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On May 26, Switzerland abruptly withdrew from negotiations to expand relations with the European Union over fears of the erosion of national sovereignty. The decision was taken shortly before a June 13 national referendum on the proposed reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, which would increase energy and other prices. The withdrawal is seen as yet another failure for the hapless […]

Robert Habeck, the Co-Chairman of the German Green Party, proved once again, during his visit to Kiev on May 25, that the once anti-war, flower-power movement has moved resolutely into the camp of the war party. During his meeting with President Volodymr Zelensky, Habeck assured Ukrainian leaders that their request for NATO « defensive » weapons was justified to defend […]

At the first “Climate Dialogues” webinar on May 26, organized by the Padua Association of Engineers and by Galileo magazine, Italian climate scientists exposed the biased climate models used by the IPCC to justify a so-called “climate emergency”, finding the Russian and Chinese climate models more balanced. They also warned that the new IPCC report, expected to be released soon, […]

Since Belarus President Lukashenko forced a Ryan Air jet to land in the Minsk airport on May 24 and proceeded to have “journalist” Roman Protasevich arrested, trans-Atlantic policitians and media have been falling over one another to denounce the “outrageous”, “inadmissible” violation of international law and human rights by a bloody-thirsty dictator, who must have been acting on the orders […]

On May 30, the Danish public radio station DR revealed that the Danish military intelligence (FE) service had collaborated between 2012 and 2014 with the U.S. National Security Agency to spy on European political leaders in Germany, France, Sweden and Norway, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and former Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier. The FE was giving the NSA access to […]

On May 26, Joe Biden announced that he has directed the US intelligence community to investigate the origins of the Covid19 pandemic and report back to him in 90 days. The announcement came after the emergence of presumably “new” elements pointing to a possible leak of the virus from the Wuhan laboratory, and is clearly aimed at increasing political pressure […]

The Global Health Summit on May 21-24 in Rome was more of a propaganda stunt for the EU and global multinational institutions than anything else. It was co-sponsored by the Italian Presidency of the Group of 20, and the EU Commission, with Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi and Commission President Ursula von der Leyen presiding. At the end, the so-called […]

One day before U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken began a tour of the Middle East on May 25, a spokesman for the State Department announced that he would be “focused primarily on ensuring that the cease-fire sticks”. Blinken himself had told CNN on May 23 that the goal of the U.S., with “President Biden leading the effort”, was “to […]

Major media, including the Washington Post, the New York Times and the Guardian for example –which align with the war hawks in both parties – imply that Joe Biden’s his seeming disinterest in the Middle East stems from being “wrapped up in domestic issues”, and by the continued “pivot to Asia”. But this is a diversion, away from the “bigger […]

The Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA) has just issued a report outlining how the world can meet the goal of reducing carbon emissions worldwide to a net zero by 2050, which is the goal expected to be set at the COP26 conference next November. The IEA describes itself as an “autonomous intergovernmental agency operating within the OECD framework,” but its […]