Noted columnist Pankaj Mishra calls BRIC a “casual acronym” coined by Goldman Sachs economist Jim O’Neill in 2001 to draw attention to investment opportunities in Brazil, Russia, India and China. But it became much more significant when Russia initiated the formation of the eponymously titled global body in 2009. A …
Read More »Pentagon spells out penalties for National Guard members who refuse vaccination
In a Tuesday memo, Austin restated his claim that vaccination is “essential to the health and readiness of the Force,” and ordered the establishment of “policies and implementation guidance to address the failure to maintain this military medical readiness requirement by members of the non-federalized National Guard who remain unvaccinated.” …
Read More »Russiagate spells trouble for the American ‘Deep State’
The indictment of Igor Danchenko on Thursday is the latest development in the painfully slow unravelling of the conspiracy behind the Russiagate hoax. At the same time, however, it is also a new window into the workings of the so-called ‘deep state’ forces that bought into the lies and wielded …
Read More »New crisis in Kiev: Ukraine’s inflation spike spells trouble for the embattled nation because of its dependence on foreign cash
That’s why it is important that last week, Ukraine’s Central Bank (NBU) announced that year-on-year consumer inflation now exceeds 10%, which has not happened since 2018. In Kiev, this has caused a notable stir in the news cycle. The station Espresso TV, for instance, dedicated a segment of its major …
Read More »Tyson Fury announces birth of new baby – but spells daughter’s name wrong on social media
WBC heavyweight champ Fury and his wife Paris have welcomed their sixth child into the world, after the British bruiser confirmed the birth of his new daughter Athena online. The latest addition to the Fury clan comes just weeks after a Covid-19 outbreak in his camp forced the postponement of …
Read More »US home-made drones are inferior and cost more than the Chinese ones they’ve replaced… and that spells trouble for Biden
Last year the Trump administration took the step of grounding the entire federal government fleet of drones, many of which were made by Chinese company DJI. Amounting to an inventory of more than 800, the White House was concerned they were being used for espionage and demanded that they be …
Read More »Iran’s low voter turnout spells trouble for the future of the Islamic Republic
The 2021 Iranian Presidential election may go down in history as the event that broke the back of Iran’s tumultuous 40-year experiment with “religious democracy,” where the legitimacy of autocratic religious rule is validated by the will of the people as expressed through the vehicle of voter participation. It is …
Read More »Kim Jong-un’s growing nuclear wish-list for North Korea spells trouble for Joe Biden
Four years ago this month, one of the earliest tweets of Donald Trump’s presidency from his now culled Twitter account stated, “North Korea just stated it is in the final stages of developing a nuclear weapon capable of reaching parts of the US. It won’t happen!” Famous last words, as …
Read More »Capitol riot spells the end for Trump with the Republicans. But he’s still a hero to many, so why not start a party of his own?
Clearly, the word ‘tensions’ fails to describe the political situation in America. The contested presidential election exacerbated bitter antagonisms between the Trump contingent and ‘the resistance’, rending, perhaps irreparably, what had already been a severely frayed social and political fabric. At a rally organized by Women for America First, the …
Read More »China’s new digital currency spells the end for the US dollar’s global dominance and will change the world as we know it
For several years now, China has been developing the digital yuan, the first cryptocurrency from a central bank and government in the world. And it’s nearing completion. Chinese online retailer JD recently began accepting it as a payment method as the government trials its use by giving citizens up to $3 …
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