Consider this. As you are beginning to read this article, global debt is surging higher. In fact, global debt has never been higher than it is today. But in the few minutes that it will take you to finish reading this article, global debt will have surged even more.

Every second of every day, 24 hours a day, every day, global debt is climbing. The “big secret” is this: it can’t ever stop.

The Global Debt Market Time Bomb Is Close to Going Off.

By Gregory Mannarino TradersChoice.net

The COVID-19 pandemic is a global challenge. No single government or institution can address the threat of future pandemics alone.

A convention, agreement or other international instrument is legally binding under international law. An agreement on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response adopted under the World Health Organization (WHO) would enable countries around the globe to strengthen national, regional and global capacities and resilience to future pandemics.

Such an instrument would also:

“Independent media” are sweeping developing countries; money from NATO governments and George Soros’ Open Society Foundations are flooding the public sphere. 

In the past, the U.S. government used to subsidize traditional newspapers in the Arab world: those that were the most reactionary and right-wing such as Al-Hayat, An-Nahar and Al-`Amal (the last one is the mouthpiece of the Phalanges Party) received the bulk of the funding.  

By As`ad AbuKhalil
Special to Consortium News

Before Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Olha Bihar was a lawyer working for a firm in Kyiv while completing her PhD in tax law.

Fifteen months later, the 31-year-old is a commander of a mortar unit, an artillery officer and a veteran of the Battle of Bakhmut, with the call sign Witch. 

The origins of that name remain almost as secretive as the start date of Ukraine's long awaited counteroffensive.

"My call sign is from 2014. I'll tell the story about my call sign. But after the war," she told the ABC during a break from weapons training at a secret location in eastern Ukraine.

The dismantling of the US as a normal, functional nation-state continues. America’s gun neuralgia continues to worsen, and now we see new evidence that its fiscal neuralgia – a phobia for properly funded government – is deepening too.

The US commitment to unchecked mass murder of its citizens through preventable gun violence is as entrenched in America as it is incomprehensible to every other developed nation. Even after so many mass shootings, so much wanton murder, death’s dismal Danse Macabre through US society can still shock: In 2020, guns became the leading cause of death among American children aged 19 and under.

… One attempts to describe it as it appears in 1915; but there is a danger of being disbelieved, because the prodigal flinging of spring colour over the shores of Gallipoli utterly surpasses in richness the colour of Australia. England doubtless shows something far more like it in spring. The colour ashore is a glowing red — acres of poppy waving there upon the green plain. Neither do we know the Aegean blue in Australian waters, somehow.

The reader, harassed by the war news from this smiling land, may conceive the incongruity of this fair landscape splashed with colour of another sort — the red dust of a moving troop, the hideous discolour of bursting lyddite, and the grey smudge of shrapnel…

Hector Dinning (1883-1959)

By-ways on Service: Notes from an Australian Journal (1918)

US President Joe Biden is finalizing an executive order to restrict American investment in China’s defense industry, Axios reported on Friday. The move will further ratchet up a campaign that Beijing calls “economic coercion.”

The order will be released later this summer, Axios stated, citing anonymous sources. Rumors of an impending order have circulated in the US media since April, but Axios’ sources said that work on the decree was slowed by Washington’s efforts to convince its G7 allies to issue similar restrictions.

“Clear progress” on this issue was made at the G7 summit in Japan this month, one source said.

The German economy, once Europe’s roaring engine of growth, slipped into recession in early 2023 amid runaway inflation, the national statistics office revealed this week. GDP data is reportedly showing surprisingly negative signals, with the economy losing the potential for growth. RT looks at the challenges facing the EU’s economic powerhouse.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Milley hold a briefing in Arlington, Virginia, after a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvUtZPxLQYI

ANYONE WITH THE WISDOM OF A COLONEL MCGREGOR WOULD KNOW THAT THIS ISN'T A "FROZEN CONFLICT".

DESPITE 54 COUNTRIES PROVIDING MILITARY HELP TO THE NAZIS IN UKRAINE, RUSSIA IS WINNING AND MOST LIKELY WILL HAVE ACHIEVED ITS GOAL BY THE END OF SUMMER 2023.

ADD MORE WEAPONS TO THE KIEV REGIME, WILL ONLY ADD TO ITS PAIN. 

The following is a paper by retired Australian Army Major General Michael G Smith AO, first published in The New Daily on May 26, 2023.  This paper addresses the most significant issue facing the Australian people since the Second World War, namely our future national security, our independence, our sovereignty, our prosperity and, ultimately, our survival.

Decisions taken by the former Coalition Government and the current Labor Government have and will shape and decide the destiny for future generations of Australians. The stakes are high. These decisions have been made and are being made behind closed doors and without acceptable public or parliamentary debate.

During the May 2023 Group of Seven (G7) summit, the leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, near where the meeting was held. Not doing so would have been an act of immense discourtesy.

The United Nations reports that we now have the highest number of violent conflicts since World War II. Against that backdrop, we have little anti-war action world-wide.

Professor Joan Roelofs’ eye-opening book The Trillion Dollar Silencer makes clear the reasons why there is so little pushback from people in the United States, the leading nation of arms-making and war-making. She makes a clear case that people are afraid to speak out because the merchants of death have become ubiquitous—every element of our society is beholden to the arms makers. 

US Senator Lindsey Graham flew to Ukraine to meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday, after which he called on the Biden administration to ramp up support for the authorities in Kiev that are conducting an ongoing proxy war against Russia.

"Disgusting" and "sickening" were some of the responses on social media after footage was posted online showing Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and other senior officials in Kiev on May 26.

A video of the encounter was purportedly released by Andriy Yermak, the head of the Ukrainian president’s office. In it, one can hear Graham, who led the United States delegation's visit to Ukraine, saying:

"The Russians are dying... it's the best money we've ever spent."

Against the backdrop of the United States’ recognition of the investigation against Donald Trump as politically motivated, structural and ideological controversies, and concerns that the American economy will enter a recession, the GEOFOR editorial board asked Paul Craig Roberts, Chairman of the Institute for Political Economy (USA), a PhD in Economics and US Undersecretary of Treasury in the Reagan administration, to share his views on America’s future.

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts AND Serge Duhanov

GEOFOR: Special Counsel John Durham “acquitted” Donald Trump on the so-called “Russiagate”, writing in his report that the FBI investigation was politically motivated. How will this news affect the Democrats’ fight against Trump?