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Russia-China-India bloc is forming in the East

11:00 17.04.2023

Russia-China-India bloc is forming in the East

A potentially consequential meeting in New Delhi went conspicuously unnoticed in much of the West. On the sidelines of a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), Nikolai Patrushev, secretary of Russia’s powerful Security Council, met India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a private interaction, ‘The Diplomat’ from Arlington, USA, …

Seymour Hersh: Rampant corruption in Kyiv. ‘Lots of Americans’ are involved?

10:41 16.04.2023

Seymour Hersh: Rampant corruption in Kyiv. ‘Lots of Americans’ are involved?

The Ukraine government, headed by Volodymyr Zelensky, has been using American taxpayers’ funds to pay dearly for the vitally needed diesel fuel that is keeping the Ukrainian army on the move in its war with Russia, American prominent journalist Seymour Hersh confesses. It is unknown how much the Zalensky government …

Fake climate solutions that are making climate change worse

10:40 16.04.2023

Fake climate solutions that are making climate change worse

“We are ‘greening’ ourselves to extinction,” notes Vijay Kolinjivadi, a post-doctoral fellow at the Institute of Development Policy at the University of Antwerp, at ‘Al Jazeera’. There is the fatal confusion between efficiency and ecology. We are being duped to believe that buying more “energy efficient” or “green” products can …

Charles Michel: Europe warming up to Macron’s ‘strategic autonomy’ push away from US

10:39 16.04.2023

Charles Michel: Europe warming up to Macron’s ‘strategic autonomy’ push away from US

European leaders are becoming increasingly favorable toward French President Emmanuel Macron’s push for “strategic autonomy” away from the United States, European Council boss Charles Michel said. As controversy swells around Macron’s comments that Europe should resist pressure to become “America’s followers,” Michel suggested that the French politician’s position was not …

‘Easter potatoes’ over Easter eggs for Americans

10:38 16.04.2023

‘Easter potatoes’ over Easter eggs for Americans

Grocery shoppers in New Jersey shared their opinions on the new money-saving trend that has Americans painting potatoes instead of eggs for Easter this year, Fox News informs. Grocery Shoppers in New Jersey weighed in on the push toward decorating potatoes instead of eggs this Easter and agreed Americans should …

Brazil’s Lula calls for end to dollar trade dominance

10:22 15.04.2023

Brazil’s Lula calls for end to dollar trade dominance

Brazil’s president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has called on developing countries to work towards replacing the US dollar with their own currencies in international trade, lending his voice to Beijing’s efforts to end the greenback’s dominance of global commerce, Financial Times reports. Kicking off his first state visit to …

In China, Germany's Baerbock says EU on same page as Macron

10:21 15.04.2023

In China, Germany's Baerbock says EU on same page as Macron

Annalena Baerbock (photo) kicked off her China visit in the port city of Tianjin. Germany's Foreign Minister arrived in the Chinese port city of Tianjin to begin her three-day tour of the country, DW informs. The diplomatic trip comes amid increased Chinese military maneuvers around Taiwan, and in the wake …

The US and South Africa failed to extend the "123 agreement" in the field of nuclear energy

10:21 15.04.2023

The US and South Africa failed to extend the "123 agreement" in the field of nuclear energy

The US continues to lose ground in Africa. The US and South Africa are forced to re-discuss and prepare the text of the intergovernmental agreement "123" on cooperation in the peaceful nuclear field instead of extending the previous agreement. The “123” Agreement between the US and South Africa was signed …

Tunisia rejects IMF loans and wants to join BRICS

10:19 15.04.2023

Tunisia rejects IMF loans and wants to join BRICS

Mahmoud bin Mabrouk, spokesman for the pro-president ‘July 25 Movement’ in Tunisia, said that his country wants to join BRICS, a group of leading emerging economies comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, that is often seen as an alternative to the Western hegemony. In November, neighboring Algeria filed …

Iran prepares to block the Strait of Hormuz

14:21 14.04.2023

Iran prepares to block the Strait of Hormuz

The largest warships of the Iranian Navy are entering the Persian Gulf.2,700 different vessels participate in the event, which takes place in various Iranian ports in the Persian Gulf, the flotilla is closely escorted by military vessels, informs Iran TV.The boats left the port of Bandar Abbas in the direction …

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