Intelligence Review Magazine

6 days ago | eir.news | Paul Gallagher

In greeting China’s Deputy Prime Minister Ding Xuexiang to the St. Petersburg International Forum, Russian President Putin commented on the continuing, relatively rapid growth of trade between Russia and China, although under multiple layers of sanctions of the United States and the European Union. Putin implied that new joint investment projects between the two countries had also been discussed.

1 week ago | eir.news | Paul Gallagher

Economic historian Dr. Barry Eichengreen of UC Berkeley and the National Bureau of Economic Research, writing in the New York Times June 17 just before passage of the Senate’s GENIUS Act for crypto “dollars,” also heard the strains of “Gone with the Wind,” and foresaw U.S. monetary and banking chaos.

1 week ago | eir.news | Paul Gallagher

The International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) sudden and so-timely judgment that it could not trust Iran’s reports on its nuclear materials, made public on June 11, was pounced on by Israel and U.S. and European war-hawks as the justification for Israel’s all-out attack on Iran starting two days later—which has included multiple attacks on nuclear sites which the IAEA is supposed to protect from just such attacks! IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi’s shamefaced “correction” on CNN June 17,...

1 week ago | eir.news | Paul Gallagher

Just before the so-called GENIUS Act passed the Senate June 17, American Banker opinion columnist Claire Williams wrote an article headlined, “Senate stablecoin bill would unleash crypto banks nationwide.” The columnist noted that “… a section tucked into the bill after the public markup in the Senate Banking Committee would allow uninsured chartered banks, notably state-chartered special purpose depository institutions, or SPDIs, to operate in states other than those where they are...

1 week ago | eir.news | Michael Billington

Some 6,000 North Korean troops will assist in demining and rebuilding the Kursk Region in the aftermath of the Ukrainian incursion, Russian Security Council Secretary Sergey Shoigu said on June 17, reported RT. “Kim Jong-un has made the decision to send to Russia 1,000 mine-clearance specialists to sweep the Russian territory,” he said.