Month: May 2024

Events of the past two weeks have dramatically escalated tensions worldwide. One incident, similar to the Archduke’s assassination in Sarajevo that triggered a World War I that had been long in the making, could bring us to the point of no return. The most dangerous crisis involves the failure of NATO’s war against Russia in Ukraine, which some NATO member […]

The visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Beijing on May 16-17 definitively consolidated the cooperation between these two major powers in efforts to establish a more equal new world order, making clear that the West’s attempts to drive a wedge between them have failed. This year is the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the People’s […]

Prosecutor Karim A.A. Khan of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, announced May 20 his request to the Court to issue warrants for the arrest on charges of “war crimes and crimes against humanity” of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and of three Hamas leaders: Ismail Haniyeh, Mohammed Diab Ibrahim Al-Masri, and Yahya […]

In a vain attempt to discredit American statesman Lyndon LaRouche, his adversaries accused him at the time of being obsessed with the British Empire and British geopolitics, for stating that the British establishment was responsible for the wars of the 20th century and for the Cold War. He was further mocked for asserting that, in the aftermath of the assassination […]

Statements by Russia’s executive director to the IMF, Aleksey Mozhin, to RIA Novosti on May 3, on the possibility of a collapse of the global monetary system and on the work-in-progress for a BRICS unit of account have sparked a debate, including speculations that this will be announced at the October 22-24 BRICS summit in Kazan. In an exclusive interview […]

As a reaction to the weaponization of the US dollar referred to by Jeffrey Sachs, BRICS member countries have increasingly shifted to financing bilateral trade in local currency, notably among the three largest: China, India and Russia. In a May 15 interview with Xinhua on the eve of his visit to China, Vladimir Putin pointed out that Russia-China turnover had […]

On May 14, the Biden Administration announced new tariffs as high as 100% on Chinese electric vehicles, as well as additional import taxes on other Chinese goods, including semiconductors. Washington’s justification? China practices “overcapacity” and “unfair competition”, and its exports threaten US manufacturers. Three days later, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the addition of 26 China-based textile […]

The extent of the urgent need to overhaul Germany’s infrastructure has been calculated in a joint study carried out by two researchers from the German Economic Institute (IW), which is close to the employers association, and two from the Macroeconomics Policy Institute (IMK), which is close to the trade unions. The study, published in the IMK News Brief 168, puts […]

The Parliament of Georgia adopted May 14 the “Transparency of Foreign Influence Act” which requires non governmental organizations (NGOs) receiving over 20% of their funding from abroad to register as foreign agents. Those NGOs that don’t register will be fined. President Salome Zourabichvili, who is very much pro EU and pro NATO, vetoed the bill, but her veto will most […]

The City of London’s media, as we know, tend to be the most open when it comes to expressing the intentions (and illusions) of the main shareholders of the transatlantic “rules-based order”. That is certainly the case in the introduction to The Economist’s cover story this week, written by its editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes. “When I joined The Economist in […]