The future of critical raw materials: How Ukraine plays a strategic role in global supply chains

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The future of critical raw materials: How Ukraine plays a strategic role in global supply chains

Ukraine is a key potential supplier of rare earth metals, including titanium, lithium, beryllium, manganese, gallium, uranium, zirconium, graphite, apatite, fluorite, and nickel. Despite the war, Ukraine holds the largest titanium reserves in Europe (7% of the world’s reserves). It is one of the few countries that mine titanium ores, crucial for the aerospace, medical, automotive and marine industries.

Before February 2022, Ukraine was a key titanium supplier for the military sector. It also has one of Europe’s largest confirmed lithium reserves (estimated at 500,000 tons), vital for batteries, ceramics, and glass. Ukraine is the world’s 5th largest gallium producer, essential for semiconductors and LEDs, and has been a major producer of neon gas, supplying 90% of the highly purified, semiconductor-grade neon for the US chip industry.

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President Maduro Responds to Lula and Petro’s ‘Proposals

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Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro responded to his Brazilian and Colombian counterparts’ interventionist statements regarding Venezuela’s presidential elections.

President Maduro Responds to Lula and Petro’s ‘Proposals

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Election to the presidency of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela — a Joint Statement from Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico

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María Corina Machado is the female Javier Milei (aka US Puppet)

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What’s Behind Regime Change in Bangladesh

Violent regime change in the South Asian country of Bangladesh unfolded rapidly and mostly by stealth as the rest of the world focused on the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, growing tensions in the Middle East and a simmering confrontation between the US and China in the Asia-Pacific region.

What’s Behind Regime Change in Bangladesh (archived)

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There is a problem, fundamentally, in viewing the regime change in Bangladesh as a ‘stand-alone’ event. The caveat must be added right at the outset that when it comes to processing situations, nothing happens for no reason at all. There is very little awareness in India, especially in the media, about what has been going on. Mostly, it’s ‘cut-and-paste’ job culled out from the jaundiced western accounts from a new Cold War angle.

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Intel shares fall 20% on plans to cut 15,000 jobs

Intel on Thursday revealed drastic plans to slash its employee headcount and capital spending in an attempt to put its business back on a stable financial footing, as it suffered the latest setback in its slow-moving turnaround plans.

Intel shares fall 20% on plans to cut 15,000 jobs

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US CHIPS Act Funding for Intel

On March 20, 2024, the U.S. Department of Commerce and Intel Corporation announced a preliminary memorandum of terms under which Intel will receive approximately $8.5 billion in direct funding under the CHIPS and Science Act. Funding will help advance Intel’s critical semiconductor manufacturing and research and development projects at sites in Arizona, New Mexico, Ohio and Oregon – U.S. locations where the company produces some of the world’s most advanced chips and semiconductor packaging technologies.

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China’s ‘basic self-sufficiency’ in chip-making tools could come this summer, veteran says

Why is AMLO the only one who has the courage to stand up to the American Empire, regarding Venezuela?

Lula and Petro are weak! Meanwhile, CIA asset Erik Prince is offering to take out Maduro!

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has gone too far in his declaration that Venezuela’s opposition candidate won last weekend’s election, according to Mexico’s president. 

AMLO Accuses Blinken of ‘Overstepping’ on Venezuela Vote Results

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US Recognizes Opposition Candidate Edmundo Gonzalez as Winner of Venezuela Election

The United States has determined it will recognize opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez the winner of the Venezuelan presidential election, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a press release.

US Recognizes Opposition Candidate Edmundo Gonzalez as Winner of Venezuela Election – Blinken

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Election to the presidency of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela — a Joint Statement from Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico

The Biden Administration is still using Lula and Gustavo Petro as intermediaries to interfere in Venezuelan politics!

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Election to the presidency of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela — a Joint Statement from Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico

The governments of Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico, we offer our congratulations, and we want to express our solidarity with the people of Venezuela, who attended a mass at the ballot box on July 28, to set your own in future.

The governments of Brazil, Colombia and Mexico, we congratulate and express our solidarity with the Venezuelan people that went massively to the polls on July 28 to define their own future.

We continue with a lot of attention to the process of scrutiny of the votes, and we call on the electoral authorities of Venezuela to move forward expeditiously and give it to publicly available data disaggregated by voting table.

The disputes over the election process must be permitted by the institutional route. The fundamental principle of popular sovereignty should be respected by the unbiased check of the results.

In this context, we call on all political and social actors to exercise maximum caution and restraint in his demonstrations and public events in order to avoid an escalation of violent episodes.

Keep the social peace and protect human lives must be the priority concerns at this time.

This is the opportunity to express, once again, our absolute respect for the sovereignty of the will of the people of Venezuela. We reiterate our willingness to support the efforts of dialogue and the search for agreements that benefit the venezuelan people.

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