ASEAN FOREIGN MINISTERS CALL FOR STOP TO WARFARE IN SOUTHWEST ASIA
Foreign Ministers of the 11 nations of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) opened their three-day conference in Manila, Philippines on July 21 with a closed-door morning session on the worsening situation in Southwest Asia, followed by the release of a joint message, the “ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Statement on the Evolving Situation in the […]
CHINA, RUSSIA WANT CONTACTS WITH HIGH-LEVEL U.S. OFFICIALS
Asked in Monday’s press briefing if President Xi Jinping’s trip to the United States is still on China’s agenda, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian reiterated China’s interest in the Presidents of the two countries meeting. “Head-of-state diplomacy plays an irreplaceable role in providing strategic guidance to bilateral relations. China and the U.S. are in […]
RUBIO’S STATE DEPT. ISSUES ‘ENEMIES LIST’ OF U.S. ‘CUBAN AGENTS’
Joe McCarthy has been reincarnated as Marco Rubio. On July 20, Rubio’s State Department issued a 100-page report, titled “Cuba: The Capital of 21st Century Communism,” for the dual purpose of both stepping-up judicial and other measures to crush the growing opposition in the U.S. to the Trump administration’s assaults on foreign countries and immigrants […]
103 CONGRESSIONAL DEMOCRATS VOTED TO STOP AID TO ISRAEL
The July 15 House vote was considered mostly symbolic and in the end the effort failed, but 103 House Democrats and one Republican, Thomas Massie (R-KY), voted for an amendment to cut off all aid to Israel. This was a one-sentence amendment written by Rep. Massie to cut $3.3 billion from the Foreign Military Financing […]
LUXEMBOURG PREPARES FOR WAR
The bizarre case of Luxembourg adds a grotesque note to the NATO rearmament drive. As reported, Prime Minister Luc Frieden (an Orwellian name) is the co-initiator, together with Canadian PM and former Bank of England boss Mark Carney, of the so-called Bank for Defense, Security, and Resilience (i.e., the NATO Bank). Luxembourg is a tiny […]
GERMANY TO PURCHASE 400 TOMAHAWK MISSILES FROM US
According to various sources, German Defense Minister Pistorius and US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth signed an MOU in Ankara, Türkiye, for Germany to purchase as many as 400 Tomahawk missiles and a compatible Typhon launch system. The number of missiles actually agreed upon remains classified. The Tomahawk missile can travel up to 2,500 km […]
LAVROV: “WE NO LONGER BELIEVE THE WEST”
Both Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, and Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, in separate presentations, are making clear, in explicitly forthright language, that the West can no longer be trusted. When the West makes calls for peace, it is actually issuing ultimatums for war, reported Lavrov. The West, said Zakharova, is complicit in terrorism […]
BIG NEW CANADA-GERMAN SUBMARINE DEAL FUNDED BY NEW NATO BANK?
Just before flying to the NATO summit in Ankara, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced that Canada intends to buy 12 non-nuclear submarines from the German producer TKMS (Thyssen Krupp Marine Systems). This concerns submarines of the 212CD class—probably the most modern ones in the world, and certainly among the most expensive ones, with a […]
PETER THIEL SAYS POPE LEO XIV IS WORKING FOR CHINESE COMMUNISTS
CNN and Forbes report that Peter Thiel, speaking at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado earlier this week, attacked Pope Leo XIV and mocked the catholic leader in response to the pope’s grave warnings about the impact of artificial intelligence if the technology is left unregulated by governments, an urgent challenge called for by most […]
SCHILLER INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: THE END OF 500 YEARS OF COLONIALISM
UN WARNS OF ANOTHER WAR CRISIS IN SUDAN
On July 3 UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk warned that the world’s largest humanitarian crisis may take a turn for the worse. New battle lines are forming around the city of El Obeid in northwest Sudan for a possible replay of the October genocide and ethnic cleansing at El Fasher, Sudan. Speaking […]
NASA’S ROMAN TELESCOPE POISED TO TRANSFORM SCIENCE
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is a NASA Observatory that is scheduled to launch on August 30, 2026. It will lift off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, launching eight months ahead of its original May 2027 launch date. Nancy Grace Roman (1925–2018) was a pioneering American astronomer widely celebrated as the “Mother […]