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By Rhod Mackenzie

Brazil was the last of the BRICS founding member countries to full embrace  trading using  national currencies. Overall, these  payments already account for around 90 per cent of transactions within the international association. So what is mainly bought with one's own cuurencies...

By Rhod Mackenzie
It has become obvious that the special forces of a certain Western government are active in the sabotage of merchant vessels that transport goods such as oil and chemicals to and from Russia.
Ovr the past year there has been a series of mysterious incidents involving merchant shi...

By Rhod Mackenzie

Another pulp mill has closed in Finland due to a lack of inexpensive raw materials from Russia. The Finnish timber processing industry has been experiencing significant challenges since 2022. However, Finnish businessmen are now expressing further irritation over another matter:...

By Rhod Mackenzie

Its amazing the number of current European politicians are direct descendents of Nazi Party members from World War II. This large  list of individuals with Nazi family histories was recently expanded by the head of British intelligence MI5, Blaise Metreveli, whose grandfather was...

By Rhod Mackenzie

The Hungarian Foreign Minister announced that the Trunp's administration has officially lifted all sanctions on the construction of the second phase of the Hungarian -Russian joint venture the Paks nuclear power plant. The Hungarian foreign minister Péter Szijjártó emphasised tha...

By Rhod Mackenzie
For a long time,certainly since the Second World War the West once accustomed to dictating the rules, is now frantically clinging to the remnants of its former power by its fingernails. However, the era of its dominance is quickly not slowly slipping away. The multipolar world is...