Ukraine

Russia sanctions are spurring the new Silk Road

Aug 18, 2022 21:14

To avoid sanctions, countries are actively reopening moribund routes and creating greater connectivity across Asia.
US inflation isn’t going away. Small businesses must plan ahead

Aug 17, 2022 13:36

American people are still struggling with rising costs and the situation isn’t going to change any time in the near future.
Truss vs Sunak: Race for UK leadership heats up amid looming recession

Aug 10, 2022 13:25

Recently, Labour Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves was at pains to explain that the UK government has “lost control of the economy”, adding that “as families and pensioners worry about how they’re going to pay their bills, the Tory leadership candidates are touring the country announcing unworkable policies that will do nothing to help people get through this crisis.”
How the Pentagon uses a secretive program to wage proxy wars (2)

Jul 15, 2022 12:08

Small teams of U.S. Special Operations forces are involved in a low-profile proxy war program on a far greater scale than previously known, according to exclusive documents and interviews with more than a dozen current and former government officials.
How the Pentagon uses a secretive program to wage proxy wars (1)

Jul 14, 2022 03:48

Small teams of U.S. Special Operations forces are involved in a low-profile proxy war program on a far greater scale than previously known, according to exclusive documents and interviews with more than a dozen current and former government officials.
UN chief says ‘perfect storm’ of crises is widening global inequality

Jul 06, 2022 09:09

UN Secretary General António Guterres says growing north and south divide is ‘morally unacceptable’ and dangerous.
Ukraine reaches out to Iran to douse flames of NATO’s war

Jul 04, 2022 14:17

The telephone talks between the Iranian and Ukrainian foreign ministers to defuse the flames of war, once again proved the peaceful nature of the Islamic Republic and its strict neutrality, coupled with efforts for solutions, concerning crises around the world.
Stagflationary global debt crisis looms – and things will get much worse

Jul 04, 2022 14:08

There is ample reason to fear big economies such as the US face recession and financial turmoil.
As food and fuel costs rise, there is no doubt the UK's poorest are hardest hit

Jun 04, 2022 08:14

The UK's Institute for Fiscal Studies believes the rise in domestic energy prices alone pushed the inflation rate for the poorest tenth of households to as high as 14%, compared with 8% for the richest.
The permanent war economy

May 28, 2022 19:30

Permanent war has cannibalized the US. It has created a social, political, and economic morass.