RUSSIA - A Eurasian Golden Triangle is emerging with China, Russia and Iran as the three key points, F William Engdahl notes. The latest Sino-Iranian rapprochement has prompted a lively debate regarding the new Eurasian "world order."
EUROPE - Protesters rallied against Islam and immigration in several European cities Saturday, sometimes clashing with police or counter-demonstrators amid growing tensions over the massive influx of asylum-seekers to the continent.
UK - Pro-EU lobbyists never miss the chance to distort history and leave the public – who are desperate for the truth on the biggest issue facing Britain – scratching their heads in bewilderment. This time it is Margaret Thatcher’s former right-hand man Charles (now Lord) Powell who floats the astonishing proposition that she would probably have voted to remain in the EU in the referendum.
VATICAN - Pope Francis's dynamic papacy has been one of many firsts, the latest being the monumental meeting in Havana on February 12 with Russian Orthodox patriarch Kirill. A convergence of Francis's great emphasis on ecumenism with the geo-religious context of virulent persecution of Christians, both Orthodox and Catholic in Syria, and throughout the Middle East and North Africa have resulted in the unprecedented meeting in Cuba.
BRAZIL - The world of modern medicine has since its inception been one of controversies, scandals and cover ups. Each such episode has bettered the other and is done with a finesse that appears clearly criminal in intent. Correlation does not mean causation. Is the Zika virus being used as a scapegoat for Pharma's dangerous adverse effects?
USA - Censorship is still a big issue around the world. Censorship remains at high levels in many countries, despite the fact that we tend to think we live in a world without that much of it (at least in the so-called “enlightened and developed West”). Why are censorship levels so high? There can really only be one reason for it in the end: our so-called “authorities” are afraid of free thought, free speech and the free flow of information. Why? Because it would uncover their secrets, expose their corruption, contradict their fake narratives, dissolve mental structures and undo notions of citizen obedience and civic duty that have been drilled into us since birth, mainly through military and Rockefeller influenced education.
USA - Two separate homeschool families in Ohio face jail time and thousands of dollars in fines for narrowly missing state deadlines of which they were unaware.
RUSSIA - Hackers used malware to penetrate the defenses of a Russian regional bank and move the ruble-dollar rate more than 15 percent in minutes, according to a Moscow-based cyber-security firm hired to investigate the attack.
MISSISSIPPI, USA - Two people were shot to death and four were hospitalized in a shooting on Davis Avenue after the St Paul Carnival Association's Mardi Gras parade Sunday afternoon. Carlos Bates, 29, of Gulfport, and Isaiah Major III, 43 of Bay St Louis, each died of a gunshot wound at the scene, Harrison County Coroner Gary Hargrove said. Police Chief Tim Hendricks... estimated the crowd at 50,000 people and police were already dealing with heavy traffic.
USA - Donald Trump is the leader of a new, hate-filled authoritarian movement. Nothing would be more harmful to the idea of the West and world peace than if he were to be elected president. George W Bush's America would seem like a place of logic and reason in comparison.
NORTH KOREA - Pyongyang defies international community with rocket launch, says programme is to defend itself against "US hostility". UN Security Council expected to meet in emergency session. North Korea launched a long-range rocket yesterday (Sunday) in defiance of international sanctions, prompting the United States to warn of “serious consequences” while Japan condemned it as “absolutely unacceptable”.
USA - This is a most dangerous precedent when the government turns its forces against its own citizens. With anti-government sentiments already running so high in America, this could result in a massive confrontation if not checked.
USA - If you are a Christian, you better brace yourself for great persecution. It has gotten very little attention from the mainstream media, but federal authorities have uncovered an ISIS plot to “shoot up” a Detroit megachurch. 21-year-old Khalil Abu-Rayyan of Dearborn Heights, Michigan told authorities that he actually intended to take a gun into a very large church in Detroit that can seat up to 6,000 people and start killing Christians.
IRAN - Iran wants to recover tens of billions of dollars it is owed by India and other buyers of its oil in euros and is billing new crude sales in euros, too, looking to reduce its dependence on the US dollar following last month's sanctions relief. A source at state-owned National Iranian Oil Co (NIOC) told Reuters that Iran will charge in euros for its recently signed oil contracts with firms including French oil and gas major Total, Spanish refiner Cepsa and Litasco, the trading arm of Russia's Lukoil. "In our invoices we mention a clause that buyers of our oil will have to pay in euros, considering the exchange rate versus the dollar around the time of delivery," the NIOC source said.
GERMANY - German scientists have just switched on the Wendelstein 7-X (W7X) stellarator - the largest nuclear fusion machine of its kind - to successfully produce and sustain hydrogen plasma for the first time.