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Global economy headed for worst half-decade in 30 years, World Bank warns

11:29 15.01.2024

Global economy headed for worst half-decade in 30 years, World Bank warns

Slowing growth enters third year, putting development goals at risk, notes ‘The Washington Post’. The global economy will slow in 2024 for the third straight year and appears headed for its weakest half-decade since the early 1990s, the World Bank said Tuesday in its latest annual forecast. While higher interest …

View from Washington: The Houthis is a power force

11:27 15.01.2024

View from Washington: The Houthis is a power force

Since mid-November the Houthis have been launching attacks against shipping in the Red Sea. The US sent a number of AEGIS destroyers to help protect international shipping, performing the dual role of intercepting Houthi drones and missiles and coming to the aid of distressed commercial ships. The British also sent …

EU case: Germany is down, Britain is out, so Who is in charge of Europe?

11:06 14.01.2024

EU case: Germany is down, Britain is out, so Who is in charge of Europe?

Football is a game where “twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win,” quipped Gary Lineker, an English player. For decades the European project had similarly predictable dynamics: whether composed of six countries or 12 or 27, member states chased compromises until …

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 …

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