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Nov 23 2024 
The Conditions of Colonized Countries will materialize in the west
Shahid Bolsen, the leading Political Commentator on global Muslim affairs – 20 mins
Neo Liberal Capitalist Subjugation, the shift to financialization has reduced the importance of the military industrial complex, the old war profiteers have now to compete for influence over policy, empire’s tools have shifted from bullets to balance sheets, national and anational factions, Europe… Continue reading
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Nov 23 2024 
It can get worse
Remember this?
And he lost it! Trump’s ex-Deputy Assistant Dr. Sebastian Gorka & Afshin Rattansi
To see what the issue is, go and play it again, Sam. Why? He is now the Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Counterterrorism. At the time that we posted that video he was an ‘ex’ having ridden in the first time around on Steve Bannon’s coat tails. This time he… Continue reading
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Nov 23 2024 
US Foreign Policy: Continuity of Agenda Target China
By Brian Berletic and first posted at New Eastern Outlook
The incoming Trump administration is poised to pick up where the Biden administration has left off on the decades-spanning centerpiece of US foreign policy ‒ the encirclement and containment of China.
US Foreign Policy vs. China Continues Under Trump
This includes through an intense US military build up… Continue reading
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Nov 23 2024 
USUK, inciting global war, must be defeated for good
Will the U.S. imperial aggressor and its NATO front go down in defeat, or will it push the world to a final global war?
Editorial at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
This week marks a fateful threshold for the world. In a grave announcement, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the three-year proxy war in Ukraine has now… Continue reading
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Nov 22 2024 
A few snippets from China: The new Dalai Lama in waiting is a Tibetan kid from Minnesota
The Dalai Lama seems to be getting to the end of his life. The US appointed one already:
It looks like the Dalai Lama is going to die.😃His supporters have gotten a Tibetan teenager from Minnesota, US, to say he's a reincarnated lama and let him inherit Dalai's career.Even though he only likes football & rap… Continue reading
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Nov 22 2024 
Oreshnik – The 3 Km per Second Plot Twist
Nothing to see here. Just a hypersonic demo. Well, not really.
By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.
The average American is only capable of making (some sort of) sense of the world through movies. So let’s go back to a classic: the opening sequence of Coppola’s Apocalypse Now – the Vietnam war counterpart to Joseph Conrad’s Heart of… Continue reading -
Nov 22 2024 
Putin: State awards for the novel Oreshnik missile
Vladimir Putin held a meeting at the Kremlin with the leadership of the Ministry of Defense. (He really likes that Oreshnik!)
He kept using the word ‘novel’ in his speech yesterday, and I took it to mean new .. new concept. Not five minutes later the talking heads were speculating on which older technology this was… Continue reading
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Nov 22 2024 
G20 knocks out G7 agendas
This G20 in Rio was all about the power of the Global South, with poverty eradication and genuine economic progress trumping the old G7 agendas of war, profit, and arm-twisting.
By Pepe Escobar at The Cradle.
The G20 summit in Rio earlier this week offered the quite intriguing spectacle of a deeply divided world, geopolitically and geoeconomically,… Continue reading
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Nov 22 2024 
What else happened yesterday?
Two major news items appeared yesterday, seemingly out of nowhere. There were others.
The first was Mr Putin’s address where he introduced the world to the short and intermediate-range new missile, the Oreshnik. The world was aware of a new weapon that Russia used the previous night and the controversy ran hot in terms of what… Continue reading
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Nov 21 2024 
Richard D. Wolff & Michael Hudson: America’s Collapse: Economy & Endless Wars!
A Dialogue Works interview:
A Concept of a Plan … for the National Interest
NIMA ALKHORSHID: Hi, everybody. Today is Thursday, November 14th, and Michael and Richard are here with us to talk about what’s going on in the United States. Let’s start with Richard. Here is a video in which Scott Bessent (it seems that he’s… Continue reading
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Nov 21 2024 
❗️ ❗️ Putin: Address to the nation — in progress (Update, now complete with transcript))
This is happening now but the RT live stream does not want to work for me. No doubt we will have Putin’s full address from another source quite rapidly.
https://www.rt.com/on-air/607958-putin-president-russia-statement/
Here are the notes as taken down from other streams:
Putin stated that Western missiles were used to strike military facilities in Russia’s Bryansk and Kursk regions.
The conflict… Continue reading
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Nov 21 2024 
Alliance of Sahel States: A model for Africa?
This is the question. Is this a model for Africa? I would enthusiastically say, YES! Is it perfect? Of course not. Is it hard? Of course yes. Are these countries being pressurised? Of course. Are they withstanding the pressure? Yes, and they even have an international Solidarity Conference to spread the word.
This is how… Continue reading
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Nov 21 2024 
Economics: China issuing USD-denominated sovereign bonds in Saudi Arabia – strategic and elegant
This is a devastating move and oh so clever. I’ve longs since said that China is using their US dollar bonds to invest in developing countries. And this is true. China reduces their massive US Dollar Bond load and uses the money for Belt and Road. But, now there is a twist in the tail. … Continue reading
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Nov 21 2024 
Explanation of Vote by Ambassador Fu Cong on the UN Security Council Draft Resolution on Gaza Ceasefire
http://un.china-mission.gov.cn/eng/hyyfy/202411/t20241121_11530286.htm
President,
China is very disappointed with the result of today’s vote. Guyana, Algeria, and other E10 members of the Council demonstrated maximum sincerity and constructiveness during the consultation of the draft resolution. The US single use of veto has shattered the Gazan people’s hope for survival and pushed them further into darkness and desperation.
During the Council’s… Continue reading
