China Openly Defies US Sanctions, Strengthens Ties with Canada

 

China Openly Defies US Sanctions, Strengthens Ties with Canada By Drago Bosnic On May 4, several media outlets reported that China ordered its companies to ignore and even openly defy American sanctions, particularly when it comes to its trade with Iran. Read here

The Second Global Sumud Flotilla: Israeli Piracy and Abduction on the High Seas By Dr. Binoy Kampmark The Global Sumud Flotilla’s encore effort to break the Gaza blockade, which has been in place with varying forms of severity since 2007, did have one meritorious claim. After vanishing under a news cycle saturated with the Iran War, the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz and a global energy crisis, the unpardonably miserable plight of Gazans did make a return to the media stage. Read here

Trump Adds Zionist Lobbyist to Iran Negotiating Team. “The Zionists Run the Show in America?” By Kurt Nimmo Donald Trump has appointed Nick Stewart as a negotiator along with the Zionist real estate developer Steve Witkoff and Trump’s settler-friendly son-in-law, Jared Kushner. On Iran, Witkoff is witless, while Kushner is a favorite of fanatical Zionist settlers in Bet El and other settlements on stolen Palestinian land. Read here

The Historic April 7, 2026 China-Russia Veto of the UNSC Draft Resolution on Maritime Security in the Middle East. “Blocks Stampede to World War III?” By Carla Stea The China-Russia veto of the UNSC vote on the draft resolution on Maritime Security in the Middle East, April 7, 2026 combined brilliant and meticulous exposure of the barely disguised aggressive intent of the draft, and exposure of the notorious double-standard which has disgraced the credibility of the United Nations on innumerable occasions. Read here

Are Space Missions Rooted in Ancient Pagan Symbolism? By Stephen Karganovic There is a detail that was almost universally missed in the exhilaration which accompanied the recent Artemis II lunar probe. It is Artemis, the very name of the project. The space vehicle in which NASA’s Artemis II mission was accomplished was given an equally intriguing name of similar inspiration, Orion. Read here

Middle East Crisis Shows Oil and Gas Remain Irreplaceable By Ahmed Adel The crisis in the Middle East has clearly shown that fossil fuels remain irreplaceable energy sources on which global economic growth depends, and will certainly remain so for a long time to come. Despite efforts to replace them with renewable energy sources, oil and gas are still the basic energy sources on which the world depends. Read here

The Geopolitics of Energy: Strategic Dimensions of Contemporary Conflict in Ukraine, the Middle East, and Venezuela By Kamran Qureshi Contemporary conflicts in Ukraine, the Middle East, and Venezuela are increasingly interpreted through the lens of energy geopolitics, wherein the control of hydrocarbon reserves, transit routes, and market dependencies serves as both an instrument and an objective of statecraft. Read here