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Jul 31 2023 
Gonzalo Lira – on bail, on motorbike, at border, asking for asylum in Hungary
This is Gonzalo’s legitimate Twitter account, or now X account.
There are 25 tweets that tell his story in short. It sounds like Gonzalo and it feels like Gonzalo.
The channel, Military Summary has fully copied these:
https://t.me/militarysummary/2697
https://t.me/militarysummary/2707
He says: I’m also posting videos on the two channels I have access to, The Roundtable and Gonzalo Lira—Again.
Right now, I'm about to try to get out of Ukraine, and seek political asylum in Hungary.
Either I'll cross the border and make it to safety, or I'll be disappeared by the Kiev regime.
This is what's happened to me over the past three months.
1/25
— Gonzalo Lira (@GonzaloLira1968) July 31, 2023
He reports theft… Continue reading
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Jul 31 2023 
A BRICS primer: how big is BRICS really?
Its bigger than you think.
We know in general the five BRICS countries, Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.
BRICS has built up a supporting structure that is huge. Filtering out from the Sherpas, which gather information and present proposals to the BRICS leaders, there is a large Friends of BRICS alliance that gather each time… Continue reading
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Jul 31 2023 
World First We Go for Moscow, Then We Take Beijing
Three interventions in St. Petersburg summarize the pan-African drive to finally get rid of exploitative neocolonialism.
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Strategic Culture
The Global Majority is free to choose two different paths to counteract the rabid, cognitive dissonant Straussian neocon psychos in charge of imperial foreign policy; to relentlessly ridicule them, or to work… Continue reading
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Jul 30 2023 
Saker Italia interviews Larry Romanoff: “Propaganda, Media and Conspiracy in action”
With thanks to Larry Romanoff and Saker Italia
We present the interview we had the honor of doing with one of the world’s leading experts on “propaganda.” Larry Romanoff has been dealing for years with the topic of manipulation and consensus management as a tool of governments (and those who maneuver these governments) towards public opinion.… Continue reading
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Jul 30 2023
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Jul 30 2023 
Indian role in SCO/BRICS and the region
With thanks to Prof Engr Zamir Ahmed Awan
THE 23rd Summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) was recently convened under the chairmanship of India, albeit in a virtual format. The decision to opt for a virtual summit, despite the easing of pandemic-related restrictions, has sparked curiosity. India, known for its active participation in international events,… Continue reading
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Jul 30 2023 
Pepe Escobar: Geopolitical Chessboard Shifts Against US Empire
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at SputnikGlobe
The geopolitical chessboard is in perpetual shift – and never more than in our current incandescent juncture.
A fascinating consensus in discussions among Chinese scholars – including those part of the Asian and American diasporas – is that not only Germany/EU lost Russia, perhaps irretrievably, but China gained Russia,… Continue reading -
Jul 29 2023 
Here comes China
The West needs $20 billion and decades to develop a supply chain for processing gallium and germanium — far more than the trade value of the two elements. Even then, achieving costs comparable to China’s will prove challenging. Read full article →
USA and China approach AI differently. The trillion-dollar valuations of American AI companies come from consumer entertainment, while China uses… Continue reading
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Jul 29 2023 
A few new facts coming in on that Argentinian mega IMF loan.
Recently in one of his videos Pepe Escobar stated that Argentina has, or will, withdraw its application to join BRICS.
Ben Norton reports:
Argentina just made a deal with the US-controlled IMF for a loan to… pay back another loan to the IMF.The IMF is the master of imperial debt traps.When Argentina was ruled by right-wing oligarch… Continue reading
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Jul 28 2023 
Declaration of the Second Russia–Africa Summit
http://en.kremlin.ru/supplement/5972
We, the Heads of State and Government of the Russian Federation and African States recognized by the United Nations (UN) (hereinafter also referred to as the Russian Federation and African States), and representatives of the African Union and Africa’s leading integration organizations, gathered on 28 July 2023 in Saint Petersburg (Russian Federation) to participate in the Second Russia–Africa Summit,
Reaffirming the principles and objectives enshrined in the Declaration of the First Russia–Africa Summit (Sochi, 24 October 2019), which laid the strategic foundation for our relations in the 21st century,
Building on the historical… Continue reading
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Jul 28 2023 
NATO failed in Ukraine against Russia. Now it’s targeting China: Michael Hudson, Pepe Escobar, Radhika Desai
NATO turns its attention to China
Globalpolitical Economic Report, July 28, 2023
NATO failed in Ukraine against Russia. Now it’s targeting China
Geopolitical Economy Report
RADHIKA DESAI: Hello, everyone, and welcome to the 15th Geopolitical Economy Hour, the fortnightly show on the political and geopolitical economy of our times. I’m Radhika Desai.
MICHAEL HUDSON: And I’m Michael Hudson.
RADHIKA DESAI: And… Continue reading
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Jul 28 2023 
Exit Strategies and Lies
With thanks to Batiushka, our writer
The End-Game
The US puppet regime in Kiev is staring defeat in the face. The Western elite’s attempt, led by the CIA and backed by the NATO vassals, to dismantle Russia through a coup in Russia’s soft underbelly in Kiev in 2014, has, as usual, failed. Why can the Western elite… Continue reading
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Jul 28 2023
Danny Haiphong & Pepe Escobar
Subjects: Contradictions emerging within BRICS as its summit approaches and the reaction among the neocons following Henry Kissinger’s visit to China.
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Jul 28 2023 
Larry Johnson pitted against a Ukrainian Cheerleader – a treat
Andrei Martyanov describes this as a ‘treat’ and it is a treat.
“I will apologize in advance for not tolerating patiently the lies spewed by Mr. Dobriansky. My Irish ancestry got the better of me,” says Larry. His first sentence: “Our Ukrainian guest is delusional and lying.” That gives you an immediate flavor.
Please follow on his… Continue reading
