Left to Right: Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles, Foreign Minister Penny Wong, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Saturday in Brisbane. (Richard Marles and Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade) The U.S. secretary of state confirmed Australia has lobbied the U.S. to end the WikiLeakspublisher’s prosecution, but said unequivocally that it would continue, reports Joe Lauria. Continue reading ““Blinken Slams Door on Australian Bid for Assange” — by Joe Lauria”→
While average Ukrainians suffer amid NATO’s proxy war against Russia, business is booming for the surrogate baby industry, which requires a steady supply of healthy but financially desperate women to lease their wombs to affluent foreigners. Surrogates “have to be from poorer places than our clients,” explained the medical director of Kiev’s largest “baby factory.”Continue reading ““Ukraine’s Baby Factories Rake in Record Profits Amid Chaos of War” — by Jeremy Loffredo”→
As HCOB Flash PMI survey data has revealed a sharp fall in key indicators, calls for the ECB to halt interest rate hikes are growing amid weakening business activity.
BRICS leaders are gearing up for their much-anticipated South Africa summit. Since the bloc’s creation at a forum in St. Petersburg in 2006, BRICS has come to represent the aspirations of the developing world to challenge the economic hegemony of the collective West. How does it plan to achieve this goal? Check out Sputnik’s explainer to find out.Continue reading ““What is BRICS Bloc and How Does It Stack Up Against G7 Goliath?” — by Ilya Tsukanov”→
Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen reviews a Marine Corps battalion in Kaohsiung in July 2020. (Taiwan presidency, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0). As Washington follows the neocon Wolfowitz Doctrine in East Asia, John V. Walsh says U.S. provocation must stop. Biden should instead take up China’s offer of peaceful coexistence. Continue reading ““The US’s Reckless Arming of Taiwan” — by John V. Walsh”→