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British life-style: UK pensioners left on ‘financial cliff edge’ by cuts to winter fuel payments

10:59 08.08.2024

British life-style: UK pensioners left on ‘financial cliff edge’ by cuts to winter fuel payments

Tens of thousands of pensioners are on a financial cliff edge because of the government’s decision to radically restrict winter fuel payments, a new analysis has revealed. The chancellor, Rachel Reeves, opted to introduce a means test for the payments, with only those on pension credit qualifying, stating it was …

Mali cuts Ukraine ties over alleged aiding of terrorist attack – Ukraine assisted

11:33 07.08.2024

Mali cuts Ukraine ties over alleged aiding of terrorist attack – Ukraine assisted

Mali’s military leadership severed diplomatic ties with Ukraine over its alleged backing of a Malian Tuareg rebel group that carried out an attack in which scores of government troops and Russian Wagner group killed, Bloomberg informs. More than two dozen mercenaries from the Russia-backed Wagner Group and Malian soldiers were …

Alastair Crooke: “Is there a risk that Kamala Harris might “go soft” on foreign policy?”

11:32 07.08.2024

Alastair Crooke: “Is there a risk that Kamala Harris might “go soft” on foreign policy?”

Extraordinary Times: Biden renounces his election bid via in the slimmest of Sunday afternoon postings; retreats into a silence which finally is broken by a ‘long farewell’ pronounced from the Oval Office. Biden’s staff didn’t hear of his renunciation until a minute before his letter was posted. Then the internet …

Paul Krugman: The US economy is looking pre-recessionary

11:31 07.08.2024

Paul Krugman: The US economy is looking pre-recessionary

The United States probably (probably) hasn’t entered a recession yet. But the economy is definitely looking pre-recessionary. And policymakers — which right now basically means the Federal Reserve — need to move quickly to head off the risks of serious economic deterioration, writes at ‘The New York Times’ Paul Krugman, …

View from Canada: “We were in the presence of an attempt of the international far right and the CIA to overthrow the government of Venezuela”

11:22 07.08.2024

View from Canada: “We were in the presence of an attempt of the international far right and the CIA to overthrow the government of Venezuela”

Once again, as in 2002, Venezuela has been the victim of a combined media and diplomatic coup attempt, but this time with the added element of organized crime and a cyber-attack, writes María Páez Victor, Ph.D., a Venezuelan born sociologist living in Canada, at Counter Punch. Millions of eligible voters …

The “NATO-ization” of the Asia-Pacific region

11:49 06.08.2024

The “NATO-ization” of the Asia-Pacific region

A series of bilateral and multilateral meetings were held in Tokyo, including the meeting of US-Japan Security Consultative Committee, known as the "2+2" security talks, the US-Japan-South Korea Trilateral Ministerial Meeting and the Quad Ministerial Meeting that was held from Sunday to Monday, writes ‘The Global Times’. US Secretary of …

Financial markets collapse

11:44 06.08.2024

Financial markets collapse

Financial markets across most asset classes collapsed in value this morning as the realization of global conditions engineered by the globalistas finally forced its way into the mindset of traders across the planet. The music has stopped. Finally. Global war, the collapse of the Bretton-Woods financial system that was created …

‘The Economist’: Which countries would be most affected by a second Trump term?

11:43 06.08.2024

‘The Economist’: Which countries would be most affected by a second Trump term?

If Donald Trump wins a second term in November’s election, major shifts in American policy would follow. The Republican platform — a 16-page document that provides insight into how Mr Trump could lead — calls for a massive programme to deport undocumented immigrants and tighter controls on who comes into …

USA-UK-German plans to target Russia by new missiles

11:25 05.08.2024

USA-UK-German plans to target Russia by new missiles

Sources told UK media that Britain has partnered up with Germany to develop and deploy a new intermediate-range missile designed to target Russia’s nuclear arsenal, ‘Sputnik Globe’ informs. UK Defense Secretary John Healey spoke to his German counterpart in Berlin on Wednesday about a plan to jointly develop a new …

View from Washington: The potential for retaliatory escalation of the Ukrainian war creeps higher

11:24 05.08.2024

View from Washington: The potential for retaliatory escalation of the Ukrainian war creeps higher

The U.S. and Europe must wrap up their dangerous proxy war as soon as possible, stresses Doug Bandow, a former Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan at ‘The American Conservative’. As the United States and its European allies continue to provide Ukraine with the wherewithal to kill Russian soldiers and …

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