Six new member states will be added to BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) in January. The combined GDP of the expanded bloc will be about $65 trillion, or 37% of global GDP, compared to 30% for the G7, which includes the US and UK.

Continue Reading

The government of Hawaii’s bizarre response to the West Maui disaster is raising more questions than it answers. Why is Gov. Josh Green blocking media access to the site and information about the investigation into how the fires started?

Continue Reading

The Washington Post, citing intelligence sources, reports that Ukraine’s counteroffensive will fail to reach its main goal, a key city in the southeastern part of the country, despite a wide range of weapons and military hardware from the US and NATO.Continue Reading

The US economy is in trouble, with nations abandoning the dollar to settle trades, the real estate market crashing, and the number of homeless Americans increasing at a record pace.

Continue Reading

The Taliban has reduced cultivation of opium poppies in Afghanistan, which produces 90% of the world’s heroin, by up to 99% in some provinces. Experts are calling this the greatest narcotics eradication program in human history.

Continue Reading

The co-founder of Wikipedia said in an interview this week that CIA and FBI computers have been used to manipulate the online encyclopedia since at least 2008, making it “the most biased encyclopedia in history.”

Continue Reading

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm had a one-on-one talk with a high-ranking energy official in China two days before the Biden administration released 50 million barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve—some of which went to China.

Continue Reading

Donald Trump has been indicted by a federal grand jury on four counts related to his efforts to challenge the results of the 2020 election. Essentially, Special Counsel Jack Smith is using the courts as a do-over for two unsuccessful impeachment trials.

Continue Reading