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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 […]

The Belgian police raided the flat on Nov. 7 of former European Parliament Member Tatjana Ždanoka in Brussels, on a search order, issued by a Belgian judge, at the request of Latvia’s general prosecutor. As Ms. Ždanoka explained in an October interview she gave to EIR, the accusations raised against her are purely political, namely that she has been involved […]

In the early morning hours of Nov. 6, the news broke that Donald Trump had won the U.S. presidential election, while the late afternoon headlines announced the collapse of Germany’s three-party coalition government. The dismissal of Finance Minister Christian Lindner and the exit of his FDP from the coalition left Chancellor Olaf Scholz as head of a minority government of […]

Italian State President Sergio Mattarella’s visit to China November 7-12 marked a shift away from the EU’s anti-China policy. It took place after the U.S. elections, undoubtedly in the expectation that Italy-U.S. relations would be different in the Trump 2.0 era. It was under the first Trump administration, in fact, that Washington did not interfere in Italy’s decision to join […]

In France, where some 5 million people regularly consume cannabis and over 600,000 cocaine, the drug trade has spiraled out of control. In 2023, 315 people, of which 49 in Marseilles alone, were shot in drug-related crimes and shootouts. Drug traffickers, thanks to the use of smartphones, as well as associates and corrupted officials, are able to keep organizing the […]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been working out of a bunker under the Prime Minister’s office for security reasons, but it can also be seen as a metaphor, since mounting legal troubles could soon send him to a secure room in an Israeli prison. More serious than the three cases of bribery, fraud and breach of trust already running […]

It is no exaggeration to say that the world is currently experiencing the most profound crisis in its entire history, if only because the escalation of any regional conflict into a global war, involving the all but certain use of nuclear weapons, would lead to the annihilation of the human species. The outcome of the U.S. Presidential election, whatever it […]