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Flocking to Kyiv to celebrate the 35th anniversary of Ukraine’s independence from the Soviet Union, leading politicians of the “Coalition of the Willing” met there on Aug. 24. Some of them did not arrive empty-handed; the European Commission, for instance, released an additional €6.1 billion in financial aid for Ukraine. The funds are earmarked for the Ukrainian purchase of new […]

The “Toughest Sanctions in History” sounds like the title of a bad Hollywood western, and an “Economic D-day Assault” sounds like another. But that’s what U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent promised on Aug. 20, in reference to the economic warfare against Iran, that went into effect four days later. “We are going to collapse this regime”, he told CNBC. That will […]

On Aug. 19, an open letter to Pope Leo was issued, calling on the Holy Father to “call for an emergency international summit to guide the world away from the current path of war and potential nuclear disaster and to peacefully resolve the greatest crises facing humanity today. Such an effort would be consistent with your repeated calls for peace […]

Mark Carney, the man who invented “Green Finance” and confessed that the “rules based order” was a cover to loot the world, sent an indirect message to the United States on Aug. 22, warning that “the markets” could be unleashed against Washington. In a press conference called to explain Canada’s reaction to the new U.S. tariffs, he said at one […]

In the period preceding the mid-term elections to the U.S. Congress, the Trump administration and its “strategists” are increasingly desperate not to lose the Republican majority in the House of Representatives and the Senate, despite the growing opposition to Donald Trump’s policies, including among his MAGA base. Some astute observers fear that some sort of “dramatic incident” could be staged, […]

Independent candidate for President of the United States, Diane Sare, issued a statement on Aug. 22, reflecting on the attacks of September 11, 2001 against the World Trade Center in New York, and the fact that a serious, independent investigation has never been carried out into the networks and persons behind those attacks, emphatically those within the United States, as […]

As part of the Israeli government’s scheme to ultimately force Palestinians out of the West Bank, after having devastated Gaza and its population, the Israeli Ministry of Construction and Housing published on Aug. 19 a tender for a first tranche of 1,234 housing units in E1, the roughly 12-square-kilometer corridor between occupied East Jerusalem and the Jewish settlement of Ma’ale […]

August 6 and 9 marked the 81st anniversary of the dropping of the first atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It should have served as a sobering reminder to all of the absolute folly of the use of nuclear weapons, whenever and of whatever form. Precisely that was the purpose of the Aug. 7 weekly meeting of the International Peace […]

On August 7 in Mekkah (Mecca), Saudi Arabia, Türkiye and Pakistan signed a joint defense agreement during a meeting hosted by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman with Türkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. This initiative is yet another reflection of the fundamental shift in international relations taking place, and its ramifications in South-West and […]

The Wall Street Journal claimed on Aug. 10 that President Trump had for weeks been laying the groundwork for declaring victory and walking away from the Iran war, even without an agreement on Iran’s alleged nuclear program, provided Tehran fully reopened the Strait of Hormuz. “But that scaled-back objective became more difficult when Iran insisted Saturday [Aug. 8] on its […]