Economic and financial sanctions often backfire. The most notable example is the weaponization of the dollar against Russia. The measure has sparked a global movement to de-dollarize, the opposite of the punitive move’s strategic intent.

The historic miscalculation didn’t stop US Senator Marco Rubio of Florida from introducing a bill in Congress to punish countries that de-dollarize. The bill seeks to ban financial institutions facilitating de-dollarization from the global dollar system.

 

De-dollarization the path to global financial freedom

 

By JAN KRIKKE

 

On Monday (August 5) a US federal judge ruled Google has violated antitrust laws, saying the organization

is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly.

Google disputes the ruling. Its president of global affairs, Kent Walker, said: “this decision recognises that Google offers the best search engine, but concludes that we shouldn’t be allowed to make it easily available.”

 

Google is an ‘illegal’ monopoly – and the internet will never be the same

 

By ZENA ASSAAD

 

Gathering in New York in September 2024, the world’s nations will be challenged to ‘end the scourge of war’, before it’s too late. All of them know that a nuclear cataclysm has never been so close.

The United States’ veto in the Security Council and its military colossus imperil the world’s nations, solely for the sake of perpetuating US global hegemony. In America, which regards itself as ‘exceptional’ and ‘indispensable’, whoever wins the coming presidential election, is unlikely to change entrenched US hostility to Iran and China. Neither Trump nor Harris is likely to head off war, regardless of its terrible cost.

 

AMERICAN POLITICS ARE A DISTRACTION DESIGNED TO MAKE PEOPLE THINK ABOUT CHOICE WHEN THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE IN THE PROPELLANT: THE DEEP STATE AND THE PENTAGON TELL THE WHITE HOUSE WHAT TO DO. WHEN PRESIDENTS DO NOT FOLLOW THE SCRIPT THEY ARE REMOVED BY WHATEVER TRICKS. FOR DONALD TRUMP, THE LOOSE CANNON, IT HAS BEEN A LITANY OF EXHAUSTING COURT CASES, TWO IMPEACHMENT ATTEMPTS, PLUS AN ASSASSINATION THAT FAILED BY half an inch. 

It was 20 Frimaire Year VI (December 10, 1797). The Directory, the public officials, the assistants were lined up in their places, impatiently awaiting the illustrious man whom few of them had seen. He appeared accompanied by M. de Talleyrand, who was responsible for presenting him; because it was the negotiator who was being congratulated at the moment.

 

The US is promoter of the war while China is advocator for peace talks and immediate cease-fire. When people get tired of fighting, China's approach becomes more and more attractive.

China's approach becomes more and more attractive when people get tired of fighting
By: Global Times | Published: Jul 24, 2024 10:00 PM

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202407/1316668.shtml

 

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Memorial service held in Beijing to commemorate Tsung-dao Lee's scientific contributions and endeavor in cultivating Chinese talents

By GT staff reporters

Battle between death and night

The child was in front of this thing, silent, astonished, his eyes fixed.

For a man it would have been a gallows, for the child it was an apparition.

Where the man had seen the corpse, the child saw the ghost.

And then he didn't understand. 

The attractions of the abyss are of all kinds; there was one at the top of this hill. The child took a step, then two. He went up, while wanting to go down, and approached, while wanting to go back. 

He came very close, bold and trembling, to reconnoitre the ghost.

Arriving under the gallows, he raised his head and examined it.

As Bad As Nixon Was, Things Got So Much Worse After He Left the White House

Fifty years ago, on August 9, 1974, Richard M. Nixon resigned the presidency in disgrace on the threshold of impeachment as a result of the Watergate scandal.

Two years earlier, five men, including a salaried security coordinator for President Nixon’s re-election committee, were arrested for breaking into and illegally wiretapping the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters in the Washington, D.C., Watergate Hotel.

 

Nuclear power provides the nuclear explosives and a cloak for hiding the development of nuclear weapons.

Last week we remembered the nuclear bombing of Japan by the United States in August 1945. On 6 August 1945, a US B-29 dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Highly enriched uranium was the explosive. Three days later, another B-29 bombed Nagasaki, which had negligible military facilities, with an atomic bomb containing plutonium as the explosive.

 

The intimate relationship between nuclear weapons and nuclear power    By Mark Diesendorf

 

The majority of American politicians, journalists, pundits and most commentators have decided that the war between the Zionist forces and the Palestinian resistance started on October 7th 2023. Not over 76 years ago, or more.

 

Compounded dishonour    By Jafar Ramini

 

They totally ignore the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, in 1947 – 48, when 750,000 Palestinians were uprooted and displaced with no chance of return to their homes and land. They also ignore the 560 towns and villages that were razed to the ground and the Palestinian inhabitants of those towns and villages either massacred or kicked out.

A New York Times poll released on Saturday shows US Vice President Kamala Harris with a significant lead over former President Donald Trump in the swing states of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan. The poll’s sampling data, however, suggests that the race could be far closer in reality.

Conducted by the Siena College Research Institute, the survey of nearly 2,000 likely voters found Harris beating Trump by 50% to 46% across all three states. The poll was conducted between August 5 and 9, in the week that Harris announced Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate.

On 6 August, a court in Berlin sentenced a young woman called Ava Moayeri to a fine of €600 for shouting “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free.” One of Moayeri’s lawyers, Alexander Gorski, deplored this as “a rather dark day for freedom of expression in Germany.”

He’s right, even if his comment is an all too understated response to a scandalous miscarriage of justice. Indeed, it is hard to answer the question of what is wrong with this sentence, because, quite literally, everything is. Judge Birgit Balzer’s reasoning, for one thing, was embarrassingly shoddy, irresponsibly misinformed, and ethically and legally misguided, about which more below.

 

You’ve seen “White Women for Kamala” and “White Dudes for Harris” — but don’t expect a booster group called “Parents for Kamala and Tim.”

Kamala Harris is squarely opposed to parents’ right to control what young children are taught about gender, sex and sexuality in school.

And on Tuesday, she chose as her running mate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz,  a former schoolteacher and teachers union member who shares her extreme anti-parent views.

Harris and Walz are out of line with what most Americans think — and not just Republicans.

The vanquished and the victor: Although he is at the mercy of Nebuchadnezzar, Zedekiah shows himself full of dignity and even greatness. Thus the roles are, so to speak, reversed: loudly confessing his faith, recognising his wrongs, pleading not for himself but for his innocent people, the vanquished gives the victor, who remains deaf to his appeal, a lesson in greatness of soul. The following text is characteristic of Garnier's style: a strongly structured tirade followed by a tight and oratorical dialogue.

Extract.

THE JEWISH WOMEN (Extract)

by French writer Robert Garnier (1544-1590)

Translation by Jules Letambour

 

Synopsis:

Joe Rogan's endorsement of independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been welcomed by supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential campaign.

"I am a fan. He's the only one to make sense to me. He's the only one that doesn't attack people. He attacks actions and ideas, but he's much more reasonable and intelligent," Rogan said about RFK Jr. during a recent episode of his podcast.

Rogan, who hosts The Joe Rogan Experience, commands an audience of 14.5 million followers on Spotify. His podcast has held the top spot on the streaming platform for four consecutive years.