... electoral law specialist Torquato Jardim on his appointment as Temer's new Transparency Minister. It went on the official government website last Tuesday (June 14th) and was amped up by major online and print media throughout Brazil, but not in the United States.
Meanwhile, three key ministers in Temer's government have resigned from their posts having been linked to bribery and corruption allegations stemming from the Petrobras and Lava Jato scandals that involve influence peddling, corruption ...
The tapestry of ancient Silk Routes
The ancient maritime and overland Silk Routes have been revived. Its modern incarnation, driven by China’s Belt and Road Initiative (B&R), stands on the verge of connecting the Eurasian landmass, East Africa and Western Europe into a single trading matrix.
Many Asian communities were defined by the ancient Silk routes. The Knanayas of the Malabar Coast, for example, were notable players in the western segment of the Maritime Silk Route. The symbol of...
... the Americas. Then too, Russia’s recent award of a residence permit to NSA contractor and celebrated whistle blower Edward Snowden provides the Obama White House with additional impetus to play more sanctions cards. World of currency warcraft. BRICS tired of playing the quantitative easing game After it went off the gold standard and effecitvely decapitalized during the Cold War the United States needed to make it attractive for those who profited from selling America goods it could no longer produce efficiently and otherwise needed to hold fiat dollars, to buy bonds and other treasury instruments to keep the U.S. economy afloat....
... non-governmental actors sometimes acting in concert with them, on its own.
On the surface doing business with Islamic or "Arab" nations has the look and feel of “business to business” activity. But when Islamic states deal with BRICS member nations, as with the United States and the European Union, it is never a sure thing that the BRICS nation is dealing with an Islamic state or the “Nation of Islam” and all the unpleasant baggage that comes with that. In this context, the slow moving BRICS are ...
