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Jul 07 2023 
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Jul 07 2023 
Finance, power, integration: The SCO welcomes a new ‘Global Globe’
Discussions at the recent SCO Summit in New Delhi now point to the inevitable: The merging of new multipolar organizations and their collective reorganization of global finance.
By Pepe Escobar, and first posted at The Cradle
The 23rd summit of the heads of state of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), held virtually in New Delhi, represented History… Continue reading
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Jul 06 2023 
US involvement in the conflict in Ukraine
This publication by the Russian MFA details the involvement of the US in the Ukraine SMO. In addition, we’ve just recently had news of the CIA involvement. The CIA that is benign and really does not know anything but “The CIA was central to the war even before it started.” The newsweek article and the… Continue reading
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Jul 06 2023 
Embracing Defeat: The European Union in the Wake of the Ukrainian War
By Declan Hayes and first posted at Strategic Culture
Even if Europe must perish, we should at least spare ourselves from being further tormented by Bloodlands’ blood suckers, Declan Hayes writes.
This article extrapolates from a number of key factors to assess Europe’s future when peace in our time eventually returns to Timothy Snyder’s Bloodlands, that vast… Continue reading
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Jul 05 2023 
Should there really be a Supreme Court?
Its role always has been anti-democratic.
Vested interests create “checks and balances” primarily to make political systems non-responsive to demands for social reform. Historically, therefore, the checks are politically unbalanced in practice. Instead of producing a happy medium, their effect often has been to check the power of the people to assert their interests at the… Continue reading
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Jul 05 2023 
Where Are You Going, Russia? Article # 100!
With thanks to our writer, Batiushka and congratulations on article number 100!
‘The situation in the Ukraine is not a regional conflict, but the total opposition of the Collective West and the rest of the world, caused by diametrically opposed views about the future development of humanity…The hybrid war they are waging against us now is… Continue reading
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Jul 04 2023 
A long lost video re-appears: NATO forcefully stopped African leaders from saving Ghaddafi
A very rare and old video of Uganda President Yoweri Museveni talking about just how NATO forcefully stopped 6 African leaders from saving Ghaddafi during the Libya invasion. You will probably need both the soundtrack and the subtitles to understand the accent, but it is worth it.
NATO wanted to destroy one man, and they destroyed… Continue reading
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Jul 04 2023 
Douglas Macgregor
He now has a twitter account. https://twitter.com/DougAMacgregor
This is a good video. He is talking to a Brazilian channel.
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Jul 04 2023 
Full text of Xi’s address at SCO summit
BEIJING, July 4 (Xinhua) — Chinese President Xi Jinping addressed the 23rd meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) via video conference here on Tuesday.
The following is the full text of the address:
Staying True to Our Founding Mission and Advancing Unity and Coordination to Realize Greater Development
Statement by… Continue reading
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Jul 04 2023 
Washington’s REAL Policy on China – “Repairing Ties” is Theater Ahead of Sanctions, War
Brian Berletic takes a step back to discuss Blinken’s visit to China before the Progozhin affaire took over the airwaves and consumed everyone’s attention.
It is again topical in the runup to Janet Yellen’s visit to China planned from July 6 to 9. Both Chinese and American analysts believe that the two sides could make some… Continue reading
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Jul 04 2023 
SCO is meeting
The expectations of this SCO summit are high. The member states of this major security and trade organization represents 42% of the world population and 25% of GDP.
Iran has been accepted as permanent member and so has Belarus. For Iran, this will mean that even the remnants of the US regime of sanctions can now… Continue reading
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Jul 03 2023 
Daily Chronicles
The Daily Chronicles are snippets of the most important news across the world (and a joke or two) for this and each day as it rolls in – as such, this thread is non-structured with the latest news on top.
Jul 9
Slow for new news. The old news is being regurgitated and the discussion is around… Continue reading
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Jul 03 2023 
Perfidious Albion and Perfidious America
With thanks to Batiushka, our writer
Introduction: Perfidy
The word ‘perfidious’ has many synonyms: deceitful, untrustworthy, duplicitous, disloyal, faithless, false, traitorous, treacherous. The term ‘Perfidious Albion’ has been used by the French of the British since at least the thirteenth century and later by many other nationalities (1). Why? Where does this view come from?
Part One: The Perfidious… Continue reading
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Jul 02 2023 
The Age of Confrontation: Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev-on how the tectonic civilizational rift can and should be resolved
Statements by Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, made during an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta:
Summary
▪️ The course of the AFU counter-offensive proved unexpected for Kiev’s Western sponsors, who believed in the “omnipotence of unlimited dough”. The defeat of the AFU in the Artemovsk direction was a foregone conclusion;
▪️ European businesses that have… Continue reading
