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View from USA: Must ‘Western Civilization’ be synonymous with ‘Decline’?

11:05 14.01.2024

View from USA: Must ‘Western Civilization’ be synonymous with ‘Decline’?

History shows that we are unlikely to accept decline as a permanent state. If our current ruling class won't stop it, sooner or later, majorities will clamor for someone who will, writes Rod Dreher, an American journalist who writes about politics, culture, religion, and foreign affairs, a director of the …

Palestine: Borrell’s ‘last waltz’

10:22 13.01.2024

Palestine: Borrell’s ‘last waltz’

The diplomatic arena of the Middle East was dominated in the past week by the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s regional tour to Türkiye, Jordan, Qatar, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Israel, the West Bank and Egypt. The European Union’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell also appeared in the region …

Reactions to US, British strikes against Houthis in Yemen

10:19 13.01.2024

Reactions to US, British strikes against Houthis in Yemen

The United States and Britain carried out a series of air strikes on military locations belonging to Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen early Friday in response to the militant group's ongoing attacks on vessels traveling through the Red Sea. Fox News is told there were attacks on more than a dozen …

$34 Trillion in Debt: Is America Headed for a Financial Crisis?

13:10 12.01.2024

$34 Trillion in Debt: Is America Headed for a Financial Crisis?

The federal government’s outstanding financial obligations now total some $34 trillion, about 123 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP), near a historic record. «Is a financial crisis possible?» - asks Milton Ezrati in The National Interest. The federal government’s outstanding financial obligations now total some $34 trillion, about …

House GOP advances effort to hold Hunter Biden in contempt

11:52 12.01.2024

House GOP advances effort to hold Hunter Biden in contempt

Lawmakers voted along party lines Wednesday to send a resolution to the floor, which would require near-unanimous Republican support, - Jordain Carney of POLITICO writes. House Republicans are one step closer to holding Hunter Biden in contempt of Congress after he skipped a closed-door deposition last month. The House Judiciary …

Blinken’s window dressing tour of Arab capitals

11:40 11.01.2024

Blinken’s window dressing tour of Arab capitals

The expectation raised by the United States in allowing a UN Security Council resolution on Gaza pass through on December 22, 2023 without having to exercise its veto — albeit a watered-down one that stopped short of calling for ceasefire — was that the manifest international isolation facing Washington and …

Biden's ‘America Last’ Policy at Work

11:38 11.01.2024

Biden's ‘America Last’ Policy at Work

While considering the bumbling joke that currently occupies the Bully Pulpit's "America Last" policy, ponder what he wrote in 2019: "By nearly every measure, the credibility and influence of the United States in the world have diminished since President Barack Obama and I left office on January 20, 2017. President …

World economic chronicle

8:59 10.01.2024

World economic chronicle

Britain's manufacturing sector suffered a setback in its attempts to return to growth as output and employment fell more sharply in December than the previous month, according to a published survey. The final reading of the S&P Global/CIPS manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) weakened to 46.2 in December, ending a …

Welcome to a New Strange World: Cash now extinct as citizens use implanted microchips instead

8:58 10.01.2024

Welcome to a New Strange World: Cash now extinct as citizens use implanted microchips instead

The financial authorities, who once embraced the trend, are asking banks to keep peddling notes and coins until the government can figure out what going cash-free means for young and old consumers. The central bank, which predicts cash may fade from Sweden, is testing a digital currency — an e-krona …

2023: Gaza, Saudi, Iran, BRICS and more

11:32 09.01.2024

2023: Gaza, Saudi, Iran, BRICS and more

It would have been outlandish to suggest that a small region like Gaza, seemingly bereft of significant natural resources, political will of its own, and let alone sovereignty, would become the world’s most significant geopolitical spot on earth, writes Ramzy Baroud, the Editor of ‘The Palestine Chronicle’. The ongoing Israeli …

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