Exploiting a “trade finance” loophole, the bank dumped an estimated $3.7 billion into oil and gas projects in 2022, finds an analysis by the German research and activist group Urgewald.
World Bank Pumps Billions into Fossil Fuels
Category: Biden Administration
We’ve Been on the Burisma Story Since 2014
As the impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden ramps up, “Burisma Holdings” might well become a U.S. household name. Consortium News has been on the story for nine years.
If the Facts Come Out, it Could Spell the End for Joe Biden
Four years ago Thursday, Ray McGovern wrote Establishment media was in a frenzy about the hoped-for downfall of Trump, but if the facts came out, it could be Joe Biden’s downfall instead. The facts are now coming out.
Jeffrey Sachs: NATO Expansion & Ukraine’s Destruction
Ukraine is being destroyed by U.S. arrogance, proving again Henry Kissinger’s adage that to be America’s enemy is dangerous, while to be its friend is fatal.
US Can’t Deal with Defeat
In the U.S., the strongest collective memory of America’s wars of choice is the desirability – and ease – of forgetting them. So it will be when we look at a ruined Ukraine in the rear-view mirror, writes Michael Brenner.
Australian MPs Endorse ‘Bring Assange Home’ Delegation
“The prosecution and incarceration of the Australian citizen Julian Assange must end,” states a letter signed by 64 Australian politicians and published in The Washington Post. Six MPs are in Washington today lobbying for Assange’s freedom.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Question About Biden
In the wake of Zelensky’s wildly provocative statements, it is time to question whether the U.S. president has a personal interest in prolonging the war in Ukraine.
Patrick Lawrence: Unsweet Dreams
The Ukraine question hung over the recent G20 summit even though members have repeatedly signaled their wish to avoid the new cold war that Biden and his foreign-policy people are building.
The ‘Biden Phase’ of the Ukraine War
Zelensky’s visit to the White House this week comes at a defining moment, writes M.K. Bhadrakumar, as the war in Ukraine has intertwined with the problems of the Korean Peninsula and Taiwan.
Westmoreland Revisited
Given the official U.S. optimism over Ukraine’s counteroffensive, Barbara Koeppel concludes that Washington has not learned any lessons from failed wars in Vietnam, and later Iraq and Afghanistan.