With Joe Biden, all set to exit the White House later this year, his one-term presidency has begun to come under increasing scrutiny to determine his legacy. What sort of President Biden is/was? To what extent was he able to achieve his foreign policy goals? What characterizes his era? Unlike Trump’s “Make America Great Again” and subsequent US “exit” from the Middle East and America’s “forever wars” in Afghanistan, Biden’s main legacy is his interventionist foreign policy. These interventions, however, were unlike the direct military interventions of the Bush and the Obama administrations.

Recently, on 25^th July 2024, the Washington Post published an article “How four U.S. presidents unleashed economic warfare across the globe”, in which some interesting statistics were noted. Firstly, the US imposes three times as many sanctions as any other country (or group of countries) on earth. Secondly, that around one third of all countries on earth are on the receiving end of some form of US sanctions, and that the effectiveness of such sanctions has been, to say the least, limited, despite being the “go to” option of the US government for inflicting punishment on countries from Iran to Cuba, Russia to Myanmar.

The last days of July 2024, have become a dark page in the history of the Middle East. An Israeli rocket killed HAMAS political Leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran.

News of the death of Alexei Navalny in a Russian prison very quickly spread across the Western media, while condemnation of Russia over his death emanated from behind the podiums of Western leaders. Before any investigation could possibly be mounted, the collective West concluded that the Russian state was responsible for Navalny’s death. The disproportionate concern US President Joe Biden showed for a Russian citizen dying in a Russian prison versus President Biden’s silence over the death of American citizen Gonzalo Lira in a Ukrainian prison, raises questions over the motivation behind this…

Nothing is ever what it first appears or is claimed to be! The US deep state and its NGO network of agents continue its assault on Orthodoxy, both in Georgia and Ukraine. Not content with the damage done by the split they have caused in Ukraine, where the “CIA Patriarch” Bartholomew of Constantinople issued an edict of autocephaly creating a new “Orthodox” Church in the war torn country, the US has set its sights on the degradation and destruction of one of the oldest Orthodox Churches outside the Holy Land…

Georgia has played a crucial role as a “bellwether” for unfolding political or geopolitical events, a trend with far-reaching impact that has been evident over the past three decades since the collapse of the USSR. With the conflict in Ukraine losing direction and support from the West, the focus of Western elites is now turning towards Georgia, a small Caucasian nation, but not in a good way. This shift in attention underscores Georgia’s significance in providing insights into broader geopolitical dynamics and reveals how desperate shape the West has found itself…

The US national debt reached $34 trillion on December 29^th, 2023, and the congress called it a milestone (here). Why? Because congressmen and Wall Street know that it won’t be paid; at least not through American sweat and blood. Oppositely, Iran has 1.2 trillion cubic feet, and 158 billion barrels of proven gas and oil reserves respectively, resources the US Empire wants to steal. Therefore, when the mainstream media (MSM), Washington’s hidden forked tongue tells you how Iran sponsors terrorists or has Nuclear-weapon ambitions, keep…

On January 16th, President Biden of the United States invited leaders of the US Congress to meet with him to discuss military assistance to Ukraine and Taiwan. On July 29^th, 2023, the USA announced that it was providing a military aid package to Taiwan of 345 million dollars to be used to allocate already existing US stockpiles of weapons and ammunition including missile, manpad air defence systems, intelligence and surveillance equipment to “maintain Taiwan’s self-defence against China”…

The 24-year long political career of the former chairman of the main opposition Democratic Party, Song Young-gil, hangs in the balance after he was arrested over a scandal related to the party’s leadership elections in 2021. NEO has already written about the situation around this person, but it’s worth recalling. A former mayor of Incheon and a five-term MP, Song was considered one of the most pro-Russian politicians in the Republic of Korea and was part of Moon Jae-in’s inner circle, who in 2017 sent him as a special envoy to the Russian Federation. After Moon became a “lame duck,”…

General elections will be conducted in Bangladesh on January 7, 2024. The country has emerged as one of the rapidly developing economies in the region under the incumbent Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina. She has inaugurated numerous new projects including the Bangabandhu tunnel, the new elevated Dhaka expressway, the 2400 MW Rooppur nuclear power plant, Terminal 3 of the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA), Khulna-Mongla Port Railway line, the Akhaura-Agartala broad-gauge line, Unit 2 of the Maitri Power plant, and MRT Line 6. The rationale behind the…

Within hours of Javier Milei’s election win over Argentinian President Alberto Fernández, Latin America’s 3rd largest economic power withdrew its petition to join the BRICS. Scheduled to become a member of the bloc at the start of the coming year, Argentina will shun what Fernández and many financial analysts called a “great opportunity.” The struggling Argentinians will sink with the other nations clinging to the dollar hegemony. For those who question “why” – the reasons are obvious. Who could stand in the wings of such a reversal of fortune for South America’s 2nd biggest economic power?

Considering the former track records of former US Secretaries of State, Madeline Albright and Hillary Clinton, the news that Mike Pompeo has been offered a seat on the board of directors of one of the largest mobile operators in Ukraine, Kyivstar, should come as no surprise. He is also following in the footsteps of Joe Biden and Hunter, Inc., with the Burisma and the Ukrainian Corruption Scandal. Like when Bank Robber/Gangster of the 1930s the infamous Machine Gun Kelly was asked why he robbed banks in a jailhouse interview, he simply said, “Because that is where they keep the money.”…