October 6, 2020 (Tony Cartalucci – NEO) – There is a significant reason why political unrest fueled by US interference is flaring up across Southeast Asia – an attempt at derailing Beijing’s ambitious […]
China’s High-Speed Rail Reaches into Southeast Asia
Former OPCW Chief Says His Office Was Bugged While USA Pushed Iraq War
The most significant piece of new information revealed in this interview with the acclaimed former OPCW chief José Bustani is his assertion that while the US was orchestrating his 2002 ouster due to the risk he posed of derailing the Iraq war agenda with successful negotiations, his office was packed with hidden surveillance equipment and that his American head of security vanished immediately after this was discovered.
The Sino-Russian Alliance Comes of Age — Part 3
Discourse of shared legacies The disintegration of the former Soviet Union in 1991 was a geopolitical disaster for Russia. But the watershed event, paradoxically, prompted Moscow and Beijing, erstwhile adversaries, to draw […]
CHINA’S GLOBAL LEADERSHIP LIST – CHARTS AND FACTS
A vast majority of Americans have absolutely no clue how advanced China has become. Look at the social media comments, and it’s clear that too many Americans – especially Trump supporters – […]
Japan’s new defense minister a blast from the past
Pacifism is giving way to collective defense and a first-strike capability By SCOTT FOSTER Japan’s new prime minister, Yoshihide Suga, has selected Nobuo Kishi as his minister of defense. Kishi is former prime […]
Oman Has a Good Reason for Dragging Its Feet About Normalising Ties With Israel
by Ekaterina Blinova 26.09.2020 Oman has a lot to lose if it decides formally to normalise ties with Israel, argues Pakistani political analyst and author Sabtain Ahmed Dar, shedding light on Muscat’s longstanding […]
The Sino-Russian Alliance Comes Of Age (II)
Written by M. K. BHADRAKUMAR “I look for the land of the Poles that is lost to the Germans, for the moment at least. Nowadays the Germans have started searching for Poland with […]
Three Gorges Dam weathers the flood challenge
Monsoon torrent passes as signs emerge that Chinese leaders may be cooling on huge hydroelectric projects By FRANK CHEN Chinese state media stuck to the script that nothing had happened when this year’s […]
Why Pentagon is Beefing Up Its Alaska Presence ‘Literally in Sight’ of Russian Border
Last week, Alaskan Senator Dan Sullivan announced that the US Air Force would deploy 150 F-22 and F-35 fighter jets to his state, and said that they, as well as the construction […]
The Sino-Russian Alliance Comes Of Age – Part 1
Written by M. K. BHADRAKUMAR The joint statements between two countries are usually riveted on a particular event but in extraordinary circumstances involving great powers, it could assume an epochal character and can […]
The New Geopolitical Role Of The UAE
Written by Leonid SAVIN The United Arab Emirates has unexpectedly found itself the focus of global attention after signing an agreement with Israel on 13 August that covers a full normalisation of relations. The talks […]
New Zealand invests in growing its domestic recycling industry to create jobs and dump less rubbish at landfills
Author Jeff SeadonSenior Lecturer, Auckland University of Technology Disclosure statement Jeff Seadon does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from […]
WHICH TARGET AFTER SYRIA?
19 years of “war without end” President George W. Bush decided to radically transform the Pentagon’s missions, as Colonel Ralph Peters explained in the Army magazine Parameters on September 13, 2001. Secretary of Defense […]
POMEGRANATE'S PERFORMANCE-BOOSTING POTENTIAL CONFIRMED
Pomegranate extract provides a natural way to boost athletic performance, increasing the time to exhaustion by more than 1.5 minutes among a group of amateur cyclists. Could pomegranate give you a similar […]
Myanmar a perfect fit on China’s Belt and Road
Four priority BRI projects in Myanmar promise to make China a balance-of-power tilting Indian Ocean force by Bertil Lintner If the four most important of 33 agreements Xi signed with his Myanmar […]
GREATER ALBANIA PROJECT
GREATER ALBANIA PROJECT IS ACCELERATING AS KOSOVO’S STATEHOOD IS IN QUESTION Clear indications have been made that there is a project for a Greater Albania and it is progressing ahead, especially as […]
India is now the world’s 5th largest economy
Data from the IMF shows India has risen to become the world’s fifth largest economy, when ranked by nominal GDP. India, in this ranking, has leapfrogged France and the UK. Despite its […]
Location, location, location: Why Russian LNG can beat competition from US & Australia?
Russia’s geographical position makes its exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) more profitable and competitive with American and Australian supplies, according to Russia’s Energy Minister Alexander Novak. Russia ships most of its […]
The Future of Banking
How open banking can transform the financial industry Authored by: Pascal Hügli As the saying goes, “What goes up must come down.” In this case, the ‘what’ are the stock prices of Swiss […]
Iran Is China’s Secret Weapon for Killing off the US Dollar’s Global Reserve Status
Federico Pieraccini There is a strong current of change affecting the international political arena. It is the beginning of a revolution brought on by the transition from a unipolar to multipolar world […]
BIG PHARMA LOSING MONEY AS PATIENTS SWITCH FROM OPIOIDS TO CANNABIS
Matt Weeks Cannabis is helping chronic pain patients, resulting in Big Pharma losing money The news that cannabis is effective in treating most types of pain is shaking business and political institutions. […]
US firms power rise in global arms sales
New data from SIPRI showed that sales of arms and military services by the top 100 firms went up by 47% since 2002 ByDave Makichuk Sales of arms and military services witnessed […]
Chinese psyops vs US have been one hell of a success
Some combination of money, flattery and a 10-course dinner is usually all that’s needed with Americans ByGrant Newsham The Chinese Communist Party is a nasty regime. But sometimes one marvels at what […]
Explained: ZF two-speed EV gearbox
By Daniel Gardner German transmission giant cuts new teeth on two EV ratios With the exception of a handful of high-end high-performance models, all electric vehicles use a simple single-speed transmission to […]
