On 13 October, President Trump announced the pullout of 1,000 U.S. troops from Syria after making a deal with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who launched a military offensive against Kurdish fighters in Syria who Erdoğan views as terrorists.  “The U.S. doesn’t have the forces on hand to stop an invasion of Turkey that is 15,000 strong,” Trump said. Not...

Last Thursday, the U.S. officially launched a military operation under the pretext of protecting the movement of oil out of the Middle East.  Using another of their melodramatic, moronic names that mean nothing more than “We will kill who we want and do what we want to get what we want,” the Pentagon losers who have not won a war...

Following weeks of mass protest and political tensions due to a controversial election, which we covered in detail in last week’s Trends Journal, Bolivia’s president, Evo Morales, resigned Sunday and fled to Mexico. Morales’ exit leaves Bolivia in a political vacuum. The next two officials in line of succession, the Vice President and President of the Senate, both of whom...

While the United States wages wars and incites conflict in the oil-rich Middle East, France is continuing its colonial strategy by forcibly stealing a natural resource it wants and needs from African countries that own it. The two key countries are Mali and Niger. The essential natural resource France requires in large quantities is uranium. Some 80 percent of its...

It will go on record as one of the worst investment buyouts of the 21st century. Ignoring decades of condemnation by various environmental and health advocacy groups, the German company Bayer acquired Monsanto for $63 billion in 2018.  Monsanto produces Roundup, the controversial herbicide containing glyphosate that is banned in many European countries. In response to a Californian court ruling...

Because of the medical profession’s overreliance on antibiotics, including its routine use in livestock, antibiotic resistance is reaching epidemic proportions: the drugs have killed off most bacteria that cause illnesses ranging from pneumonia to food poisoning, leaving alive only those with a genetic mutation that makes a bug immune to antibiotics. These “superbugs” are reproducing and spreading diseases unchecked. Researchers...

A telomere is a cluster of nucleotides – the building blocks of DNA – gathered at the end of a chromosome. They’ve been likened to the plastic tip on a shoelace. Scientists have found that telomeres shrink with age and that keeping telomeres long prolongs life. As a result, longevity devotees have been downing supplements, hewing to special diets, and...

Want to ride the bus in Rome? Better bring along those old water and soda bottles. Putting 30 of the bottles into special vending machines at select bus stations gets you a ticket for a free bus ride. In Surabaya, a port city of more than three million people on the Indonesian island of Java, five bottles or ten plastic...

New Day, Same Game The U.S. equity markets hit a new high. Up strong in Europe as well. “European stocks close higher on renewed trade optimism,” blared the CNBC headline. “Optimism” that the Gang running the Street will get their money-fix from the Bankster Mob.  The numbers are in front of everyone’s eyes. One hundred twenty billion dollars a day...

Manufactured Numbers  China’s National Bureau of Statistics reported their factory activity, or Purchasing Manufacturing Index (PMI), dropped from 49.8 in September to 49.3 in October.  The PMI has hovered below the 50 mark, indicating contraction, for six straight months. In contrast, IHS Markit, a private data firm, showed a solid start to the fourth quarter for China’s manufacturing sector. Their...