Winslow Homer Camping in the Adirondacks (Wood engraving) 1874 • Biden Officials Privately Doubt Ukraine Can Win Back All Of Its Territory (CNN) • White House Is Quietly Modeling For $200 Oil “Shock” (ZH) • G7 and the Desperation Stage of Russian Sanctions (CP) • G7 Mulls Russian Oil Price Cap as Sanctions Fail To Curb Profits (Antiwar) • German Journalist Faces 3 Years Prison Over Reporting From Eastern Ukraine (MS) • BRICS Steering Development Into New Era (China
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Keith Haring Untitled 1984 • The J6 Committee Went Full Jussie Smollett Today and It is Hilarious (CTH) • Trump White House Attorney Disputes Cassidy Hutchinson’s Testimony (ABC) • Hillary Clinton Can Rescue Democrats In The Midterms (Juan Williams) • NATO Tells Ukraine ‘We Do Not Want You’ – Zelensky Aide (Celente) • Behind the Tin Curtain: BRICS+ vs NATO/G7 (Escobar) • CIA Ops, Commandos In Ukraine: Can We Just Admit We Are Fighting This War? (RS) • Lavrov
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Pablo Picasso The sculptor and his statue 1933 • Global Energy Cleaving Continues, Iran and Argentina Apply to Join BRICS (CTH) • How Africa And The Middle East Could Tip War In Putin’s Favour (DM) • Sanctions Against Russia Are Leading Latin America To The Abyss (Saker) • West Doing Its Utmost To Continue The Conflict In Ukraine – Zakharova (Tass) • WHO Behind FDA Scheme to Skip All Future Clinical Trials for COVID Jabs (CHD) • Where The
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Henri Matisse Woman with a hat 1905 • G-7 Unveils $600 Billion Plan to Counter China’s Belt and Road (R.) • Russia Defaults On Foreign Debt For First Time Since 1917 Revolution • Chomsky on the Root Causes of the Russia-Ukraine War (CD) • John Mearsheimer’s Ukraine Crystal Ball (ZH) • Herr Habeck Firehoses Oil & Gas (Vilches) • Pelosi Leads Democrats In Effort To Codify Roe v. Wade Into Law (JTN) • White House: Biden ‘Does Not Agree
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Edward Hopper Excursion into Philosophy 1959 It was Jim O’Neill, Goldman’s chief economist at the time, who coined the term BRICS in 2001 for Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. Little did he know. He was talking about emerging economies. 13 years later, they no longer are. They are good for about 40% of the world population, and some 25% of global GDP. The world has not stood still since 2009, and it’s moving faster now. Ironically,
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Caravaggio The Denial of St. Peter 1610 • The Fantasy of Fanaticism (Scott Ritter) • US Commander: China’s ‘No-limits’ Support Of Russia Threatens Humanity (JTN) • G7 Face Battle For Unity As Cost Of Ukraine War Mounts (BBC) • Adding $37 Billion to Biden’s Military Budget (CD) • Russia On Brink Of Default As Debt Deadline Looms (BBC) • Germany Fears Russia Could Shut Nord Stream 1 Within Weeks (ZH) • Just 5% Call Abortion Top Concern (WE) •
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Arnold Böcklin Mermaids at play 1886 • Supreme Court Overturns Roe V. Wade (ZH) • What Progressives Get Wrong About Overturning Roe (Turley) • Biden Claims Abortion Ruling Makes US ‘Outlier Among Developed Nations’ (Fox) • Putin Suggests Way Out Of Global Economic Crisis (RT) • China Promotes ‘Non-Western Multilateralism’ at BRICS Summit (NI) • US Gov’t Body Plots To Break Up Russia In Name Of ‘Decolonization’ (MP) • Why The West Risks Condemning Ukraine To Slow Strangulation (G.)
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Georges Seurat A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte 1884 • Frustration Grows In Ukraine, Casualties Spike, Russia Wins Territory (NBC) • EU Leaders To Grant Ukraine Candidate Status In Blow To Putin (G.) • The Third Incarnation of Russia since 1721 (Batiushka) • German Economic Minister Announces Restart of Coal Power Plants (CTH) • The Supreme Court Hands Down Major Gun Rights Victory (Turley) • Liberal Policies Have Killed Black Communities: Clarence Thomas (NYP) •
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Georges Seurat Study for “A Sunday on La Grande Jatte” 1884 • Why Joe Biden and Volodymyr Zelensky Won’t Say Ukraine Is Winning the War (NW) • Jay Powell: Not Russia That Created U.S. Inflation, It Is Joe Biden Policy (CTH) • Exile on Main Street: The Sound of the Unipolar World Fading Away (Escobar) • Russia Says West Is Spreading Lies About Causes of World’s Food Crisis (R.) • Letter from Faina Savenkova (Saker) • Covid Vaccines More
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James Ensor Baths at Ostend 1890 • Just 11% of Americans Blame Putin for High Energy Prices (BB) • Ruble Rises To Seven-year High, Best Performing Currency In The World (BNE) • Russia Leapfrogs Saudi Arabia As China’s Biggest Oil Supplier (Fortune) • Inflation as a Political Power Play Gone Wrong (Varoufakis) • The Fed’s Austerity Program to Reduce Wages (Michael Hudson) • Biden: We Need More Money for the Second Pandemic (Celente) • Be Warned, A Full-blooded European
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