Month: November 2024

While there was across-the-board dismay among trans-Atlantic establishment figures over Donald Trump’s election victory, his first appointments to cabinet positions have provoked profound panic. Among the most controversial are his selection of Representative Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican, as Attorney General, and former Congresswoman and former Democratic Party presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard, as Director of National Intelligence. As Republicans now […]

According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the word “deranged” means “mentally unsound”. During the first Trump Administration, the reactions from his opponents in the liberal establishment were so hysterical, that someone created the expression “Trump Derangement Syndrome” to indicate their state of mind – a clinical illness. That term also describes the reaction of the European liberal establishment to Donald Trump’s […]

The past days have brought one disastrous headline after another concerning pilot projects of the German economy’s “green transition”. A few days ago came the news of the insolvency of the site in Lubmin of the Hamburg-based HH2E company, which had been tasked by Economic Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) with becoming the pioneer of “green hydrogen” production in the country. […]

This year’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit brought together leaders of the 21 member states bordering the Pacific on Nov. 16-17 in Peru, in one of President Biden’s last diplomatic interventions, together with the G20, before leaving office. Although he may have been hoping to make a gratifying final entrance, the smashing defeat of his Vice President in the Nov. 5 […]

The Nov. 14, 2024 inauguration of the Chancay Port project, a joint venture of Peru and China, has finally brought the Belt and Road Initiative to the Americas. Located just 80 km north of Lima on Peru’s Pacific coast, the mega-port is set to become the gateway for the rapidly growing Chinese and Asian trade and investment in Peru and […]

From day one, the 29th edition of the UN Climate Change Conference went very badly for the Western oligarchy that deploys the climate lobby. First of all, it’s being held, from Nov. 11-22, in oil-rich Azerbaijan, one of the top ten petrostates in the world, that depends on oil and gas for over 90% of its exports and whose national […]

At the COP26 in Glasgow in 2021, a group of Western countries (U.S., U.K., EU, France, Germany, with the Netherlands and Denmark) pledged $8.5 billion in aid to South Africa to compensate for NOT developing its abundant hydrocarbon resources. The much-touted initiative was called: “The Just Energy Transition (JET) from coal to cleaner energy sources in a fair and equitable […]

With the landslide victory of Donald Trump in the United States, the fall of the German government, and the rallying of a growing number of nations around the BRICS, we are at a moment in history fraught with great potential but also great danger. The old neo-liberal order is crumbling rapidly, which may prompt the “military-financial complex” to strike back, […]

While the pundits and pollsters were pouring out analyses up to the last minute asserting the presidential election was too close to call, Donald Trump ended up with a margin of victory which left many of them speechless. In addition to the electoral votes (312 against 226 for Kamala Harris), he won the popular vote by more than three million […]

Speaking at the Valdai Discussion Club on Nov. 7, Russian President Vladimir Putin reviewed in depth the state of international relations today, emphasizing the role of the BRICS and the Global South in bringing about a world order that is polyphonic. His considerations should be taken into account by those in the West who continue to cling to the myth […]