The Daily Friend April 12, 2026 Even with the current ceasefire, does the US and Israel war against Iran portend recession? Since US President Donald Trump and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched their war on 28 February, US stocks tumbled to a six-month low, interest rates rose and gasoline prices are up by $1.00 a gallon. With only a trickle of oil and gas … Continue reading Trump’s Iran War Could Portend Recession
Genocide There is no genocide in South Africa, which for all its faults has been a constitutional democracy since 1994 when apartheid ended and democracy arrived. For the most part property rights and individual liberties are respected. South Africa has a vibrant free media. The genocide narrative is linked to the firebrand Economic Freedom Fighters, the country’s fourth largest political party whose members wear red … Continue reading Afrikaner Refugees: Essential Context
Make no mistake, Donald Trump won the November 8th Republican debate despite not being there. For the third time the former president thumbed his nose at his disheartened opponents, this time upstaging them by rallying an enthusiastic throng of Hispanics 10 miles away in Hialeah. The two-hour NBC debate in Miami, Trump declared, was unwatchable. Trump won because none of his rivals explained to voters that even … Continue reading Failed Debate, Republicans Self Destruct
The Daily Friend September 24, 2023 Both Donald Trump and Joe Biden, in my view, will not be their party’s candidates in the 2024 US presidential election. We’ll see. read the article Continue reading America Desperately Needs New Leaders
Barry discusses the aftermath of the US presidential election with Hong Kong Today host Mike Weeks, November 9, 2020, listen Continue reading For Donald Trump, Accepting Defeat is Akin to Deflating a Balloon
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