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1 week ago | 
eir.news | Steven Carr |David Shavin |Stewart Battle |Paul Gallagher
While much of the media is focussed on the absurd, ‘who will win the trade wars,’ the actual physical economy, and producers are taking big hits. Any strategy which bankrupts or cripples producers is unlikely to generate a trade surplus.
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1 month ago | 
eir.news | Carl Osgood |David Shavin |Steven Carr |Jason Ross
March 25, 2025 (EIRNS)—Yesterday the Russian Defense Ministry issued a statement reporting that the Kiev regime had launched a drone attack aimed at the Kropotkinskaya oil pumping station of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) in Krasnodar region. Russian air defenses shot down the drone 7 km away from the pumping station and no damage was done. The Kiev regime had earlier attacked the pumping station on Feb.
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1 month ago | 
eir.news | Steven Carr |David Shavin |Carl Osgood |Jason Ross
March 25, 2025 (EIRNS)—The Palestinian co-director of the Oscar-winning documentary film No Other Land, Hamdan Ballal, survived a beating by West Bank Israeli settlers on the evening of March 24 only to be handcuffed, blindfolded, and arrested by Israeli security forces, according to multiple news reports. According to the Israeli co-director Yuval Abraham the settlers also attempted to lynch Ballal.
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1 month ago | 
eir.news | Steven Carr |Carl Osgood |Jason Ross |David Shavin
March 25, 2025 (EIRNS)—At least three students who have been active in campus protests against the genocide in Gaza are now suing members of the Trump administration to stop their deportations. The March 8 arrest of Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil has garnered international press coverage with a series of ongoing legal actions. On March 24 another Columbia University student Yunseo Chung filed a lawsuit to stop her own deportation.
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1 month ago | 
eir.news | David Shavin |Steven Carr |Carl Osgood |Jason Ross
March 25, 2025 (EIRNS)—The head of Ukraine’s Foreign Affairs Committee, Aleksandr Merezhko, accused Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff of spreading Russian propaganda and called for him to be dumped.
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1 month ago | 
eir.news | David Shavin |Carl Osgood |Jason Ross |Steven Carr
March 25, 2025 (EIRNS)—The electrical substation for London’s Heathrow airport went down when the cooling oil for a transformer caught fire. It highlighted just one of the chokepoints as the Western world has been deindustrializing for decades.
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1 month ago | 
eir.news | David Shavin |Paul Gallagher |Steven Carr |Cynthia R. Rush
March 11, 2025 (EIRNS)—Grayzone’s March 10 article usefully reminds readers that U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance had been placed on the Molfar blacklist. Molfar is noted for using more advanced internet skills to track the specific whereabouts and personal information of individuals and their families.
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1 month ago | 
eir.news | Paul Gallagher |David Shavin |Steven Carr |Cynthia R. Rush
“The ‘anti-Trump’ numbers man who may force the UK to take sides” is the headline of a BBC article March 10, based on an interview, by “Economics Editor Faisal Islam.” They don’t note it, but Carney has been, and presumably still is, extremely close to King Charles—Zelensky’s recent champion—whose “climate acolyte” he was, in addition to being unrivaled in power among central bankers, with the possible exception of Italy’s Mario Draghi.
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1 month ago | 
eir.news | Michael Billington |Rainer Apel |Steven Carr
March 6, 2025 (EIRNS)—In statements to reporters after his meeting with Zimbabwe’s Foreign Minister today in Moscow, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov responded to a question about President Emmanuel Macron’s psychotic rant about preparing Europe for nuclear war against Russia. Macron gave a national address on March 5, in which, among other points, he raised the prospect of extending a French nuclear shield over Europe. France is the only continental European power with nuclear weapons.
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1 month ago | 
eir.news | Michael Billington |Rainer Apel |Steven Carr
March 6, 2025 (EIRNS)—The insanity of the EU leaders, dreaming up ways of winning a war against Russia to spite Donald Trump, was again on display at their summit in Brussels today, concluding with a plan for—you guessed it—another meeting, this time on March 20-21. Ukraine acting Pres. Zelensky held a chummy meeting with Ursula van der Leyen and others, delighted with their talk of drumming up billions of euros for war. Her goal is 800 euro over various phases in the coming period.
