Elon Musk, the Tesla head who donated over $250 million to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, has been tasked by the White House to seek and destroy government inefficiencies and waste, but critics wonder how effective the world’s richest man could be given that his companies pull in $20 billion a year in government contracts.
U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order last week that suspends enforcement of anti-bribery laws that banned companies or individuals from bribing foreign government officials to get new business—calling the law “good on paper,” but in practicality a “disaster.”
Christopher Heusgen, the head of the Munich Security Conference, warned European leaders last week that they should be prepared for the U.S. to announce a “massive withdrawal of American soldiers from Europe” under the Trump administration.
In the world today, you are not permitted to speak the truth or to make accurate trend forecasts.
The U.S. stock market’s global dominance will peak this year and then decline, Michael Hartnett, Bank of America’s chief global strategist, has warned.
It is essentially no news in the mainstream Western media that the Israeli military continues to carry out raids across the West Bank, displacing at least 40,000 Palestinians during their expulsion operations last week.
A key element of the Occupy Peace movement that Gerald Celente launched over a decade ago is for the U.S. to close its 800 military bases in some 70 countries and bring home the hundreds of thousands of its troops to secure the homeland.
Israel is in violation of another ceasefire agreement—this time with Hezbollah—and announced Monday that it will keep troops stationed at five locations throughout southern Lebanon past the agreed-upon withdrawal date of 18 February.
Hundreds of rabbis put their names on a full-page advertisement in The New York Times last week that was titled, “Jewish People Say NO to Ethnic Cleansing.”
The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich caused a stir last week when it cancelled a speech that was to be delivered by Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur for human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, claiming that there was a risk that clashing opinions could lead to a security issue.