1. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-univision/venezuela-to-deport-univision-team-after-maduro-shown-garbage-eating-video-idUSKCN1QF05F   This is not good for Maduro at all......... Univision Reporter Jorge Ramos is a "Trump hater",  and even HE thinks Maduro should go.......   Ramos apparently asked...


  2. Angela Merkel bowed out as leader of her Christian Democrats on Friday with an emotional speech to her conservative party as it met to...
      


  3. Hooray!  US President Donald Trump has said he recognises Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó as interim president. It came minutes after the 35-year-old declared himself as...
      


  4. President Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday announced an ambitious plan to usher in a new “Space Force” as the sixth branch of the military...
      


  5. Several Chinese companies are trying to do damage control.   Alibaba has sent plane loads of PPE to the U.S. Apple mfg partner Foxconn said they will...


  6. Alongside Brexit, the future of the U.K. Labour Party and whether moderate lawmakers choose to resign is the “big political question” over the next...
      


  7. Greece has reached a deal on the name of its northern neighbour, which called itself Macedonia at the break-up of the former Yugoslavia. After...
      


  8. The United States should seek the gradual denuclearisation of North Korea because an “all-or-nothing” strategy will not help break an impasse in talks, a...
      


  9. South Sudan is considering an OPEC membership, and is planning to double its oil production in the next year.  What are its challenges going forward?...
      


  10. This is an article, by a journalist.  Note - I added the second half of the title as I find geopolitics funny and interesting and anything but boring,...
      


  11. The Gulf state of Qatar on Friday said it would invest 10 billion euros ($11.6 billion) in Germany over the next five years, including...
      


  12. World powers and Iran appeared to make no concrete breakthrough on Friday in talks to provide Tehran with an economic package to compensate for...
      


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  14. As I have stated before, I am not a 'financial guy', so this is directed towards those out there that are. As we can all...
      


  15. Senators in the Philippines on Tuesday joined activists and child protection groups in condemning a lower house move to reduce the age of criminal...
      


  16. As I look at the situation in Venezuela, I pray for its people - who've suffered under a socialist tyrant far too long. But I...
      


  17. Russia now a net food exporter (overall - not just wheat), first time since Bolshevik management lost it that status in the 1950s.  


  18. Tomorrow parliamentary elections will be held in Iraq, also crucial for world oil markets in my personal view, now that Iran is on a...
      


  19. Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta said Friday he is resigning following renewed scrutiny of his handling of a 2008 secret plea deal with wealthy financier...
      


  20. https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14353/europe-will-not-be-europe "Europe Will Not Be Europe" by Guy Millière
      


  21. Days after announcing a formal decree launching the country’s asset-based cryptocurrency, the Petro, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is hiring miners across the country to...
      


  22. Turkey cannot become a member of the European Union, said Manfred Weber, the European Peoples Party’s (EPP) lead candidate for the upcoming European elections,...
      


  23. MONOPOLY – Who owns the world?  reveals what entities do own and control all the Big Corporations and Media conglomerates.  Think about this when...


  24. Trump Tweet Sends Oil Soaring 25% By Tsvetana Paraskova - Apr 02, 2020, 10:30 AM CDT Join Our Community Oil prices spiked on Thursday morning after U.S. President Donald...
      


  25. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cautioned Iran on Tuesday that it is within range of Israeli air strikes, citing what he described as Iranian threats...
      


  26. Shut the internet please President Trump took to Twitter yesterday to note the record-breaking cold weather currently slamming much of the eastern U.S. “In the East, it...
      


  27. Both Ivanka and Trump's sons are pretty ordinary and decent people, so that is to Trump's credit.  Though that could be because of Melania.  But...


  28. The last recent weeks we have seen how political and geopolitical events have influenced in one way or the other the oil markets, be...
      


  29. President Trump on Wednesday said that he wished he had picked someone other than Jeff Sessions as attorney general, renewing a slight of the...