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Journalist
If Pierbattista Pizzaballa is ultimately successful, he would be the first modern Pope to have spent so much of his life in Palestine, observing the situation from ground level.
As the escalations across the West Bank increase and Netanyahu continues to flout the ceasefire with Hezbollah in South Lebanon, forcing the Right of Return as an objective for future ceasefire negotiations might at least temporarily force Tel Aviv to tread more cautiously.
The ease with which the US president-elect has forced the Israeli leadership to fall into line has torched the last fig leaf of justification that the Democrats were ever interested in doing anything but stalling for time.
In the face of the west's economic war on both Moscow and Tehran, the old Volga-Caspian trade has found new life.
By means of an energy crisis and the overwhelming power of the dollar, the US is systematically cannibalising the European economy.
With more international players getting sanctioned by the US and the western block, these players are on the look for new methods to bypass these sanctions, pushing toward a new world order.
If the vast petrochemical facilities of western Germany are forced to scale down or even end production, the Eurozone’s days as a pole of the global economy are likely finished for good.
Of the innumerable crises projected to dominate the 21st century, perhaps the most misguided warning has been about so-called “overpopulation,” the reality seems to be the exact opposite.
Washington’s weaponization of its economic dominance against enemy states is gradually reducing its own room for maneuver.
With Russia ranking in the first place as an exporter of wheat and Ukraine ranking fourth, it is expected that the military operation in Ukraine will cause major disruption in the global food supply chains.
