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FT: UK faces worst and longest recession in G7

14:29 05.01.2023

FT: UK faces worst and longest recession in G7

The UK will face one of the worst recessions and weakest recoveries in the G7 in the coming year, as households pay a heavy price for the government’s policy failings, economists say.A clear majority of the 101 respondents in theFinancial Times’sannual poll of leading UK-based economists said the inflationary shock …

Does Scholz want to become an international thief?

14:28 05.01.2023

Does Scholz want to become an international thief?

Germany is open to using billions of euros in frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine rebuild as long as legal issues can be resolved and allies follow suit,informs Bloomberg.Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s (photo) government supports Ukraine’s demand for war reparations but hasn’t yet taken an official position on seizing assets from …

Welcome to Dickensian Britain!

11:55 04.01.2023

Welcome to Dickensian Britain!

Britain is Suffering in Shocking Ways — But Its Leaders Don’t Care. Welcome to Dickensian Britain! Think about that for a second. It’s not just a picture. It’s a portrait. Of a failed state. A society in profound, utterly shocking, jaw-dropping levels of distress. It’s not just one story, but …

The Turkish-Syrian reconciliation process under Russian mediation as a saga of betrayal and vengeance

11:53 04.01.2023

The Turkish-Syrian reconciliation process under Russian mediation as a saga of betrayal and vengeance

The curtain is coming down on the brutal 11-year old Syrian conflict, which former US President and Nobel Laureate Barack Obama initiated, as the Arab Spring swept through West Asia two decades ago. The United States has suffered yet another big setback in West Asia as the year 2022 draws …

Gold buyers binge on biggest volumes for 55 years

11:25 03.01.2023

Gold buyers binge on biggest volumes for 55 years

Central banks are scooping up gold at the fastest pace since 1967, with analysts pinning China and Russia as big buyers in an indication that some nations are keen to diversify their reserves away from the dollar, Report informs via “TheFinancial Times”.Data compiled the World Gold Council, an industry-funded group, …

Chinese deals for London property: no friendship, no investment

11:24 03.01.2023

Chinese deals for London property: no friendship, no investment

London, which has long attracted huge swathes of foreign investment and drew inthe most capital inflows of any global cityin the first half of the year, faces uncertainty over property valuations as interest rates rise and in the wake of London’s political chaos.Moreover it’s China’s who once firmed grip on …

The new geopolitical epoch: President Joe Biden calls this the “decisive decade”

10:51 02.01.2023

The new geopolitical epoch: President Joe Biden calls this the “decisive decade”

Yes, President Joe Biden calls this the “decisive decade”. Yet the label scarcely captures the moment—the start of a post-post-cold-war epoch in which the American-shaped World Order may be violently undone by Russia and China, writes “The Economist”. Russia, though, represents only the “acute” problem, as America sees things. The …

The Netherlands press: ‘Poland is Europe’s new Military Superpower’

10:49 02.01.2023

The Netherlands press: ‘Poland is Europe’s new Military Superpower’

“Europe’s new military superpower: Poland” – this is the title of an article published in the Dutch daily “Financieele Dagblad”. The newspaper reports that the Polish army is rapidly becoming “the most powerful in Europe”. “Due to its distrust of Russia, Warsaw has always avoided the zeitgeist of almost all …

Reagan’ special assistant: “The US allies don’t trust Moscow. Russia has no reason to trust them, either”

8:35 01.01.2023

Reagan’ special assistant: “The US allies don’t trust Moscow. Russia has no reason to trust them, either”

“Last month former Chancellor Angela Merkel gave her first press interview a year after leaving Germany’s chancellorship. She admitted that the Minsk Accords, negotiated in 2014 in an attempt to settle the Donbas conflict, were a fraud. Unsurprisingly, Putin noted her comments, saying that while he had believed Ukraine intended …

West lost the plot in Ukraine – forcing Russia ‘to its knees’ is not work

8:34 01.01.2023

West lost the plot in Ukraine – forcing Russia ‘to its knees’ is not work

“As the New Year comes, it is a fair expectation that the big-power alignments in international politics will largely depend on the trajectory of the war in Ukraine. The current stalemate cannot last – it must transform, and it will”, notes Indian Ambassador and prominent international observer M.K. Bhadrakumar. The …

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