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Following the arrest and subsequent death in prison of alleged child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, a little-known Israeli tech company began to receive increased publicity, but for all the wrong reasons. Not long after Epstein’s arrest, and his relationships and finances came under scrutiny, it was revealed that the Israeli company Carbyne911 had received substantial funding from Jeffrey Epstein as well as Epstein’s close associate and former Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Barak, and Silicon... Читать дальше...

The Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party is the only major political party in Germany that has taken a stand against the elites' agenda. AfD gets attacked especially for their strong opposition to mass migration. Because of this, other parties have refused to work with them.

About the author: F. William Engdahl has been writing about energy, finance, geopolitics, and oil since the early 1980s, and his writing about Russia, a country which he travels to frequently, has been simply excellent.

Only few days after he returned from high-level meetings in Beijing, leader of Gazprom Aleksey Miller went to the Moscow Kremlin for talks with Vladimir Putin.

Russia’s old economy is stagnating, but the new one of e-commerce is growing in double digits and is still accelerating. All the conditions for e-commerce to take off are now in place, says Alexander Shulgin, CEO of one of Russia’s big-three online retailers Ozon, in his first extensive interview with bne IntelliNews, and the sector can look forward to at least a decade of fast growth.

The author is a prominent American Christian conservative who was a presidential candidate for the paleoconservative Constitution Party in 2008, when he was endorsed by Ron Paul.  

For a couple of decades I covered the military for various publications, as for example the Washington Times and Harper’s, and wrote a military column for Universal Press Syndicate. I was following the time-honored principle of sensible reporters: “Ask not what you can do for journalism, but what journalism can do for you.” The military beat was a great gig, letting you fly in fighter planes and sink in submarines. But if you take the study seriously, as I did, you learn interesting things.

Moscow and Beijing are working on a new way to cut their reliance on the greenback, as Russia plans to issue its first yuan-denominated bond, which may help the two in skirting US tariffs and sanctions.

On September 5, the Belarusian Economy Minister Dimitri Krutoi announced that negotiations between Belarus and Russia on deeper economic integration were nearing completion. Presidents Aleksandar Lukashenko and Vladimir Putin would meet on December 8 – the 20th anniversary of the Union State Treaty – to unveil the package of measures.

Back during the early days of the Bush-Cheney administration, countless articles and even official statements by the International Energy Agency and various governments proclaimed the onset of what was termed Peak Oil. This was a time when former Halliburton CEO, Vice President Dick Cheney, was named to head the White House Energy Task Force. In the run up to the March 2003 war on Iraq, peak oil or absolute decline in world oil reserves seemed a plausible explanation, if not justification, for... Читать дальше...