Month: March 2024

The brainstorming by leading German Air Force officers, including the Chief Inspector of the Air Force, on options to deploy Taurus missiles against Russian targets such as the bridge across the Azov Sea (cf. above), does not have the backing of the German government – if one can believe the official statements. Both Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Defense Minister Boris […]

The atrocious massacre that took place in Gaza City on Feb. 29, when Israeli Defense Forces opened live fire on starving Palestinians desperately trying to get food from a convoy of relief trucks, leaving at least 115 people dead and over 700 injured, jarred the conscience of even the most cynical observers of the ongoing genocide. But it was apparently […]

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva spoke for millions around the world when he raised the question of whether or not the Western political elites have the moral fitness to survive, given their toleration and even support for the Netanyahu government’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. That is the question of the hour. One which Lula put on the table […]

China began its most important political deliberations of the year on March 4, with the opening of its Two Sessions, that is, the assembly of its two major legislative bodies, the National People’s Congress (NPC) and the Chinese Peoples’ Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC). This year’s gathering is particularly important given the war in Ukraine, the genocide in Gaza, and the […]

Leading Russian economist Sergey Glazyev has called for the BRICS New Development Bank (NDB) to play the leading role in the establishment of a new currency to boost investments and trade by avoiding submission to the bankrupt, dollar-based international financial system. Economist Glazyev, Minister for Integration and Macroeconomics of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC), the policy arm of the Eurasian […]

The proposal made by Russian economist Sergey Glazyev is extremely important, and cannot be simply reduced to a “de-dollarization”, or a “replacement” of the dollar in international trade and as a reserve currency. What Glazyev presents above is nothing less than a credit system and is very similar to proposals for a reform of the international monetary system made by […]