England’s High Court refuses to restrain EU court proceedings brought in breach of arbitration agreement
By Marie Berard Anna Kirkpatrick, Clifford Chance LLP From ILO Introduction The English courts will not grant anti-suit injunctions to restrain court proceedings brought in breach of arbitration clauses in the courts of other EU member states. In Nori Holdings…
UK: Salisbury poisoning: Will Russian suspects face UK trial?
By Daniel Sandford From BBC It is becoming clear, without any official policing sources confirming it, that significant progress has been made in the Salisbury spy poisoning investigation. Detectives from the South East Counter-Terrorism Unit appear to have got to…
White South Africans are being slaughtered and the media ignores it
By Michael Savage From Newsmax There is a genocide going on in South Africa as its leaders are set to change their constitution to legally steal white farmers’ lands and throw them out of the country. Liberals may believe that…
Sir Ronald Sanders: Seeing President Trump in a pleasing light
By Sir Ronald Sanders US President Donald Trump did not sign “The Charlevoix G7 Summit Communiqué” in Canada in early June. In not doing so, he demonstrated doubts about the Group in which the US participates with Britain, Canada, France,…
Mystery as Russia LIQUIDATES almost ALL of its holdings in US Treasury securities
From Brinkwire The Russian government has sold off the vast majority of its holdings of US Treasury securities for reasons that remain mysterious, in a dramatic move that experts are calling unprecedented. A US Treasury report released on July 18…
Russia is testing a new drone similar to the CIA’s stealthy RQ-170, and wants to turn it into a sixth-generation fighter
By DANIEL BROWN From Business Insider Russia says that it will turn its new Okhotnik drone, which is about to make its maiden flight, into a sixth-generation aircraft. Popular Mechanics also published a supposed picture above of the Okhotnik, which…
Why Trump has such a soft spot for Russia
By Andrew Sullivan From New York Mag It is possible, is it not, that Donald Trump simply believes what he says. I realize, of course, that this is technically impossible from moment to moment. But bear with me. The slackened…
Putin hedges Trump bet by dumping Treasuries to safeguard assets
From Newsmax Russian officials are hoping Vladimir Putin’s rapport with Donald Trump will lead to rapprochement with the U.S. But they’re not taking any chances. A U.S. Treasury report this week appears to show Russia liquidating dollar assets at a…
Moscow Mystery: where did all its treasuries go?
By Brian Chappatta From Bloomberg Its American debt holdings have plunged far more than any other nation’s. U.S. bond traders are fixated on Russia this week for a much different reason than most Americans. Just a day after President Donald…
Trump’s disastrous Putin Summit could have been even worse
By Jonah Shepp From New York Mag President Donald Trump’s performance at Monday’s press conference following his summit meeting in Helsinki with Russian President Vladimir Putin was by most accounts disastrous. Trump failed to press Putin on one single point…