Without providing any evidence, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz said Friday that an “initial assessment” of a transport ship sailing in the Gulf of Oman that was hit with a blast to its hull was the work of Iran. “Iran is looking to hit Israeli infrastructure and Israeli citizens. The location of the ship in...
Category: TRENDS IN GEOPOLITICS
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HONG KONG CRACKDOWN
What is big news in the major media is old news to Trends Journal subscribers. As Gerald Celente forecast when the virus first broke out in China last January, Beijing would use COVID to achieve what they were unable to accomplish before the virus struck Wuhan: lock down Hong Kong to stop the protests. A...
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ISRAEL STRIKES SYRIA – U.S. JOINS THE FIGHT
Two weeks ago, Israel’s military chief, Lieutenant-General Amir Kohavi, said if President Biden renewed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal that President Trump abandoned, his nation may take offensive measures against Iran. Kohavi said, “A return to the 2015 nuclear agreement, or even if it is a similar accord with several improvements,...
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DRAGHI: BANKSTER CONTROL OF ITALIA
Italy’s newly-anointed Prime Minister Mario Draghi – born into the upper class with long Bankster credentials – World Bank, Goldman Sachs, European Central Bank, etc. – appealed to Italians to be patient. The government will deploy its $240 billion European relief package and “begin a new reconstruction,” said Draghi. Draghi noted the country is facing...
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YOUTH REVOLUTION 2021: MYANMAR MILITARY VS. THE PEOPLE
As we have been reporting in the Trends Journal, tens of thousands of protesters, ranging from students to government workers, have been taking to the streets in Myanmar, demanding the military release leader Aung San Suu Kyi and hand back power it seized in a coup earlier this month. (“Burma” is the name of this country...
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YOUTH REVOLUTION 2021: PROTESTS RAGE IN BARCELONA
The arrest of the popular Spanish rapper Pablo Hasel sparked days of protests in Spain as thousands who are fighting against what they see as a stunning attack on freedom of expression laws in the country took to the streets. Hasel was arrested on Tuesday while he was barricaded inside the University of Lleida with...
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SOMALIA: COPS KILL PROTESTERS
This past Friday, police forces in Mogadishu fired on protesters as demonstrators took to the streets to voice their anger about a delay in the country’s election, which was supposed to occur earlier this month. A video emerged on social media showing demonstrators marching peacefully and then running for cover in the middle of the...
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GEORGIA: NEW CHOICE OF PM, TENSIONS RISING
Georgian Dream, the governing party of Georgia, announced last week it nominated a close associate to Bidzina Ivanishvili, the billionaire who founded the party, as the country’s next prime minister, according to a report. The Financial Times reported last week that the nomination of Irakli Garibashvili, the defense minister who served as prime minister from 2013-15, will...
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U.S. DEFENSE SECRETARY TO KEEP AFGHAN WAR GOING
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, former Army General and Board member of Defense contractor Raytheon, is in “no hurry” to pull U.S. troops out of Afghanistan. Austin met with NATO officials in Brussels last week to discuss troop deployment as he saw a troubling increase in violence in the country. Austin said he will “not undertake...
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DRAGHI: ITALY’S NEW BANKSTER PM
Mario Draghi, the former leader of the European Central Bank who has been credited with saving the euro in 2012, has been tapped by Italy’s President Sergio Mattarella to be the new Prime Minister to help the country emerge from economic fallout from the coronavirus outbreak. Now in charge of the EU’s third-largest economy, Draghi...