By Wyatt Reed – Sputnik – 24.05.2023 Claims by the US government that it pursues the promotion of democracy abroad are simply “fake,” Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said Tuesday. “The United States and [some] Western countries are not after democracy, but domination and plundering of other countries’ wealth,” Raisi said during an official visit to […]
RT | May 24, 2023 Ukraine will significantly raise transit fees for Russian oil running through the Druzhba pipeline on its territory to the EU on June 1, TASS reported on Tuesday, citing data from Russian oil and gas transport company Transneft. It is expected that Kiev will increase tariffs for transporting crude to Hungary […]
Very seldom is something that can be so beneficial for one country attracted the wrath of so many others, as in the reaction to Russia affording Georgia visa-free status and direct flights, after so many years of travel and visa restrictions, recriminations, and name-calling. The US and the Georgian president also want to stop flights […]
Sputnik – 21.05.2023 BUDAPEST – Hungary is waiting for explanations from Ukraine and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen concerning reports on a possible stop of oil supplies from Russia to the European Union via the Druzhba pipeline, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said. Last week, media reported that von der Leyen had offered […]
Colin Todhunter In 2014, the organisation GRAIN revealed that small farms produce most of the world’s food in its report Hungry for land: small farmers feed the world with less than a quarter of all farmland. The report Small-scale Farmers and Peasants Still Feed the World (ETC Group, 2022) confirmed this. Small farmers produce up to …
By Mohamad Hasan Sweidan | The Cradle | May 19 2023 Sir Halford John Mackinder, one of Britain’s most prominent theorists in the field of geopolitics, discusses the significance of land connectivity between nations in his 1904 essay called The Geographical Pivot of History. Besides introducing his notable Heartland Theory, Mackinder argued that advancements in transportation technology, […]
Due to the fact that oil is always a geopolitical factor, history over the last century demonstrates that there is no such thing as little oil. Many new conflicts have occurred commencing from the beginning of the 20th century as a result of oil. And today, oil still plays a solely geopolitical role in the […]
Сообщение Iran – USA: “Tanker War” in the Strait of Hormuz появились сначала на New Eastern Outlook.
By Drago Bosnic | May 19, 2023 As if the European Union didn’t have enough major problems already, now the troubled bloc is faced with the nontrivial prospect of a “Swexit”. Namely, senior officials of the second largest political party in the Scandinavian country, the Sweden Democrats, are now openly saying that their country needs to […]
By Paul Homewood | TCW Defending Freedom | May 19, 2023 New analysis shows that electric cars (EVs) are depreciating at twice the rate of petrol cars. According to the Express : ‘EVs on average will lose 51 per cent of their purchase value from 2020 to 2023, compared with just 37 per cent for […]
In the real-world, the costs are all we know for sure and profits remain elusive and contingent. BY CHARLES HUGH SMITH | OF TWO MINDS | MAY 15, 2023 No one knows how the flood of AI products will play out, but we do know it’s unleashed a corporate frenzy to “get our own AI […]
