After the collapse of Signature and Silicon Valley banks in March 2023, Michael Barr, vice-chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, proposed stringent new rules requiring American banks to keep more capital on hand.
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TIMELINE: CALLING PUTIN’S BLUFF
U.S. President Joe Biden and the collective West continue to play a high-risk game of poker with Russian President Vladimir Putin and think they have the leader figured out.
MORE THAN 85 PERCENT OF GAZA IS UNDER AN EVACUATION ORDER, UN SAYS
It’s been said that there is no place in Gaza that is safe from Israeli missiles, and the UN announced on Monday that more than 85 percent of the enclave is under an evacuation order—the most recent was announced on Saturday in the north.
GAZA DEATH TOLL
Take a look at the front page of Monday’s Wall Street Journal and see a large photo of a burning building with the headline, “Russia Strikes Apartment Building in Ukraine.”
ISRAELIS BOMBS SYRIA, KILLING AT LEAST 16
U.S.-backed IDF terrorists last week carried out a rare raid inside Syria—killing at least 16 at a factory allegedly used by Iran to produce advanced missiles.
NEW YORK TIMES TRIES TO JUSTIFY ISRAEL’S MASSACRES IN WEST BANK BY BLAMING “MILITANT” PALESTINIANS
The New York Times last week justified Israel’s recent violent crackdown in the West Bank by assigning blame on Palestinians who fight back against IDF troops who protect “settlers” who have made life a living hell in the territory.
U.S. PAYS $1.3B BRIBE TO EGYPT SO ISRAEL CAN CONTINUE GENOCIDE IN GAZA
The U.S. bribed Egypt with $1.3 billion in military aid to get Cairo to “continue to participate in U.S. policy towards Palestine, which equates to facilitating the ongoing genocide in Gaza,” Dr. Annelle Sheline, a research fellow for the Middle East at the Quincy Institute, posted on Wednesday.
ISRAEL FAILED TO UPEND HAMAS IN GAZA DESPITE GENOCIDE CAMPAIGN
Despite Israel’s genocide in Gaza, killing at least 41,206 people, an unsourced Israeli report said Hamas is recovering at a faster pace than the IDF is dismantling the group.
GAZAN CHILDREN MISS OUT ON ANOTHER YEAR OF SCHOOLING
Children in Gaza have missed an entire full year of school, and there is no sign that this school year will be any different given that Israel continues to carry out its campaign to ethnically cleanse the coastal enclave.
ISRAEL SEEKS TO TURN FOCUS ON HEZBOLLAH—EVEN AS GENOCIDE CONTINUES IN GAZA
Israel’s security cabinet on Saturday said returning Israelis to their homes in the stolen land in the north—along the border with Lebanon—will be named an official goal of the war, raising the likelihood of a major escalation.