Global Economy

Alasdair Macleod via GoldMoney.com. Following America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, her focus has switched to the Pacific with the establishment of a joint Australian and UK naval partnership. The founder of modern geopolitical theory, Halford Mackinder, had something to say about this in his last paper, written for the Council on Foreign Relations in 1943. Mackinder anticipated […]

By Michael Every and Matteo Iagatti of Rabobank It is impossible to ignore the current shipping crisis and its impact on global supply chains  A common view is that this is all the result of Covid-19. Yet while Covid has played a key role, it is only part of a far larger interconnected set of […]

As relations between major geopolitical players steadily deteriorate the Balkans are acquiring increasing importance for NATO powers for exactly the same reasons that they were essential to Nazi Germany in the early forties As elections approach, the political atmosphere in the Republika Srpska, Russia’s tiny Balkan ally, is heating up. For at least the last […]

Authored by J. Peder Zane via RealClearPolitics.com, The Democratic Party and its apparatchiks in the media keep asking the American people variations on a single question: What are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes? From the Trump/Russia collusion fantasy and concocted claims that Hunter Biden’s laptop was “Russian disinformation,” to ongoing efforts […]

While speaking to the press this weekend, Joe Biden complained about vulgar signs insulting politicians, and critics have responded by amplifying the trend. In a rambling interview in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, Biden at one point made his way from speaking about the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks to mean signs about politicians and few […]

With voting having closed in Russia’s parliamentary elections, it appears that Russia’s ruling party may have lost a sizable share of its votes compared to 2016, potentially ending up with fewer than half of all ballots cast. According to the exit polls and those votes counted so far, the Communist Party (KPRF) is set to […]

By Daniel Lacalle. This week, Ned Davis Research published a note titled “turns out, growth looks like it was transitory – inflation is more sticky”. There are many factors that show us that consumers and salaries are being eaten away by inflation, leading to an abrupt halt in the recovery. Autos and new home sales […]

Five rockets have reportedly been launched towards the Kabul airport, serving as the focal point of the US evacuation from Afghanistan. The missiles were shot down by an air defense system, media report, citing US officials. Several rockets rained down on the area near the Kabul airport on Monday morning, Reuters reported, citing a US […]

While the world is still very much in the transition phase with 5G, research is already well underway for the next iteration of the technology standard for mobile broadband networks – 6G. Statista’s Martin Armstrong notes that, according to a whitepaper by Samsung it takes an average of ten years for a new standard to become […]

It’s not only France that is stunned by the Anglo-American skullduggery. The other European NATO allies were also left in the dark, Finian Cunningham writes. The Gallic gall erupting between France and the United States, Britain and Australia has overshadowed the new military alliance that U.S. President Joe Biden announced last week for the Indo-Pacific […]

France will rethink its concept of alliances and partnerships after the US negotiated a nuclear submarine deal with the UK and Australia without so much as telling Paris, said the French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian. “At issue here isn’t so much the breach of a weapons contract – even if this harms France – […]

By Jordan SCHACHTEL New Zealand, the last of the dedicated “COVID Zero” nations on earth, has completed its transformation into a full-blown tyrannical regime, and shockingly, it has come with the consent of the vast majority of Kiwis. Trötter @Trtter6 @janhoglund Meanwhile, A poll conducted by Kantar and published by The New Zealand Herald shows […]

Up to 3,200 Catholic priests have sexually abused children in France in recent history, the head of an independent inquiry has said, days before publishing a report on the scope of crimes against minors inside the church. The independent commission led by former vice president of the Council of State Jean-Marc Sauve was set up […]

Matthew Ehret via TheCradle.co. Turkey may be where east meets west, but it can no longer afford to straddle two opposing geoeconomic agendas vying to define West and Central Asia’s development. Ankara must choose, and soon… Two destinies are pulling on West Asia from two opposing visions of the future. As devotees of the rules-based […]

American drone pilots have leaked video of “punitive” and “nihilistic” strikes in Afghanistan in 2019 that led to the killing of civilians, including at least one child, as the US looked for an exit strategy in the two-decade war. The footage, published on Tuesday as part of an investigation by military news outlet Connecting Vets, […]

David William Pear says the era in which the British Empire set out to destroy Germany in 1902 — leading the way to World War I — is frighteningly similar to that of today’s U.S. hostility to the rising of China and Russia. In the wake of the new U.S.-U.K.-Australia defense pact, driven by the decline of […]

The two defining moments of the historic 20th anniversary Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Dushanbe, Tajikistan had to come from the keynote speeches of – who else – the leaders of the Russia-China strategic partnership. Xi Jinping: “Today we will launch procedures to admit Iran as a full member of the SCO.” Vladimir Putin: […]

Oil prices are expected to hit $100 a barrel as early as this winter due to soaring prices for natural gas, along with an approaching cold-weather season that could even trigger the next economic crisis, Bank of America says. The possibility of soaring oil prices and high inflationary pressure could become the trigger for a […]

The US failed in Afghanistan because it miscalculated its own abilities and wanted to install its social model in a foreign land, the head of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), Sergey Naryshkin, has told RT. “What happened in Afghanistan with the rushed withdrawal and fleeing of the puppet government is a consequence of America’s destructive […]

Taliban “Carrying Out Door-To-Door Manhunt”: Intel Group By Li Hai of Epoch Times The Taliban terrorist group is carrying out a highly organized door-to-door manhunt for people on their wanted list, according to the head of a nonprofit providing intelligence to the United Nations. “They have lists of individuals and even within the very first […]

Hollywood star Johnny Depp has railed against “cancel culture,” warning that the phenomenon has gone so far that anyone can see their life destroyed if an accuser is willing to turn the mob against them. “It’s so far out of hand now that I can promise you that no one is safe — not one […]

The Russian government has signed an agreement of cooperation with several companies in the Far East to construct a new multipurpose cargo port in Vladivostok, state development firm VEB.RF has announced. The deal was struck on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) in Vladivostok. “VEB.RF, the Government of the Primorsky region, the Ministry […]

Former US President Donald Trump dismissed as “fake news” a new book saying General Mark Milley secretly warned China of a possible attack, but he said such a betrayal would have merited a treason charge against the officer. “If the story of dumba** General Mark Milley, the same failed leader who engineered the worst withdrawal […]

Construction works on the Pakistan Stream gas pipeline project are expected to start in the near future after several rounds of consultations, Pakistani Ambassador to Russia Shafqat Ali Khan said in an interview with RIA Novosti. “After many years of negotiations, [Moscow and Islamabad] have finally signed an agreement and since then there has been […]

Donald Trump didn’t hold back in Monday comments reacting to former President George W. Bush’s speech marking the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Bush lamented the “malign force” of a nation divided and seemed to put events of the tail-end of the Trump presidency center stage. Bush spoke at the United Airlines Flight 93 […]

Via PentoPort.com, It is not very surprising to me that nearly every talking head on Wall Street is convinced inflation has now become entrenched as a permanent feature in the U.S. economy. This is because most mainstream economists have no clue what is the progenitor of inflation. They have been inculcated to believe inflation is […]

With Iran’s full accession to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) complete, Tehran now needs to wrangle big trade deals with its new regional friends to offset US sanctions against its beleaguered economy. By Maysam BIZAER “Today, we will launch procedures to admit Iran as a full member of the SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organization),” Chinese President […]

Justus R, Hope via TheDesertReview.com. India’s conquest of COVID-19 is concealed no longer. The secret is out. And perhaps, at long last, that much-anticipated WHO Final Report detailing the most successful Pandemic campaign of any place on earth will be published. On May 7, 2021, during the peak of India’s Delta Surge, The World Health […]

Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Beneath the illusory stability of rising GDP, the extremes of debt, leverage, stimulus and speculative frenzy required to keep the ‘phantom wealth bubble’ from imploding are all rising parabolically.   Imagine being at a party celebrating the vast wealth generated in the last ten months in stocks, […]

By Philip Cunliffe, senior lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent. His most recent books include Cosmopolitan Dystopia: International Intervention and the Failure of the West, as published originally in Spiked. The fall of Kabul to Taliban forces on 15 August marks the end of a long cycle of international politics. […]

Russia should expand its list of extremist ideologies to include movements such as radical feminism and LGBT in order to protect children from damaging material, a senior official at the country’s media regulator has suggested. Speaking at a meeting of the Parents’ Chamber, attended by over 200 delegates from parliament, Andrey Tsyganov called on the […]

Moscow and Beijing will work together to secure the region around Afghanistan, after Russian president Vladimir Putin and Chinese premier Xi Jinping reiterated their commitment to Central Asia in a telephone call on Wednesday. In a statement published by the Kremlin shortly after the two leaders spoke, officials disclosed that “the problem of Afghanistan was […]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband must not be having the success with his daytrades that he once was. Otherwise, we can’t think of any other reason for Pelosi to come out last Friday and state in London that capitalism “has not served” the U.S. economy as well as it should. “In America, capitalism is our […]

The upcoming British and French defense ministers’ meeting has reportedly been called off, as Paris continues to fume over Washington’s nuclear-submarine deal with Australia, while belittling London as the “third wheel.”  The UK defence secretary, Ben Wallace, and his French counterpart, Florence Parly, were set to address the Franco-British Council think tank conference in London […]

Lithuania’s National Cyber Security Centre (NKSC) released a new report Thursday urging consumers to throw away their Chinese smartphones due to cybersecurity and censorship risks. NKSC, which is part of the Defense Ministry, found that Chinese smartphone brand Xiaomi had built-in censorship tools to detect and censor phrases such as “Free Tibet,” “Long live Taiwan independence,” “People’s daily […]

The German state of Hesse has become the first to allow businesses to deny the unvaccinated access even to basic necessities, setting a troubling precedent as its neighbors wrestle with protests against vaccination mandates. Hessian supermarkets have been granted permission to deny the unvaccinated the right to buy food and other essentials, the state chancellery […]

By Isabel van Brugen via The Epoch Times. Wikipedia has in recent years drifted away from neutrality and slid into “leftist propaganda,” according to its co-founder Larry Sanger. Sanger, who parted ways with Wikipedia almost two decades ago over the project’s direction, told EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders” that the online encyclopedia, which turned 20 years old […]

Many care workers in the UK who were told to get vaccinated against Covid-19 or lose their jobs have left the industry en masse for better paid positions at companies such as Amazon, creating massive staffing shortages. According to the Guardian, which spoke to several care home industry officials, “three-quarters of care home operators are […]

Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, tried to downplay the 2020 Black Lives Matter riots in an effort to prevent Donald Trump from invoking the Insurrection Act, arguing that they were mainly centered around the use of “spray paint.” That’s according to the new book, […]

Week three of the college football season in the United States saw the continuation of what now seems a game-going tradition. Once more, some fans in attendance at stadiums chanted “f*ck Joe Biden” at the president. The refrain first was reported at the start of the season at games played at the homes of the […]

Europe’s power crunch is roiling energy markets Wednesday as Dutch and U.K. natural gas futures jumped 60% in just two days, hitting record highs along with soaring power prices. Front-month Dutch natgas futures rose an astonishing 40% today to a record 162.125 euros per megawatt-hour after a 20% move higher on Tuesday. U.K. natgas futures […]

“He’s A Pathological Liar”: Cornell Chemistry Professor Dave Collum Unloads On Dr. Fauci And Covid Hysteria Friend of Zero Hedge and Cornell Professor Dave Collum appeared on the Quoth the Raven podcast this week and offered his unfiltered (and often profane) 2 hour long take not only on the development of the Delta variant hysteria, […]

Russia and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have adopted a roadmap for boosting mutual trade and investment cooperation for the next five years, Russia’s Ministry of Economic Development announced. “The pandemic has demonstrated that we can overcome the crisis only by means of scaling up cooperation in three key areas – trade and […]

In line with the recommendations made by the scientist-based CDC advisory panel (ACIP) earlier on Thursday, the CDC endorsed COVID vaccine booster shots for Americans 65 and older, residents of nursing homes, and adults aged 18 to 64 with underlying health conditions. But that didn’t go far enough apparently for the far more politically-controlled CDC itself as late […]

Haiti’s top prosecutor was fired and replaced soon after urging charges for the country’s prime minister for the murder of President Jovenel Moise, though a dismissal letter claimed the move was over an “administrative error.” Chief public prosecutor Bed-Ford Claude was terminated on Tuesday, with a new replacement sworn in just hours after Claude asked […]

“No Change” Joe: “That Patience Has Been Rewarded for More Than 240 Years”. Who can ever forget the brilliant oratory of Joe “Nothing Would Fundamentally Change” Biden two nights after Election Day last November? “Democracy is sometimes messy,” Joe “No Empathy, Give Me a Break” Biden said two months before Donald Trump’s wild-eyed marauders would descend on the US […]

The agency’s officials have reportedly been worried about losing too many informants recruited overseas, dozens of them having been killed or captured. The cable was sent to every CIA station and base around the world last week, according to the report from The New York Times citing officials who had seen the letter. Officials had […]

The complex is expected to be finished by May 2023, on the eve of the general election, and will host members of the Turkish Ministry of National Defence. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced the construction of the “Crescent Star” – a giant compound that will become the new headquarters for the Ministry of […]

How obvious does it have to be before even insouciant Americans realize that there is something seriously wrong about the Covid vaccination program?   One would think we are already past that point even for the mentally-challenged. Consider the many things we now know that make it clear that the vaccination program is a horrendous mistake. […]

From Tehran to Beirut, the Axis of Resistance has opened and secured a land route for their transport of military, commercial and consumer supplies. Neither US sanctions nor Israeli air raids can alter this course today. Many wars have been waged in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine to defeat the “Axis of Resistance” or to […]

As resistance to President Biden’s booster-shot push grows, it appears the administration is – just as we expected – upping the pressure on federal workers who haven’t yet been vaccinated – while asking private businesses to do the same. According to CNN, the Biden Admin will no longer allow workers to get tested weekly instead […]

Via SchiffGold.com, While most American investors have faith that the Federal Reserve can and will successfully tighten monetary policy to fight inflation — or have simply bought into the “transitory” inflation narrative — Germans are loading up on gold as a hedge against growing inflationary pressures.   Through the first half of the year, gold coin and gold bar demand in Germany hit […]

America’s biggest media outlets refused to cover the news this week that the US funded bat coronavirus research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology years before the Covid-19 pandemic – a fact Dr. Anthony Fauci has denied. More than 900 documents were obtained by The Intercept, following a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the […]

The Ethiopian Foreign Ministry has given seven United Nations (UN) representatives in the country just 72 hours to leave, declaring them “persona non grata” and accusing them of “meddling” in Addis Ababa’s internal affairs. In a statement posted on Twitter on Thursday, the ministry accused seven members of the UN’s representation in Ethiopia of “meddling […]

If you’re from El Salvador living and working elsewhere in the world, Bitcoin wallet adoption in the country fixes an age-old problem that clunky money-transfer companies like Western Union used to have to solve: getting money back home. According to CNBC, about 70% of the Salvadoran population receives remittance payments that could now be transferred using […]

Beijing has delivered a “blow to the US’ mentality of strategic superiority,” according to a Global Times editorial, which neither confirmed nor denied claims that China tested a hypersonic missile, catching US spies by surprise. The news of a hypersonic missile test was unveiled by the Financial Times in a bombshell report, citing five unnamed […]

Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com. On Thursday, a senior Syrian Kurdish official was in Washington and met with US officials who told her that the US would continue its military presence in eastern Syria. “Recently, everybody thought the United States would withdraw but they were clearly saying they would stay as long as the Islamic State presence […]

After 1,517,211 injuries and 9,027 deaths following the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines recorded in the U.S. Government’s Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), the FDA today gave full approval to the Pfizer COVID-19 injections for people over the age of 16. Besides the U.S. VAERS, the British Yellow Card reporting system for injuries and deaths following COVID-19 vaccines reports 501 deaths and […]

Authored by Irina Slav via OilPrice.com, When construction began on the second Nord Stream pipeline that was going to double the volume of natural gas ships to Europe – most of it to Germany – the European Union wasted no time in voicing its opposition to more Russian gas. Led by Ukraine, which fears the […]

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Authored by Pat Buchanan. When President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed Congress on Dec. 8, 1941, the day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the country was united behind him. The America First Committee, the largest anti-war movement in our history, which had the backing of President Herbert Hoover and future Presidents John F. Kennedy […]

The already-wealthy and their minions are unprepared for the Smart Crowd opting out. Clueless economists are wringing their hands about the labor shortage without looking at the underlying causes, one of which is painfully obvious: the American economy now only works for the top 10%; the American Dream of turning labor into capitalis now reserved […]

The “Sustaining Deterrence in Europe” amendment inserted with bipartisan support into the Defense Authorization Act 2022, represents the very worst of congressional intervention in foreign and security policy. The key passage of the amendment, which was introduced by Rep Mike Rogers (R-Ala.), ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee, reads as follows: “The [House Armed Services] […]

In a time when institutions are increasingly shifting away from fiat currency and looking toward cryptos, it is worth recalling that at least when it comes to central banks, there is no digital gold. There is just gold. To be sure, in a time of unprecedented economic and social turmoil, central bankers’ appetite for gold […]

Nord Stream 2 has gone from pipe dream to pipeline. Despite controversy and opposition, the 1,224 kilometer, $11-billion underwater gas link has been completed, doubling Russia’s gas export capacity through the Baltic Sea. Now, the team behind the construction, having welded the final segment into place, say gas could start flowing as early as October. […]

Authored by Per Bylund via The Mises Institute, The new kid on the economics block is something called modern monetary theory. The name is new, but the “theory” is not. Proponents adamantly claim that it is both new and a theory of economics. To make it appear this way, they dress the ideas in unusual-sounding jargon and use rhetorical tricks. […]

Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us. There are a lot of assumptions and misconceptions when it comes to the notion of a second civil war within the US. What I see most often is the argument that the political left has “already won” the war without firing a shot and that a rebellion would be crushed under […]

Authored by Finian Cunningham via The Strategic Culture Foundation, For U.S. imperial strategists, the notorious Afghan graveyard of empires is not an entirely deadbeat loss. As President Biden noted gleefully and cryptically this week, “China has real problems… it will be interesting to see what happens.” The United States may have suffered a shameful, historic […]

UK Health Minister Sajid Javid announced on Sunday that the government would not be introducing Covid-19 passports after a review on the matter and that it was not anticipating any more lockdowns. During an appearance on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show, Javid told host Nick Robinson that Brits would “get Christmas” this year – unlike […]

The US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 should be called what it was – an imperialist war launched under the guise of a fight against terrorism, award-winning journalist and filmmaker John Pilger has told RT. Pilger joined RT’s Going Underground program to reflect on the lessons that should be learned from two decades of occupation […]

The Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project, finally nearing completion, is crucial not only for the big players involved, but also for the small town of Lubmin where the pipe emerges from the Baltic Sea in Germany, its mayor told RT. Lubmin is a tiny town of just over 2,000 residents, laying on Germany’s northeastern […]

Felicity Bradstock via OilPrice.com. Despite promises of improved infrastructure and better disaster preparedness, governments and energy giants are failing to provide backup energy provisions to areas hit hard by extreme weather conditions again and again. As these events are becoming more frequent and stronger, how will the energy industry prepare for the future of energy provision? […]

Turkey will continue to receive deliveries of the Russian S-400 anti-aircraft missile system, and there is nothing the US can do about it, despite Washington constantly threatening sanctions and other possible consequences. That’s according to Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, who told the NTV channel on Tuesday that the purchase had already been completed. “The […]

Americans finally recognize the military lies that pervaded the success claims of the 20-year war in Afghanistan.  But democracy promotion was an even bigger sham. Afghanistan was Exhibit A for the triumphal crusade to spread freedom and democracy. After the U.S. invasion in 2001, the U.S. government spent more than $600 million to support elections […]

All remaining anti-coronavirus rules, including an obligatory Covid pass, were officially cancelled in Denmark on Friday, making it the first state in the EU to wholly get back to pre-pandemic daily life. Starting from midnight on September 10, the deadly virus is no longer classified as a “socially critical disease” by the Danish government, meaning […]

Serbia has been moving tanks and other military hardware towards the Kosovo border, videos circulating online suggest. Tensions between the country and the breakaway region soared after Kosovo banned Serbian license plates. A large number of Serbian main battle tanks were spotted heading towards the Kosovo border on Saturday. Videos circulating online show multiple pieces […]

By Josiah Lippincott via AmericanMind.org. America’s woke generals and the Military-Industrial Complex must be purged to save the nation… Revelations from a new book, Peril, by Bob Woodward and Rob Costa, reveal just how deep the spiritual rot in the military goes. In the days after the January 6 protest, General Mark Milley, Chairman of the Joint […]

Authored by Ryan McMaken via The Mises Institute, Perhaps more than anything else, the rationale given for the necessity of the state – and the necessity of supporting the regime at any given time – is that it “keeps us safe.” This permeates thinking about government institutions at all levels, from “thin blue line” sloganeering at […]

Late this week the US and Greece signed a defense pact aimed squarely at repelling Turkish expansion in the Mediterranean, after a year of soaring tensions over Turkey’s oil and gas exploration inside Greek and Cypriot waters. The deal was signed in Washington by Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias, […]

The close military cooperation between Russia and China is cause for great concern, and the authorities in Washington must seriously reconsider its current strategy of “containment” towards the two large Eurasian superpowers. That’s according to Admiral Charles Richard, the commander of United States Strategic Command, who spoke in an online forum discussion with the Hudson […]

With former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva leading President Jair Bolsonaro in the polls for the next Brazilian election (set for next October), the embattled populist leader has called for his supporters to hold rallies similar to the Trump rallies that helped the American president secure his hist initial electoral upset over Hillary Clinton. […]

A shadowy plan to capture more than two dozen Russian citizens and extradite them to face trial for alleged war crimes was hatched jointly by Ukrainian and American special services, Moscow’s top security agency has concluded. In a report published on Tuesday, three of Kiev’s former intelligence officers allegedly told CNN that an elaborate sting […]

The United States has shown since its beginning that it is not a credible country. For the United States, every group, organization, country, and even political figure is supported only as long as it benefits the USA, and when it loses its effectiveness, it will be replaced very quickly, and all US obligations to that […]

Authored by Pat Buchanan. As President Lyndon Johnson and the best and brightest of the 1960s were broken on the wheel of Vietnam, the Biden presidency may well be broken on the wheel of the Taliban’s triumph in Afghanistan. Less than a week into the chaotic U.S. withdrawal at Hamid Karzai International Airport, a CBS […]

Special counsel John Durham has charged a partner at Perkins Coie, a law firm representing the Democrats and Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign, for allegedly lying to the FBI in the Trump-Russia probe. Michael Sussmann was charged with making a false statement to the FBI, falsely telling counsel James A. Baker that he was not acting […]

One phrase describes the Fed’s pillaging of the nation to benefit the few at the expense of the many: abuse of power. To confess that the fate of the entire global economy now rests on the mumblings of a fossilized Politburo fanatically devoted to making the rich richer is to 1) state the obvious and […]

Authored by Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog, “Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. Let us […]

Today is Constitution Day. We’re supposed to be celebrating the day the Constitution was signed and presented to the states for ratification. But, as Jonathan Turley details below, it’s pretty hard to celebrate when the Constitution is under such unprecedented attack… Not long after the ratification of our Constitution, the great Justice Joseph Story marveled […]

Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com. Let’s discuss Germany, NATO, defense spending, the EU, and a return to historical allies highlighted by Aukus. America’s New Strategy Excellent video podcast by George Friedman on Aukus, NATO, the EU, and America’s New Strategy. For background on the following video, please see The Aukus Submarine Crisis Take II, Triumph of the […]

Journalist Glenn Greenwald teared into several prominent Democrats after they praised ex-President George W. Bush’s speech about the “dangers to our country” rising “at home” – 20 years after the beginning of his ‘War on Terror’. In his speech on the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks – which sparked Bush’s invasion of Afghanistan, […]

Here’s How Afghanistan’s Economy Changed During 20 Years Of War Amateur and professional bean counters are starting to take stock of what, exactly has changed during 20 years of war between the US and the Taliban. And while as China and Russia prepare to strengthen economic ties with the Taliban, the FT has published a […]

By Gregory ELICH. As work nears completion in the first phase of an ambitious project in Montenegro to develop a highway that will connect the Adriatic port of Bar with Serbia, Western officials and mainstream media are ramping up attacks on the endeavor. Western commentators are united in condemnation, ranging from fear-mongering over China’s role to […]

Authored by Bill Blain via MorningPorridge.com, “I’m dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly, it’s the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they’re going to do something incredibly stupid..”   The increasing use of the word “treasure” to define wealth, money […]

BY PATRICK COCKBURN Orson Welles as Harry Lime in The Third Man. (Studio/Canal). Describing the atmosphere in 10 Downing Street last summer, Sir Jeremy Farrar, the infectious disease expert who heads the Wellcome Trust, speaks of a government “vulnerable to what looked like racketeering”. When he sat down at a meeting chaired by Boris Johnson, he was struck by the […]

Just two days ago, when Ethereum suddenly broke away from the gravitational pull of its bitcoin correlation, we wrote that “Ethereum Blasts Higher, Decoupling From Bitcoin, As Attention Turns To Unprecedented NFT Frenzy“, and pointing to the accelerating institutional adoption and surging one-month forward swap, we predicted much more upside for the second largest cryptocurrency […]

Gazprom Neft will switch from US dollars to yuan and rubles to pay for refueling aircraft flying to or from China, the company’s CEO Alexander Dyukov told reporters on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum. “We are starting in September, and by the end of the year we can transfer virtually all payments for […]

The Taliban has seized two more provincial capitals in Afghanistan, taking control of eight major cities in just four days amid a relentless wave of attacks as US President Joe Biden urges Afghans to fight for their country. After a series of attacks on Tuesday, the militant group captured Farah city in the southwest – […]

New Delhi is planning to assist in developing Russia’s Northern Sea Route (NSR) and turning it into an international trade artery, according to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “India will help Russia in the development of the Northern Sea Route and opening this route for international trade the same way as Russia helps India to […]

Australia struggles to keep its current six diesel-powered submarines operational; it now wants to build eight nuclear-powered submarines, despite having neither the trained manpower nor the nuclear infrastructure necessary. This is a story of geopolitically driven military procurement gone mad. Australia is an island nation whose very survival is dependent upon its ability to access […]

Francis Fukuyama recently wrote a fairly objective and balanced article about the end of American hegemony. Fukuyama in the early 90s was clearly in a hurry to declare the worldwide victory of liberalism and the end of history. He later corrected his position. In some personal conversations with him, I became convinced that he understands […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved the launch of four new investment projects in the Far East after watching presentations about them on the sidelines of the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) in Vladivostok. “Let’s start!” the head of state said, adding that the number of projects aimed at developing the region has been steadily growing […]

Authored by Joe Lauria via Consortium News. When Western media discusses terrorism against the West, such as 9/11, the motive is almost always left out, even when the terrorists state they are avenging longstanding Western violence in the Muslim world, reports Joe Lauria. After a Russian commercial airliner was downed over Egypt’s Sinai in October […]

Jason Miller, spokesman for US ex-President Donald Trump before launching social media platform Gettr, was detained for several hours in Brazil in what appears to be a struggle between President Jair Bolsonaro and his critics. Miller and several other Americans were in Brazil for the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) that took place over the […]

New documents show that the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) still owes $137 million dollars to Genel Energy PLC, an Anglo-Turkish company that began exploiting Kurdistan’s oil fields just prior to the commencement of the US occupation of Iraq. The KRG owes the company this amount despite already paying Genel Energy $33.7 million dollars in June this year. How international […]

Hungary’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto has called for limiting Brussels’ dominance over nations on the continent. Speaking to Swiss media, he accused the EU of “extortion” and questioned its authority. “The EU is strong when its member states are sovereign and strong themselves, and that means – no further powers to […]

Julie Kelly via American Greatness. The incurable incompetence, corruption, and moral rot of the Federal Bureau of Investigation was on full display last week. Within a 24-hour period, some of America’s toughest female athletes recounted to a Senate committee their painful tales of how the FBI ignored evidence that team doctor Larry Nassar was a […]

This week, Twitter was keen to share the news about its new arrangement with The Associated Press and Reuters “to expand our efforts to identify and elevate credible information” on its platform.  The company reiterates its commitment that people using its service are able to “easily find reliable information” hoping to “expand the scale and increase the […]

  This isn’t the first time billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller has warned that US markets are caught up in a “raging mania” fostered by the trillions of dollars in government spending. Druck, an acolyte of George Soros known for his macro investing prowess (even as he complains that contemporary Fed-backstopped markets “make no sense”) is […]

Today we will talk about the new version of the National Security Doctrine, adopted by the decree of the President of the Russian Federation on July 2, 2021. Instead of uttering general words or digging into details, let’s point out the main thing. Let’s start with the positive. The renewed national security doctrine is much […]

A US Marine who was relieved of duty over a viral video blasting the poorly managed exit from Afghanistan has quit the service, saying he’s lost all trust in American leaders while demanding accountability for their failures. The controversial soldier, Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Scheller, took to his Facebook account on Tuesday to announce his plans […]

The Taliban unveiled its new government on Tuesday in the presence of invited foreign delegations from Russia, China, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan and Qatar – which gives a strong indicator of how Afghanistan’s new foreign policy will be aligned. “Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund, the little-known head of the Taliban’s leadership council, was named as acting prime minister, […]

Intellectuals and writers of modem Russia with great enthusiasm take care of the search for adequate socio-political explanations of the former gigantic empire, which after the collapse of the Soviet Union was lost and disoriented. At the same time, the universal vacuum was affecting Russia’s integral environment due to the fall of the Marxist-Leninist development […]

France, Italy Swept By Mass Protests Against COVID Health Pass France saw its largest protests yet against the country’s health pass, as thousands swept across major Italian town demanding an end to the infamous green pass. On Saturday, Protesters took to the streets in France and Italy in opposition to COVID rules that they say […]

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has slapped Facebook with an antitrust suit, arguing the firm has become a “monopoly” that buys up rival companies when it can’t compete “fairly” in order to retain market dominance. The FTC filed its complaint on Thursday, accusing Facebook of underhanded and monopolistic business practices while calling to break […]

The new book “Peril” written by well-known Washington Post journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa has for the first time revealed details of a confrontational follow-up exchange between Presidents Biden and Putin over Biden’s prior “killer” remarks. The controversy stemmed from a Biden interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos within the opening months of his presidency last spring. EXCLUSIVE: […]

It’s a peculiarity of the human psyche that it’s remarkably easy to be swept up in bubble mania and remarkably difficult to be swept up in the same way by the bubble’s inevitable collapse. Allow me to summarize the dominant zeitgeist in America at this juncture of history: Grab yourself a big gooey hunk of happiness […]

The US and its allies have withdrawn from Afghanistan but now the whole international community has to deal with the possible consequences from the ensuing fallout, Russian President Vladimir Putin warned on Thursday afternoon. Speaking to a video conference of the BRICS economic international group, Putin said the crisis in Afghanistan results from an attempt […]

Jim Quinn via The Burning Platform blog. “Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. Let us not become […]

The CCP’s push to reshape China’s economy and society has moved from a crackdown on its biggest technology companies, to imposing the most restrictive rules in the world surrounding minors access to video games, while reshaping industries from the private education space to ride-sharing to – its latest focus – entertainment. After Beijing purged one […]

At least one private charter flight set to evacuate hundreds of Afghans from the Kabul airport was forced to take off with just 50 of its 345 seats filled, amid reports that US and Taliban forces prevented them from boarding. The flight – one of three intended to carry 1,000 Afghans to Uganda chartered by […]

Authored by Soeren Kern via The Gatestone Institute, The Taliban conquest of Afghanistan is poised to trigger an unprecedented wave of Afghan migration to Europe, which is bracing for the arrival of potentially hundreds of thousands — possibly even millions — of refugees and migrants from the war-torn country. German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, expressing […]

Authored by Simon Black via SovereignMan.com, If you’ve been wondering what the next phase of this public health insanity is going to look like, your wait is over. Introducing… the MARBURG VIRUS. Earlier this week, as police fanned out across the streets of Paris going table-to-table in cafes to check people’s Covid papers, and as […]

The chaos in Afghanistan created by the appalling organisation of withdrawing from the country by the Biden administration has already prompted globalists to begin fresh calls for a new US military occupation of the country, with Obama’s former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta declaring that US forces will have to return. In an interview on CNN, […]

Abu Hani and his family live only two kilometers from the Israeli settlement outpost of Avigayil in the occupied South Hebron Hills. But unlike Avigayil’s residents, who are connected to Israel’s national water grid, Abu Hani and his children are barred from doing so. Not only do they not receive a drop from Mekorot, Israel’s […]

On Wednesday, State Department spokesman Ned Price spoke at length about “human rights” concerns the US had in relation to Russia, Belarus, Cuba and other countries, and singled out Moscow over its detention of opposition vlogger Alexei Navalny and the “violent crackdown” against protesters demanding his release. The Russian Embassy in the US has taken […]

If TikTok wasn’t explicitly designed to corrupt America’s youth by flooding their developing brains with videos about sex and drugs, then we could certainly be forgiven for suspecting that it was. According to an in-depth analysis of TikTok’s personalized “for you page” (where users encoeeunter most of the content they consume on the app), WSJ […]

Authored by Mark Jeftovic via BombThrower.com, A phrase which has been coming up more often lately on the podcast circuit is the ‘Network State’ and the idea that our current default governance structure, the nation state, is in the process of being obsoleted by them. In many ways network states will be more oppressive than nation states. But what […]

Former President George W. Bush has used his speech on the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks to call out “violent extremists at home.” While visiting Shanksville, Pennsylvania on Saturday, Bush, who was president at the time of the deadly terrorist attacks, compared the foreign terrorists behind 9/11 to the supposed domestic extremists in […]

By Pat Buchanan. In Shanksville, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, former President George W. Bush’s theme was national unity — and how it has been lost over these past 20 years. “In the weeks and months following the 9/11 attacks,” said Bush, “I was proud to lead an amazing, resilient, united people. When it comes to the […]

Donald Trump has released a statement blasting the Biden administration, this time over the crisis in Texas where thousands of migrants are being held under the Del Rio International Bridge. In a Sunday statement, the former president blasted the “mainstream media” for “paying almost no attention” to the situation in Del Rio and predicted the […]

The US has lost the war in Afghanistan not when it decided to withdraw as the Taliban regained power, but years ago, when it bombed Afghan homes in the name of fighting terror, ex-president Hamid Karzai told RT’s Oksana Boyko. The invasion of the US-led coalition in Afghanistan back in 2001, after the tragedy of […]

Large crowds of demonstrators gathered around sites in New York City, as well as upstate, demanding the government repeals mandatory vaccination orders for certain categories of workers and a ‘passport’ system implemented in NYC. The protesters were seen marching in Manhattan, Staten Island and elsewhere in the city on Monday afternoon and carrying into the […]

The European Union database of suspected drug reaction reports is EudraVigilance, and they are now reporting 26,041 fatalities, and 2,448,362 injuries, following COVID-19 injections. A Health Impact News subscriber from Europe reminded us that this database maintained at EudraVigilance is only for countries in Europe who are part of the European Union (EU), which comprises 27 countries. The total […]

The retired American General Stanley McChrystal, who previously oversaw US-NATO military operations in Afghanistan, said a decade ago that Washington had a “frighteningly simplistic view” of Afghanistan. McChrystal admitted, “We didn’t know enough and we still don’t know enough. Most of us, me included, had a very superficial understanding of the situation and history”. It […]

Media outlets are being shut down. Political opponents are being locked up. A semi-frozen war continues to simmer in the East. And yet, foreign talking heads are still applauding Ukraine’s turn to the West as a great achievement. In a recent article, ‘Ukraine’s Dangerous Success’, veteran Moscow critic Edward Lucas argued that “Ukraine’s almost unimaginable […]

The United Nations human rights boss has spoken of credible reports of serious rights abuses by the Taliban, including “summary executions” of civilians as well as those who served in the now-defunct Afghan security forces. Speaking on Tuesday, UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet urged the Human Rights Council, a Geneva-based forum, to closely monitor […]

The US withdrawal from Afghanistan, was vehemently opposed by architects of the War on Terror strategy, who had used it as a ploy to occupy and destroy in their long- term objective for hegemonic domination of Eurasia and to ‘contain’ China. However, the tragic Kabul attack by ISIS-K which killed 175 Afghans and 13 US […]

Chinese President Xi Jinping urged members of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) to deepen cooperation on the Belt and Road Initiative promoted by Beijing. “We need to redouble our efforts to advance mutually-beneficial cooperation, including collaboration between the Belt and Road Initiative and the Eurasian Economic Union,” the Chinese leader said on Friday in a […]

By Glenn Diesen, Professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway and an editor at the Russia in Global Affairs journal. Follow him on Twitter @glenn_diesen The centre of the world is moving. While once it sat somewhere within the Atlantic, balanced between Europe and the US, it is now moving east. With Asia on the rise, Russia […]

Authored by Daniel Teng via The Epoch Times, August saw the highest number of Australians apply to leave the country over the past year. According to figures from the Australian Border Force (ABF), 37,979 applications were received from individuals hoping to leave the country, with 14,900 of those looking to be overseas for three months […]

Kosovo police have reportedly used tear gas against Serbs protesting the enforcement of new license plate rules at two checkpoints leading to inner Serbia. US and EU calls for all sides to reduce tensions had no effect. Hundreds of local Serbs have gathered at Jarinje and Brnjak, two ‘border’ crossings between the renegade province – […]

The problem with the Russian elections is that the idea of ​​representative democracy and especially party representative democracy is completely alien to Russian political culture and tradition. At the same time, Zemskaya democracy, the election of village elders, and before the schism and parish priests, has a long history in Russia. At the most critical […]

Japan’s popular vaccine minister, Taro Kono, has announced his bid to replace Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga in the ruling party’s upcoming leadership election, making him the third candidate to enter the race. On Friday, Kono held a press conference and officially announced his candidacy for leadership of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in the September […]

By Glenn Greenwald via greenwald.substack.com. From the start of the pandemic, political elites have been repeatedly caught exempting themselves from the restrictive rules they impose on the lives of those over whom they rule. Governors, mayors, ministers and Speakers of the House have been filmed violating their own COVID protocols in order to dine with […]

Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News, CNN’s resident fear monger medical “expert” Dr. Leana Wen declared Tuesday that children returning to school need to be forced to wear industrial grade face masks and should be subjected to weekly COVID tests until they are fully vaccinated.   “This is now one of the most dangerous […]

The Czech Republic’s interior minister has confirmed that the country will not halt deportations of asylum seekers back to Afghanistan, unlike several other European nations, amid the Taliban’s rapid gains in the war-torn country. Speaking to local media on Friday, Interior Minister Jan Hamacek said the Czech Republic will not be adopting a similar “blanket” […]

Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told a forum of leaders in Slovenia that “migration must be stopped” in order to preserve Europe’s cultural heritage. Speaking during a roundtable discussion at the International Strategy Forum (BSF) in Bled, Orbán asserted that mass migration from Muslim countries was not […]

The EU’s foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell has said there are many lessons to be learned over Afghanistan and the Taliban’s takeover, adding that, as the militant group has won the war, the bloc will have to engage with it. Any cooperation by Brussels with the new government of Afghanistan “will be conditioned on a […]

Necessity is a magnet, and perhaps as what’s essential in our lives changes, social capital will start sprouting, even in the most unlikely places. “Desert” has become a favored metaphor: food deserts describe neighborhoods with few places to buy fresh fruits and vegetables, democracy deserts describe political regions rigged by gerrymandering, and so on. Many […]

The board of governors of the New Development Bank (NDB) has approved the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Uruguay and Bangladesh as new members after a round of successful negotiations launched in late 2020. “We are delighted to welcome the UAE, Uruguay and Bangladesh to the NDB family. New members will have in NDB a platform […]

By Michael Every of Rabobank. In a week in which it became clear (to some) in markets that China is serious about the Marxism that decries capitalism as limitless but feckless, reckless, and all-hands-on-deck-less, the US appears determined to show Marxists their criticism is bang on the Das Kapital. Indeed, while China prepares to girds […]

Hundreds of Afghan military personnel ended up in Uzbekistan over the weekend, after they fled the Taliban offensive, the Uzbek authorities said on Monday, adding that they had to “forcibly” land dozens of rogue aircraft. Uzbekistan had to force-land as many as 46 Afghan military aircraft on Saturday and Sunday, the nation’s Prosecutor General’s Office […]

Authored by Jonathan Turley, While Johnny Mandel sang “suicide is painless,” it is apparently also ethical. Duquesne University Psychology professor Derek Hook is under fire this week after arguing in class that white people may find that the ethical option for the dismantling of white culture is suicide. As will likely come as little surprise to many […]

Buried deep in the ongoing mess that is the Afghanistan evacuation, another ugly problem is rearing its head: older Afghan men have reportedly been admitted to intake centers with young girls they have claimed as their “brides”. The problem has surfaced at intake centers in the United Arab Emirates and in Wisconsin, a new report from […]

By News Desk The BBC’s Executive Complaints Unit (ECU) has admitted there were “serious flaws” in a Radio 4 documentary by journalist Chloe Hadjimatheou on the alleged 2018 chemical attack in the Syrian city of Douma. On 2 September, the UK national broadcaster issued a statement which read: “The ECU found that, although they were […]

Paris has recalled its ambassadors from Washington and Canberra for consultations, citing the “unacceptable behavior” of the US, UK and Australia in striking a nuclear submarine deal that scuttled a French shipbuilding contract. “At the request of the President of the Republic [Emmanuel Macron], I decided to immediately recall to Paris for consultations our two […]

Syria accused Israel Thursday of carrying out an airstrike in a central province, the second time in as many days, saying the aerial attack caused material damage. An unidentified Syrian military official quoted by the state news agency said air defenses shot down most of the missiles in the attack that occurred early Thursday on […]

  Authored by Daniel Yang via The Epoch Times, Australian truck drivers have blocked a major highway in the north-eastern state of Queensland in a protest against vaccine mandates and tough border restrictions, causing traffic to back up for several kilometres.   The action marks a series of ongoing protests from Australians frustrated with state […]

Authored by Joanna Miller via The Organic Prepper blog, Daisy wrote an article recently on the “othering” of the unvaccinated. She went into detail regarding how individuals are blaming the unvaccinated for absolutely everything going wrong these days. I share her concern. There is a long, detailed history of the “othering” of a population leading to […]

The US drone strike in Kabul that allegedly killed seven children was “righteous,” followed proper procedures, and eliminated “at least one” person who was a “facilitator” for ISIS-K terrorists, the top US military officer said. Sunday’s strike had targeted a vehicle in Kabul, which the US Central Command said represented an “imminent” threat to the […]

It’s official: while Q2 was the best quarter for the economy in decades, in Q3 it is now widely accepted that as we wrote a month ago, the wheels came off as a result of a “sudden negative change.” One doesn’t have to look too hard to find out why: between today’s catastrophic jobs report, […]

Gazprom Neft, the oil arm of Russian gas giant Gazprom, is starting to settle payments for the jet fuel it supplies in China in yuan, instead of in U.S. dollars, the company’s Alexander Dyukov has said. Russian oil firms have sought for years to shift away from U.S. dollar payments for deliveries, while China intends […]

Authored by Mark Jeftovic via BombThrower.com, “Whoever practices this prophylaxis will experience the pleasure, not from time to time to lose every third or fourth patient from puerperal fever, but perhaps lose only one in four hundred”  -Ignaz Semmelweis, 1860, trying to convince the medical profession that hand disinfection before conducting medical procedures would save […]

By Pat Buchanan. The California recall election turned out well for the Democrats. With Gov. Gavin Newsom sinking in the summer polls, the party had been staring starkly at the prospect of losing the nation’s largest state and seeing its governor replaced by talk-show host Larry Elder, who had vaulted into the lead among the […]

Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News, Video has emerged out of Paris, France, showing police patrolling cafes and bars demanding to see people’s credentials and making sure they are not breaking the law by enjoying themselves while unvaccinated. Reuters reporter Antony Paone shared the video noting “The first checks of Police started as a […]