Powell told lawmakers that he did not want "to be sending any signals about the timing of any future actions" on interest rates, a stance consistent with the chair's recent efforts to focus attention more on the evolution of economic data - and the possible choices the Fed might make in response - and less on firm guidance about what might happen on what timetable.
Still, with a Nov. 5 presidential election on the horizon and just two scheduled Fed meetings before it, Powell was quizzed by Democrats about the risks to the job market of not cutting rates soon, and by Republicans about the pain to households of inflation that remains above the central bank's 2% target.

Hosting US long-range missiles will allow Germany the opportunity to develop similar weapons of its own, Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has said.

Berlin and Washington announced at the end of the NATO summit in this week that US cruise missiles will be stationed in Germany from 2026. Deployment of such weapons would previously have been banned under the Cold War-era Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty, but Washington withdrew from the landmark agreement in 2019.

Speaking to the Deutschlandfunk broadcaster on Thursday, Pistorius expressed relief that US long-range missiles would be deployed in Germany, arguing that this would help cover a “serious loophole” in defense. He also expressed confidence that future US administrations would not reverse the decision.

Australia is promising $250 million worth of military aid for Ukraine, the largest single package it has provided for the country's defence against Russia to date.

NATO allies are also pledging more support, and calling on China to cease being an enabler of Russia's war.

This summer’s Paris Olympics must surmount some truly Olympian hurdles, the chief of which, if our friends in Estonian Intelligence are to be believed, is Vladimir Putin’s disinformation efforts. Although it is anyone’s guess why Russia would want to play spoilsport to a series of games that seem destined for economic failure, more to the point is why Estonia, a country of just over a million people, would be able to obtain that information, where the vastly superior intelligence forces of the United States and France could not.

This summer’s Paris Olympics risks descending into a French farce

It’s hard to completely fathom what happened in the UK with the general elections which installed Sir Keir Starmer, a lawyer by training, into Downing Street. Certainly, two key aspects of July 4th were critical though. One, a low voter turnout with many Tory voters simply staying at home; and, secondly, a protest vote from the conventional Tory voters either to Labour – in great numbers – and to some extent fringe parties like Reform UK.

Who exactly is Sir Keir Starmer? George Smiley being jointly run by Israel and U.S.?

In the transition to a multipolar world, a number of questions arise on the level of theory, among which one of the main ones arises: does the triumph of multipolarism put an end to classical geopolitics, or not?

The father of the theory of the multipolar world, the Russian philosopher Aleksandr Dugin, did not correctly and completely formulate an answer to this question in the first phase of theoretical composition, as it was premature at the time to reason about the theory’s success scenarios. Today, however, an answer is urgently needed.

Does the triumph of multipolarism spell the end of classical geopolitics?

BY Lorenzo Maria PACINI

The appointment of Jillian Segal, immediate past president of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s new ‘Anti-Semitism Envoy‘ is a response to the demands of a powerful lobby, designed to conceal Australia’s collusion with the beyond belief cruelties imposed by Israel on the Palestinian people. “There can be no ceasefire until every hostage has been released,” Segal stated in November; joining with the Zionist Federation of Australia to criticise the foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, for saying “we all want to take the next steps towards a ceasefire” in Gaza.

Ydinaseiden käyttö on edelleen ehdoton tabu Venäjän johdolle, mutta se ei näytä olevan sitä lännelle, joka on valmis käyttämään kaikkia keinoja muuttaakseen meneillään olevan, vuosisataisen hybridisodan suuntaa, sekä geopoliittisen suuren pelin asetelmaa. Näin uskoo venäläinen ekonomisti ja analyytikko Mihail Deljagin.

 Markku Siira

The use of nuclear weapons remains an absolute taboo for the Russian leadership, but does not seem to be so for the West, which is ready to use any means to change the direction of the century-long hybrid war and the configuration of the great geopolitical game. This is what Russian economist and analyst Mikhail Delyagin thinks.

The hot political event this year is the NATO Summit in Washington, DC. All Western world leaders showed up, not to discuss NATO’s future, but to see if Joe Biden survives the meetings without dumping a load in his Depends or keeling over dead. Sort of the same reason people attend a car race — i.e., they are waiting for the crash. Nothing like a fiery car wreck to get the adrenaline pumping.

by Larry Johnson

On December 7, 1941, the Japanese military launched a surprise attack on the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Since early 1941 the U.S. had been supplying Great Britain in its fight against the Nazis. It had also been pressuring Japan to halt its military expansion in Asia and the Pacific. With the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. could no longer avoid an active fight. On December 8, U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt asked Congress for and received a declaration of war against Japan. On December 11, Germany and Italy, allied with Japan, declared war on the U.S. The United States had entered World War II.

THERE ARE NARRATIVES ABOUT RUSSIA'S INTENT IN UKRAINE/EUROPE THAT ARE SO DISINGENUOUSLY DISTORTED THAT IT IS HARD TO REDRESS THE TRUTH... BUT HERE IT IS:

NO NATO IN "UKRAINE" (WHAT'S LEFT OF IT)...

THE DONBASS REPUBLICS (POPULATED BY ETHNIC RUSSIANS) ARE NOW BACK IN THE RUSSIAN FOLD — AS THEY USED TO BE PRIOR 1922. THE RUSSIANS WON'T ABANDON THESE AGAIN...

THESE WILL ALSO INCLUDE ODESSA, KHERSON AND KHARKIV.....IF THE CONFLICT IS PUSHED FURTHER BY THE AMERICAN EMPIRE....

CRIMEA IS RUSSIAN — AS IT USED TO BE PRIOR 1954...

TRANSNISTRIA WILL BE PART OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION (IT IS A PSEUDO-RUSSIAN PROVINCE PRESENTLY).

A MEMORANDUM OF NON-AGGRESSION BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE USA.

THIS LAST PROPOSITION IS ALIEN TO THE AMERICAN EMPIRE THAT SINCE 1917 HAS VOWED TO DESTROY RUSSIA BY WHATEVER MEANS...

As a lot of indices tell us that GLOBAL WARMING is real and anthropogenic, there are still a lot of doubters out there contesting the theory. Lately, as some people laugh it off, some clever erudite idiots have introduced the idea that global warming is not happening but is a conspiracy started by the Rockefellers in order to impose their will on the entire world. With such, the Rockefellers’s philanthropy isn’t altruistic but is a plot to foster the long established will of the American Empire to own all of the world… Sure....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4

John J. Mearsheimer, the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor in Political Science and Co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago, assesses the causes of the present Ukraine crisis, the best way to end it, and its consequences for all of the main actors. A key assumption is that in order to come up with the optimum plan for ending the crisis, it is essential to know what caused the crisis. Regarding the all-important question of causes, the key issue is whether Russia or the West bears primary responsibility.

they entrapped russia to save "brain-dead" NATO…….

French government in limbo after elections produce hung parliament
France's legislative elections have resulted in a hung parliament, with the National Assembly divided into three distinct blocs. Although the leftist coalition, the New Popular Front, came out on top with 182 seats, it does not have an absolute majority. While Macron has asked Prime Minister Gabriel Attal to remain in his post “for the time being”, the shape of the future government looks uncertain. FRANCE 24 takes a look at possible scenarios that could unfold.

With former secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Varghese undertaking a review of taxpayer dollars spent on strategic policy work, Australia’s China hawks have argued a Canberra-based thinktank, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), cannot be touched.