Month: July 2026

“On July 14 at Baikonur, the heads of the American and Russian space agencies stood side by side — the first such meeting on that soil in nearly eight years — and launched a crew, two Russians and an American, toward the one outpost where their nations have never stopped cooperating. That same morning in the Strait of Hormuz, a […]

In an interview to the Swiss publication Weltwoche on July 18, German General Harald Kujat, former Chairman of the NATO Military Committee, warned against the military buildup against Russia in the following terms: “We are dealing with a nuclear power — namely, the largest nuclear power on this Earth. Through the use of nuclear weapons, we are capable of bringing […]

The conflict in the Middle East has dangerously escalated over the past week, with the U.S. conducting air attacks nightly on targets in Iran, and Iran responding by hitting American military installations in the Gulf countries and in Jordan. According to Tehran, attacks on civilian infrastructure, including power plants, desalination plants and transportation routes, have increased significantly. President Trump himself […]

It can be debated which will run out first: U.S. ammunition or the strategic oil reserves. Not debatable is that they will both run out, if the current war against Iran continues. At the current pace, strategic oil and gas reserves will hit the operational floor by September/October. So far, corporate and government strategic reserves have replaced the missing oil […]

After a multi-week selloff, Bloomberg confessed what insiders knew all along: the data center bonds of the biggest “AI firms” are essentially junk bonds. On every world market, according to Bloomberg, debt issued by the largest data center builders exhibit falling prices, wider spreads above landmark Treasury securities, underperforming bonds in the red, “among the worst performers in the indexes […]

Similar to the “Big Five” U.S. banks, Swiss megabank UBS shows a hypertrophic growth of its revenues in investment banking, while its lending activities stagnate. First quarter 2026 figures show a 27% gain in revenue from the investment banking sector and no growth for lending. In other words, the amount of fictitious assets has increased massively, while credits to households […]

Jacques Cheminade, President of Solidarité et Progrès in France, was invited to address the party congress of the Civil Rights Movement Solidarity (BüSo), that took place in Frankfurt on July 11, where he presented the common mission of the two parties in this turbulent situation. Franco-German relations today, he said, are at a historical low level. “Our governments agree on […]

While claiming to defend the “basic values of democratic society”, German political leaders and national security officials are engaged in a number of legislative projects that in fact trample on these values. Take the reform of the “freedom of information”, which would force persons or institutions posing a query on a matter classified as “sensitive” by the government to disclose […]

On July 16, Russia and China celebrated the 25th anniversary of the “Russian-Chinese Treaty of Good-Neighborliness, Friendship, and Cooperation”, which both countries agree has brought considerable benefits to both. Chinese scholar Cui Heng reviewed those benefits for the Global Times on the same, stressing that the strategic coordination between China and Russia has proven “immune to attempts by external powers […]

As we finish our newsletter, the conflict between the United States and Iran has flared up once again. The overriding issue is the Strait of Hormuz, with the original motivation for the U.S.-Israeli war of aggression begun on Feb. 28, namely to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons, has been kicked down the road. Clearly, the first bombing campaign did […]