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The worse the US relations with other countries become, the more likely are other nations to reconsider their reliance on the dollar.

The two-day summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Qingdao, which took place last weekend from an economic standpoint, truly outplayed the G7 soap drama that took place in Canada.
China and India appear to be in the driver’s seat of the global economy for the balance of this 21st century. They, along with supportive Southeast Asian countries and with Russia as their vast and friendly neighborhood energy and natural resources supplier.

“I’m guessing that in MVM’s mission statement, one of the central components isn’t the care of refugee children.” (CD) While outraged Americans across the country are calling their elected representatives and taking to the streets to protest the Trump administration’s forcible separation of parents and children at the U.S.-Mexico border, intelligence and defense contractors are raking in millions thanks […]

Last year, investors were drooling over the prospect of all-out war with North Korea, but Tuesday’s summit has them worried. (CD) American defense contractors were practically drooling over the prospect of all-out war with North Korea as President Donald Trump was recklessly flinging “fire and fury” last year, but Tuesday’s summit between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un appears […]

(FAIR) CNN began with the slogan, articulated by its founder Ted Turner: “The news is the star.” That has long since ceased to be a reflection of what CNN does. Despite promoting itself with its dubious “facts first” slogan, the network endlessly touts its celebrity pundits and anchors: Wolf Blitzer, Anderson Cooper, Chris Cuomo, Christiane Amanpour, Fareed Zakaria, et […]

(FAIR) The work of Rob Rogers, longtime political cartoonist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, has been notably absent from his paper’s opinion page during this past week. Aside from a cartoon criticizing the trade war posted on Tuesday, June 5, the most recent of Rogers’ drawings appeared last Thursday, May 24. So where was Rogers all of last week? He […]

(ANTIMEDIA Op-ed) The internet has been swamped with frenzied articles, posts, and social media wars over Roseanne Barr’s racist tweets and ABC’s subsequent cancellation of her recently rebooted show. People are squabbling over her right to free speech, the network’s right to cancel the show, and the hypocrisy of right-wingers backing Roseanne’s right to free speech while they […]

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President Putin of Russia met on Friday with Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, who confirmed to Putin the line up of Russia’s new government.
Russia’s new government – most ministers keep their jobs
Here is the Kremlin’s account of their discussion, which provides a full list of the ministers.

Western media would have you believe that Russia is an underdeveloped nation with a wretched standard of living. They advance the perception that it is a country that has never recovered from the collapse of the Soviet Union.
They would also want you to believe that Russia is suffering under the heavy burden of Western imposed sanctions that have brought Russia to her knees as a result of isolation, which couldn’t be further from reality.

Germany’s main commercial organization, the DIHK, representing nearly 80 chambers of commerce, is expressing concern that Trump’s ‘America First’ philosophy could threaten business relationships between the US and Germany.