Truth and Consequences
NEED TO KNOW Truth and Consequences RUSSIA Renowned historian Timothy Snyder recently warned in his Substack newsletter that giving Russian President Vladimir […]
New World Order
NEED TO KNOW New World Order MEXICO/ LATIN AMERICA The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, skipped the recent Summit of […]
Going, Going, Gone
NEED TO KNOW Going, Going, Gone KAZAKHSTAN Kazakhs overwhelmingly voted in favor of decentralizing government, reducing the power of the president, rescinding […]
The War on Grain
NEED TO KNOW The War on Grain INDIA India and other nations are banning exports of wheat as the price of the […]
The Makeover
NEED TO KNOW The Makeover CHILE Chilean President Gabriel Boric recently apologized to thousands of women who were forcibly sterilized over the […]
Stumbling Ahead
NEED TO KNOW Stumbling Ahead UKRAINE The residents of Bucha, the Ukrainian town where Russians allegedly committed some of the worst war […]
Too Many Cooks
NEED TO KNOW Too Many Cooks MALI Armed men riding motorcycles shot and killed two Red Cross workers in western Mali recently, […]
Dairy and Dictatorship
NEED TO KNOW Dairy and Dictatorship CUBA Years ago, the late Fidel Castro promised that Cuba’s communist government would subsidize a liter […]
Closing the Circle
NEED TO KNOW Closing the Circle NATO If Finland joins NATO, the Western Alliance will have opened a potential 800-mile-long front in […]
Moving Out
NEED TO KNOW Moving Out NORWAY Norway has become a key supplier of energy as Europe seeks out alternatives to Russian oil […]
But First, Trust
NEED TO KNOW But First, Trust IRAN An Iranian engineer recently died and another employee was wounded in an “unexplained incident” at […]
The Old Malignancy
NEED TO KNOW The Old Malignancy WEST AFRICA Sixty alleged terrorists on motorcycles attacked a military checkpoint in Kpinkankandi on the Togo […]
The Grim Reaper’s Harvest
NEED TO KNOW The Grim Reaper’s Harvest UKRAINE The Russo-Ukrainian War has now crossed the three-month mark. So far, it’s a stalemate. […]
Return of the Repressed
NEED TO KNOW Return of the Repressed COLOMBIA A Colombian rebel group, the National Liberation Army (ELN) announced a 10-day, unilateral ceasefire […]
A Faustian Bargain
NEED TO KNOW A Faustian Bargain CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC Soldiers with links to Russia recently beat, tortured and executed civilians in the […]
Cutting Edge, Blunted
NEED TO KNOW Cutting Edge, Blunted EUROPEAN UNION American serial entrepreneur Elon Musk’s proposed purchase of social network Twitter has garnered a […]
The Jig is Up
NEED TO KNOW The Jig is Up NORTH KOREA For more than two years, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un insisted that […]
The New Guard
NEED TO KNOW The New Guard AUSTRALIA Australia is experiencing its most raucous federal elections in years as outsiders seemed poised to […]
Guns and Crypto
NEED TO KNOW Guns and Crypto EL SALVADOR Crime and Bitcoin are the two most powerful forces in El Salvador. The question […]
The Forever-war
NEED TO KNOW The Forever-war WORLD Some Ukrainian women in Poland, refugees from their country’s war against Russia, want to have abortions. […]
All Hot on the Cyber Front
NEED TO KNOW All Hot on the Cyber Front RUSSIA On May 9, as Russian soldiers, tanks and other vehicles paraded through […]
Home Alone
NEED TO KNOW Home Alone CHINA A 13-year-old Chinese boy was home alone for 66 days in Kunshan in eastern China while […]