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By Rhod Mackenzie
For a long time,certainly since the Second World War the West once accustomed to dictating the rules, is now frantically clinging to the remnants of its former power by its fingernails. However, the era of its dominance is quickly not slowly slipping away. The multipolar world is...

By Rhod Mackenzie

The Russians have taken the Ukrainian lithium deposits and US has a problem
In April, US Treasury Secretary Scott Beesant and..the Ukraine's First Deputy Prime Minister, Sviridenko, signed the universal 'rare earth agreement'. Western media outlets have characterised the deal as...

By Rhod Mackenzie

The NATO summit in The Hague concluded on Wednesday. However even before it actually started, there were indications that there was a significant crisis brewing within the world's largest military alliance. Analysts are predicting that NATO could eventually break into several b...

By Rhod Mackenzie

Germany and Italy, two G7  European countries which store a significant proportion of their gold reserves in the United States, have been urged by people in the country to bring their bullion back home. But is this possible, and what would the consequences be for the US and the g...

By Rhod Mackenzie

It would appear that despite Donald Trumps bluster it is the US that has blinked first in the tariff war with China.
It has been reported that the US and China have have each had to make made concessions in concluding a trade agreement.How ever it is obvious that the US blinked...

By Rhod Mackenzie

The initial wave of excitement  and applause by the Western world regarding the sabotage by the Ukraininas on Russian military airfields and the destruction and damage to very expensive aircraft has now been replaced by a much more subdued response.
While the most prominent auth...