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In a sane world, a country’s ability to produce more than it needs for its immediate domestic consumption, and therefore has enough to export to the rest of the world, would be considered a positive sign of productivity and growth. Not for the City of London and Wall Street. And not for the Trump administration, which initiated in March investigations […]

An impressive list of 1,293 employees of frontier AI companies have signed a statement titled “Pacing the Frontier”, that calls on the U.S. government to cooperate in international governance of AI development. This follows a recent incident that underscored the dangers of an uncontrolled technology. The signers include Anthropic’s CEO, Dario Amodei; the head of research at OpenAI; the head […]

It came as no surprise last week when three leading companies of the German automobile sector announced very bad news, namely Mercedes, BMW and VARTA. Q2 profits at Mercedes, the “last man standing” among German automakers, were 26% lower than the same quarter in 2025. Losses were mainly in the car production branch, compensated – a sign of the times […]

On July 20, 2026, leading figures from military, political and academic circles attended the annual ceremony in Berlin commemorating the assassination attempt of July 20, 1944, to overthrow the Hitler Nazi regime. The event, which also serves as an oath-taking ceremony for the new Bundeswehr recruits, usually features a speech reflecting on that failed attempt, given by a special guest […]

Just as U.S. President Trump had suspended attacks on Iran on July 24, after 13 days of strikes, a major provocation was launched by President Zelenskyy and his western backers the next day, aimed at merging the conflicts in Southwest Asia and in Ukraine into one major world war. Ukrainian drones hit vessels in the Caspian Sea headed to Iran, […]

After 13 nights of strikes on Iran, President Trump said on July 24 he would “pause” attacks to allow more space for diplomacy, although the Iranian leadership has stated that no talks are underway. Many suspect, including the New York Times, that the U.S. “lull” is due more to the lack of U.S. military hardware and precision munitions and to […]

Celso Amorim, Special Advisor to Brazilian President Lula da Silva, has played a key role in the BRICS, of which Brazil is a founding member, and in Brazil’s relations to China and to other countries of the Global South for decades now. In an interview with EIR’s Dennis Small on July 24, he emphasized that peace and development are indivisible, […]

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva delivered a sharp warning to the Trump administration in an opinion column published in the Washington Post of July 26. U.S. tariffs, he charged, are an openly-declared act of interference in Brazil’s elections, and if that policy does not change, Brazil will look elsewhere for trade, investment and friendly relations. The interference is […]

Contrary to public perception that the Federal Reserve continues to reduce its holdings of securities on its balance sheet, the Fed is in fact in full bailout mode, with a balance sheet back up to $6.7 trillion. While still selling off much smaller amounts of mortgage-backed securities, it is buying up – bailing out—far larger amounts of short-term Treasury Bills […]

On July 22, the European Union declared “dual use” sanctions against 14 entities in China over alleged links to Russia, to which China responded the following day, with sanctions against 14 entities in the EU, including defense sector heavyweights such as Germany’s Rheinmetall, France’s Cavok UAS and Italy’s Lafert. Under the export control law of June 2025, the Chinese government […]