RT The collapse of Austrian magnate Rene Benko’s Signa Holding triggers rising regulatory concerns In the vast expanse of finance, few narratives unfold with the dramatic cadence of Austrian magnate Rene Benko’s ascent and sudden plunge. Once commended for masterminding lavish acquisitions, Benko’s financial realm – identified as Signa Holding, an extensive European property empire […]

The truth is anti-Semitic Ankara (AFP) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday branded Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “the butcher of Gaza” and accused him of spawning anti-Semitism across the world. Erdogan has lashed out repeatedly at Israel for the scale of death and destruction caused by its response to Hamas militants’ unprecedented […]

by Joseph Trevithick| PUBLISHED Nov 28, 2023 3:31 PM EST A Mexican drug cartel recently employed an improvised armored truck, also commonly referred to as a “Narco Tank,” with what looks to be a metal screen over the front section of the vehicle. This is reminiscent of the so-called “cope cages” that have become a […]

Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in Residence in Classics and Military History at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, a professor of Classics Emeritus at California State University, Fresno, and a nationally syndicated columnist for Tribune Media Services. He is also the Wayne & Marcia Buske Distinguished Fellow in History, […]

By Pepe Escobar The Cradle November 25, 2023 (In part) The US and its allies will continue backing Israel’s war on Gaza after a brief truce. But as the case for ‘genocide’ grows stronger, the new multipolar powers will have to confront the old hegemons and their Rules-Based Chaos. <snip> While the world cries “Israeli […]

X [Keith Woods] Gila Gamliel, the Minister of Intelligence of Israel, has written a piece in the Jerusalem post arguing for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza. Gamliel dismissed the suggestion that the Palestinian authority could govern Gaza, instead calling on the International Community to resettle the 2.2 million Palestinians in Gaza: “Some world leaders are […]

by Global Research I have resigned as poetry editor of the New York Times Magazine. The Israeli state’s U.S-backed war against the people of Gaza is not a war for anyone. There is no safety in it or from it, not for Israel, not for the United States or Europe, and especially not for the many Jewish people slandered by those […]

By Gilbert Doctorow During my interview yesterday morning with WION, India’s premier English-language global news service, I was given the opportunity to expand upon the latest development in the southern sector of the Red Sea, namely the seizure by a Houthi (Yemen) attack force of a merchant vessel partly owned by Israelis. As I commented, […]

Alastair Crooke  November 20, 2023 Netanyahu is setting the stage for entrapment of the Biden Administration by manoeuvring so that the U.S. has little choice but to join with Israel. The allegory is one in which a scorpion depends on the frog for its passage across a flooded river, by hitching a lift on the […]

MICHAEL HUDSON • NOVEMBER 17, 2023 If the prophets of ancient Israel such as Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Malachi and Amos were alive today, Benjamin Netanyahu would accuse them of anti-Semitism for daring to describe his government as a travesty of what the Mosaic covenant was all about. A common thread running throughout the Jewish Bible – Christianity’s […]