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Aug 14 2023 
Fish and Chips: microchips and the nuclear contamination of seafoods
From SocialistChina.org
Ed Note: The Japanese insist that the radioactive wastewater is safe enough to bath in and to drink. One of the Chinese Spokespeople said that they should then keep it for themselves and start bathing in it, and use it for drinking water.
In this brief commentary submitted to us, James De Burghe, a British… Continue reading -
Aug 13 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.
Theme: There are many many smaller events throughout our world. It is so that daily we expect a storm of some… Continue reading
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Aug 12 2023 
Coup in Niger (Three): The start of a constitutional government (daily updates)
Post One
Post TwoPlease read the previous posts with comments as updates are in the comments
Victoria Nuland visited the Military Junta in Niger. She was not treated with much respect, was allowed to see some ‘senior officials’, and could not speak to either the leader or the deposed ex-president, Mohamed Bazoum.
Nuland: “Traveled to Niamey to express… Continue reading
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Aug 12 2023 
10 Days to BRICS and the West is paranoid
What prompts the stream of non-western countries to seek BRICS membership? The grouping is perceived today as the principal platform of the Global South espousing an equitable world order and, is part of our human destiny from this point forward. BRICS does not even have a secretariat. It is an organization based on agreement and… Continue reading
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Aug 12 2023 
Michael Hudson & Ania K: Debt, Sponsors of the wars, Future of USD and BRICS
Transcript:
Michael Hudson: Debt, Sponsors of the Wars, Future of USD and BRICS
AK: Hello everyone. Welcome back to my channel. I see we are live already, perfectly on time, with a Swiss Precision today, because I have fantastic guest – Mr. Michael Hudson, who has been recommended to me by the one and only Andre Marciano who said, Ania, you… Continue reading
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Aug 11 2023 
Ben Norton reports on the latest US pressure on Saudi Arabia
The US demands that Saudi Arabia "distance itself–economically and militarily–from China"The US wants Saudi to:- reject the (remote) possibility of a Chinese military base,- avoid Huawei tech,and most importantly- "use US dollars, not Chinese currency, to price oil sales" pic.twitter.com/Sz1YZaCzm9— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) August 10, 2023
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Aug 11 2023 
Sanctions as War: Anti-Imperialist Perspectives on American Geo-Economic Strategy: Interview and Book Review
Sanctions as War: Anti-Imperialist Perspectives on American Geo-Economic Strategy, a book recently published by Brill, offers a comprehensive account of economic sanctions as a US tool for exercising power on the global stage. The text, which should be required reading for those with sympathy for humanity, includes a chapter on Venezuela by Gregory Wilpert. Here… Continue reading
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Aug 10 2023 
Imran Khan: Much of the story is now in the open and yes, the usual suspects
The US State Department pushed the Pakistani government in 2022 to remove Imran Khan from the post of prime minister due to his neutrality regarding the Russian special operation, Intercept writes, citing a secret government document that came into his possession.
Most everyone now knows that Khan has been jailed for 3 years on very spurious… Continue reading
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Aug 09 2023 
Introductory speech of Russian Defence Minister Shoigu at Defence Ministry Board session
The reason for posting this introductory speech from Shoigu, is to very clearly understand how the forces against Russia arrayed themselves. They will not be content with any peaceful co-existence. I wonder if people realize how close to a bigger kinetic war we actually are. In the meantime a stream of sanctions are being issued… Continue reading
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Aug 09 2023 
A public Appeal To President Tinubu
With thanks to Femi Akomolafe, and the second part. You can see the background here:
“People don’t pine for democracy. They want homes, medicine, jobs, schools… with a few exceptions, democracy has not brought good government to developing countries.” – Singapore former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew
It is quite unfortunate that the Nigerian president, Asiwaju Tinubu,… Continue reading
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Aug 09 2023
Why Europe continues to get it wrong.
With thanks to Femi Akomolafe, a friend from West Africa and posted on his substack.
There will be two parts to Femi’s postings. This one which you should read first, to set the background and the scene and then a Public Appeal To President Tinubu. In the correspondence with Femi, one sentence became very important to… Continue reading
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Aug 08 2023 
NATO’s World War?
Posted with thanks to Batiushka, our writer
Foreword
My father fought against the Nazis. In 1942 he lost his two best friends to one of their shells. For some mysterious reason it killed them, but only injured him, though he did have to spend six weeks in hospital. Sixty years later, as he lay dying of old… Continue reading
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Aug 08 2023 
Three short slices: Historical resonance
FIDEL (1986)
: “The IMF, the financial enforcer of imperialism, strictly demands that Third World countries eliminate fiscal and trade balance deficits, reduce education and health expenditures, eliminate state investments, depreciate the currency, raise the prices of consumer goods and services, suspend restrictions on free imports; in other words, dump the burden of the debt and… Continue reading
