Pedro Castillo, 51, a socialist and former school teacher, declared victory after the 6 June election. With 100 percent of the votes counted from the 6 June election, Castillo has a 44,000-vote lead. But his contender, Keiko Fujimori, daughter of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori who is serving a 25-year sentence for ordering extrajudicial killings,...
It was the big news last week blasted across the mainstream media. President Biden met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday in Geneva and warned the Russian leader—who he referred to as a “worthy adversary”—about cyberattacks and the treatment of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Biden was asked by reporters after the meeting about...
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. Since...
Ebrahim Raisi, who was accused of being involved in the mass execution of thousands of political prisoners in 1988, won a landslide victory in the Iranian presidential election, prompting officials in Israel to issue a warning to the new administration. “There will be no choice [now] but to go back and prepare attack plans for...
A recent poll conducted by Data for Progress found that 55 percent of American voters said they would support a bill that would prevent Israel “from spending U.S. taxpayer dollars on: military detention of Palestinian children; the seizure or destruction of Palestinian property and homes; or, support for Israel’s annexation of Palestinian territory.” The Times...
Last week, the Trends Journal had forecast that Israel’s new Prime Minister Naftali Bennett that replaced Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, would be “more of the same” for the country. We reported that Bennett, who will only serve two years as prime minister under the coalition’s arrangement, has indicated that he will take a bellicose approach to Gaza....
The U.S. may now have specific inside intelligence about the Chinese government’s role and intentions regarding a Wuhan bio lab where COVID-19 likely originated. That’s because it’s now confirmed that former Chinese vice minister of State Security Dong Jingwei defected to America with his daughter in February. A longtime member of China’s Ministry of State...
Many U.S. so-called health professionals dealing with COVID-19, including the “eminent” authority Dr. Anthony Fauci – who makes nearly a half million dollars a year by sucking off the public tit – are not yet ready to see people let their COVID guard down. Despite falling numbers of cases and deaths, rising numbers of vaccinations,...
On Tuesday 15 June, the governors of New York and California, the two states that have racked up the highest COVID-19 death tolls (53,000 and 63,000, respectively) made separate announcements declaring milestones reached in each state’s vaccination program and the lifting of most restrictions on business and social gatherings. Pomp and Fanfare A New York...
Among documents made public by congressional investigators are those pertaining to the government’s contracts with Emergent BioSolutions, a two-decades-old concern that has enjoyed extremely lucrative agreements for producing and packaging COVID-19 vaccines, despite what those documents reveal are serious shortcomings in safety and quality control. We first wrote about those shortcomings on 4 May, in...