by Thierry Meyssan Voltaire Network | 25 April 2025 Our director of publication and editor-in-chief directed French magazines several years ago, and has won journalism awards abroad. He has regularly contributed to some fifteen major dailies and magazines around the world. Voltaire, International Newsletter is available by subscription for €500 a year, is published 42…
Voltaire Network | 25 April 2025 On 21 April, the UN Security Council examined the situation in Haiti. Since February, organized crime groups have launched coordinated attacks to expand territorial control and undermine state authority, killing 1,086 people in two months. Director of the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH) Ecuadorian María Isabel Salvador…
Trump is trying to square a globalized world through a national-based American capitalism. It won’t work. Former President Teddy Roosevelt (1901-09) described the essence of US foreign policy as “speaking softly while carrying a big stick”. Under the incumbent president, Donald Trump, it seems to be all about “speaking loudly”. What Trump is carrying in…
Last month, when we reported that Russia had liquidated the bulk of its US Treasury holdings in just two months, we said that “we can’t help but wonder – as the Yuan-denominated oil futures were launched, trade wars were threatened, and as more sanctions were unleashed on Russia – if this wasn’t a dress-rehearsal, carefully coordinated with…
VIENNA, AUSTRIA — While the White House’s frenzied anti-Iran campaign has entailed unprecedented attempts to twist the arms of the United States’ traditional European allies, the pressure may be backfiring – a reality made all the more clear by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s claims that Europe’s three major powers plan to continue trade ties…
During the recent meeting in Caracas of the Venezuelan Presidential Economic Advisory Commission, in mid-June 2018, President Maduro said something extremely interesting, but also extremely disturbing – nonetheless highly important for the region to be aware of. Mr. Maduro mentioned Yugoslavia, the foreign induced local conflicts, the breakup and dismemberment of Yugoslavia, starting with the…
After Venezuela, Germany, Austria and the Netherlands prudently repatriated a substantial portion (if not all) of their physical gold held at the NY Fed or other western central banks in recent years, this morning Turkey also announced that it has decided to repatriate all its gold stored in the US Federal Reserve and deliver it to the Istanbul Stock Exchange, according to reports…
by Thierry Meyssan Voltaire Network | 25 April 2025 Our director of publication and editor-in-chief directed French magazines several years ago, and has won journalism awards abroad. He has regularly contributed to some fifteen major dailies and magazines around the world. Voltaire, International Newsletter is available by subscription for €500 a year, is published 42…
Voltaire Network | 25 April 2025 On 21 April, the UN Security Council examined the situation in Haiti. Since February, organized crime groups have launched coordinated attacks to expand territorial control and undermine state authority, killing 1,086 people in two months. Director of the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH) Ecuadorian María Isabel Salvador…
Peter Navarro After explaining Donald Trump’s efforts against "American imperialism" and the federal bureaucracy [1], I would like to turn to his economic actions and particularly to his approach to customs duties. Initially, Donald Trump was not a politician, but a business leader, and it was as an entrepreneur that he entered politics in the 1980s.…
Home » Stop imperialist war and occupation » Fair and Honorable Deal with Iran! As we observe the ongoing negotiations between the United States and Iran, we, the undersigned, stand firmly on the side of truth and emphasize the following points: Iran’s stated position in its negotiations with the U.S. includes a demand for an…