Global Economy

One of Russia’s oldest airline companies, Rossiya Airlines, has signed an agreement to purchase 15 Sukhoi Superjet 100 passenger planes on the sidelines of the country’s annual MAKS-2021 air show. The airline will receive the planes, developed by United Aircraft Corporation (UAC), later this year, TASS reported on Wednesday. UAC Director General Yury Slyusar told […]

Peter Schiff: The Transitory Inflation Ruse Via SchiffGold.com, The markets were looking for signs that the transitory inflation period was coming to an end. They didn’t get it when the June CPI number came in much hotter than expected. In his podcast, Peter Schiff talked about the latest price data and said it reveals the dirty […]

Watch Behind The Headlines correspondent Dan Cohen explain how top foreign policy reporters are linked to the U.S. government, weapons industry and oil corporations – the very forces they are supposed to hold accountable. By Dan COHEN Imagine a country where there’s no separation between the government, the military, and the media. A lot of Americans […]

Karen Buck, Labour’s shadow minister for social security and an MP for Westminster North, caused an uproar among the UK’s left-wingers after she posted a quote from American free-market conservative icon Ayn Rand. “We are fast approaching the stage of ultimate inversion: the stage where government is free to do as it pleases, while the […]

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has berated the Washington Post for not taking a more forceful stance on the Pegasus spyware scandal, and said it was untrue to claim the now-infamous malware can’t infect US phones. The former US intelligence contractor expressed dismay over a WaPo editorial in response to reports that NSO Group, an Israeli […]

The News Killed Satire Authored by Patrick Armstrong via The Strategic Culture Foundation, Given what they say every day, how would you tell the difference between solemn official announcements and mischievous satire? A couple of years ago a colleague suggested the idea that a group of us attempt to counter the rising passion of anti-Russia […]

Russia Warns Pentagon: Don’t Deploy Troops In Central Asia Near Afghanistan  Amid the continuing full US troop draw down from Afghanistan, which last week President Biden said would be ‘complete’ by August 31st, the Pentagon has been debating how to maintain a foothold in Central Asia as it increasingly looks like Kabul will come under […]

By Patrick COCKBURN The lifeblood of intelligence agencies is threat inflation: exaggerating the gravity of the dangers menacing the public, and calling for harsher laws to cope with them. MI5 director general Ken McCallum did his best to follow this tradition in his annual speech this week, in which he explained the security risks facing Britain. He spoke of threats […]

U Of Ottawa Prof: “Sex Work” Is “The Best Thing Young People Can Do Early In Their Careers” Authored by Addison Smith via Campus Reform, University of Ottawa adjunct professor and Canadian Lawyer Naomi Sayers took to Twitter recently to endorse sex work for “young people,” calling it “the best thing” they can do early […]

Raging floods have killed at least 59 people and left more than 1,000 missing across multiple German states after a torrential downpour, as police officers, soldiers and other relief workers undertake a massive rescue effort. Days of extreme weather resulted in major flooding in western Germany this week, with the death toll climbing to 59 […]

Urgent Open Letter For The Information Of: All Citizens Of The European Union (EU), The European Economic Area (EEA) And Switzerland All Citizens Of The United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland (UK) All Citizens Of The United States Of America (USA) To: The European Medicines Agency (EMA) The Medicines And Healthcare Products Regulatory […]

Kyle Bass: US Should Ban China’s Central Bank Digital Currency Authored by Frank Fang and Jan Jekielek via The Epoch Times, The communist regime in China is going to use its new state-controlled digital currency as a Trojan horse to project its authoritarianism all over the world, warns hedge fund manager Kyle Bass, and it […]

Betting On The Everything Bubble: Governments Worldwide Are Testing The New Limits Of Debt There’s nothing quite like being an observer of what is likely going to be one of the most important case studies in monetary policy and global economics in textbooks some years from now: the everything bubble. Among those taking stock of […]

“Woke” Pregnant Man Emojis Could Be Introduced This Year  The next emoji draft list was revealed Thursday by Emojipedia and contained a gender-neutral “person with crown,” interracial handshakes, and what appears to be a mustached “pregnant man.” Emojipedia blog appears to be highlighting their level of wokeness as they say the mustached pregnant man emoji “recognizes that […]

Authored by CJ Hopkins via The Consent Factory, People can tell themselves that they didn’t see where things have been heading for the last 17 months, but they did. They saw all the signs along the way. The signs were all written in big, bold letters, some of them in scary-looking Germanic script. They read […]

Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, UK transport minister Grant Shapps says that countries will demand full vaccination “forevermore” and that young people “won’t be able to leave the country” without being double jabbed. Shapps made the comments during an appearance on BBC Radio 4’s Today show. “I think double vaccination, full vaccination, […]

The US has rejected Ankara’s demands for a separate Turkish state on the island of Cyprus, after Turkish Cypriot authorities announced plans to defy Greece and the UN by reopening the northern border town of Varosha. Sitting on the border between Greek and Turkish-held Cyprus, Varosha has remained abandoned since Turkish forces invaded the island […]

Behind The Headlines’ Dan Cohen explains a little known effort to train Afghan Islamic fundamentalists in propaganda, and how that effort created a blueprint for the White Helmets in Syria. But after that effort flopped, the now-defunct U.S. propaganda arm known as the U.S. Information Agency, or USIA, tried its hand. USIA Director Alvin Synder came up […]

Police have confirmed that the head of the Afghan government’s media information center, Dawa Khan Menapal, had been assassinated in Kabul, the country’s capital. The attack has been claimed by the Taliban. “Unfortunately, the savage terrorists have committed a cowardly act once again and martyred a patriotic Afghan,” interior ministry spokesman Mirwais Stanikzai said, referring […]

Members of the G7 regularly try to impose their rules and standards on other countries, rules and standards that limit sovereignty and infringe on national interests. Transnational corporations are also involved in this geopolitical game. Billionaires from Bill Gates to George Soros are using the environment for their own gain, developing long-term strategies at national, […]

General Labor Strike Planned Across US  A general strike (or mass strike) across the U.S. is planned for Oct. 15. It may involve a substantial proportion of the total labor force across metro areas, towns, and rural communities that could bring the economy to a standstill.  Organizers of the general strike call themselves “National General […]

Is The FBI Trying To Create A New Generation Of “Hitler Youth”? Authored by Daisy Luther via The Organic Prepper blog, Check out this Tweet. Family members and peers are often best positioned to witness signs of mobilization to violence. Help prevent homegrown violent extremism. Visit https://t.co/bql36iSbig to learn how to spot suspicious behaviors and […]

White House Admits To Flagging Posts To Be Censored By Facebook Authored by Jonathan Turley, We have previously discussed the extensive censorship programs maintained by Big Tech, including companies like Twitter and Facebook taking sides in major controversies from gender identification to election fraud to Covid-19. The rise of corporate censors has combined with a heavily pro-Biden […]

Biden’s Afghan Exit: Be Prepared To Live With the Taliban Or The Warlords Authored by Brian Cloughley via The Strategic Culture Foundation, The US and the rest of the world have to be prepared to live with the winner. They had better start planning how they are going to do that. Fourth of July marked U.S. Independence Day and it […]

Merkel Promises Germany Won’t Make Vaccines Mandatory For Workers Worried about poisoning her party’s chances of winning yet another term in power following her retirement in elections set for later this year, German Chancellor Angela Merkel dismissed calls for mandatory vaccinations after French President Emmanuel Macro said he would require health-care workers to be vaccinated. […]

Floods Close Rail Lines In Europe For Months Or Longer By Keith Fender of Trains.com, Portions of the rail network in Western Europe could be out of service for months or years after massive flooding that has left hundreds dead across a swath of western Germany and Belgium. Rail service has been suspended after the […]

The construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, running from Russia to Europe across the Baltic Sea, has been finished as scheduled within three years, despite political resistance from the US and a number of European countries. This can be seen as “a geopolitical victory for Moscow,” Dmitry Marinchenko, senior director at Fitch Ratings, told […]

Inflation Is Starting To Weigh On Consumer Confidence And Spending Authored by Bryce Coward via Knowledge Leaders Capital blog, Last week US CPI inflation for June rose at a stunning 0.9% MoM, or 11% annualized, placing it among the highest sequential inflation readings in the past 40 years. Sure, much of the reading can be […]

China is urgently warning Britain against “flexing muscles” in and around its claimed territorial waters after the UK confirmed it is sending two warships to be permanently stationed off Japan to patrol Asian waters. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said in the wake of the announcement earlier this week that Beijing “firmly opposes the practice […]

Tucker Goes All In, Airs Evidence “Improperly Duplicated” Ballots From 2020 Election Fox News host Tucker Carlson went all in on Wednesday, where he laid out the case for “meaningful election fraud” in Fulton County, Georgia during the 2020 election. “At least 36 batches of mail-in ballots from the November election were double counted in […]

Ever since former US President Donald Trump’s shock 2016 election victory rocked the American political establishment, commentators and talking heads have been looking for someone to blame. The easy answer has always been Russia. On Thursday, London’s Guardian newspaper delivered the latest installment in this long-standing ‘Russiagate’ tradition. Rolling out a series of supposed revelations, […]

A Ukrainian official has slammed politicians in Berlin and Washington for failing to stand by his country and support it on a range of major geopolitical issues that, he believes, are putting it on a collision course with Russia. Alexey Arestovich, an adviser to the team negotiating over the future of the war-torn Donbass region […]

The British Foreign Office has backed Venezuela’s opposition figurehead Juan Guaido in his battle for the country’s gold reserves. A court ruled earlier that London may have recognized Nicolas Maduro as de-facto president. While the European Union no longer formally recognizes Guaido as Venezuela’s interim president after he was ousted as head of parliament last […]

Transgender Biological Male Cleared To Compete In Women’s Weightlifting In Tokyo Olympics In continuing with the total farce this year’s Olympics has become thanks to Tokyo’s overzealous response to Covid, the International Olympic Committee has given the “all clear” for a transgender biological male to compete on behalf of New Zealand in the women’s weightlifting super-heavyweight […]

Beijing has welcomed Russia’s decision to cut the US currency from its National Wealth Fund and give the yuan a bigger role, China’s Foreign Ministry has announced. Last week, Russia fully eliminated the US dollar from its National Wealth Fund, reducing its share from 35% to zero. Meanwhile, it raised the amount of Chinese yuan […]

Former President Donald Trump has issued a scathing rebuke of US General Mark Milley, after book excerpts revealed Milley had allegedly compared Trump’s supporters to Nazis and planned to resist a hypothetical “coup” by Trump. Excerpts from an upcoming book by Washington Post reporters Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker describe how, in the aftermath of […]

US Senate Democrats are reportedly preparing to overhaul the nation’s military Selective Service System to require that all Americans, including women, be required to register for the draft. Senator Jack Reed (D-Rhode Island), chairman of the Armed Services Committee, has authored legislation expanding the registration requirement to include women, Politico reported on Monday, citing a […]

The U.S. government can cause economic misery for the Cuban people, but it cannot, it appears, convince them to overthrow their government. By Alan MACLEOD Cuba was rocked by a series of anti-government street protests earlier this week. The U.S. establishment immediately hailed the events, putting its full weight behind the protestors. Yet documents suggest […]

Turkish riot police deployed crowd-control munitions to disperse demonstrators who participated in a banned Pride march in Istanbul, amid a crackdown on LGBTQ activism in the socially conservative Mediterranean nation. Law enforcement personnel fired tear gas at a crowd that gathered in central Istanbul on Saturday to support gay rights in the country. Local authorities […]

“Everything Will Go To Zero” – Macquarie Strategist Envisions Era Of Tech-Driven Deflation With the latest CPI numbers stoking interest in the “transitory” vs. “not-so-transitory” inflation debate, it’s perhaps fitting that the latest MacroVoices interview featured Macquarie global equities strategist Viktor Shvets, who explained why he believes the world is entering a new era where […]

“Stunning Numbers” – Record Number Of Americans Died From Drug Overdoses During Pandemic, Driven By Fentanyl The CDC released data on drug overdose deaths Wednesday, and the organization found that the total for 2020 soared 30% to a record 93,331 in the virus pandemic year of 2020 than the prior year.  About 93,331 Americans died from drug overdoses […]

By Caitlin JOHNSTONE California Representative Ro Khanna announced on Monday that he’d just hung out with Iraq war architect Bill Kristol and had a wonderful exchange of ideas, fully discrediting the myth of the progressive Democrat with a single tweet. “Bill Kristol is one of the most thoughtful voices in defending liberalism and democratic institutions […]

Victoria’s Secret Capitulates, Will Bring Back Its Fashion Show In A Way That’s “Culturally Relevant” Two years after Victoria’s Secret caved to social justice warriors by eliminating its fashion shows, the company has said it is ready to hold them again. Apparently, the company is finding out the hard way that giving in to social […]

Russia Announces Bilateral Nuclear Arms Control Talks With Biden Administration Coming off the “positive” June Biden-Putin summit in Geneva, Russian media is now reporting the resumption of direct nuclear talks between Moscow in Washington set for end of this month. “Russia and the United States have agreed to hold their first round of nuclear strategic stability […]

Russiagate: Luke Harding’s Hard Sell Authored by Joe Lauria via ConsortiumNews.com, The only interests this leak serves – if it was a leak – are those of Harding and U.S. intelligence, who were hung out to dry by the collapse of the Russiagate narrative…   Luke Harding of The Guardian on Thursday came out with a new story that […]

Russia’s state arms exporter Rosoboronexport signed 13 contracts totaling $1.2 billion on the sidelines of the MAKS 2021 international air show, the company’s CEO Alexander Mikheyev told reporters. “Rosoboronexport used the MAKS 2021 potential to its maximum,” Mikheyev said. The list of deals includes orders for the Sukhoi Su-30 fighter jet, the Mi-35M and Mi-17B5 […]

Dozens of people have reportedly laid siege to the Lebanese Swiss Bank in Beirut and attacked three staff, as they demanded access to tens of thousands of dollars in a bid to alleviate dire living conditions in Lebanon. Footage from the Lebanese capital’s Hamra neighborhood on Monday purportedly showed people throwing bank documents from the […]

The US is withdrawing troops at a faster pace than expected. It has been reported that almost half of the remaining forces have already been evacuated. It might be a part of the US strategy. Only time will explain it well. The US is handing over some crucial posts to Afghan Government Forces like the […]

The Economist Publishes Bizarre Story Bemoaning Lack Of “Diversity” In Italian Squad Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, The Economist published a bizarre article bemoaning the lack of diversity in the Italian football team, with some asking if the same complaint would be made about Nigeria or Ghana. “The most striking aspect of […]

Critics and supporters have been at loggerheads after the NFL revealed plans to play ‘Lift Ev’ry Voice And Sing’ – known as the black national anthem – before The Star-Spangled Banner when the season kicks off in September. Bosses have courted fury after an ESPN report suggested they are ready to play the song during […]

Turkey’s coastguard fired warning shots at a Cyprus patrol boat searching for undocumented migrants off the coast of the island on Friday, Cypriot police said, raising tensions ahead of the Turkish president’s visit. While patrolling around Kato Pyrgos in the disputed northwest area of the island at 3.30am, the Turkish vessel fired warning shots at […]

Amid a growing row with the EU over the grounding of a passenger jet carrying an opposition activist last month, Belarus’ bombastic leader has launched a new attack on Germany, comparing its sanctions policy to its role in WWII. Speaking at an event being held to mark the 80th anniversary of the Third Reich’s invasion […]

The list of governments, former government officials, and organizations in the region that have accused the US of supporting ISIS-K is expansive and includes the Russian government, the Iranian government, Syrian government media, Hezbollah, an Iraqi state-sponsored military outfit and even former Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who called the group a “tool” of the United States […]

Revolver.news South Africa is disintegrating. After the jailing of Jacob Zuma, supporters of the former president took to the streets, ostensibly to protest but actually to simply plunder at will. The official death toll already runs into the dozens, but in a country as violent as South Africa (57 murders a day) the real toll […]

The staff of the hospital in Montelimar, in the French department of Drome, have gone on indefinite strike to protest the new rules demanding they take a vaccine against Covid-19 by mid-September or face losing their jobs. The strike against “forced vaccination” was announced on Thursday by the CGT-GHPP trade union, and affects some 200 […]

Russia has the right to use nuclear warheads in response to the use of weapons of mass destruction against it or its allies, and may even deploy them against conventional weapons if “the very existence of the state is threatened.” That’s according to Valery Gerasimov, the head of Russia’s armed forces, speaking to the Moscow […]

A Premier League footballer has been arrested on suspicion of child sex offences, according to reports in the UK. The player is said to have been suspended by his club. The unnamed 31-year-old was arrested on Friday by Greater Manchester Police and has been bailed while investigations continue. According to reports in the Daily Mail, […]

1 July 4, 1099 the army of the crusaders captured Jerusalem, snatching it from the hands of the Gentiles. We, of course, know that the Latin chivalry did not fulfill its promises to our Orthodox Emperor, and later even made the ugly capture of Constantinople. But this will only be in the 4th Crusade, at […]

Wide-scale protests and rioting that have rocked the Caribbean nation of Cuba are, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry, part of an orchestrated campaign by American officials to oust the country’s socialist government. In a statement issued on Thursday, one of Moscow’s top diplomatic representatives, ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, blasted American “impudence” for suggesting that […]

Authored (satirically) by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, So go ahead and say whatever you want around all your networked devices, but don’t be surprised if bad things start happening. I received another “Our Terms Have Changed” email from a Big Tech quasi-monopoly, and for a change I actually read this one. It was a […]

The people of Russia and Ukraine can never be divided, and they will never be set at odds, despite the efforts of the government in Kiev to keep the two nations’ populations, a prominent Ukrainian opposition figure has claimed. Viktor Medvedchuk’s comments came after authorities in the Ukrainian capital demolished a monument in Kiev dedicated […]

As the price of the world’s top cryptocurrency, bitcoin, continues to hover around $30,000, some industry experts are voicing their bullish long-term views on the matter. According to Alex Mashinsky, chief executive officer and co-founder of the centralized cryptocurrency lending platform Celsius, the crypto market was bound for a correction following bitcoin’s recent all-time high of […]

EU, US Leaders Warn About China Setting Standards On AI Authored by Frank Fang via The Epoch Times, Top U.S. and European leaders recently spoke about how democracies should set the rules for artificial intelligence (AI), instead of an authoritarian regime like China. “We cannot let China write the rules of the road around AI,” said U.S. […]

At the Bitcoin 2021 event in Miami, Max Keiser talks to the CEO of MicroStrategy Michael Saylor about the reason he owns bitcoins, and what is next on the road to hyperbitcoinization. “Bitcoin fixes governments,” the American entrepreneur says, explaining that “as it fixes everything else governments act rationally.” “I see a world where eight […]

The resignation of Kiev’s notorious Interior Minister Arsen Avakov may not have been his own personal decision, and he could have been “advised” to leave his position by the new acting US Ambassador in Kiev, George Kent. That’s according to Ukrainian news outlet Strana, which claims it was informed by a number of lawmakers that […]

Johnstone: Violent Extremists Took Over The US Capitol Long Before January 6 Authored by Caitlin Johnstone, No longer content with absurd claims that the January 6 Capitol riot was as bad as the 9/11 attacks, Democratic Party-aligned pundits are now insisting that it was in fact worse. On a recent appearance with MSNBC’s ReidOut with Joy Reid, former Bush […]

An off-duty US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent who allegedly flashed his badge and gun while standing outside the Capitol during the January 6 riot has been arrested for entering a restricted area with a firearm. The agent, Mark Sami Ibrahim of Orange County, California, also stands accused of making a false statement to Department […]

Today it is common wisdom to claim that Russia is returning to the Middle East. Some regard it with hate, the others with suspicion, the third with hope. But before any evaluation according to interests and positions of different players and observers, we need first to clarify how Russia returns? What represents contemporary Russia on […]

Russian diplomats in Kabul feel safe and are continuing to work in the wake of the capital’s takeover by the Taliban, Moscow’s envoy to Afghanistan told RT, adding that the US had been “tilting at windmills” for 20 years. “The situation is calm,” the Russian ambassador to Kabul, Dmitry Zhirnov, told RT on Monday, as […]

Syria Says US Strikes Killed Child, Wounded 3 Civilians As Biden Defends Against Congressional Pushback Authored by Jazon Ditz via AntiWar.com, Details are emerging on the overnight US attacks against the border area of Iraq and Syria. One of the strikes killed a child, and wounded three civilians when it hit a residential area, Syrian state sources […]

Following a citizen’s petition, a Lisbon court was forced to provide verified COVID-19 mortality data, reports AndreDias.net. According to the ruling, the number of verified COVID-19 deaths from January 2020 to April 2021 is only 152, not about 17,000 as claimed by government ministries. All the “others” died for various reasons, although their PCR test was positive. “We live […]

Haiti’s acting Prime Minister Claude Joseph has agreed to resign. While both the US and UN backed his rule soon after President Jovenel Moise’s assassination, Western diplomats recently changed course and endorsed Joseph’s rival. The interim PM – who has also filled in as president since Moise was shot dead by gunmen earlier this month […]

Democrats And Republicans Unite To Demand US Invasion Of Cuba Authored by Michael Tracey via mtracey.substack.com, There are some parts of the US where municipal elected officials who ordinarily concern themselves with things like trash removal, parking regulations, and petty graft are occasionally expected to take passionate stances on foreign policy issues. Israel would be […]

Germany’s Federal Cartel Office (FCO) has launched an investigation into Apple to see if the corporation is thwarting competition by abusing its dominant position in the market. “A key focus of the investigation will be the operation of the App Store, as in many cases it empowers Apple to influence the operations of third parties,” […]

More States Block Mask Requirements, Dr. Gottlieb Says LA’s Decision Was “The Wrong Move” As experts panic about the risk posed by the Delta variant, LA County’s infamous Public Health Director Dr. Barbara Ferrer last night decided to revive LA’s indoor-mask policy, requiring all individuals – including the vaccinated – to wear masks at gyms, […]

650 Troops To Stay In Afghanistan As US Intelligence Warns Of Taliban Takeover Within 6 Months Anyone that’s been following US pronouncements on Afghanistan over the last many years should know what to expect by now: when Washington touts its latest “full exit” strategy, it’s likely to end in anything but. From the start of both Trump’s […]

Several Colombians Arrested In Haiti Assassination Received US Military Training: Pentagon The Pentagon admitted on Thursday that several of former Colombian servicemen arrested after last week’s assassination of Haiti’s president had received US military training. A U.S. Special Forces soldier observes elite Colombian troops during training at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida in 2015. […]

  As Ed Snowden warned in a tweet when the story broke this weekend, “this leak is going to be the story of the year.” Southfront reports that an Israeli company’s spyware was used in attempted and successful hacks of 37 smartphones belonging to journalists, government officials and human rights activists around the world, according […]

England’s “Freedom Day” Dulled By Looming Food Shortages As “Ping-Demic” Worsens In keeping with Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s promise, England lifted its last remaining COVID-linked restrictions on movement and business at midnight on Monday, finally allowing people to move about more or less freely, even as new COVID cases are climbing in the UK and […]

94% Of Americans Oppose Big Pharma’s Control Over Global Vaccine Supply: Poll Authored by Kenny Stancil via CommonDreams.org, A new poll released Friday found that a whopping 94% of adults in the US do not want pharmaceutical corporations to control the global supply of Covid-19 vaccines, lending additional support to international demands for achieving universal access to inoculation through more […]

The First Nations of Manitoba chose the right target when they toppled the statue of Queen Victoria in front of the Manitoba Legislature following discovery of the graves of more than 1000 indigenous children around three residential schools. Their action rang bells around the world because what was inflicted upon them in Victoria’s name was […]

A British MP has said the government needs to send a clear message to those seeking refuge in the UK, encouraging them to apply for asylum in the European Union, rather than travelling through safe countries to reach Britain. Speaking to Sky News on Wednesday, Home Office minister Victoria Atkins said it was clear that people arriving […]

Now They Are Saying That The Republican Party Is The #1 “National Security Threat To The United States Of America” Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, When one major political party starts labeling the other major political party as a “national security threat”, that should set off major alarm bells because that […]

Authored by Thorstein Polleit via The Mises Institute, Now and then, it pays to take a step back to get a broader perspective on things, to look beyond the daily financial news, to see through the short-term ups and downs in the market to find out what is really at the heart of the matter. If […]

Walt Garlington An Orthodox priest murdered by the Soviets, Father Pavel Florensky, wrote a few words that are very relevant for the West today: ‘In its extreme, the state of Pharisaism is a spiritual delusion, where a certain state becomes an idol.  At the same time it is a very close imitation of what is genuine.  And […]

A doctor who has joined other medical professionals in calling for Julian Assange’s release from prison told RT that the WikiLeaks co-founder’s arbitrary and cruel detention continues to put him at risk of suicide. The same concerns about Assange’s mental health that led to the High Court in London blocking his extradition to the US […]

The emerging Multipolar World is a geopolitical revolution. It doesn’t only mark a paradigm shift from the short unipolar moment established by the United States after 1991, but also the end of Western hegemony. The ongoing process of multipolarity is in favor of the different civilizations and against the Liberalist project of Globalization. Whereas Globalization […]

Insult To Injury: Russia Declares US Has Utterly “Failed” After 20 Years In Afghanistan Russia this week warned the United States military to stay out of Central Asian nations bordering Afghanistan, such as Tajikistan, while emphasizing this is Russia’s own sphere of influence and that the window for American and NATO attempts to stabilize Afghanistan have […]

The Road To Dystopia Authored by David Hancock via AmericanThinker.com, George Santayana:  “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” But those who do not read dystopian literature will be unaware of possible futures. It has become passé to quote Orwell’s 1984 in any context, especially that it was not intended as a “how […]

“Catastrophe Of Historic Proportions” – At least 100 Dead, 1,300 Missing After Devastating German Floods At least 1,300 people are still unaccounted for Friday after flash floods in western Germany and Belgium left more than 100 dead and several towns devastated. Rescue efforts continue for the second day as the true extent of this tragedy […]

UK Defense Secretary Tells Afghans To Flee Across Borders Instead Of Going To Airport Britain’s Defense Secretary Ben Wallace issued surprising and controversial statements during a meeting with members of parliament Wednesday. He urged Afghans who previously had been admitted to the UK on study or fellowship opportunities to escape by land across borders to […]

US Now Says Taiwan Sovereignty “An Opportunity” To Counter China Under Biden the US Navy has sent warships through the contested Taiwan Strait six times in only five months, suggesting the White House is perpetuating Trump’s confrontational China policy, also as high level US delegations – the latest being early this month led by members of […]

India Sends 50,000 More Troops To Disputed Chinese Border In Major Escalation After a past year of continued simmering Himalayan border tensions, particularly after the deadly June 2020 incident wherein Chinese and Indian border troops were in a fierce clash, India has escalated its stance by moving 50,000 additional troops to the Chinese border.  While […]

Moscow police are hunting an unknown suspect who threatened to blow up the city’s central government building if rules requiring masks in public places and the mandatory vaccination of service workers weren’t dropped by officials. Telegram channel Baza initially reported that a chilling note had been discovered in one of the administration’s official inboxes on […]

Who is truly civilized? Well, according to a column in the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post over the weekend, it certainly isn’t Russia or China. While the content is unoriginal, its Neo-Cold War attitude sparked outrage online. The piece, by George F. Will, argued that the efforts of “civilized nations to deter” Beijing and Moscow “are […]

Corporate America sacrificed national interests in service of greed, and so did the U.S. government. As we all know, the source of Corporate America’s unprecedented explosion in profits in the 21st century is the offshoring of manufacturing to China. If you doubt this, please study the chart below of corporate profits. Apologists claim many excuses […]

The UN peacekeeping mission in Mali (MINUSMA) confirmed via Twitter on Friday morning that one of its temporary bases was attacked in a car bombing, resulting in the injury and evacuation of 15 German ‘Blue Helmet’ soldiers. Friday’s attack, which hit a deployment of German soldiers, is the first time that Bundeswehr troops have been […]

Watch: US Patrol In Syria Blocked By Line Of Russian Commandos Authored by Jason Ditz via AntiWar.com, Over the weekend, a US military patrol in northeastern Syria was blocked by the Russian military and forced to turn back to where they came from. The US reportedly violated existing security deals with Russia. Video of the brief encounter […]

Xiaomi Dethrones Apple As The World’s #2 Smartphone Maker Could the bedrock of the smartphone market be moving before our very eyes?   A new report from market research firm Canalys last week suggests that could be the case. The report revealed that Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi had surpassed Apple in the second quarter of 2021 to […]

Biden Orders Series Airstrikes Along Syria-Iraq Border The Biden administration has confirmed the president ordered Sunday night airstrikes on multiple militant encampments along the Iraq-Syria border in order to “protect US personnel” – as an official Department of Defense statement in the aftermath indicated. “At President Biden’s direction, U.S. military forces earlier this evening conducted […]

White House: Afghanistan Is “Not a Winnable War” Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, Ahead of talks between President Biden and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Friday said Afghanistan is “not a winnable war” in response to hawks calling for the troop drawdown to be reversed. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell […]

BofA Crashes The “Transitory” Party: Sees Up To 4 Years Of “Hyperinflation” At the start of May, when observing the avalanche of “higher inflation” mentions on Q1 earnings calls, which had quadrupled YoY; and jumped by a record 800% YoY… … BofA chief equity strategist Savita Subramanian summarized the current state of affairs as follows: […]

EU: New Political Alliance To Fight Creation Of European Superstate Authored by Soeren Kern via The Gatestone Institute, The leaders of 16 political parties from across Europe have announced an unprecedented alliance to defend the sovereignty of European nation states, protect the nuclear family and preserve traditional Judeo-Christian values. The July 2 “Joint Declaration on […]

One in ten Australians living in the state of Victoria have said they “seriously considered suicide” during the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns, according to a new survey. In its latest issue, the Journal of Psychiatric Research reported that one in ten of over a thousand Victorians surveyed “reported having seriously considered suicide in the […]

Former Vice President Mike Pence has felt the wrath of voters loyal to his old boss, Donald Trump, and was booed and called a “traitor” as he began to give a speech at a conservative conference in Florida. The incident occurred on Friday as Pence took the stage at the Faith & Freedom Coalition’s “Road […]

Russia will continue to defend the country’s territorial waters and may combat any violators with the “harshest methods,” a high-ranking official revealed on Wednesday, warning foreign navies against crossing the country’s border. Speaking to the newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Russian Security Council Deputy Secretary Mikhail Popov addressed last month’s incident with the British warship HMS ‘Defender’, […]

  Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com, Philosophers and analysts use a principle called Occam’s Razor (sometimes Ockham’s Razor) to solve difficult problems. It says that when you are confronted with two possible solutions to a problem, one complicated and one simple, it’s usually better to select the simple solution. There’s always some attraction to […]

The price of the world’s major cryptocurrency, bitcoin, has pulled below the crucial $36,000 support level, amid global regulatory crackdowns and environmental concerns. The crypto was trading down more than 5% on Saturday, at $35,697 per coin. Its value has almost halved from April’s record peak of about $65,000 a token. Traders forecast $32,500 as the […]

Gundlach Warns Dollar Is “Doomed”, Stocks Are At “Nosebleed” Levels It has been a while since DoubleLine Founder Jeffrey Gundlach sat for a lengthy interview with CNBC’s Scott Wapner, aka “the Judge”, during the network’s “Halftime Report”. Gundlach has at times clashed with various CNBC personalities, but his interviews draw a large audience thanks to […]

Jason Whitlock: Dear Black America, We Are Being Lied To… Authored by Jason Whitlock via TheBlaze.com, (emphasis ours) Dear Black People: We are being lied to and set up. The mainstream media, Democratic politicians, social justice activists, and perhaps even your church pastor have led you to believe America is in the midst of a […]

“Sick Of Westie Whites” Blatant Anti-White, Anti-Asian Racism In Schools Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Fake social justice warriors just got caught lying to a judge… Parents vs. the New Racism I have discussed reverse racism several time previously but this new case tops everything that preceded it. Federal judge William Young approved a […]

On 2 July 2021, Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed the country’s new National Security Strategy. It replaces the previous document dated 31 December 2015 and has already entered into force. It is noticeable from the very first pages that the wording is less abstract, and many provisions have been elaborated on. Read MoreOn 2 July 2021, […]

Critical Race Theory Banned In 6 States (That’s 44 States Too Few) Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, Critical Race Theory (CRT) is banned in 6 states and pending bans in at least 18 more. What Is Critical Race Theory? Critical race theory (CRT) is an academic movement of civil-rights scholars and activists in the […]

Basel III Regulations Finally Kick In: What This Means For Gold On Monday, the long-anticipated (by gold bulls) banking rules implemented under a sweeping international accord known as Basel III came into effect (for European banks) and – as discussed previously both here and elsewhere – mark a major change for European banks and their […]

Russia Ready To Activate Tajikistan Military Base Over Fighting In Afghanistan Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, Russia said it is prepared to activate a military base in Tajikistan in response to fighting in Afghanistan near the central Asian country’s southern border. After over 1,000 Afghan soldiers retreated from fighting with the Taliban and fled into Tajikistan, […]

Globalization is being wound down so that western elites can reinforce control over their current zone of hegemony, Joaquin Flores. The 47th G7 summit held on 11-13 June 2021 in Cornwall carried the motto ‘Build Back Better World’ (B3W), the mantra of the IMF’s ‘Great Resetist Regime’. What ‘Build Back Better’ amounts to is a […]

YouTube Pulls Live Feed Of Arizona State Senate Election Audit Hearing Update (1352ET): Oddly, right as Senate President Karen Fann suggested that auditors may not be able to determine whether a ballot had been duplicated once, or ten times, YouTube pulled the feed we had originally embedded, claiming it violated their Terms of Service. An […]

Keeping Up Morale In The Fourth Turning Authored by Samantha Biggers via PeakProsperity.com, During this part of the cycle, many of us have experienced some fairly extreme isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Regardless of how serious you believe the disease is, the isolation, fear, and paranoia it has caused have led to some major […]

Over 70 Killed As South Africa “Crumbles” Despite Military Intervention South Africa could be on the verge of collapse, and all the warning signs are there. The looters have targeted foreign shops, shopping centers, distribution centers/warehouses, and raided gun shops. Shortages are beginning with food, fuel, and ammo.  Over 70 have reportedly been killed since […]

A senior US official said Washington is committed to keeping troops in Syria in order to counter Islamic State terrorists and prop up its allies, the Kurdish-led SDF militia, against the government in Damascus. There are an estimated 900 or more US troops currently in Syria – both in the southern enclave of At Tanf […]

‘You Were Wrong About A Lot Of Sh*t’: Maher Blasts Big Tech, CDC Over Lab-Leak Censorship Bill Maher slammed Big Tech on Friday’s episode of his show, “Real Time with Bill Maher,” criticizing Facebook and Google for censoring content discussing the COVID-19 lab-leak theory. “I find this outrageous. Facebook banned any post for four months […]

As President Biden and his administration continue to burnish his “tough on China” credentials (which is shaping up to be a “theme” for the White House in July), the US has just announced that members of China’s intelligence agency of hiring cyber-criminals to carry out a global campaign of hacks and cyber intrusions. The US […]

Authored by Philip Giraldi via The Strategic Culture Foundation, After only five months in office, President Joe Biden has already become notorious for his verbal gaffes and mis-spokes, so much so that an admittedly Republican-partisan physician has suggested that he be tested to determine his cognitive abilities. That said, however, there is one June 16th tweet that […]

The US is fighting hard to keep the border crossing from Turkey into Syria’s Idlib open because it allows them to supply arms to terrorists under the pretense of delivering aid, Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad told RT. A diplomatic standoff is underway as the seven-year-long UN mandate to keep the Bab al-Hawa crossing point […]

US Air Force Plane Makes Unannounced Landing In Taiwan, Outraging Beijing On Thursday a United States Air Force plane briefly touched down an Taipei’s international airport, enraging China over what it perceives as another severe violation of the ‘One China’ policy, also coming a month after a group of US Senators visited Taiwan in a […]

Why Big Business Ends Up Supporting The Regime Authored by Ryan McMaken via The Mises Institute, Policymakers know they hold immense power to regulate and punish firms that don’t play ball. Industry leaders know this too. So it’s likely both sides will indeed end up “playing ball.”  The Democrats in Congress want comprehensive regulation of […]

In April 2021, the EU adopted its Strategy for Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific, which has been signed by the 27 foreign ministers of the EU member states. The conclusions of the special committee that developed the strategy show that the EU recognises the growing importance of the region and reaffirms its commitment to strengthening its role […]

The EU has announced the imposition of new economic sanctions against Belarus, in response to what it calls “serious human rights violations” and “the violent repression of civil society, democratic opposition, and journalists.” The targeted restrictions are aimed at several sectors of the country’s industry, including petroleum products, potash fertilizers and tobacco products. The EU […]

Can The Middle East Survive Without Oil? Authored by Irina Slav via OilPrice.com, Gulf oil producers are finding it difficult to diversify their economies away from their biggest export revenue contributor, and it may take them at least a decade to make any progress on this. This is what Moody’s forecast in a recent report, as quoted by Reuters, […]

EU Must Establish ‘Direct Contact’ With Putin: Germany’s Merkel On Thursday German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged the European Union to seek better relations with Russia – comments which came days after Russian President Vladimir Putin published an op-ed in the German weekly newspaper Die Zeit which called for “partnership” in Russia-Europe relations and not the current climate of confrontation. “In my opinion, we as the European […]

It Always Ends The Same Way: Crisis, Crash, Collapse Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Risk has not been extinguished, it is expanding geometrically beneath the false stability of a monstrously manipulated market. One of the most under-appreciated investment insights is courtesy of Mike Tyson: “Everybody has a plan until they get punched in […]

Hostilities between Israel and Hamas-controlled Gaza have resumed with a vengeance, with Tel Aviv firing a flurry of missiles into the enclave in response to “arson balloons” as tensions flared up under the new Israeli government. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said they targeted a “military compound and a rocket launch site” allegedly operated by […]

The Increasing Aggressiveness Of Petty Tyrants Authored by Mark Hendrickson via The Epoch Times, Somewhere along the way, we seem to have come to the point here in the United States where it’s all politics all of the time. That’s not literally true, of course, but it seems as if political tensions and conflicts obtrude […]

Ivermectin: Can a Drug Be “Right-Wing”? Authored by Matt Taibbi via TK News On December 31st of last year, an 80 year-old Buffalo-area woman named Judith Smentkiewicz fell ill with Covid-19. She was rushed by ambulance to Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital in Williamsville, New York, where she was put on a ventilator. Her son Michael […]

Scores of Palestinian protesters have been injured in clashes with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) near an evacuated illegal Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank, the Palestine Red Crescent has said. At least 10 Palestinians were shot and injured by live fire, the medical organization said, adding that 15 more were injured by rubber […]

Russian investors should be allowed to privatize two to three percent of the country’s forested area to avoid deforestation and increase commercial timber production, head of Russia’s largest timber holding in the Far East claims. Konstantin Lashkevich, the CEO of Russia Forest Products, or RFP Group, shared this opinion with reporters on Wednesday, stating that […]

A Furious Hungary Threatens To Veto Europe’s Green New Deal Yesterday, to much fanfare the EU unveiled an absurd set of climate change and emissions targets for 2030 which will transform every corner of its economy. As part of the plan, every industry would be forced to accelerate its shift away from fossil fuels in […]

Macleod: The Fed Is Trapped Between A ‘Keep Inflating’ Rock & A ‘Collapsing Dollar Confidence’ Hard Place Authored by Alasdair Macleod via GoldMoney.com, “The Fed finds itself between a rock and a hard place: either it keeps inflating or the whole confidence-based valuation of financial assets collapses. Either it raises interest rates or the dollar […]

After months of escalating political tensions, Belarus has announced that it will unilaterally withdraw from a scheme designed to bring former Soviet states closer to the EU. Minsk will also call home its ambassador from Brussels. The bloc’s envoy in the Belarusian caporal, Dirk Schuebel, was summoned to the foreign ministry on Monday where he […]

How An Obscure App Turned Millions Into Unwitting Spies For The US Military There’s a growing cottage industry at the nexus of consumer research and government surveillance. In a report published Friday, the Wall Street Journal explored the world of Premise Data Corp., an innocently-named firm that uses a network of users, many in the […]

The funniest thing with “the Climate Change” is that it is a binding doctrine of the media, pop culture and politics for last several years. This concept is taught in schools, it is almost the only one in the media, we can watch it in a multitude of Hollywood productions. And above all, it universally justifies […]

What do you want to watch? Well, if the answer is a foreign-language film or TV show, and there’s no translated version available, you might be out of luck. Now one of Russia’s biggest tech firms is working on a solution. In a statement released last week, digital services giant Yandex revealed it has been […]

Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia’s second poorest nation, is sitting on a pile of gold, quite literally. For years, the bulk of profits from the colossal Kumtor Mine have been sent abroad. Now, a new government is trying to change that. In May, the former Soviet republic sparked an international legal battle when it rolled in and […]

The Department for Education has caused a stir after it announced its backing of the One Britain One Nation campaign and encouraged kids to take part in its June 25 celebration – including singing “strong Britain, great nation.” In a tweet on Monday evening, the UK’s Department for Education (DfE) said it would be backing […]

Every once in a while, the US messes up so badly that it actually notices. This time, the chaos is in Afghanistan. Snatching defeat from the jaws of stalemate, it has now ended a disgraceful 20-year war with a self-inflicted rout. The disaster is already being spun into a rousing tale of special-forces-to-the-rescue – the […]

Atomic warfare was top of the agenda as Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart, Joe Biden, met for crunch talks last week in Geneva, amid escalating hostilities and talk of a return to a ‘Cold War’ mentality. The first summit between the pair gives some room for cautious optimism. The atmosphere was respectful […]

Soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo is reportedly ready to lose nearly $11 million on the sale of his Trump Tower apartment in New York, and that’s if he gets his new asking price to sever his link to ex-president Donald Trump. Ronaldo cut the price of his 2,509-square-foot, 47th-floor loft on Fifth Avenue to $7.75 million […]

The EU has taken the lead in investigating US technology majors like Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook over their alleged monopolistic behavior on the continent. John Quelch, dean of the University of Miami Business School, says the reason is that it is quite profitable for countries to fine Big Tech – and also politically popular, […]

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has officially launched the construction of the Kanal Istanbul megaproject. The artificial canal to substitute the natural Bosporus Strait is expected to be completed in just six years. The groundbreaking ceremony for the canal, set to link the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara, was held on Saturday at […]

Online-only assets like Bitcoin and Ethereum have become a lucrative opportunity for millions of savvy amateur investors, but now Russia’s central bank is warning people to steer clear of what could end up being a very risky buy. As part of an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda published on Monday, Elvira Nabiullina, chair of the country’s […]

Afghan officials have reported that Toofan Omar, a radio station manager, has been shot and killed and that Nematullah Hemat, a local journalist, has been kidnapped. They are holding the Taliban accountable for both incidents. Omar was reportedly shot by suspected Taliban fighters while on his way to Kabul on Sunday. Local officials reported the […]

The “Conspiracy Theory” Charade Authored by James Bovard via JimBovard.com, How government and media use the phrase to suppress opposition… Biden’s “National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism” report last week declared that “enhancing faith in American democracy” requires “finding ways to counter the influence and impact of dangerous conspiracy theories.” In recent decades, conspiracy theories have multiplied almost […]

China’s outbound direct investment (ODI) into countries involved in the ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has continued to increase, expanding 13.8% year-on-year in the first five months of 2021 to $7.43 billion. According to official data, outbound investment into manufacturing and information transmission sectors continued to grow. The manufacturing sector attracted $7.2 billion in […]

Family Of Top Biden Officials Find Jobs Across Administration Despite ‘No Nepotism’ Pledge During his tenure in office, President Trump faced incessant criticism from the media for hiring family members – including his daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner – and placing friends in positions of authority within his administration. But just as President Joe […]

How To Buffer The Fallout From America’s Third World Death Spiral Authored by MN Gordon via EconomicPrism.com, “What the hell?!” – President Joe Biden, June 16, 2021 Out of Control American workers are trying to make their way in an economy that’s rigged against them.  We made this claim many years ago.  Today, for fun and for free, […]

Russia’s divesting from the US dollar gives the country a lot of maneuverability to make its own deals without interference from Washington, says Max Keiser of RT’s Keiser Report. He asked technical analyst Tone Vays whether other countries could follow its example. READ MORE: Ruble strengthens to 11-month high as Russia squeezes out US dollar from […]

“Utopia” – Amazon Show Plot Featured Fake Virus, Global Vaccine Program To Sterilize World Population Authored by Paul Joseph Watson via Summit News, An Amazon series released at the height of the COVID pandemic revolved around a plot where a virus is deliberately released and then a vaccine offered to a terrified public as a […]

Moscow’s central roads are used to intense traffic almost 24/7, but, after it was hit by Monday’s massive thunderstorm and torrential rain, the city’s busy beltway became one man’s personal swimming pool. After a week of abnormal heat with temperatures of up to 36 degrees Celsius, the city of more than 15 million was showered […]

John McAfee’s death has set off numerous conspiracy theories, tributes and criticism of the extradition to the US the now-deceased antivirus magnate was facing. McAfee was found dead in his prison cell in Barcelona only hours after a Spanish court approved his extradition to the US, where he was facing charges of tax evasion and […]

“It’s A War Zone” – South Africa To Deploy 25,000 Troops As Country On Brink Of Civil War In the past seven days, South Africa has never come closer to becoming a failed state. The riotous looting has reduced Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal, the two provinces hit hard by the social unrest into what resembles warzones. […]

It is rightly said that history repeat itself. The phrase is being proved in Afghanistan this time around. The Taliban insurgents are gaining more and more Afghan territory while having offensive capabilities and attacks against Kabul’s defence forces. The abrupt withdrawal of United States’ troops from the country has given an opportunity to insurgent group […]

Global Jewish Conspiracy! Jewish Prime Minister of New Zeland, Jacinda Ardern, said infections reached SEVEN on Wednesday! It could have been 3, or 30, it doesn’t matter anymore!!! Pay attention, 7 effing cases! Ardern also said she expects the case count to grow, and reach unbelievable Earth-shuttering between of 50 and 120 infections! Do they […]

Largest US Food Distributor Having Trouble Keeping Shelves Stocked; Price Shock Imminent One of the defining features of the early phases of the covid pandemic, when public fear was rampant and when few wanted to take chances that supply chains would remain viable, is that for a brief period US supermarkets resembled those of the […]

MAGA Branded ‘White Supremacy’ In Leaked CRT Training For Iowa Teachers Mandatory Critical Race Theory (CRT) training materials for one of Iowa’s largest school districts classifies “Make America Great Again” as a form of ‘white supremacy,’ according to leaked documents obtained by Turning Point USA’s Benny Johnson. Also listed as examples of white supremacy (both […]