The price of aluminum—which has already been surging in 2021—has soared in response to the military coup in Guinea since the country is a major world supplier of bauxite, which is critical in producing the metal. “Miners now have little other option than to sit tight and await further clarity from the transitional authorities,” Eric...
Category: TRENDS IN GEOPOLITICS
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AMERICA PUMPS UP THE RICH, CHINA PUSHING THEM DOWN
“A powerful China should also be a fair and just China,” says Yao Yang, a professor of economics at Peking University, quoted in a 7 September New York Times article. In an effort to ensure equality, President Xi Jinping has declared that China has reached the next phase in its growth, and has informed China’s...
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U.S. LOST AFGHAN WAR: $2.3 TRILLION DISASTER. CHINA THE WINNER.
The Washington crime syndicate stole $2.313 trillion from the citizens of Slavelandia to fight the Afghan War that George W. Bush launched in October 2001. And President Joe Biden—who voted to give Bush the power to launch it—ended it in a disaster a few weeks ago. With the American military gone, the Biden pullout has...
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CHINA PUSH FOR ‘COMMON PROSPERITY’
Chinese President Xi Jinping has announced he is pushing the Communist Party agenda that will attempt to further entrench itself in society by promoting equality and “common prosperity” for all its citizens. The Wall Street Journal reported that the slogan has grown in popularity as Xi pushes to build on the party’s foundation of empowering...
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NO E.U. WELCOME MAT FOR AFGHAN REFUGEES
The New York Times reported last Thursday that NATO members are finding themselves torn over the prospect of an influx of refugees from Afghanistan. Many fear a repeat of 2015 and 2016, when waves of asylum seekers from the wars in Syria and Iraq fled into Europe (See “Migrant crisis: Pass the blame,” 23 April...
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TALIBAN “INHERITS” $83 BILLION IN U.S. ARMS, MATERIAL
A group of 26 Republican senators has written to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin demanding a full accounting of the weaponry and equipment that was allowed to fall into the hands of the Taliban upon the collapse of the Afghan government and army, which followed quickly on the heels of the withdrawal from Afghanistan of...
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WILL TALIBAN CASH IN ON $1 TRILLION WORTH OF AFGHAN MINERAL WEALTH?
The Taliban, which took over Kabul with ease last week, now finds itself sitting on top of a fortune in mineral wealth that is coveted by major world players, including China. Afghanistan, which is considered one of the poorest countries on the planet and survives on donations, is actually sitting on mineral deposits of about...
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BIDEN ON AFGHANISTAN: “FUCK THAT”
This past week, the Presstitutes have been working overtime to try and assign blame for the swift fall of Kabul to the Taliban that’s sitting on about $1 trillion in mineral deposits and a stockpile of U.S. weapons left behind worth billions… that U.S. taxpayers paid for. But regardless who suffers most politically, the fact...
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MORE THAN 1,000 KILLED IN MYANMAR SINCE COUP
As we have been reporting in the Trends Journal, since 1 February, tens of thousands of protesters in Myanmar have taken to the streets to fight for democracy after a military coup overturned recent election results and arrested the civilian leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, who reportedly won by a landslide this past November. On...
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MIGRANT FLOOD. WHAT WILL BIDEN DO?
What took a year-and-a-half for the government and media to understand, we had long ago forecast in the Trends Journal. Political instability and economic fallout from the COVID-19 outbreak are being blamed for the surge in illegal migrants from new regions arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border, a report said. “It used to be just, essentially,...