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Medvedev: The results of 2022 changed World Order
Medvedev – on the results of 2022, which changed the world order
Following is a machine translation of Medvedev’s year-end article. While the content may be Russia-specific in some areas, in most areas it is clearly not only Russia-specific. Bear in mind that Medvedev has just returned from a visit to Xi Jinping, and this article… Continue reading -
Dec 23 2022 
Can China help Brazil restart its global soft power?
Bolsonaro reduced Brazil to resources-exporter status; now Lula should follow Argentina’s lead into Belt and Road
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Asia Times
Ten days of full immersion in Brazil are not for the faint-hearted. Even restricted to the top two megalopolises, Sao Paulo and Rio, watching live the impact of interlocking economic, political, social… Continue reading
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Transformative Z..oomerangs of 2022
We are not seeing Boomerangs returning on the sanctions and repression policies. They turn and come back at a tremendous Zoomerang speed. A Zoomerang is a karma boomerang and as we know, karma is a beetch.
“Sanctions against Russia ‘boomeranged’ “– Lukashenko
Last year around this time, we were looking on in stunned amazement while Russia gave… Continue reading
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Dec 22 2022 
Sanctions: A weapon for subordination
First posted at Multipolarista.com
How sanctions are a weapon of imperialism, used to subordinate the Global SouthThe International People’s Tribunal on US Imperialism explains how US, EU, and UN sanctions are a means of controlling Global South sovereignty and blocking the emergence of a multipolar world, to maintain the neocolonial capitalist order. ByHelyeh Doutaghi, Corinna Mullin… Continue reading
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Putin and Shoigu speak
After a flurry of security council meetings, a visit by Putin to the front lines of the SMO, Medvedev visiting Xi Jinping, Putin and Shoigu are giving their speeches.
I’ve taken this from a Russian reporter that wrote down the basics. We will have to wait for a professional and accurate transcript.
Collegium of the Ministry of… Continue reading
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Dec 21 2022 
Daily Chronicles
The Daily Chronicles are snippets of the most important news across the world for this and each day as it rolls in. Kindly also use it as an open thread.
We are in the tropics. We don’t have snow and sleighbells and all the traditional Christmas paraphernalia. The image on this post is then our Christmas… Continue reading
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Dec 21 2022 
Europe: Reaping the whirlwind
By Femi Akomolafe and posted with permission
a missive to a European friend
Greetings to you.
Did you pause to consider the fact that the equivalence you seek/sought is simply invalid, thereby untenable?
From whichever angle you consider it, comparing European violent colonial conquest of, say Africa, with Europeans WILLINGLY voting for racists and fascists is outrageous, to put… Continue reading
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Tectonic plates shifting: geo-politics & geo-finance
By Alastair Crooke and first posted at Strategic Culture
Managing the Ukraine Denial Narrative
Look around: the tectonic plates of geo-politics and geo-finance are shifting – shifting radically away from an increasingly flailing West.The inflection has begun. It has been messaged by the Financial Times (FT) and The Economist – the two media that so faithfully… Continue reading
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From the NATOstan-Imposed Meat Grinder
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Strategic Culture
Somewhere in her private pantheon, Pallas Athena, Goddess of Geopolitics, is immensely enjoying the show.
No one ever lost money capitalizing on the unlimited nonsense spewed out by the collective deer caught in the headlights also known as Western mainstream media – complete with showering Person of the… Continue reading
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Dec 18 2022 
A Travelogue of Felix Arabia, late Autumn 2022
A Travelogue of Felix Arabia, by our own AHH
Summary
Caveat lector: a week’s travel is insufficient to get a good handle on a different people. That being said I married a woman born in and of southern Yemeni culture and learned much over the years from her and their other expats. Additionally, I have a huge… Continue reading
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Dec 17 2022 
Xi of Arabia and the petroyuan drive
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at The Cradle
It would be so tempting to qualify Chinese President Xi Jinping landing in Riyadh a week ago, welcomed with royal pomp and circumstance, as Xi of Arabia proclaiming the dawn of the petroyuan era.
But it’s more complicated than that. As much as the seismic shift implied by… Continue reading
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Michael Hudson interview with a German radio station with reach!
Our most favorite economist and he has such a (black) sense of humor. “MH: Ukraine hardly can be rebuilt. First of all, much of its population has left, and is unlikely to return, given the destruction of housing and infrastructure – and husbands.” Prepare a cup of tea, sit back and read… Continue reading
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Iran: Professor Marandi with the Gaggle
So, what actually happened in Iran?
