The Good News is..

the good guys are winning!

By using force and pretending to benevolence the hegemon will certainly have a large state. By using virtue and practicing benevolence the wise ruler will achieve humane authority, for the humane man has no enemies. Mencius.

In their relentless efforts to alarm us, our media too often overlook good news, but we have plenty to celebrate:

1. Julian Assange is free and in good shape.

2. Heads of state, foreign ministers and security heads from Iran, Syria, UAE, KSA, Syria and Turkey are visiting, harmonizing their economies and aligning their foreign policies.

3. Iran's railway is now connected to the railway networks of Russia and China. Iran also connected its electric grid to Russia’s, which is connected to China’s..

4. Hamas is winning. Israeli manpower, materiel and morale are running low, its neighbors are well armed and organized, and ordinary Palestinians’ continued support of Hamas suggests that they are well prepared, emotionally, for their terrible ordeal.

   

5. Russia is winning. Ukraine manpower, materiel, morale and foreign support are ebbing, Europe’s economy is stagnating and Russia’s is booming. The USA, lacking a manufacturing base, demonstrated that it is no longer a superpower, while Russia again proved that it is.

6. Palestine is united. Fourteen Palestinian factions met in Beijing and agreed to expand the PLO, unite Gaza and the West Bank, form a national consensus government, confront settler attacks, and assist the Al-Aqsa Flood. 

7. China will mediate peace talks between Russia and Ukraine at the request of Ukraine’s FM, Dmitry Kuleba, who was in Beijing this week.

8. Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Ethiopia, and UAE joined BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa), to boost economic cooperation and influence in the Middle East and Africa.

9. The West lost more credibility in the Middle East. Its active encouragement and support of Israeli genocide ended all pretensions to human rights superiority.

BRICS is building a new payment system similar to SWIFT. “Creating our own financial messaging system for the BRICS countries, similar to SWIFT, based on state-owned banks capable of clearing settlements of counterparties from the BRICS countries and the related role of the same bank”.