After years of growing anger over austerity programs, which have hit the middle and lower classes of Ireland, voters shocked the political establishment on 8 February. In a stunning upset, the Sinn Féin party, known mostly as the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, received more first-choice votes in the Irish general election than...
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PHILIPPINES TO U.S: “GET OUT”
A military alliance between the United States and the Philippines called the “Visiting forces (Agreement) Act,” signed in 1999, and the 1951 Mutual Defense Treaty, which called for the U.S. to use military force to defend the Philippines from external attack, may soon end. On 11 February, Philippine Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. tweeted: “The...
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INDIA: MODI REBUKED
As reported in the Trends Journal, the ongoing country-wide street protests against President Narendra Modi’s anti-Muslim Citizenship Amendment Act has been growing despite thousands risking injury, arrests, and, in some cases death from aggressive police tactics. In addition to anger over the anti-Muslim amendment, the millions of citizens who have taken to the streets are...
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YEMEN: SAUDIS SLAUGHTER CIVILIANS
Virtually blacked out of American and western news media is the ongoing Saudi Arabian slaughter and destruction of Yemen, the poorest country in the Middle East, which began in March 2015. The United States has fully supported the Saudi war effort in Yemen by supplying weapons (along with the UK and France), intelligence, and commandos...
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IRAQ: “WE WILL DRAW CLOSER… AND SURPRISE THEM”
Last Saturday, Sheikh Akram Al-Kaabi, the secretary-general of the Iraqi al-Nujaba militia group, said they would seek revenge for President Trump’s assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and the nine others killed in the drone attack, including the deputy chairman of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces. “Our response to the U.S. will not be only a...
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SYRIA: REGIME CHANGE MASSACRE
Last October, President Donald Trump announced the withdrawal of U.S. troops in the northwest section of Syria, setting the stage for the Turkish invasion of Kurdish-controlled land. However, President Trump decided to keep 500 military personnel in the region, which has led to conflict between the American forces there protecting U.S. oil interests and Russian...
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THE PRESIDENTIAL REALITY SHOW®: SANDERS HAS A SHOT
In May 2016, the Trends Journal was the first news source to forecast Donald Trump’s White House win. In our “2020 Top Trends” issue, one of our forecasts is “Trump 2020: By Default.” We are now holding back on that forecast. In our “Trump 2020: By Default” forecast, we had written that when Trump would...
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VENEZUELA: UN-HERO’S WELCOME
Juan Guaidó, the self-proclaimed president of Venezuela, was a big hit two weeks ago when he was given a seat of honor by President Trump at his State of the Union address. Given a rousing standing ovation for regime change by virtually the entire U.S. Congress, Guaidó was championed as their hero, who, with the...
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MEXICO: RATES FALL
In its first 2020 policy meeting, the Bank of Mexico cut its overnight interest rate from 7.25 percent to 7. It was the fifth consecutive quarter-point rate cut to come out of the bank’s board of governors’ quarterly meetings. The cut was the board’s first unanimous decision since May 2019. The cut was made after...
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AUSTRALIA: DOUBLE WHAMMY
Australia’s three straight decades of economic growth without a recession are due in large measure to its robust trade with nearby China. Now the good times might be ending. First, drought and abnormally high temperatures have combined to fan the worst wildfires the continent has confronted in decades. An area the size of Belgium and...