Trump’s decision to drag the US into war was largely shaped by the Israeli PM’s “fanatical” and misguided agenda, the economist says American economist Jeffrey Sachs has sharply criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, arguing that US President Donald Trump’s decision to attack Iran was heavily influenced by what he described as Netanyahu’s “fanatical” and misguided agenda. Trump has repeatedly faced criticism, both domestically and internationally, for pursuing policies widely seen as closely aligned with Israeli interests across both his first and current presidential terms. Analysts and political opponents have often pointed to a broader shift in US foreign policy that allegedly favors the agenda of the Jewish State under Netanyahu. “Trump’s decision basically led by Netanyahu,” Sachs told US conservative journalist and podcaster Tucker Carlson. In a video interview published on Friday, the economist noted that Netanyahu has an agenda, stressing that the US presid...
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There are concerns that Vilmos Katai-Nemeth, a lawyer and aikido black belt, could become a symbolic “figurehead,” according to media reports Hungary's incoming prime minister, Peter Magyar, has picked a blind lawyer to become the cabinet minister responsible for DEI affairs as part of a sweeping government overhaul following Viktor Orban’s election defeat. Magyar made the announcement on X on Friday, naming Vilmos Katai-Nemeth, 52, alongside transport pick David Vitezy. “For the first time in Hungary’s history, a blind Hungarian citizen… will lead the Ministry of Social and Family Affairs – including responsibility for accessibility and equal opportunities,” he wrote. Katai-Nemeth has struggled with vision problems since childhood and lost his sight at 16 due to a hereditary retinal atrophy disease. However, he went on to qualify as a lawyer, and is a practicing attorney. He also earned a black belt in aikido – the first blind master in this disciple in the world – and has dev...
Two Eurofighter Typhoons were cleared to attack the UAVs as they flew over Ukraine, the Romanian Defense Ministry has said Two British fighter jets that scrambled from a Romanian air base received a green light to shoot down Russian drones flying not far from the border with the NATO country, Romania’s Defense Ministry has said. Romanian and UK officials have stressed that the warplanes never entered Ukraine’s airspace, or opened fire on Russian UAVs. In a statement on Saturday, the Romanian Defense Ministry said that RAF Eurofighter Typhoon jets deployed at the 86th Air Base in Fetesti lifted off at 2 AM and established radar contact with a target 1.5 km from Reni, a Ukrainian port town on the bank of the Danube, barely a stone’s throw from Romanian soil. “The pilots had authorization to engage the drones,” the ministry said, adding that multiple explosions were subsequently reported in Reni. Read more EU doubles down on disputed ‘drone wall’ initiative against Russia After ...
US networks did not cover a video in which a nuclear safety officer spoke about Ukraine corruption and strikes on children in Iran, Michael Casey has told RT Major US networks have turned a blind eye to an explosive undercover video in which a senior Pentagon official spoke about Ukraine’s rampant corruption and civilian casualties resulting from the war on Iran, O’Keefe Media Group journalist Michael Casey has told RT. Speaking to RT on Friday, Casey weighed in on footage that O’Keefe Media Group released earlier this week, apparently showing Andrew Hugg, a Pentagon nuclear safety officer, revealing secrets to a woman he met on a dating app. The official was recorded confirming that US airstrikes did cause collateral child casualties in Iran, discussing nerve agents stored in Maryland, and alleging that Ukrainian officials had pocketed US taxpayer funds going back to the Obama administration. Read more Ukrainians stealing in hopes of living in Dubai – US military official to un...
It is revealing that the growing social distress is generated not on the periphery of the Western world-system, but in the American metropolis itself. Equally revealing is that the West’s decline was not provoked by any catastrophe; on the contrary, it became evident at the very peak of the globalization-Americanization of humanity. After the collapse of the USSR and the Soviet bloc, US military hegemony and the dominance of the world’s reserve currency turned the United States into a global center for the capitalization of resources – the supreme beneficiary of the outflow of capital, brains, and ambitious youth from across the world. Only twenty-five years have passed since the apotheosis of the food-chain “finalists” was captured in Francis Fukuyama’s The End of History, and already the desperate Donald Trump, calling to “Make America Great Again,” has drawn a line under Pax Americana. What, then, happened? A different country Over the last quarter of the twentieth century and...
The Social Well-Being Index reveals a downward evolutionary trajectory of the entire globalized West, including Europe west of the borders of the Union State of Belarus and the Russian Federation. At the same time, one cannot fail to notice the wide dispersion in the rankings of Western European countries: from Ireland and Denmark, which still rank among the global top five in the SWI, to Spain and Bulgaria, which occupy 75th and 78th places respectively. This configuration aptly fits the notion of a “Europe of different speeds,” but in a different sense: it is about different speeds of decline. The habitual reference to the divide between a highly developed Western core and a catching-up Eastern periphery of Europe no longer helps to explain what is happening. Spain’s proximity to Bulgaria and Romania’s to Italy at relatively low positions in the SWI rankings clearly shows that such explanations no longer work. Moreover, the high rankings of Slovakia (6th), Slovenia (10th), and the ...