The Dow shed just over 620 points as markets closed on Friday, sinking more than 2 percent, while the NASDAQ and S&P 500 saw similar losses, declining 2.7 percent and 1.9 percent, respectively. All three benchmarks dropped by more than 3 percent since Monday, seeing their worst week in three …
Read More »China continues to be main driver for oil demand in 2021
The expansion of refining capacity in China—thanks to new refineries from state oil majors and from independent refiners, which were allowed to import crude oil under government-allocated quotas five years ago—has supported global oil demand, even at the price of exacerbating a fuel oversupply in China and increase Chinese exports …
Read More »Caitlin Johnstone: Consent-manufacturing for Patriot Act II continues
It’s been obvious for a long time that the best way to stop the rise of right-wing extremism in America that everyone’s so worried about today is not to pass a bunch of authoritarian laws, but to reverse the policies of soul-crushing neoliberalism and domestic austerity which led to Donald …
Read More »US media continues to try to link Trump to Kremlin, but in reality American Republicans have more in common with Putin’s opponents
As the American House of Representatives completes impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump, efforts continue apace to blame the divisions in American society on Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin. Speaking to the press a day after a mob seized the Capitol building in Washington, the Speaker of the House, …
Read More »US continues its long history of using death squads, this time in Afghanistan. This is nothing but horrifying
According to The Intercept, “Beginning in December 2018 and continuing for at least a year, Afghan operatives believed to belong to an elite CIA-trained paramilitary unit known as 01, in partnership with U.S. special operations forces and air power, unleashed a campaign of terror against civilians.” This unit carried out …
Read More »Venezuela continues selling oil to China despite US sanctions – report
The first tanker to restart the shipping of crude from the shores of the Bolivarian Republic to China was the Kyoto, which loaded 1.8 million barrels of oil at Venezuela’s Jose port in late August, according to data from shipping monitoring service Tanker Trackers, as quoted by Reuters. The data …
Read More »America is not ‘back’ with Biden. It’ll just wear the mask of respectability again as it continues to cause chaos across the world
“America is back!” said Joe Biden this week, as he prepares to take over as president. It’s a sentiment that has, of course, been championed by liberals, but what exactly does it mean? And did America ever really go away? If you ask any critic of Donald Trump, the answer …
Read More »As the German lockdown movement continues to grow, wild claims of Nazi-era laws and Anne Frank comparisons undermine its efforts
German police firing water cannons at several thousand people protesting outside the Reichstag in Berlin over tougher Covid-19 rules is an act that will only intensify the heat of the raging debate, in which efforts to control the virus are likened to actions that enabled the rise of Adolf Hitler. …
Read More »As corruption continues to curse the Catholic Church, no wonder my 11-year-old would rather be a witch than a Christian
As Australian Cardinal George Pell returned to the Vatican this week a free man, after the guilty verdict which saw him spend 13 months in prison in Victoria was overturned, he finds himself embroiled in further scandalas the Roman Catholic Church is torn apart by infighting, jealousy, and greed at …
Read More »‘Never seen anything like it’: UFC sensation Khamzat Chimaev continues rise with ONE-PUNCH KO destruction of Meerschaert (VIDEO)
Chimaev detonated a right-hand flush on Meerschaert’s jaw early in the first round, sending the American staggering backwards against the cage. As Chimaev stepped in with two further shots on his stricken opponent, referee Mark Smith stepped in to stop the fight. Just like that, the Chechen-born Chimaev extended his unbeaten record …
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