As history has shown us, nobody really cares about the Middle East and the people that inhabit that area. It’s all about geopolitics and interests and you can usually see that if you follow the trail of money that the Western democracies leave behind after they intervene in „failed” countries, such as Libya. The… Continue reading
The Mast, Zambian Watchdog, Zambian Intelligence News, The Citizen – four Zambian news outlets having four things in common: they are controlled by President Lungu’s long-time enemies; they are vitriolic against Edgar Lungu and the Patriotic Front; they recently became Chishimba Kambwili’s supporters; and they took part in Kambwili’s attack on Lungu over the FQM settlement… Continue reading
The so-called Kazakhgate inquiry commission in the Belgian Parliament is about to conclude its workings. The parties forming the majority apparently wish to make the commission stop until 21 July at the very latest. What have we found so far? According to Dirk Van der Maelen, the commission’s president, what we found is very different… Continue reading
There have always been secret agendas behind Chishimba Kambwili’s anti-business actions. While interfering in mining companies’ operations in Zambia, Kambwili was controlling a UK-based mining company. While inciting revolt among miners, Kambwili was not paying his workers. While asking for the mining companies to pay their workers full salaries, Kambwili was reducing the salaries of… Continue reading
The latest news regarding the launch of a land-based, intermediate range ballistic missile from the Panghyon Airfield, North Korea, is not only worrisome but in fact should pose a serious debate topic in the upcoming G20 Summit – programed to start on Friday, in the city of Hamburg, Germany. The missile that was launched by… Continue reading
The Belgian news magazine Le Vif has recently published a copy of Patokh Chodiev’s settlement with the prosecutors in Brussels. (See here for more details: http://www.levif.be/actualite/belgique/transaction-ce-que-les-kazakhs-ont-reellement-paye/article-normal-681331.html.) The document puts the entire Kazakhgate affair in a completely new light. After its publication, the inquiry commission and some parts of the media need some serious soul searching…. Continue reading
In April 2017, Zambia’s President Edgar Lungu called for an out-of-court settlement in the case against the country’s biggest copper producer. President Lungu told the state-owned ZCCM Investments Holdings to drop its case against First Quantum Minerals. Lungu’s spectacular move was hailed by miners, investors, and international press. However, the decision triggered controversy. Marginalized leaders… Continue reading
It comes to no surprise that wherever democracy sets itself in comfortably, greed and corruption inevitably follows behind in the shadows, especially in the political sphere. Masses of people are required to be controlled in one way or the other in order for the political parties to gather votes, the electoral process is to be… Continue reading
Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a federal republic located on the northern coast of South America, best known as the country that was ruled with an iron fist by the communist Hugo Chavez or the country that currently has the largest oil reserves in the entire world. Although having a rather modest… Continue reading
