Month: May 2023

The G7 summit in Hiroshima confirmed once again that, despite their combative rhetoric, this group of seven “industrialized” nations is becoming increasingly irrelevant in today’s world. Whereas they used to be able to wield their economic clout, they only represent 27% of global GDP today, of which a big part is just financial hot air. And although the seven heads […]

In tandem with the G7’s decision to forge ahead with its militarization drive, came an escalation of the economic warfare, directed primarily against China and Russia. On the opening day of the summit in Hiroshima, May 19, the U.S. Treasury announced 300 new sanctions targeting Russia, many of them related to financial services, issued “in coordination with the G7”, in […]

Ukraine’s National News Agency, Ukrinform, claimed on May 18 that May 16 had marked a turning point, where Kyiv proved, by shooting down every one of Russia’s hypersonic Kinzhal missiles sent against it, that Russia is just a paper tiger. However, Washington had already quietly signaled to the Ukrainians that their Patriot anti-missile system in Kyiv had been hit by […]

Remarks by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the Global Solutions Summit 2023 in Berlin May 15-16 show that, contrary to the official narrative from Brussels, EU leaders – at least some of them – are well aware of the growing isolation of Europe in the world, and that the Global South is revolting against them. However, that same speech shows […]

Twenty-three rivers, that is, all those between Rimini and Bologna in the agriculturally key region of Emilia-Romagna, have flooded the region in the past days, due to a combination of extraordinary rains and a sea storm in the northern Adriatic Sea that pushed back river waters. Thanks to a timely red alert and civil protection mobilization, “only” 14 persons have […]

Eleven scientists, members of Clintel Italy, published a statement May 20, in which they reject the hoax of CO2 as the cause for extreme weather patterns, and call for infrastructure investments to prevent natural disasters in the future. “Reducing the use of coal, oil and gas with the goal of mitigating the climate in order to prevent environmental disasters,” the […]

Although little reported in Western media, an important summit on May-18-19 brought together the Presidents of China and five Central Asian nations (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. They met in Xi’an, in China’s northwestern province of Shaanxi, the city from which the ancient Silk Road was launched 2,100 years ago! A successor to that historical trade route was announced […]

Addressing the G7 working group entitled “Working Together to Confront Multiple Crises,” on May 20, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a guest, confronted the attendees with some uncomfortable truths about the current global systemic crisis and the changes required to address it. Seated between President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, he slammed the International Monetary […]

A group of six African countries, led by South Africa, are preparing to send a delegation to Moscow and Kiev in an effort to promote a negotiated settlement to the war. The six are Egypt, the Republic of the Congo, Senegal, South Africa Uganda, Zambia, and the Comoro Islands, which now holds the rotating presidency of the African Union. South […]

Europe has been the scene of two intense diplomatic offensives over the past ten days, albeit with very different aims in view, one undertaken by Ukraine President Zelenskyy and the other by Chinese diplomats. Concerning the first, each step of Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s tour from May 13 to 15 served to ratchet up the threat of a direct war between Russia […]