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One of the most important and controversial panels at this year’s Moscow Economic Forum, April 1-2, was entitled: “Is it Time To Nationalize the Central Bank of Russia?” A very timely issue for the MEF, which was founded in 2013 by businessmen and economists, including from the Russian Academy of Sciences, as an alternative to the neoliberal-dominated economic forums dating […]

Tentative new Chancellor Friedrich Merz cannot avoid granting some concessions to the Social Democrats (SPD) in return for forming a coalition government with his Christian Democrats. But there are a number of rebels within his party who threaten not to vote for him as Chancellor if he does make those concessions. In an interview April 7 with Süddeutsche Zeitung, Johannes […]

Javier Milei, who took over the presidency of Argentina on Dec. 10, 2023, describes himself as an “anarcho-capitalist” and a strict adherent of the Austrian school of economics, of Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich von Hayek, who believes that the state must be reduced to a minimum, so that power is in the hands of a private, financial establishment. He […]

On March 29, the New York Times published an extraordinarily long, 13,000-word report entitled “The Partnership: The Secret History of the War in Ukraine.” In the introduction, it reports that the investigation by Adam Entous, is based on more than 300 interviews with government, military and intelligence officials in Ukraine, the United States, Britain, Germany, Poland, Belgium, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia […]

Over the past weeks, there has been a growing drumbeat around Washington urging the Trump administration to use the recent U.S. air strikes against the Houthis in Yemen as a prelude and practice run for delivering a knock-out punch to Iran. National Security Adviser Mike Waltz threatened on March 23 that Tehran had to change its foreign policy and “walk […]

In remarks to NBC News on March 29, President Trump said he had no intention of firing National Security Adviser Mike Waltz or anybody else over the Signalgate scandal, which had broken a few days before. “I do not fire people because of fake news and because of witch hunts,” he stated, adding in vintage Trump style: “I have no […]

Despite their blatant failures until now, French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer have kept up the pretense of forming a “coalition of the willing” to continue to support Ukraine’s war effort without the United States. After the latest meeting in Paris on March 27, Emmanuel Macron conceded that the potential volunteers were not willing to support […]

In an interview with Russia’s Channel One on March 25, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had blistering words for European leaders, which put in perspective the latter’s self-inflated claims. He noted that while the Trump administration seeks dialogue and is receptive to Moscow’s need for “clear-cut guarantees”, “Europe went down a completely different path. Like in the times of Napoleon […]

The EU “RearmEurope” plan and the German rearmament plan are officially motivated by two emergencies: the Russian military threat and Donald Trump’s intention to deprive Europe of the American nuclear umbrella. Don’t believe it. In reality, the current drive for a war economy is the latest phase of a permanent bailout of the international financial system, the most recent stage […]

In a much-awaited verdict, a Paris court ruled on March 31 that Marine Le Pen, the leader of France’s National Rally (RN), was guilty of embezzlement of public funds, and banned her from running for public office for a period of five years – with immediate effect. Marine Le Pen immediately announced she would file an appeal against the « politically […]