Antonio Graceffo 
A BRICS currency swap agreement is the new solution for BRICS countries to de-dollarize, but it is too small and too complex to have any meaningful impact on the dollar or to be expanded to future BRICS members.
The Democrats argue that Donald Trump’s candidacy poses a threat to democracy.
The Democrats claim that if Joe Biden were reelected, he would lower housing costs.
In 1997, Senator Joe Biden advocated for NATO’s expansion, claiming Russia would welcome it.
China is being hailed as “the world leader” in renewable energy and a model for other countries.
While Biden bumbles, Xi threatens, Putin invades, and Kim fires missiles, there are more nuclear weapons pointed at the United States today than at any time since the end of the Cold War.
One of the talking points of the soft-on-crime liberal agenda is that people with “minor drug offenses” should be released from prison.
Liberals argue that drugs should be legalized to reduce drug-related crime, claiming that legalization would lower prices and eliminate criminal gangs from the equation.
The Biden White House claims that illegal immigrants, asylum seekers, and welfare recipients all grow the economy, and that giving away government money ends poverty.
For some reason, high-speed rail is a hot-button issue for liberals and a frequent point of criticism from Chinese communist propaganda and Europeans when they attack the U.S.
By signing the new Bilateral Security Agreement between the United States and Ukraine, Joe Biden has added Ukraine to the long list of countries whose defense the US is obligated to support.
When you pay taxes, remember that the bottom 20% of income earners do almost no work, do not pay taxes, and receive government aid.
Honduras plans to construct a mega prison similar to El Salvador’s “Terrorism Confinement Center” (CECOT) to tackle severe crime and gang issues.
The internet is suddenly overwhelmed with stories about the end of the petrodollar, claiming that the US contract with Saudi Arabia to sell oil in USD expired on June 9th after fifty years.
Since October 7th, Israel has understandably tightened its grip on the West Bank, stepping up security measures.
Members of Congress have requested that Tren de Aragua, a violent Venezuelan gang now operating across the United States and throughout Latin America, be designated as a transnational criminal organization.
Liberal pro-Hamas protestors and supporters worldwide are flooding social media with disinformation to public and diplomatic opinion against Israel, cutting off international aid and ensuring Hamas’s survival.
At least 145,000 Chinese nationals have entered the US illegally since Biden took office, with 86% being men of military age.
South African officials have threatened the US and other Western nations with prosecution by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for supporting Israel against the designated terrorist organizations Hamas and Hezbollah.
According to the Federal Highway Administration, there are over 280 million registered vehicles in the United States, including cars, trucks, and motorcycles.
President Biden has decided to permit Ukraine to use US weapons to strike military targets inside Russia, where missiles are being launched from.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) is seeking arrest warrants for the Israeli Prime Minister and Minister of Defense.
Socialists claim that wages are being stolen and that all profits constitute theft.
Buying and selling carbon credits has become a great way for companies to signal their commitment to the environment, allowing them to keep polluting while also earning a profit on trading carbon credits.
The Transpacific Partnership (TPP), another Obama-era globalist free trade agreement, is back in the news, and unsurprisingly, the usual suspects think the US is missing out by not surrendering its sovereignty and allowing other countries to export to the US tariff-free.
Bread line, image courtesy of Antonio Graceffo In the first year of the Biden administration, inflation hit a 40-year high and has continued to climb steadily since then.
There is a joke about immigration: “If illegal aliens grow the economy, then the countries they left must be rich.” The reality is, however, that rather than making the country richer, illegal immigrants cost the country money.
“Mexican drug cartels continue to kill Americans at a rate higher than any terrorist group in history,” said Senator Tom Cotton in response to the fact that illicit drugs smuggled by Mexican cartels into the US killed more than 107,000 Americans last year.
There are four conditions for statehood; Palestine arguably meets one of them.
President Biden’s inconsistent handling of the Israel-Hamas conflict is straining relations with Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu, the US’s primary ally in the Middle East.
President Biden’s latest gaffe is that he insulted Japan and India by calling them xenophobic.
In response to the US drug crisis which is claiming 200 American lives daily, the Biden Administration vows to cooperate with the Mexican government.
As Israel prepares for the final push through Rafah, President Biden announced that he will pause the delivery of some US weapons and ammunition to Israel, which is a huge mistake.
TheAmerica First Policy Institute (AFPI) has just released its new book, “An America First Approach to U.S.
The Biden administration wants to protect the public from “predatory credit cards.” He is also trying to fight the inflation he created through reckless spending and borrowing by demanding companies earn lower profits.
Within weeks of the Hamas attack on Israel, charities aligned with Hamas had already received $260 million in donations.
The Chinese interest in the Middle East boils down to a single word: oil.
Court documents showed Kandic had multiple responsibilities, including recruiting foreign fighters (ISIS photo) On January 4, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) called for worldwide targeting of Jews and Christians, which it later claimed resulted in 610 people wounded or killed in 110 attacks across 12 countries.
Representative Henry Cuellar, a Texas Democrat, was recently implicated for accepting a $600,000 bribe from an oil company in Azerbaijan.
Hamas and the pro-Palestine rioters in the US laying siege to campuses are terrorists, by definition, not freedom fighters.
Pro-Palestine protests have broken out on university campuses across the United States.
Xinhua, Chinese state media, ran the headline, “U.S.
Many Americans are concerned that over 150 of their fellow citizens overdose on fentanyl every day, but do they ever stop to think about how this shift to fentanyl negatively affects the lives of opium and cocaine growers in Latin America?
High unemployment plus high inflation equals stagflation.
The US and Russia are already embroiled in a de facto proxy war in Ukraine.
Antonio GraceffoReporting from the Burma border In the heart of Burma, where tens of thousands have sacrificed their lives, and millions have been displaced by the ruthless attacks of the junta forces, ethnic resistance armies, and people’s self-defense forces fight to establish a federal democracy with equal rights for the 135 ethnic minorities.
There are no anti-LGBTQ rules or policies in schools, and no anti-LGBTQ laws at the state or federal level.
Liberal drug laws and government-funded interventions to make drug use safer normalize drug use and fuel the drug crisis.
The man who transformed El Salvador from one of the most dangerous countries in the world to one of the safest, President Nayib Bukele, is despised by liberals.
The investigation by the Select Committee on The CCP’s Role in the Fentanyl Crisis reveals that the CCP subsidizes PRC companies producing fentanyl precursor chemicals for export, thus knowingly exacerbating the US drug crisis.
The California economy should serve as a cautionary tale for the rest of the nation, showcasing the negative impact of illegal immigration combined with liberal social welfare programs that discourage citizens from working.
Biden talks up the economy’s strong growth but doesn’t address the fact that the inflation rate he’s given us surpasses the GDP growth rate.
Antonio Graceffo reporting from inside the war zone in Burma/Myanmar.
On April 12th, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) seized an Israeli ship near the Strait of Hormuz.
The UN, rather than demanding the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages and bodies, called for a ceasefire in Gaza during Ramadan, the Muslim holy month.
The Biden White House claims to have heralded “a great year for American workers” with more jobs created “during any year of the prior Administration.” However, most are part-time or government jobs, paid for by taxpayers.
