Smotrich: ICC Warrants Are a Declaration of War on Israel

Israel established a secret military base in the desert of western Iraq to support the bombing campaign against Iran and bombed Iraqi soldiers to prevent them from finding it, The Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday. Sources told the Journal that the military outpost was established just before the US and Israel launched the war […]

The Great Repression Authored by Robert Burrows via BondVigilantes.com, Across much of the developed world, governments are spending an increasing share of their tax revenues servicing debt. Source: Federal Reserve Economic Data The era when debt could rise indefinitely while interest costs remained low appears to be ending. Source: Bloomberg The second chart hints at how this problem may be confronted. Over the last fifty years, debt-to-GDP has risen relentlessly while real interest rates have generally moved in the opposite direction. That relationship is unlikely to be accidental. Highly indebted governments and persistently high real interest...

UN Commissioner Fionnuala Ní Aoláin has issued a new report to the UN Human Rights Council related to Israeli military operations in southwest Syria, warning that the operations are increasingly impacting Syrian civilians in ways that could amount to war crimes under international law. Ni Aoláin said the commission had identified 49 people, including two […]