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On Dec. 7, the national Journalists Club of Mexico issued their annual awards to 46 Mexican and international journalists, media and institutions chosen by a 20-person independent jury for their exemplary journalism and for work on behalf of freedom of speech. The Schiller Institute received the award for “Fostering freedom of expression from the academic realm”. The master of ceremonies […]

Some leading voices in Europe, especially among military experts, may be looking for a way out of what has become NATO’s full-fledged war against Russia, if only to stop the economic debacle in their own countries (see below). But that is apparently not the case with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and her crew, who are intent on […]

German Chancellor Scholz initiated a telephone call with Russian President Putin on Dec. 2, for their first conversation since last September. Both leaders reportedly stressed their interest in talks to end the Ukrainian conflict. Vladimir Putin called on Germany to no longer take part in “flooding the Kiev regime with weapons and training Ukrainian troops”, noting that as a result […]

Reality is often more surrealistic than fiction. On Nov. 30, FTX chief fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried was featured in the New York Times’ annual Dealbook Summit, a major “financial analytical” event, along with Volodymyr Zelensky, Mark Zuckerberg, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and BlackRock CEO Larry Fink. The composition of the panel is weird in itself, but then again we are used […]

Culminating a two-year investigation dubbed “Desert Light”, the EU’s Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) has busted at least partially one of the “super cartels” inundating Europe with cocaine. Between Nov. 8 and 19, coordinated raids were carried out by the relevant authorities of Spain, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, the Emirates and the United States. A breakthrough in the investigation […]

In an article titled “How Peter Thiel bets on cannabis” the French economic daily Les Echos wrote in 2018 that Peter Thiel, a U.S. libertarian billionaire, “was the first venture capitalist to invest in the legal cannabis market”. A co-founder of Paypal and an early investor in Facebook, Thiel is most known for creating, with CIA funding, the AI firm […]

As Russia delivers devastating attacks on Ukraine’s vital infrastructure and energy supplies, the government, presumably on orders from the West, is still refusing to negotiate and insists it will fight to the last man. NATO officials continue to bluster that “we will stay by your side until victory”. But weapons supplies are running out, faster than the military industrial complex […]

On Dec. 9-10, 2021, when Russian President Putin was demanding a response from NATO leaders to what French President Macron now admits were legitimate security concerns, the transatlantic governments ignored the Russian leader, instead gathering for what they ostentatiously called the “Summit for Democracy.” The online summit was used to divide the world into two blocs, of “democracies” squaring off […]

The weapons pipeline to Ukraine, fed extensively by the U.S. and its European allies, has at least one confirmed outflow in Africa. Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari told the 16th Summit of the Heads of State and Government of the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC) in Abuja on Nov. 29 that the Russia/Ukraine conflict and other violent situations in the Sahel region […]

Amid all the depressing talk of energy scarcity and soaring prices, it is refreshing to hear in China, at least, serious efforts are being made to develop a new, unlimited source for the not-so-distant future. China’s Science and Technology Daily reported Nov. 28 on the status of the Comprehensive Research Facility for Fusion Technology (CRAFT) now being built at the Hefei […]