill, reconciled between the US House of Representatives and the Senate, does not include sanctions against the Nord Stream 2 pipeline or a ban on Americans buying Russian debt. Previous drafts of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for 2022 included the measures, but they are missing from […]

Solving the problem of Ukraine can’t be done solely by pressuring Russia, French President Emmanuel Macron said at a press conference ahead of Paris taking over the rotating presidency of the European Council. Addressing the Ukrainian crisis at the press conference on Thursday, Macron said it was important for Europe to be close to Kiev, […]

Another cache of emails obtained via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) reveals Dr. Anthony Fauci and his boss, National Institutes of Health director Francis Collins, colluded to quash dissenting views on the lockdowns October 4, 2020, three medical professors — Martin Kulldorff from Harvard, Sunetra Gupta from Oxford and […]

The editorial board of the Salt Lake Tribune is calling for the government to use the National Guard to make sure people who have not taken the experimental COVID-19 shots be kept at home. The editorial explained the newspaper board’s frustration that the government has not done more to force compliance with various shot recommendations. […]

Continuing the thought of Hines (1992) about the duality and imbalance of the Western world, also noticeable in classical accounting – Gallhofer declares a combination of deeply ecological and feminist analysis to reveal the “androcentric” nature of the oppression exerted on the female world and nature, also involving accounting as a tool of these male, […]

  In the current situation, after the withdrawal of the US military contingent from Afghanistan and the Taliban (the movement is banned in Russia) came to power in this country, Washington is actively making adjustments to its strategy in Central Asia. As can be seen from the changes in the actions of the White House, […]

Last month I happened to read Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s new book The Real Anthony Fauci, which had almost immediately become a #1 Amazon bestseller. I was quite impressed with a great deal of the material presented, which sharply criticized our pharmaceutical industry and its close allies in the public health bureaucracy. But what completely shocked […]

Apart from making a defense deal – which came as a potential snub to the US’ dillydallying on the sale of the F-35s to Abu Dhabi – with France to purchase 80 state-of-the-art Rafael jets, the UAE is cosying up to Iran and Turkey as a means to place itself as a key player in […]

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announced Wednesday that negotiations between Moscow and the US and NATO are expected to begin in January, days following Russia’s submission of a draft ‘security guarantees’ document to each, which is aimed at jumpstarting negotiations toward a permanent de-escalation of tensions. The Kremlin is seeking legally binding guarantees that NATO would halt all […]

On January 6th, 2022, Britain warned Moscow that it was working with Western partners on high-impact sanctions targeting Russia’s financial sector should it invade Ukraine. Of course, Russia could equally turn off the flow of gas to Europe and watch it freeze. That would cripple Germany. The U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and German […]

On January 10, American and Russian officials will meet to discuss Putin’s proposal on mutual security guarantees. Western media and political analysts have cast Putin’s demands that NATO not expand further east to Ukraine and that NATO not establish military bases in former Soviet states nor use them to carry out military activity as bold […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin has spoken for the first time with the new German Chancellor Olaf Scholz amid a crisis in relations between Moscow and Berlin involving the expulsion of diplomats and a delay for Nord Stream 2. Putin congratulated Scholz on his election as long time leader Angela Merkel’s successor, and noted that he’s […]

What crime have Eurasian nations committed such that the U.S./NATO military industrial complex has placed targets on them? “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” -Abraham Lincoln It should be obvious that the world is being sucked into a new Cold War, with old school iron curtains, anti-communist rhetoric and even […]

Even against the backdrop of recent events, the US stubbornly refuses to acknowledge that “American credibility” in the world is falling apart. It is not just a question of political credibility or the collapse of 20 years of American military intervention in Afghanistan. This fall did not begin with Biden or Trump, but with the […]

  Earlier this September media outlets close to Saudi Arabia announced with much fanfare that Yemen’s intelligence services had scored a massive victory in arresting the man they dubbed the ‘Khomeini of Yemen’, and that thanks to such efforts the Houthis had had the wind taken off their sail. “Houthi leader Hassan Ali Al Emad […]

It’s not the sort of thing you encounter regularly.  A member of a government cabinet, responsible for arguably one of the country’s most important portfolios, found both wanting and culpable for their actions after leaving their post.  But this is what former Danish immigration minister Inger Støjberg found when she was convicted for illegally separating […]

China provides winning weaponry to Ethiopian national forces while US de facto sides with the fading Tigray rebels. By Stephen Bryen Ethiopian troops are receiving weaponry support from China. Image: Facebook Just as Ethiopian government forces appear to have turned the tide in the country’s so-called civil war, the Biden administration is pushing for US citizens in Ethiopia to […]

By what right does a private corporation presume to dictate to its users what they may or may not think or post? Gleichschaltung is a German word with a rich history. It stands for the coerced harmonisation of all forms of public expression with the official line. That concept is currently undergoing a renaissance, but […]

By José Niño via The Libertarian Institute & Mises.org. Across the pond, Poland and the European Union find themselves deadlocked over a question about judicial primacy. In early October, Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal sparked controversy when it ruled that EU law does not supersede national legislation. At stake in the EU-Poland legal dispute, was Poland’s decision in 2018 to rein in […]

Fareed Zakaria is a CNN serial plagiarizer. Like another CNN offender, online onanist Jeffrey Toobin, Zakaria is forever forgiven and brought back from literary purgatory, to inflict mediocre, user-friendly, neoliberal/neoconservative statecraft and foreign policy on viewers who’re none the wiser. Zakaria recently broadcast a television special, “China’s Iron Fist.” He called China “The most serious competition the United […]

NONG KHAI, Thailand – You can see China’s inexorable southern thrust along the Mekong River where tall, fanciful, Chinese buildings sprout on the Laos side of this sleepy northern border, sparking hopes and fears about Beijing’s influence and intent in Thailand. The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) chief’s recent visit to Bangkok amid a flurry of […]

The highpoint in the Ukrainian crisis and the big visits by Nuland to Moscow and Austin to Kiev might actually be attempts by Washington to make lemons out of lemonade… The Mainstream Media Eye of Sauron has turned its horrid gaze to the Ukraine. This is always cause for concern because it indicates that this […]

  Despite a growing resurgence of interest in the science and psychology of narcissistic sociopaths and psychopaths it seems as though society today has lost track of how these people can sabotage the core fabric of a civilization or nation. It is very easy to hyper-focus on collectivist ideologies as the source of our problems […]

Sehrish Khan Pakistan was first placed on the grey list by the FATF (Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering) in June, 2018 and was given a plan of action to complete it by October, 2019. Since then, Pakistan continues to be in that list despite complying with the FATF mandates. Pakistan has taken a […]

Blood-red. But that’s a banned fact. (It will be documented in what follows.) So, Baerbock — the most powerful ‘Green’ politician in Europe, and even anywhere, though she had failed at the ballot-box — gets her hate (against Russia), her warmongering, not from the voters, but from the sheer cravings of U.S.-and-allied billionaires, to expand their […]

Journalist Jonathan Cook has a new blog post out on his experience with being throttled into invisibility by Silicon Valley algorithmic suppression that will ring all too familiar for any online content creators who’ve been sufficiently critical of official western narratives over the last few years. “My blog posts once attracted tens of thousands of shares,” Cook […]

Most of us probably thought, or at the very least hoped, that Christmas 2020 was going to be a one-off – a festive period which for many was devoid of the usual social gatherings and traditions we look forward to and treasure. Alas, as Statista’s Martin Armstrong notes, here we are in December 2021 with […]

  When we first met, he already knew the power of terrifying adversaries… In 1999, Vladimir Putin suddenly sprang from bureaucratic obscurity to the office of Prime Minister. When, a few months later, Yeltsin unexpectedly resigned and Putin was voted in as President, governments around the world were taken by surprise yet again. How could […]

There’s no question that the ‘greenification’ of the global economy has returned many industrial countries to coal in 2021. New data from the International Energy Agency (IEA) shows that the amount of electricity generated worldwide from coal is on track to hit a record high. IEA’s Coal 2021 report says global power generation from coal soared […]

  As we come to the end of the second year in Covidia, I reflect on just how much the instigators of the entire scam have managed to reshape reality in an amazingly short timeframe, such that what was considered normal 12 months ago is now considered abnormal, and what was considered abnormal 12 months […]

President Vladimir Putin is holding his now traditional pre-holidays marathon press conference on Thursday. The event comes amid heightened tensions between Russia and Western nations over NATO expansion and Ukraine. 09:44 GMT Putin says it is true that helping big companies go through the pandemic was definitely easier for the government than supporting small and […]

Joe Brandon had an exceptional year, the first of many to come. And you thought 2021 would be a cakewalk after the mess we suffered through in 2020? Barry O’Bama warned us not to underestimate Joe’s ability to f*** things up, but far too many voters ignored his admonition. Our new president came into office […]

  Kazakhstan’s president as well as international news wires are saying that Kazakh security forces have taken control of most of the city streets in Almaty, where days of riots have raged and central government buildings have been torched. Heavy military vehicles and armaments have also been seen deployed across other major cities. This after […]

Federal health agencies haven’t recognized ivermectin as an effective treatment for COVID-19 patients. According to Doctor Leland Stillman, the reason is more political than scientific, because otherwise there would be no basis for lockdowns or vaccine mandates. “If ivermectin were recognized by the public health and academic establishment as the drug that it is, that […]

Washington is struggling to figure out how to regulate the digital asset market. Some in Congress say that banning crypto could help preserve the US dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency. RT’s Max Keiser disagrees. “The US dollar has been losing world reserve status for decades. With or without bitcoin, the dollar is toast,” […]

I have always had a bad attitude toward official secrets regardless of who is keeping them. That prejudice and John Kenneth Galbraith are to blame for an unauthorized withdrawal I made from the World Bank. When I lived in Boston in the late 1970s, I paid $25 to attend a series of lectures by Galbraith […]

Germany is shooting itself and the rest of Europe in the foot by not allowing the Nord Stream 2 to come online as winter is just five days away. European gas futures surged to a record high Thursday after Germany said natural gas flows to Europe via Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline won’t be made before […]

President Joe Biden’s “build back better” spending bill seems to be dead — at least for the time being. But there is still plenty of spending coming down the pike. This raises an important question: how is the Federal Reserve going to simultaneously taper its bond-buying program and monetize all of this debt? On Monday, […]

With relations between Russia and the US-led NATO military bloc at an all-time low, Moscow has handed the West proposals for security guarantees that it hopes will help end the current crisis and start to normalize relations. The draft documents, which were given to US Assistant Secretary of State Karen Donfried on Wednesday and revealed […]

As 1991 turned into 1992, America appeared to have arrived at the apogee of its national power and world prestige. President George H.W. Bush had just sent an army of half a million men to expel, in a 100-hour campaign, Saddam Hussein’s invading army from Kuwait. The world, including Russia, China and Iran, had supported […]

The State Department acknowledged the man arrested in Turkey last month was a US citizen, but denied he was a diplomat. Ankara earlier said the man had tried to sell a fake diplomatic passport to a Syrian national. “We are aware of the detention of a US citizen in Turkey. The individual is not a […]

The State Department ordered families of US Embassy personnel in Ukraine to begin evacuating Monday, Fox News reported. The State Department is also expected to order American civilians in the Ukraine to begin evacuating by commercial flights. 🚨BREAKING: State Department orders families of U.S. embassy personnel in Ukraine to begin evacuating the country as soon […]

Washington hawks float expelling Russia from SWIFT but Moscow’s budding geo-economic alliance with Beijing will keep the money flowing. Screenshot of the recent Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin phone call. Screenshot photo: Mikhail Metzel / Pool / TASS Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin spent an hour and 14 minutes in a video conversation on Wednesday. […]

Paris has said it will ban UK tourists from entering France in an attempt to slow the spread of the more contagious Omicron variant on Covid-19, which is already rampant in Britain. Speaking on Thursday, French government spokesman Gabriel Attal said applying tougher rules on people traveling from the UK would give France more time […]

Chinese President Xi Jinping has thanked his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin for maintaining strong ties between the two nations despite pressure from the US and its partners in Europe, as tensions flare between East and West. Speaking on Wednesday as the two heads of state held talks via video link, Xi remarked that “the world […]

Deliveries of Russian natural gas to Germany through the Yamal-Europe pipeline have been completely halted, data from the country’s transport operator, Gascade, revealed on Tuesday morning. The suspension of the flow comes after a weekend in which the volume being sent through the network dropped significantly, just as demand for energy in both Russia and […]

Tucker Carlson: They Suddenly Care About Borders – If Putin Had A Sense Of Humor, He’d Paint All His Tanks Crossing Ukraine’s Border With “No Person Is Illegal” There’s nothing more tiresome or predictable than a cable news host who makes the show about himself. Narcissism is to TV people what black lung is to […]

By Adam Andrzejewski, CEO/Founder of OpenTheBooks.com; originally posted in Forbes Federal agencies paid out at least $548 million to informants working for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), in recent years, according to government audits. Our auditors at OpenTheBooks.com compiled this […]

As I mentioned in my last article here on Oneworld, there is something big happening in Europe, especially in Germany, which turned out to be a real revolution in the last two weeks, every day people are on the streets demanding freedom and change. Germany has a long history of revolution, like France, they are the […]

“There arrives a moment of truth when the West either accepts our proposals or other ways will be found to safeguard Russia’s security.” Konstantin Gavrilov, head of the Russian delegation at the Vienna negotiations Here’s a simple way to test your understanding of the current US-Russia standoff. All you need to do is answer one very-basic […]

It is happening again.  In December, Joe Biden stood in front of the American people and boldly declared that he had defeated the supply chain crisis, but of course that wasn’t true.  There have been persistent shortages for months on end, and now fear of Omicron is taking things to an entirely new level once […]

By Victor Davis Hanson, op-ed via Townhall.com. In a recent online exchange, YouTuber Casey Neistat posted his fury after his car was broken into and the contents stolen. Los Angeles, he railed, was turning into a “3rd-world s-hole of a city.” The multimillionaire actor Seth Rogen chastised Neistat for his anger. Rogen claimed that a […]

The new British Chief of the Defence Staff Tony Radakin has named specific countries as rivals who are currently creating a situation more “complex and dangerous” for the UK than previously in the last 30 years. “The world is undoubtedly more prosperous today and yet our security outlook is far more complex and dangerous than […]

We need to constantly remind ourselves about the US media. During the Cold War, there was the saying that the difference between theNew York Times and the Soviet Pravda was that Pravda readers knew they were being lied to. Unfortunately, current coverage by the US media about the movement of Russian troops demonstrates the applicability of that saying today. Lies by Omission For […]

Addictive “brain hijacking” methods used by social media giants to keep users on their platforms have harmful effects, particularly on children, according to industry insider Rex Lee, who says the companies may be violating child protection laws and consumer protection laws by employing such techniques. Lee, who has over 35 years of experience in the tech […]

Israel’s military is preparing a possible strike against Iran, the country’s media has reported citing defense and diplomatic sources. Tel Aviv has already notified the US of its plans, facing “no veto” on such preparations. Israel’s Defense Minister Benny Gantz told US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin about preparations for a potential military strike against the […]

By Ray Cardello – I don’t want to bury the lead, so I’ll say it upfront. The Pandemic is over. Covid-19 is dead. The Omicron strain marks the end of a two-year ordeal that every American wants to forget. So why the lock-downs? Why the Mandates? Why the panic? Well, that is the real story […]

Syria is now the eighteenth Arab state to join the ambitious Chinese Belt and Road Initiative. Syria’s entry into China’s Belt and Road Initiative is to support its economic integration into West Asia and fortify its post-conflict recovery. Marking a major boost to Sino-Syrian relations, on 12 January, Syria joined the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), China’s […]

BBy Emel Akan via The Epoch Times. Heads of U.S. corporations don’t dare to criticize the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) even in private settings. They know Big Brother is always watching them. JPMorgan boss Jamie Dimon’s quick apology over a joke he made recently about the country’s communist regime provides a good example of how business leaders fear retribution from Beijing. […]

A port near the city of Latakia, Syria was targeted in an Israeli air raid, Syrian state media reported, with unconfirmed photos of the scene purporting to show a sizable fire erupting just off the Mediterranean coast. Bombs fell on the country’s chief port city, Latakia, in the early hours of Tuesday morning, according to […]

Fentanyl overdoses have become the leading cause of death for Americans aged 18 to 45, according to a new report which shows deaths related to the drug overtaking Covid-19 and suicide. Between 2020 and 2021, 78,795 adults in the age bracket died from the drug, with 2021 deaths rising by nearly 4,500 over the year […]

Two years of the coronavirus pandemic have seriously changed the world around us economically and politically. The pandemic demonstrated that any mass epidemic is as much a generic challenge to society as war, a change in geological epochs, or economic stages. At this challenging time for everybody, all power structures and public institutions have faced […]

A man lunged at French far-right presidential hopeful Eric Zemmour, grabbing him by the neck as the former was about to kick off his first campaign rally. The event was mired by scuffles between his supporters and “anti-racists.” Zemmour was making his way to the stage of his inaugurate campaign event in the Paris suburb […]

“Moscow and Ankara did not fall into the trap set by the organizers of the assassination of the Russian ambassador to the Turkish capital, Andrei Karlov. They failed to destroy the friendship of the two countries,” Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said in an interview with RIA Novosti in connection with the fifth anniversary of the Russian […]

A march against Covid-19 vaccine mandates in Melbourne, Australia has disrupted traffic and seen several thousand demonstrators encircle a police station. Crowds of protesters gathered in the capital city of Victoria state on Saturday to decry the region’s sweeping vaccine mandates, which cover the vast majority of occupations, as well as other Covid-related regulations. The […]

What is behind recent pessimistic appraisals of democracy’s future, from Hillary Clinton, Adam Schiff, Brian Williams and other elite intellectuals, media personalities, and politicians on the Left? Some are warning about its possible erosion in 2024. Others predict democracy’s downturn as early 2022, with scary scenarios of “autocracy” and Trump “coups.” To answer that question, […]

On December 9-10 President Biden will preside over an online “Summit for Democracy,” which claims it will “bring together leaders from government, civil society, and the private sector to set forth an affirmative agenda for democratic renewal and to tackle the greatest threats faced by democracies today through collective action.” What a joke. This is […]

What distinguishes great powers like France is their sense of history and their profound understanding of the temporality of historical experience — or, how their past, present, and future are thought to be connected in their international diplomacy. That is why the AUKUS pact between the US, UK and Australia was a catastrophic mistake. Australia can […]

The soldiers of fortune shared pics and footage of them sporting combat gear at Ukrainian army positions At least half a dozen former US military servicemen have landed in Ukraine amid rapidly escalating tensions in the east of the country. The group, known as Forward Observations, has posted a string of photos and videos on […]

By Alastair Crooke via The Strategic Culture Foundation. A new wave of restrictions, more lockdowns, and – eventually – trillions of dollars in new stimmie cheques may be in prospect… Were you following the news this last week? Vaccine mandates are everywhere: one country, after another, is doubling-down, to try to force, or legally compel, […]

Do you remember the giant Buddhas of Bamiyan? They were carved out of the stone of a cliffside in central Afghanistan more than 1,400 years ago. The Taliban blew them up in 2001. Here is the larger of the two, which was 156 feet tall. The person at its feet gives you an idea of […]

More than eight years ago, in September 2013, Chinese leader Xi Jinping announced the launch of China’s global transport initiative, One Belt One Road (OBOR). The project implies the unification of all major world transport routes into a single system and removing all economic and political barriers to the free circulation of goods through this […]

As China scrambles to build more aircraft carriers and other munitions systems that can deliver its hypersonic missiles (which have become a major point of contention since the missiles are more advanced than any US weapons system, and also cannot be stopped), it appears more countries are having second thoughts about buying American weapons systems, […]

The de facto Russian-Indian hemispheric-wide “balancing” alliance that was agreed to during this week’s Putin-Modi Summit is one of the most significant diplomatic developments this century thus far. It’s truly a global geostrategic game-changer because of the irreplaceable role that it aims to play in the ongoing US-Chinese New Cold War. The Globally Significant Summit […]

NATO expansion will continue whether Russia likes it or not, the US led bloc’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has declared, insisting that despite Moscow’s objections, his organisation does not pose a threat. Speaking at a press conference on Thursday, Stoltenberg addressed the possibility of Ukrainian membership, an outcome that Kiev has pushed for, but Russian […]

This was by far the biggest backbench rebellion in Boris Johnson’s disastrous run as Prime Minister but it will make damn-all difference to anything. Democracy is dead in the United Kingdom. In fact, as in the rest of the world, it actually died long ago. What we saw in parliament during the pretend debate over the government’s […]

In other words, our economy and society have been optimized for failure. If we look at the fragility and instability of essential systems, it’s clear that 2022 will be the year of breakdown. Let’s start by reviewing how systems break down, a process I’ve simplified into the graphic below. 1. Regardless of whether it was planned […]

The US is considering sending troops to Eastern Europe in case the situation over Ukraine escalates, the White House said on Monday, warning that the American military could be mobilized. Speaking at a press briefing, spokeswoman Jen Psaki responded to a journalist asking whether President Joe Biden’s government has an “active plan to deploy American […]

This year on 1 December the European Commission – that is, the de facto government of the EU – launched a project which, if successful, may raise the Union to an entirely new level of significance in the international arena, making it one of the leading players in the modern “Great Game” of world politics. […]

In an interview on Sunday, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) struck what will likely be a fatal blow to Democrats’ Build Back Better Act (BBB), telling Fox News he will vote “no” on the $2 trillion legislation. “If I can’t go home and explain to the people of West Virginia, I can’t vote for it. And I cannot […]

Moscow’s Foreign Ministry has accused the West of nudging Kiev into a full-blown conflict. As many as 10,000 Western military instructors have been sent to Ukraine to train the Eastern European nation’s soldiers and support its fighting in the Donbass, Moscow has claimed, insisting that 4,000 are Americans. Speaking during a briefing on Friday, Maria […]

China’s BRI investments in many of these member states have resolved their prior transportation challenges and thus given them the chance to finally fulfill their full potential if they have the will to do so. The 15th Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) leader’s summit was held in the Turkmen capital of Ashgabat late last month. This […]

By Jonathan Turley. The famous philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal once declared that “the only shame is to have none.” The problem with shame is it assumes a sense of guilt over one’s actions. In the age of rage, there appear fewer and fewer actions that are beyond the pale for politics. Take Adam Schiff […]

Nobody in their right mind would advocate what is called ‘first use’ of nuclear weapons. ‘Nuclear winter’ is defined in Britannica as “the environmental devastation that certain scientists contend would probably result from the hundreds of nuclear explosions in a nuclear war.” One immediately direct effect of such a conflict would be to block out […]

The shorthand label “anti-vax” once had a clear and concise meaning: namely, those who reject the prevailing western scientific orthodoxy that vaccines are a safe and effective means of protecting humans against infectious diseases by training the immune system to combat a pathogen in advance. As vaccines become more prevalent against an increasingly wide range […]

As President Joe Biden’s poll numbers sank this fall, and the presidentially ambitious in his party began to stir, the White House put out the word. Forget all that 2020 campaign chatter about Biden being a “transitional president.” He intends to run and win a second term. Well, perhaps. Yet, skepticism abounds. First, if Biden […]

On 6 January, the US occupation ordered its troops to temporary leave the Al-Tanf military base in southern Syria over fears that it could be targeted by resistance groups. US military bases and convoys across the West Asia region were recently the target of attacks by resistance groups. Local media sources said US troops and […]

By Daniel Lacalle at The Mises Institute. Most emerging and developed market currencies have devalued significantly relative to the United States dollar in 2021 despite the Federal Reserve’s aggressive monetary policy. Furthermore, emerging economies that have benefitted from rising commodity prices have also seen their currencies weaken despite strong exports. As such, inflation in developing economies is much higher […]

Are we prepared to see our loved ones burn alive in a nuclear holocaust in a war with Russia over Ukraine? If not, cut out the macho saber rattling and de-escalate before it’s too late. *   Video: What’s Going On? Athletes Dropping Like Flies. Heart Disease Endemic in Young Athletes. The original source of […]

Tomorrow may be ugly: according to Axios, the White House – or at least those who are feeding lines to the so-called president – are bracing for a “brutal” inflation report. WHITE HOUSE BRACES FOR BRUTAL INFLATION REPORT – AXIOS While it remains to be seen if tomorrow’s report is brutal, the damage has already […]

And so, as 2021 goose-steps toward its fanatical finish, it is time for my traditional year-end wrap-up. It’s “The Year of the Ox” in the Chinese zodiac, but I’m christening it “The Year of the New Normal Fascist.” And what a phenomenally fascist year it has been! I’m not talking amateur fascism. I am talking […]

If Xi’s gambit succeeds, China could become a magnet for global capital. If success is only partial or temporary, China may well struggle with the structural excesses that are piling up not just in China but in the entire global economy. As noted here last month, the Chinese characters that comprise “crisis” are famously–and incorrectly–translated […]

US President Joe Biden has come under fire from some Eastern European members of NATO after proposals to organize a meeting between the American-led bloc and Russia for discussions to ease the tensions between Moscow and Brussels. That’s according to the American news agency Bloomberg, which cited an anonymous diplomat claiming that his unnamed country is […]

If the pandemic policy response had taken the form of mere advice, we would not be in the midst of this social, economic, cultural, political disaster. What caused the wreckage was the application of political force that was baked into the pandemic response this time in a way that has no precedent in human history. […]

The lie that “diversity is strength” may be useful when suppressing the Historic American Nation, but it goes out the window when the Potomac Regime and its client states need to engage in serious geopolitics. The European Union has denounced Belarus’s dumping Third World immigrants on its EU neighbors as “hybrid warfare”—showing that Western politicians are quite […]

A Marine battalion commander who went viral for criticizing the United States’ chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan was discharged just days before Christmas and is now preparing a ‘media blitz’ in response. Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller went viral in August after he published a Facebook video criticizing US military leadership for the way it handled the […]

On December 10, at the annual Israeli-American Council (IAC) National Summit in Miami, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz met with senior US functionaries about a radical solution to Iran’s nuclear program. He warned his American counterpart Lloyd Austin, and US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken that he had ordered the Israel Defense Forces or the […]

The left wants liberty for pregnant women but tells the rest of us to pound salt. On Monday, lame duck Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that “Omicron is here, and it looks very transmissible.” So de Blasio, ignoring scientific evidence that COVID-19 vaccines will not stop the variant from spreading, decreed all private-sector workers, in businesses of all […]

If you have a rose-colored belief in the certainty of the progress of humanity, The Road to Serfdom is an unsettling read. In it, Friedrich Hayek offers guidance in recognizing and undoing our errors that enable tyranny. To undo our mistakes, we first must be aware of the error-filled road we are traveling. You can’t […]

A big peg was thrown in the Saudi-led coalition’s plans in the past several days. Saudi-backed forces carried out a surprise withdrawal from dozens of positions in the southern and eastern outskirts of the western Yemeni city of al-Hudaydah, beginning on November 11th. November 18th dawned with Houthis in partial control of the port in the […]

OneWorld is publishing the full text of the interview that Andrew Korybko recently gave to Addis Media Network’s Meseret Tajebe, some excerpts of which were included in the latter’s video report titled “የጠቅላይ ሚኒስትሩ መዝመታቸው የአሜሪካ ጫና አዲስ ሚዲያ ኔትወርክ ህዳር 23/2014 ዓ.ም”. 1. Considering Prime Minister Abiy joining the front line in the war […]

Germany’s crackdown on RT is a “purely political” move, media consultant Jim Laurie told RT. The case against the network has nothing to do with content, he argued, but everything to do with Germany’s poor relations with Russia. RT launched its round-the-clock German-language TV channel this week to a storm of controversy in the West. […]

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is not sticking with the planned oil production increase in November under the OPEC+ deal, a Reuters survey has found. According to the survey published on Tuesday, the group’s crude oil production rose by 220,000 barrels per day, 13% short of the boost that OPEC should be […]

In the event you are unaware that insanity now encompasses the US Supreme Court, the Court ruled in 2020 with only three dissents that a person’s gender is self-declared and unrelated to biological fact. The consequences of the Supreme Court’s elevation of fiction over fact are now showing themselves. A female middle school child declared […]

President Vladimir Putin has stated that the idea of Ukraine joining NATO represents a “red line” for Russia, as he warned that the US-led military alliance would deploy missiles which could reach Moscow in five minutes. His US counterpart Joe Biden, meanwhile, has quipped that he doesn’t accept anyone’s red lines. Tulsi Gabbard has warned […]

An anti-missile system developed by Almaz-Antey, a Russian defense contractor, for foreign buyers is specialized hardware that would be of particular interest to Saudi Arabia, an RT military expert says. The Saudi leadership “would be well advised” to take notice of the new system, named Abakan, suggested Mikhail Khodarenok, a retired colonel who served in […]

Russia submitted two documents last week to the United States as an offer of long-term security guarantees – a draft US-Russia treaty and an agreement with NATO. They are written in a language that borders on ultimatum. That’s according to Moscow’s leading foreign policy expert, Fyodor Lukyanov, who is considered close to the Kremlin’s worldview […]

President Joe Biden said Tuesday unvaccinated Americans were not able to celebrate the holidays safely. “I know some Americans are wondering if you can safely celebrate the holidays with family and friends,” Biden said during a speech at the White House. “The answer is, yes you can, if you and those who celebrate with you […]

In the fall of 2021, the center-left pro-government South Korean newspaper Hankyore published an article titled Why South Korea Should Fear China’s Renewed Interest in the Korean War on a Chinese blockbuster film, The Battle of Chosin Reservoir, about the actions of Chinese volunteers in the winter of 1950. Directed by cult director Chen Kaige and […]

By As’ad AbuKhalil via Consortium News. The launch of the Aljazeera television network 25 years ago this month in 1996 was a monumental event in the contemporary history of Arab media. One can easily compare it to the rise of Voice of the Arabs, the Egyptian radio broadcast founded by Gamal Abdel Nasser in Egypt in 1953. Voice of […]

Why It’s Time to Make Deep Cuts at the Pentagon Where are you going to get the money?  That question haunts congressional proposals to help the poor, the unhoused, and those struggling to pay the mortgage or rent or medical bills, among so many other critical domestic matters.  And yet — big surprise! — there’s […]

A union of South Korean parent groups has rejected the looming ban of unvaccinated students from libraries and public study rooms. The new restriction was adopted in response to the surge in Covid-19 infections. The National Federation of Parents’ Organizations, an umbrella group for South Korean parent groups, held a protest outside the Korea Disease […]

With the drowning deaths of 27 migrants crossing the Channel from France to England, illegal migration from the Third World is front and center anew in European politics. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has proposed that France take back to its shores all migrants who cross the Channel illegally and come ashore in Britain. In the […]

In 2014, when Russian President Vladimir Putin responded to a U.S.-backed coup that ousted a pro-Russian regime in Kyiv by occupying Crimea, President Barack Obama did nothing. When Putin aided secessionists in the Donbass in seizing Luhansk and Donetsk, once again, Obama did nothing. Why did we not come to the military assistance of Ukraine? […]

Russia could be forced to deploy intermediate-range nuclear missiles across Europe in response to what it sees as NATO’s plans to increase the presence of atomic weapons on the continent, a top Moscow diplomat has claimed. In an interview with RIA Novosti on Monday, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov insisted that if Western nations refuse […]

Halliburton CEO and president Jeff Miller made waves this week by predicting that the world is due for a period of oil scarcity in comments at the World Petroleum Congress in Houston, Texas. “I think that for the first time in a long time, we will see a buyer looking for a barrel of oil, […]

As the evolution of the armed expansion of the United States and its allies before our eyes testifies, the attempts of “valiant NATO troops” to gain a foothold with their weapons in foreign countries have a similar unfortunate end. Eventually, each and everyone of them has to say goodbye to their hopes of neocolonial conquest […]

The western elites have finally pushed China and Russia too far. A long awaited independent trade network and alternative currencies will certainly go forward as Washington pushes NATO deeper into Eurasia. Presidents Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin have now agree to accelerate attempts to create a system that cannot be influenced by ‘third parties.’ As […]

Ivana Suerra “I am so convinced that I am right that if you had the power to kill me twice, and twice I could be reborn, I would live again to do exactly what I have done so far” Bartolomeo Vanzetti – 1927 A few days ago – on November 9th – Carlo Sibilia, Undersecretary […]

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) – Europe´s natural gas crisis isn’t letting up. Reserves are low. Prices are high. Utility customers are getting hit with higher bills. Major Russian supplier Gazprom isn’t selling gas like it used to. It all raises the question: How exactly is Europe, which imports most of its energy, going to make it […]

It is exasperating that self-evident, legitimate security concerns enumerated by Russia have been repeatedly ignored or rebuffed by NATO. NATO secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg fulminated at the alliance’s summit in Riga this week, declaring that Russia is not permitted to have a “sphere of influence”. However, the risible hypocrisy and double-think in Stoltenberg’s logic are that […]

By Ron Ridenour via The Strategic Culture Foundation. Danish military intelligence has been systematically spying upon its own citizens for United States economic profit and political interests. Two former or current secret surveillance officers for Denmark’s Military Intelligence Service (Forsvars Efterretningstjeneste FE) and two current or former Police Secret Service (Politiets Efterretningstjeneste PET) were arrested for […]

  Remember when Anthony Fauci and other government paid medical “professionals” said that American’s needed to mask up and stay home for two weeks to “flatten the curve” on the covid pandemic? Remember when they came back two weeks later and said they needed another couple of weeks? Remember how they backed off of the […]

It’s time everyone realised they are chasing an impossible goal that will be pushed back over the horizon, forever. Yesterday, in a statement to Parliament on the UK’s planned “vaccine passport”, Health Secretary Sajid Javid admitted the NHS Pass would require three shots for you to be considered “fully vaccinated”. “Once all adults have had a reasonable […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin held extensive talks with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, earlier this week, with the two world leaders agreeing on plans to establish a new shared international financial framework. China and Russia have been gradually moving towards such an arrangement since the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 revealed the risks of excessive […]

Lately, the more often you read British media material or speeches of politicians of the United Kingdom, the clearer becomes the thought: are they stoned or high on cocaine, commonly called “belted”? Judge for yourself: in January, British journalist Helen Rumbelow of The Times wrote a review of The Great (TV series) about the earlier […]

The escalation of violence by the Kiev regime with U.S. and NATO support means that there is a directive from Washington for widening the war. The United States is planning to redouble its weapons supply to Ukraine. What is shaping up is an intensified proxy war against Russia in which the Russophobic Kiev regime acts […]

A man grieves for his family members during a mass funeral for the 10 civilians that were killed in a U.S. drone airstrike, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 30, 2021. (Photo: Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times/via Getty Images) The Pentagon has finally published its first Airpower Summary since President Biden took office nearly a year ago. These monthly reports […]

In a “frank and businesslike” conversation Russian President Vladimir Putin asked his US counterpart Joe Biden for guarantees that NATO won’t expand further east or deploy offensive weapons to countries like Ukraine. Moscow is “seriously interested” in obtaining “reliable and firm legal guarantees” excluding NATO’s further expansion eastward and deployment of “offensive strike weapons systems […]

On 26 November, the British government officially banned Hamas “in its entirety” as an “Islamist terror group,” with both its members and “those who invite support” for the movement facing jail terms of up to 14 years. The military wing of Hamas, the Al-Qassam Brigades, has been proscribed by London since 2001. As such, it’s […]

Europe’s energy crisis got even worse on Tuesday as a shortage of natural gas, nuclear outages, declining wind power output, and cold weather boosted prices. The gas price at the Dutch TTF hub, the benchmark gas price for Europe, soared 10% to a new record high of 165 euros per megawatt-hour after gas entering Germany at the […]

Christmas has been cancelled in the Netherlands, with the Dutch prime minister telling the public they cannot cuddle their grandchildren. Prime Minister Mark Rutte has told the Dutch public that there would be “no cuddling the grandkids” this Christmas after the government effectively cancelled Christmas in The Netherlands. Lockdown restrictions in the country were extended […]

  France’s President Emmanuel Macron, left, and Italy’s Prime Minister Mario Draghi sign the Franco-Italian Quirinal Treaty at the Quirinale presidential palace in Rome, November 26, 2021 At the end of the Second World War, Winston Churchill devised a system to ensure that Western Europe would not fall into the hands of the Soviet Union […]

President Putin should prioritize ensuring that four areas of strategic convergence are placed on the agenda of the proposed meeting between the Russian, Indian, and Chinese heads of state. Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov disclosed last Wednesday that his country’s leader discussed the possibility of an upcoming heads of state summit between himself, his Chinese counterpart, and […]

US drug abuse “experts” have described China’s mass production of fentanyl as a deliberate chemical weapons attack on the United States. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported in November that drug overdoses have reached a record high during Joe Biden’s presidency, driven largely by fentanyl. Chinese officials and state media responded angrily on Thursday to U.S. sanctions […]

The Russian Health Ministry has registered a new antiviral aerosol drug dubbed ‘Mir-19’. According to its developers, the drug is capable of suppressing all known variants of Covid-19, including Omicron. The Russian name of the drug can be translated as ‘Peace-19.’ It is said to be directly affecting the virus by suppressing its core RNA […]

By Jason Ditz via AntiWar.com. Recent reports on the deal to withdraw US combat forces from Iraq suggest that the process is just 15 days away. The hope is that they would be completed before the December 31 deadline, as Iraq’s military assures. That’s what the Iraqis want, but informed by the last 17+ years of US occupation, most […]

Over the last year or so, fervent anti-vaxxers have become a major presence on our alt-media website, a situation I found very disagreeable. Many of our longtime columnists—Mike Whitney, Paul Craig Roberts, Linh Dinh, Gilad Atzmon, and Israel Shamir—had also moved strongly into that ideological camp, with Whitney’s long articles drawing enormous readership from across […]

A new global conflict is already breaking out in cyberspace, a top Russian defense official has claimed, adding that Moscow hopes to work with the US to reduce the risks stemming from back-and-forth digital skirmishing. Andrey Krutskikh, a Foreign Ministry official charged with overseeing the country’s international cooperation on information security, spoke on Thursday at an […]

Where there is danger, the healing forces are growing, too. Friedrich Schiller’s ideas about the development of better notions, purer principles and customs more noble, promise healing from the infirmities of our own times. It was noble laureate for literature Thomas Mann who expressed this view in 1955, when he commemorated the life of the greatest […]

Russia has ruled out the possibility of slapping fines on people who refuse vaccination against Covid-19, despite regions across the country passing directives requiring elderly and vulnerable citizens to sign up for jabs. Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov was asked whether those who refused to comply would be […]

F.A. Hayek wrote several books and articles that are justly famous. At the top of this list is his 1944 surprise best-seller, The Road to Serfdom, followed next by his 1960 volume, The Constitution of Liberty. Each of these books is well known to popular audiences. As for his articles, his 1945 paper “The Use […]

Leonid Savin In the era of modernity, attempts were made to scientifically and clearly define the phenomenon of power and its various manifestations. Max Weber argued that “power is the likelihood that one actor within social relations will be able to achieve his goal despite opposition” 1… In his book Economy and Society, Weber identifies […]

The Chinese Foreign Ministry has accused the US of using the idea of “democracy” as a “weapon of mass destruction” to impose its will upon the world, after Beijing was left uninvited from Washington’s ‘Summit for Democracy’. Leaders and dignitaries from 100 countries and international organizations took part in the Biden administration’s Summit for Democracy […]

Wall Street investment bank Goldman Sachs predicts the price of oil could hit $100 per barrel next year and that demand may reach a new record high in 2022 and 2023. Damien Courvalin, the bank’s head of energy research, explained that soaring inflation in the US and elsewhere would eventually affect oil services and lead […]

The Machiavellian quote (sic) that “if you’re going to come at the king, you best not miss,” may be about to bite Mark Zuckerberg and his army of fact-checking mercenaries. While Zuckerberg may feel omnipotent atop his opaque algo-world but the so-called ‘fact-checkers’ – so expert at shutting down any narrative-conflicting-information (on behalf of, and […]

Things are starting to get really weird.  What I am about to share with you sounds very strange, but it is all true.  Before I get into it, let me ask you a question.  If you could have a vaccine passport permanently embedded into your hand, would you do it?  Amazingly, some people in Sweden […]

The so-called “Summit for Democracy” should first agree on a definition of what democracy means. Whereas etymologically we know that the definition of democracy means rule by the people, instinctively we feel that people power must be more than a slogan, that it must be concretized by genuine public participation in the conduct of public […]

The UK High Court has granted the US government’s appeal over the refusal to extradite WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange, opening the door for his eventual trial on American soil on espionage charges. In January, a district court denied the US extradition request, citing the vulnerable mental state of the publisher and the possibility that he […]

The New York Times published an article yesterday that denied that U.S. officials promised Russia at the end of the Cold War that NATO would not expand membership to Warsaw Pact countries.  Unfortunately, the article misses the point. The point is that NATO should have been abolished when the Cold War ended, which would, needless to say, have meant […]

By Egon von Greyerz via GoldSwitzerland.com, “So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?” -Ayn Rand Money used to be a stable medium of exchange and a store of value but that was in the days when there were sound monetary […]

At least two people were killed and some 16 injured in Niger, when a French military convoy was met by protesters after crossing from Burkina Faso, where the column had been blocked for a whole week. The French military convoy, redeploying from Ivory Coast to Mali, ran into fresh protests on Saturday. Shortly after crossing […]

As though a self-identified nuclear alliance which reserves the right to the first use of nuclear weapons, which has 70 members and partners (120 in all if the collective partnership with the African Union is factored in) on six continents, including eight members and as many partners which have land and sea borders with Russia, and that […]

On Thursday 10 December, Nicaragua officially broke off diplomatic relations with Taiwan and established relations with China. The official statement said that “the government of the People’s Republic of China is the sole legal representative of the whole of China, and Taiwan is an integral part of the territory of China. As of today, the […]

Russia does not want to extend its gas transit contract with Ukraine after 2024 when the current deal ends, the head of the Kiev-based state-run oil and gas company Naftogaz claimed on Monday. Speaking to Reuters, Yury Vitrenko said that there is “not even a hint” of negotiations on a new contract. “We are discussing […]

In recent days, the media and political establishment in many countries have been discussing the emergence of Omicron coronavirus variant and the strengthening of the fight against its spread. According to the World Health Organization, the new strain of coronavirus has many mutations, some of which are designated as a Variant of Concern (VOC). In […]

In a call with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky, US President Joe Biden reportedly discussed his recent talks with Russia’s Vladimir Putin, the Donbass crisis, NATO membership for Ukraine, and internal reforms in Kiev. “I just finished a 1.5 hour-long talk with [Biden],” Zelensky tweeted on Thursday night, adding that the US leader “acquainted me with […]

On December 9 and 10 the American President will host a virtual meeting titled a “Democracy Summit” with participation from many countries with all their variety of government and political systems, and even the participation of the Chinese renegade province of Taiwan, justly angering China, perhaps the world’s largest socialist democracy, which is pointedly not […]

The associations between members of the Joe Biden administration and Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-linked individuals and entities are incredibly disturbing. Personnel is policy. By dint of such ties, and past dutiful service to administrations that pursued the very policies of engagement and accommodation that enabled Communist China’s rise, we can surmise that the president, and the architects […]

There is a “dangerously high risk” that the United States could slide into civil war within the next 10 years due to the “exceptional amount of polarization” currently seen in the country, says billionaire Ray Dalio. In his new book, which was published on November 30, the founder of the world’s largest hedge-fund firm wrote […]

Public confidence in democratic governments has fallen amid the pandemic In a study published this week, the Edelman Trust Barometer, a communications group that has polled thousands of people over two decades, said its most recent survey showed a concerning lack of trust in democratically elected governments. The group, which interviewed over 36,000 respondents in […]

Russia and Turkey are often mistakenly cast as allies. Their active rivalry in some of Eurasia’s biggest zones of conflict is only likely to grow as Ankara seeks a seat at the Big Table. Under Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyib Erdogan, foreign policymaking in both countries has become a highly personalized […]

How on earth did the EU get into such a strategic mess? The frank answer is by being unreflective, Atlanticist ‘bots’, Alastair Crooke writes. “The United States will be hosting the online Summit for Democracy on 9 and 10th December, 2021, empowering itself to define who is to attend the event and who is not, […]

Former Manchester United and England defender Gary Neville has urged his social media followers to “go for it” after calling for a protest against the “Covid passports” and under-fire government of Boris Johnson later this month. Popular TV pundit Neville is a frequent critic of Johnson and the Conservative government, and recently unloaded on the […]