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Jan 17 2023 
Daily Chronicles
The Daily Chronicles are snippets of the most important news across the world for this and each day as it rolls in – as such, this thread is non-structured with the latest news on top. Kindly feel free to also use it as an open thread.
Festive greetings ahead of Year of Rabbit and Spring Festival!… Continue reading
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Why do we fight?
This writing will weave some personal experiences through the story and modern history of Latin America. Then we will look at Cuba, where a former DIA analyst Ana Belén Montes was imprisoned for 20 years because she shared intelligence with Cuba, and recently received her freedom. We will take a look at why she did… Continue reading
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Jan 16 2023 
All Quiet (Panic) on the Western Front
By Pepe Escobar (raw document, not yet cross-posted https://t.me/rocknrollgeopolitics/5995)
Shadows are falling / And I’ve been here all day / It’s too hot to sleep / And time is running away / Feel like my soul / has turned into steel /I’ve still got the scars / That the sun didn’t heal / There’s not even… Continue reading
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Jan 15 2023 
Here comes China
From Godfree Robert’s excellent newsletter Here Comes China with my comments
Through the years since starting his newsletter, Godfree had excellent reporting on China and Covid. At my previous site, I could not report any of that, so, with a smile and a sense of freedom from a narrow ‘rules based order’ and a limited range… Continue reading
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Jan 14 2023 
Peru
It is a great surprise to me that Peruvians are still out on the street across the country to reject the coup d’état that overthrew constitutional president Pedro Castillo on December 7th. These mass protests have met mass and brutal violence. The latest numbers are that 48 protestors (it started non-violently and only lately the… Continue reading
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Jan 14 2023 
Pax Sinica in the Middle East?
by Godfree Roberts from the Here Comes China newsletter.
Hope for Palestine and Iran?
In 2022, the China-GCC Summit was one thing, and China’s strategic partnership with Iran another, but both Saudi Arabia and Iran applying simultaneously to multipolar institutions – BRICS and the SCO? Plus the idea of a BRICS Coin as a commodity-weighted neutral reserve… Continue reading -
Brazil Notes
I made a comment in the Daily Chronicles as follows:
Brazil? The USAmerican rightwing is literally vicariously reliving their 6th January via the attempted coup in Brazil. At this moment, do not accept any USAmerican writing on Brazil as the facts are being twisted to fit their historical replay. Its theater. But they are causing untold… Continue reading -
Highly Recommended: Emmanuel Todd
This is the TASS version of a French article by Emmanuel Todd, described as an expert. Escobar notes: “Todd is spot on. He’s one of three or four – not more – French intellectuals who actually knows how the real geoeconomic world works.”
Here is the original in French: https://www.lefigaro.fr/vox/monde/emmanuel-todd-la-troisieme-guerre-mondiale-a-commence-20230112#Echobox=1673601494-1
US may lose control of world finance… Continue reading -
Radhika Desai & Michael Hudson: multipolarity (now + transcript)
Radhika Desai & Michael Hudson explain multipolarity, decline of US hegemony
Geopolitical Economy Hour, from Geopolitical Economy, January 13, 2023
Economists Radhika Desai & Michael Hudson explain multipolarity, decline of US hegemony
Transcript
RADHIKA DESAI: Hi everyone, and welcome to this Geopolitical Economy Hour. I’m Radhika Desai.
MICHAEL HUDSON: And I’m Michael Hudson.
RADHIKA DESAI: Every fortnight we are going to meet for an hour to discuss major development in the fast-changing… Continue reading
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Jan 13 2023 
China delivers
About 3 years ago, when the economic conflict against China started in earnest (remember Trump’s Trade War), quite rightly chips were defined as a critical issue. I made a prediction at the time that what we probably could expect from China is some kind of leapfrog in technology. This kind of leapfrog is easily understood… Continue reading
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The empire is hitting back: it will be bloody
The focus is on China and we can expect a wave of aggression as bad as against Russia.
“We must recognize that China’s “peaceful rise” was pure fiction and finally confront the CCP with the urgency the threat demands. To do that, House Republicans will establish a Select Committee on China in the new Congress” state… Continue reading
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Jan 11 2023 
Daily Chronicles
The Daily Chronicles are snippets of the most important news across the world for this and each day as it rolls in – as such, this thread is non-structured with the latest news on top. Kindly feel free to also use it as an open thread.
Monday, January 16
Russia supplies gas from Siberia to China via… Continue reading
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Jan 11 2023
Why the CIA attempted a ‘Maidan uprising’ in Brazil
The failed coup in Brazil is the latest CIA stunt, just as the country is forging stronger ties with the east.
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at the Cradle
A former US intelligence official has confirmed that the shambolic Maidan remix staged in Brasilia on 8 January was a CIA operation, and linked it to the… Continue reading
