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China’s counter-sanctions shield: How Beijing is turning the Iran war into a petroyuan test
Washington’s sanctions weapon is meeting a market too large to isolate – and a legal order Beijing now appears willing to enforce Originally published on The Cradle May 14, 2026. When US President Donald Trump visited Beijing on 14 May, flanked by top American industrialists, the optics told their own story. Washington came armed […]
OPEC Fractures, the Draft Returns, and the Age of Consequences Begins
Lookie here… The United Arab Emirates recently announced it would quit OPEC after nearly six decades, striking a major blow to the oil cartel and to Saudi Arabia, its unofficial leader. Let’s be clear, the UAE didn’t leave OPEC. They were bought out. You may recall that this event was […]
Trump’s Iranian Nightmare
Trump’s catastrophic miscalculation in Iran and refusal to accept the inevitability of defeat is pushing us towards a global depression and ensuring the suffering and immiseration of millions. Chris Hedges America’s newest quagmire in the Middle East is like its old quagmires in the Middle East. It is based, as […]
Is A Future War Between The US And Europe Unavoidable?
This article was written by Brandon Smith and originally published at Birch Gold Group For those who might have been out of the loop over the past few months, there is a war going on between the US and Europe. Largely, it’s western European governments that are the problem – They […]
Revealed: USAID, NED & Open Society Quietly Bankroll Cuba’s “Independent” Media In Push for Regime Change
Amid escalating U.S. aggression towards the Cuban island through a maximum pressure campaign and the threat of military intervention, the United States government has been covertly funding a huge network of Cuban media outlets that claim to be independent in a push for regime change against the independent socialist government. […]
The War On Iran – One Jewish Supremacist Crime Too Many?
Ican’t say for certain what finally convinced me that the latest U.S.-Israel aggression against Iran will be remembered as a Jewish war crime – one that will probably mark an ugly, well-deserved end to an eighty-year “golden age” in Jewish diaspora history. Maybe it was hearing America’s Secretary of State blurt out that Washington joined the […]
Europe’s Push for an EU Army Signals the Beginning of NATO’s Fragmentation
The calls coming out of Spain for a unified European army are not some isolated political fantasy. This is part of a much larger shift taking place behind the curtain as Europe quietly prepares for a world where NATO may no longer function in its current form. What politicians are now openly […]
France’s Shadow War in Mali
Freddie Ponton21st Century Wire France did not really leave Mali. It changed tactics and found new hands to carry the gun. After being pushed out by a military government that turned toward Russia, China, and the wider Global South, Paris appears to have re-entered the war through Ukrainian military intelligence channels, long-standing Tuareg networks, and a battlefield […]
Israel Accuses The New York Times Of Antisemitic Journalism, And Other Notes
The highest award in all of journalism is being accused of antisemitism by the Israeli government for factual reporting. Reading by Tim Foley: ❖ The Israeli government is currently accusing The New York Times of antisemitic blood libel for publishing a report on Israel’s already well-documented systemic rape of Palestinian prisoners. Contrary to popular […]
A $1.5 Trillion Military Budget Is a Gift to the Grifters
Last week “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth insulted Americans by claiming that a 50 percent increase in the US military budget – from an incomprehensible one trillion dollars to an impossible one and a half trillion – was a “fiscally responsible investment.” “Thanks to President Trump’s $1.5 trillion defense budget, […]
