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 International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant last week for Russian President Vladimir Putin, while former President Donald Trump announced over the weekend that he expects to be arrested tomorrow.Continue Reading
A street drug called Tranq has spread from Philadelphia to other major cities across the US. It causes disturbing zombie-like behavior and open wounds so severe they can require amputation.
China has pledged to “join forces” with “like-minded” Russia to defend national interests. Step by step, the conflict in Ukraine is transitioning into a world war.
Joe Biden made a surprise visit to Ukraine Monday, meeting with Ukraine’s President Volodomyr Zelensky and promising another $500 million in military aid ahead of the one-year anniversary of Russia’s “special military operation.”
Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin are scheduled to make important speeches tomorrow about the war in Ukraine, one year to the day after Putin’s announcement that Russia recognized the independence of the breakaway regions of eastern Ukraine.Continue Reading
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken made an offer this week to Vladimir Putin, essentially trading the Donbass and Russia’s land bridge to Crimea for peace. Trouble is the Russians don’t believe him.
In a December interview, Germany’s former Chancellor Angela Merkel admitted that the Minsk agreement was not a peace deal, but a ruse to buy time for Ukraine to arm itself for the current proxy war between NATO and Russia.
Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, said this week that Vladimir Putin is fighting globalism, calling Putin “a fighter against the Antichrist” and “chief exorcist.”Continue Reading