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Veteran journalist John Pilger wrote in February this year on how we in the west now live in a world controlled by propaganda and laments how truth has now become all but meaningless in modern political and commercial life. His analysis of the situation in Ukraine is at once refreshing and depressing.

Dr. Guy Hatchard shares a chilling vision of modern warfare in which biological and biotechnical weapons are a dystopian reality.

The tv series Chernobyl reprised an old Soviet joke: What’s big as a house, burns 20 litres of fuel every hour, puts out a shitload of smoke and noise and cuts an apple into three pieces? A Soviet machine made to cut apples into four pieces!

It seems that Rare Earths aren’t the only minerals for which China seems to have the world over a barrel in their global supply. Germany’s DW reports that supplies of graphite, used in batteries and especially for electric cars, is in short supply, due to power shortages in China.

So What? I hear you yawn… Actually, this is potentially a BIG story.

For decades, the US Dollar has been considered to be the World’s Reserve Currency. That is, the value of the US Dollar has been unquestionably trusted and therefore, it has been the currency that a vast proportion of world trade is conducted in. Oil, coal, gold, silver and other metals, cotton, coffee, wheat and hundreds of others commodities, are all traded in US Dollars.