Win-Win for Xi
The handshake between the foreign ministers of Iran and Saudi Arabia in Beijing represents a major win for China and another blow to American interests in the Middle East and Asia.
The handshake between the foreign ministers of Iran and Saudi Arabia in Beijing represents a major win for China and another blow to American interests in the Middle East and Asia.
Last week, China and Brazil agreed to settle payments for trade in yuan and real, bypassing the US dollar. This is the latest in a series of events pointing to the imminent end of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency.
Liberals in Israel celebrated China brokering the restoration of relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran, seeing it as a setback for Benjamin Netanyahu. But cooperation between the world’s main Sunni and Shia powers is nothing to cheer.Continue Reading
The House Oversight Committee revealed a $3 million payment from a Chinese energy company to an associate of the Biden family just after Joe Biden ended his term as vice president, and that more than $1 million went to members of the Biden family.Continue Reading
Silicon Valley Bank was seized by the federal government Friday in rather spectacular fashion, the second largest bank collapse in US history. What happens next?
ONE OF THE LARGEST banks in America went belly-up Friday, leading to questions about how far this financial contagion will spread.Continue Reading
China is openly preparing for war while the US is entangled in the proxy war in Ukraine and Congress votes to keep American soldiers in Syria.
A FORMER U.S. ARMY SOLDIER in a neo-Nazi cult has been sentenced to 45 years in prison for plotting to kill his unit in a deadly ambush.Continue Reading
The Russian military claimed Monday that the US and its allies are planning a false flag chemical attack in the Donetsk region of Ukraine. We have no way to corroborate or debunk the claim; just pray that this isn’t a step toward the war going global.
ARCHAEOLOGISTS IN EGYPT announced the discovery of a copy of the Book of the Dead. This seems fitting, given some of the news of the past week.Continue Reading
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