War and War Crimes: A Historical Perspective

By Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirović, July 06, 2023

After WWII, there was a growing number of significant non-state actors in international relations (IR) like the UN or various specialist agencies connected to it. Nevertheless, two key developments stimulated the growth of such organizations after WWII.

South Africa’s Economic Relations with Russia and BRICS

By Mzuvukile Maqetuka and Kester Kenn Klomegah, July 06, 2023

With an estimated 58 million population, South Africa is the 25th largest country in the world. It has friendly relations dated from the Soviet times, and now with the Russian Federation. It joined BRICS, an organisation of five emerging economies, in December 2010 in line with the country’s foreign policy to strengthen South-South relations. 

Heritage Practices of Small Farmers vs. “Fake Climate Change Agenda” Controlled by Big Business

By Bharat Dogra, July 06, 2023

In the middle of several increasing problems of food and farming sector, one reassuring aspect is that the various solutions do not conflict with each other and hence all the problems can be resolved simultaneously by adopting the right policies.

The Federal Reserve Has Been a Disaster for America. How the Fed Triggers “Bank Insolvency”

By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, July 06, 2023

Like all indoctrinated economics PhDs, I used to teach students that the Federal Reserve was created as a central bank in order to provide cash to banks experiencing a run on deposits so that bank failures would not become general and collapse the money supply and, thereby, employment and output. It all sounds so reasonable and rational until you realize that finance least of all is idealistic.

Judge Blocks “Egregious” Biden Officials, Academic Watchdogs From Manipulating Social Media Narratives

By Zero Hedge, July 06, 2023

In an extraordinary preliminary injunction, Judge Terry A. Doughty, a Trump-appointee, in aimed at halting government influence over public discourse prior to issuing a final ruling in the case which was brought by Republican attorneys general in Missouri and Louisiana, who allege that the federal government overstepped their bounds in their efforts to censor online posts that they worried would contribute to vaccine hesitancy, or undermine US elections (with facts?).

Cluster Bombs for Ukraine? A Warning From Kosovo

By Phil Miller, July 06, 2023

Many were dragooned into Slobodan Milosevic’s Serb-dominated Yugoslav army or targeted by Albanian rebels as suspected collaborators, before Bill Clinton and Tony Blair launched their ‘humanitarian intervention’ in 1999.

Firefighters Are Dying Suddenly. Another COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine-Mandated Group Suffering From Injuries & Deaths

By Dr. William Makis, July 06, 2023

These are the groups seeing the most sudden deaths right now. Due to spike protein accumulation in the brain, suicide risk is also increased in the COVID-19 vaccinated.

The Fossil Fuel Proliferation Threat

By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, July 06, 2023

Climate change negotiations and debates are characterised by some curious features. For one, there are interminable stretches of discussion that never seem to feature the agents of cause. Chatter about horrendous fires, toxic smoke, and environmental degradation often skirts around the culprit of anthropogenic change, so ably aided by fossil fuels.

Ukraine Timeline Tells the Story

By Joe Lauria, July 06, 2023

The way to prevent understanding of the Ukraine war is to suppress its history. A cartoon version says the conflict began in February 2022 when Vladimir Putin woke up one morning and decided to invade Ukraine. There was no other cause, according to this version, other than unprovoked, Russian aggression against an innocent country.

Israel’s Bloodcurdling ‘Poison Policy’ to Replace Palestinians with Jewish Settlers

By Kit Klarenberg, July 06, 2023

A shocking document last September revealed that, during the 1948 Nakba, Zionist militias engaged in a wide-ranging chemical and biological warfare campaign to expel indigenous Palestinian communities from their lands, slow the advance of intervening Arab armies, and poison citizens of neighboring states.