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America could face destruction because of controversial financial policy

11:52 01.07.2024

America could face destruction because of controversial financial policy

America's status as the world's greatest power will end for the same reason as its predecessors – crushed by a mountain of debt that politicians find convenient to ignore, historians have warned. Harvard history professor Niall Ferguson warns that the US is facing the same decline from dominance that affected …

Reuters: Russian oil and gas revenues set to rise by 50% in June

11:51 01.07.2024

Reuters: Russian oil and gas revenues set to rise by 50% in June

Russia's oil and gas revenue in June is set to rise by more than 50% year on year to $9.4 billion, Reuters calculations showed, after a decrease in subsidies to refineries and reflecting the Russian economy's ability to limit the impact of sanctions. These revenues have been the most important …

‘Showbiz411’ about a sad final: “MTV.com is gone. Kaput. Wiped off the face of the Earth”

9:10 30.06.2024

‘Showbiz411’ about a sad final: “MTV.com is gone. Kaput. Wiped off the face of the Earth”

Paramount Erases Archives of MTV Website, Wipes Music, Culture History After 30 Plus Years, writes Showbiz411. MTV.com is gone. Kaput. Wiped off the face of the Earth Parent company Paramount, formerly Viacom, has tossed twenty plus years of news archives. All that’s left is a placeholder site for reality shows. …

WP: 10 options if Democrats actually try to replace Biden

9:09 30.06.2024

WP: 10 options if Democrats actually try to replace Biden

The Democratic Party has spent much of the 2024 campaign burying its head in the sand over Americans’ concerns about President Biden’s age and mental sharpness. Rather than reckon with the problem, its most influential voices have cast it as an overblown media construct. But the party abruptly jerked its …

‘The New York Times’ Editorial Board: “To serve his country, President Biden should leave the race”

9:08 30.06.2024

‘The New York Times’ Editorial Board: “To serve his country, President Biden should leave the race”

President Biden has repeatedly and rightfully described the stakes in this November’s presidential election as nothing less than the future of American democracy, insists the Editorial Board of ‘The New York Times’. Mr. Biden has said that he is the candidate with the best chance of taking on this threat …

Matteo Salvini on EU summit appointments: “What is happening smells like a coup”

9:08 30.06.2024

Matteo Salvini on EU summit appointments: “What is happening smells like a coup”

“What is happening” regarding personnel appointments in the leadership of the European Union “smells like a coup,” said the leader of the Italian League and Deputy Prime Minister of the Italian Government Matteo Salvini (photo). “Millions of Europeans voted and called for changing Europe. What do those who make the …

Sergey Lavrov: “The West should wait until this madness subsides… When they think they are ready, they should come to us. We will listen to them and respond, but our reaction will depend…”

21:00 29.06.2024

Sergey Lavrov: “The West should wait until this madness subsides… When they think they are ready, they should come to us. We will listen to them and respond, but our reaction will depend…”

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to questions at the Primakov Readings International Forum, Moscow, June 26, 2024: “Mr Dynkin, Colleagues, Your Excellencies, Friends, I am happy to be able to address you at the 10th Primakov Readings forum. Your respected platform traditionally brings together politicians, experts, diplomats, academics …

The end of the petrodollar is the end of America’s global dominance

10:24 29.06.2024

The end of the petrodollar is the end of America’s global dominance

The petrodollar agreement with Saudi Arabia began in 1974, two years into Joe Biden’s first term as a United States senator. It ended, a half-century later, during Biden’s first term as U.S. president, writes ‘The Federalist’. Among all the news stories that matter, few rank higher than this. It’s bigger …

View from Washington: Putin’s peace offer. The Biden administration might try to use it

10:22 29.06.2024

View from Washington: Putin’s peace offer. The Biden administration might try to use it

Putin’s proposal seems designed for rejection. But the U.S. should not reject his peace feelers out of hand, notes James W. Carden, a contributing editor to ‘The American Conservative’ and a former adviser to the U.S. State Department. Russian president Vladimir Putin laid out a series of conditions that he …

A museum in Oxford will conduct a research project into the 'political nature' of milk and its 'colonial legacies'

10:21 29.06.2024

A museum in Oxford will conduct a research project into the 'political nature' of milk and its 'colonial legacies'

Now experts are asking whether milk is racist as part of a tax-payer funded research project into connections between milk and colonialism? Academics at a museum in Oxford will conduct a tax-payer funded research project into the 'political nature' of milk and its 'colonial legacies.' The History of Science Museum …

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