Committee's credibility suffers another massive blow.

The January 6 Committee's credibility has plummeted after claims by former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson that President Trump "lunged" for the steering wheel of his vehicle and demanded to be taken to the site of the riots were contradicted by the lead Secret Service agent.

Hutchinson testified that Tony Ornato, the then-White House deputy chief of staff, told her that Trump said something like, "I'm the f-ing president, take me up to the Capitol now," and had "reached up towards the front of the vehicle to grab at the steering wheel" before then using "his free hand to lunge towards Bobby Engel," the the presidential driver.

Syria has made a decision to recognize the Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics, the Syrian Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.

"Based on the common will and desire to improve relations in all areas, the Syrian Arab Republic has made a decision to recognize the independence and sovereignty of the Lugansk People's Republic and the Donetsk People's Republic," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement cited by Syria's SANA agency.

The report says that "contacts will be established with each of the two countries [LPR and DPR] to agree on a framework for strengthening relations, including the establishment of diplomatic relations in accordance with the existing norms."

On June 16, Syria's President Bashar Assad said during a meeting with a DPR delegation that the procedure of recognizing the DPR had officially begun. Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russia would hail the recognition of the DPR and the LPR by Syria and any other country.

Catherine Austin Fitts (CAF), Publisher of The Solari Report and former Assistant Secretary of Housing (Bush 41 Admin.), contends this is what the so-called "reset" looks like. High food and fuel prices along with crushing interest rates are no accident. CAF explains,

"To me, this is part of the 'going direct reset.' There is an official narrative, and the official narrative is they've got to stop inflation. . . . Let's look very simply at what happened. They voted on the direct reset. Then they injected $5 trillion into the economy that went to the insiders. Then they used Covid to shut down the economy run by the outsiders. Now, the outsiders want to open another business, and they are going to radically raise the cost of capital to the outsiders. What's going to happen is that $5 trillion is going to buy more assets more cheaply. To me, this is part of centralizing the control of the economy. They are asserting very significant central control. This is not a turndown-this is a takedown."

Rep. Mike Johnson warned that Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin's vaccine mandate is "causing major damage" to America's Armed Forces.

With the deadline to comply fast approaching, Johnson has called attention to the consequences enforcement of the mandate might have.

White House officials are losing confidence that Ukraine will ever be able to take back all of the land it has lost to Russia over the past four months of war, US officials told CNN, even with the heavier and more sophisticated weaponry the US and its allies plan to send.

Advisers to President Joe Biden have begun debating internally how and whether Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky should shift his definition of a Ukrainian "victory" -- adjusting for the possibility that his country has shrunk irreversibly.


US officials emphasized to CNN that this more pessimistic assessment does not mean the US plans to pressure Ukraine into making any formal territorial concessions to Russia in order to end the war. There is also hope that Ukrainian forces will be able to take back significant chunks of territory in a likely counteroffensive later this year.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Tuesday that the world's most powerful military alliance reached a deal to admit Sweden and Finland after resolving the concerns of holdout Turkey.

The three countries' foreign ministers signed a memorandum to confirm that Turkey will back Sweden and Finland's NATO bids during a summit in Madrid this week, Finnish President Sauli Niinisto said in a statement.

"Our joint memorandum underscores the commitment of Finland, Sweden and Turkey to extend their full support against threats to each other's security," the Finnish leader said.

The journalist got into hot water after penning an expose highlighting how Ukraine's now ousted human rights chief spread false rape claims.

Ukrainian journalist Sonya Lukashova ended up on the notorious Mirotvorets ('Peacemaker') website after penning an article claiming that a vast majority of Russian military rape allegations produced by the country's now former human rights chief, Lyudmila Denisova, were false. Mirotvorets, widely believed to be run by Ukraine's Security Service (SBU), lists individuals deemed to be "enemies of Ukraine."

The bombshell expose was published by the Ukrainskaya Pravda (Ukrainian Truth) newspaper on Monday. According to the piece, citing various official sources, a vast majority of allegations of "sexual atrocities," purportedly committed by Russian troops amid the ongoing conflict, were false. The allegations have been spread by human rights chief Denisova, who got ousted in late May after a no-confidence vote over her failure to organize humanitarian corridors and prisoner exchanges as well as "inexplicably focusing" on spreading unverified and unsubstantiated claims.

French President Emmanuel Macron did not support the proposal of his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky to designate Russia a "sponsor of terrorism," explaining that Paris doesn't need any "definitions" to sanction Moscow or condemn its alleged "war crimes."

On Monday, Zelensky claimed that "the Russian state had become the largest terrorist organization in the world." "And this must be a legal fact," the Ukrainian president wrote on Telegram.

Commenting on Zelensky's statement during a press conference on Tuesday, Macron said that his country does not follow such "methodology" and has been consistent in its approach to Russian "war crimes." Referring to the alleged murder of civilians in the city of Bucha by Russian forces (something that Moscow vehemently denies), Macron stated that "these are war crimes." He stressed that Paris condemns them and supports investigations that will eventually bring those responsible for the atrocities to "Ukrainian and international justice."

The Group of Seven (G7) has promised to address global food security, announcing on Tuesday they its members don't intend to apply sanctions on Russian food and agricultural products.

The G7 is a political forum consisting of leading Western economies, comprising Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States.

"We will continue to ensure that our sanctions packages are not targeting food and allow for the free flow of agricultural products, including from Russia, and the delivery of humanitarian assistance," the joint statement read.

According to the G7, citing UN estimates, this year up to 323 million people globally will fall into acute food insecurity or are at high risk, which would mark a new record high. The group has pledged to lift 500 million people out of hunger and malnutrition by 2030.

The west is nostalgically caught up with outdated 'containment' policies, this time against Global South integration. Unfortunately for them, the rest of the world is moving on, together.
Once upon a time, there existed an Iron Curtain which divided the continent of Europe. Coined by former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, the term was in reference to the then-Soviet Union's efforts to create a physical and ideological boundary with the west. The latter, for its part, pursued a policy of containment against the spread and influence of communism.

Fast forward to the contemporary era of techno-feudalism, and there now exists what should be called a Tin Curtain, fabricated by the fearful, clueless, collective west, via G7 and NATO: this time, to essentially contain the integration of the Global South.

BRICS against G7

The most recent and significant example of this integration has been the coming out of BRICS+ at last week's online summit hosted by Beijing. This went far beyond establishing the lineaments of a 'new G8,' let alone an alternative to the G7.

Just look at the interlocutors of the five historical BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa): we find a microcosm of the Global South, encompassing Southeast Asia, Central Asia, West Asia, Africa and South America - truly putting the "Global" in the Global South.

Revealingly, Russian President Vladimir Putin's clear messages during the Beijing summit, in sharp contrast to G7 propaganda, were actually addressed to the whole Global South:

- Russia will fulfill its obligations to supply energy and fertilizers.

- Russia expects a good grain harvest - and to supply up to 50 million tons to world markets.

- Russia will ensure passage of grain ships into international waters even as Kiev mined Ukrainian ports.

- The negative situation on Ukrainian grain is artificially inflated.

- The sharp increase in inflation around the world is the result of the irresponsibility of G7 countries, not Operation Z in Ukraine.

- The imbalance of world relations has been brewing for a long time and has become an inevitable result of the erosion of international law.