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On November 21, the Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court unanimously issued two decisions: it rejected challenges by the State of Israel brought under articles 18 and 19 of the Rome Statute and issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Defense Minister until very recently, Yoav Gallant, as well as against Hamas commander, Mohammed […]

Presidents Xi Jinping and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva used the Chinese President’s state visit to Brazil Nov. 20 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of bilateral relations by mapping out plans for even greater cooperation over next 50 years. Xi called their meetings “very productive,” and spoke of 50 “golden years” to come, while Lula told Brazilians afterwards that the […]

The decision reportedly taken by a lame duck President Biden to allow Ukraine to use ATACMS ballistic missiles for strikes into Russian territory, initially limited to the Kursk region, means the world may be only days away from an unstoppable escalation. Since such tactical missile systems, just like the German Taurus and the British Storm Shadow, cannot be operated by […]

While there was across-the-board dismay among trans-Atlantic establishment figures over Donald Trump’s election victory, his first appointments to cabinet positions have provoked profound panic. Among the most controversial are his selection of Representative Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican, as Attorney General, and former Congresswoman and former Democratic Party presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard, as Director of National Intelligence. As Republicans now […]

According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the word “deranged” means “mentally unsound”. During the first Trump Administration, the reactions from his opponents in the liberal establishment were so hysterical, that someone created the expression “Trump Derangement Syndrome” to indicate their state of mind – a clinical illness. That term also describes the reaction of the European liberal establishment to Donald Trump’s […]

The past days have brought one disastrous headline after another concerning pilot projects of the German economy’s “green transition”. A few days ago came the news of the insolvency of the site in Lubmin of the Hamburg-based HH2E company, which had been tasked by Economic Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) with becoming the pioneer of “green hydrogen” production in the country. […]

This year’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit brought together leaders of the 21 member states bordering the Pacific on Nov. 16-17 in Peru, in one of President Biden’s last diplomatic interventions, together with the G20, before leaving office. Although he may have been hoping to make a gratifying final entrance, the smashing defeat of his Vice President in the Nov. 5 […]

The Nov. 14, 2024 inauguration of the Chancay Port project, a joint venture of Peru and China, has finally brought the Belt and Road Initiative to the Americas. Located just 80 km north of Lima on Peru’s Pacific coast, the mega-port is set to become the gateway for the rapidly growing Chinese and Asian trade and investment in Peru and […]

From day one, the 29th edition of the UN Climate Change Conference went very badly for the Western oligarchy that deploys the climate lobby. First of all, it’s being held, from Nov. 11-22, in oil-rich Azerbaijan, one of the top ten petrostates in the world, that depends on oil and gas for over 90% of its exports and whose national […]

At the COP26 in Glasgow in 2021, a group of Western countries (U.S., U.K., EU, France, Germany, with the Netherlands and Denmark) pledged $8.5 billion in aid to South Africa to compensate for NOT developing its abundant hydrocarbon resources. The much-touted initiative was called: “The Just Energy Transition (JET) from coal to cleaner energy sources in a fair and equitable […]