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The good news about the general elections held on Sept. 25 in Italy is that voters have unequivocally punished Mario Draghi and his legacy; the bad news is that “Draghism”, while kicked out from the main door, might come back through the window. The elections were won by the center-right alliance, with 43.79% in the Chamber of Deputies and 44.2% […]

Italy experienced the fiercest foreign meddling in elections ever, with the possible exception of 1948, when her place in the western camp was at stake, threatened by a possible victory of the Popular Front. Giorgia Meloni, leader of the Fratelli d’Italia party and most probably the new Prime Minister, had outdone herself in swearing allegiance to NATO, to the U.S. […]

Faced with double digit inflation and runaway cost of living, the United Kingdom is facing a very hot autumn under the leadership of what some investors call a “doomsday cult” . On Sept. 23, Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng and Prime Minister Liz Truss announced the government’s “mini budget”. It includes a tax cut for the rich, which will slash 45 billion […]

Contradicting the German government’s narrative that “we have everything under control”, virtually all business associations, big and small, have sounded the alarm: the country may well be heading into an unprecedented economic disaster. The same could be said of all other European countries that have voluntarily cut themselves off from Russian gas supplies thought sanctions, coming on top of the […]

Lost in all the chatter about “defending Ukrainian democracy” coming from officials in the U.S. and U.K. governments and spokesmen for the European Union is a simple reality that these fraudsters are doing their best to keep hidden: the post-coup governments of Ukraine — including that of Zelensky — have moved to silence all domestic opposition, by shutting down press […]

The United Nations General Assembly this year was largely overshadowed by the NATO-Russia conflict in Ukraine and the growing danger of a wider war. However, the developing nations did not go along with the Russia-bashing and secondarily the China-bashing tirades of a number of transatlantic leaders and their defense of the use of economic sanctions. U.S. President Biden delivered his […]

On Sept. 13, the government of Ukraine presented its proposed Kiev Security Compact, which demands NATO Article 5-type guarantees for Ukraine. That means, concretely, that NATO should directly deploy its full military might against Russia, on Ukraine’s behalf. The document was drafted by a working group on security co-chaired by Ukraine’s Chief of the Presidential Office Andrii Yermak and former […]

The heads of state of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), meeting in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Sept. 15-16, took the occasion to reaffirm the need for mutual economic development and their rejection of a “unipolar world” dictated from the West. It was stressed during the event that the member countries (China, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Pakistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan – soon to […]

At the Shanghai Cooperation Organization meeting on Sept. 16, President Putin announced that Russia was ready to provide to poor countries, free of charge, the some 300 tons of Russian fertilizers that are now sitting stranded in European ports due to the EU sanctions. During his discussion with Antonio Guterres on Sept.14, he said, he had asked the UN Secretary […]

As soon as Queen Elizabeth’s coffin was lowered into the Royal Vault, a major strike wave began throughout the United Kingdom that will eventually involve more than 170,000 unionists. On the evening of Sept. 19, the Liverpool dockworkers launched a two week strike action, shutting down one of the UK’s largest ports, which handles over half a million containers a […]