Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Egypt plan to join BRICS, the economic alliance of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. The timing is awkward for President Biden as he prepares to meet with the Saudis, but Turkey’s membership is potentially more significant.Continue Reading
President Biden announced another $800 million in military aid to Ukraine Wednesday as peace talks between Ukraine and Russia produced some hopeful news.
Big changes ahead for the U.S. dollar: Saudi Arabia and China are discussing oil sales in yuan, which could undermine the dollar as the world’s de facto reserve currency. And President Biden signed an executive order last week directing government to research a Central Bank Digital Currency.Continue Reading
Experts warn that China could be prepping a Trojan horse-style weapon by hiding cruise missiles inside some of the millions of shipping containers transported by cargo ships around the world each year.Continue Reading
A spyware app called Pegasus has been marketed to governments around the world and used to turn mobile phones into surveillance devices targeting journalists and dissidents. Watch for calls to form a global cybersecurity agency—something the World Economic Forum is already promoting with some powerful backers.Continue Reading
WE’RE SHAMELESSLY stealing the title of a recent article by this week’s guest for the title of the episode.Continue Reading
MORE THAN a dozen mysterious deaths in the U.K. linked to Russia have been ignored (at least publicly) by the British government. The latest has led a member of the House of Lords to accuse the administration of Prime Minister Theresa May of failing to protect a prominent nuclear scientist.Continue Reading
RECENT MOVES by Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman appear to be setting up a sectarian war between Sunnis and Shias. Joel Richardson, author of Mystery Babylon, joins us to discuss the looming showdown between Saudi Arabia and Iran.Continue Reading
A researcher named Brian McGlinchey has published excerpts from Document 17, which was quietly declassified by the government last summer. In a nutshell, it shows that a Saudi associate of some of the 9/11 hijackers had contact with the Saudi embassy in Washington, D.C.Continue Reading
Avi Lipkin discusses Middle East geopolitics and religious civil war in Syria.Continue Reading