In Congress, the big winners last week were the police and the military. The votes came as violence continues to escalate in cities across the U.S…. and throughout the continent. Over the weekend, the protest in Portland, which has been ongoing since the 25 May killing of George Floyd by a policeman in Minneapolis, violently...
Category: TRENDS IN GEOPOLITICS
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IRAN & VENEZUELA: IS WAR INEVITABLE?
Before the COVID-19 pandemic dominated headlines and the 24/7 news cycle, the Trends Journal had been continuously reporting on overt U.S. efforts to overthrow the ruling governments of Iran and Venezuela. As Gerald Celente has said many times, “When all else fails, they take you to war.” IRAN Recently, there have been dozens mysterious fires...
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LIBYA CONFLICT HEATING UP
Libya is in rubble and ruin, and wracked by civil war. It wasn’t always like that. Before it was destroyed by the Libyan War, launched in 2011 by U.S. President Barack Obama, French President Nicholas Sarkozy, and Prime Minister of England David Cameron, it was the most prosperous nation in Africa. The nation’s infrastructure, which...
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U.S. MILITARY TO GET MORE THAN $740 BILLION FROM CONGRESS
In the event you were concerned that fighting the COVID-19 War would distract our political leaders from increasing the already inflated military budget for fighting wars overseas, fear not. On 1 July, a $740.5 billion military spending package was approved by the Democratic-controlled House Armed Services Committee. The GOP-controlled Senate Armed Services Committee is expected to...
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DANGER ZONE: INDIA/CHINA BORDER DISPUTE HEATING UP
For decades, there have been ongoing border disputes between India and China in the remote Himalayan region that stretches 2,200 miles. What is referred to as the “Line of Actual Control” has never officially been agreed on. Escalation of military conflict between China and India in this region has been a global concern for many...
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U.S. MILITARY PRESENCE ON THE RISE
Last week, two of the Navy’s battleships, the USS Ronald Reagan and USS Nimitz, were ordered to the Pacific to protect against another COVID-19 outbreak in the area. The order came at a time of increasing political and economic tension between the U.S. and China. On 9 June, Taiwan reported a number of Chinese military...
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ISRAEL CRITICIZED FOR ANNEXATION PROPOSAL
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, supported by the Trump administration, has promised to annex parts of the West Bank next month. In response, Palestinians say since this would breach the ongoing peace accords established in the 1990s, they would no longer be bound by its conditions. This includes coordination between Israel and the Palestinians on important...
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LEBANON: PROTESTS CONTINUE
New waves of anti-government demonstrations broke out across the country again last week. The protests were a reaction to the continuing plunge of the Lebanese currency, which dropped to a new low. Most Lebanese citizens have lost virtually all means of supporting themselves and their families, and they have put the blame on the greed...
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HONG KONG: PROTESTS ENDING
Last Tuesday, thousands of demonstrators risked violating social distancing orders and unauthorized assembly rules to protest the expansion of charges against people involved in the months-long protests, which rocked the city in 2019. Some who had been charged with illegally entering the city legislature last year are now being charged with “rioting,” a far more...
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AFGHANISTAN WAR: THE END IS NEAR
As Gerald Celente forecast two years ago, as part of President Trump’s strategy to get re-elected, he will bring an end to the Afghanistan War in time for the November election. The news now is President Trump and the Pentagon are debating how to bring troops home by this fall. On 29 February, the U.S....