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Jan 07 2025 
West Africa’s Defiance: ECOWAS Scrambles to Contain Sahel Breakaway
Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger, (AES), three nations at the heart of the insurgency-ravaged Sahel are sending shockwaves through West Africa’s fragile post-colonial order. Their planned withdrawal from ECOWAS on January 29 marks a seismic rejection of decades of regional integration dictated by Western-backed elites.
Now, ECOWAS, desperate to salvage its crumbling legitimacy, has offered… Continue reading
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Jan 07 2025 
China – Positive Looking Forward – 2025 and Beyond
The Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University of China (RDCY) has successfully completed several studies in 2024 which contributed to China’s success story for 2024, and, in addition had an international flair.
Main studies included,
– Policy briefs for key decision-makers;– Hosting,
(i) the Tongzhou Global Development Forum, drawing over 1000 participants, to discuss… Continue reading -
Jan 07 2025 
Ben Norton updates BRICS numbers
BRICS keeps expanding. As a new full member, it added Indonesia, the 4th most populous country with the 7th largest economy on Earth.BRICS now has 10 members and 8 partners. Together they make up 41.4% of global GDP (PPP) and half the world population.(Full video below) pic.twitter.com/kURiF2OQpW— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) January 7, 2025
China… Continue reading
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Jan 07 2025 
Daily Chronicles
Today, we find ourselves resisting the First War on BRICS in its various salients. We are in madness, in a strategy of chaos from the side of the empire who cannot fight but are singularly talented at fomenting chaos in order to swoop in, brutally kill, grab and gain benefit. The strategy of empire going… Continue reading
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Jan 05 2025 
Dr Mads Gilbert with some straight talk
Compare with what is clearly a US soldier – supporting the landgrab and trying to get Gazans to give up their rights.
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Jan 05 2025 
Michael Hudson and Nima from Dialogue Works: Cracks in the Empire: Is the American Superpower Fading?
Transcript:
Absolute takeaway:
… Wherever you move, it’s going to be worse. (And this is the optimum position)
NIMA ALKHORSHID: Hi, everybody. Today’s Thursday, January 2nd, 2025, and our friend Michael Hudson is back with us. Welcome back, Michael.MICHAEL HUDSON: Good to be back.
NIMA ALKHORSHID: Michael, let’s get started with the economic key to 2025. What would that… Continue reading
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Jan 05 2025 
Venezuelan western elected pretend leader defies arrest threat, embarks on regional tour
Appointments of presidents and leaders
This western methodology to control other countries is reaching a crescendo. The most visible was Juan Guaidó, who somehow declared himself president,fled to the US, was feted and acknowledged as president and walked away with Venezuela’s gold and money in the US. We don’t really know if he only received… Continue reading
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Jan 04 2025 
How to defend against Washington’s unstoppable Superweapon
A few weeks ago Brian Berletic had a video and article on Washington’s Unstoppable Superweapon which he describes as a sophisticated network of political and informational control that reshapes nations and regions to serve its interests.. He has followed with a new one: How to defend against it.
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Jan 04 2025 
Chinese Tech
It is now a different world. It is almost an impossible task to select main technology advances in China as they roll out so fast and cover the spectrum, medical, manufacturing, space (thousand sails project which will be bye bye Starlink), electric vehicles, electric flying vehicles, high speed trains, aviation, construction methodologies at an unbelievable… Continue reading
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Jan 04 2025 
China Writers: 2025 crystal ball discussion
China Writers Frans Vandenbosch, Irene Eckert, Jeff JBrown Patrice Greanville and Quan Le gather for a 2025 crystal ball discussion. Video, audio, transcript.
I have already used some of Dr Quan Le’s material in this post: China and Japan: Careful de-icing of relationships? Raprochement?. I saw the process, but could not figure out why, so… Continue reading
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Jan 04 2025 
Objective predictions and interpretations are scarce
I regularly make annual predictions and then I find it only natural at the end of the year to see if and which of my predictions have come true. For the year 2024, I had made 181 predictions that were concrete and could be followed. The result is that 70% of them have demonstrably come… Continue reading
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Jan 03 2025 
Trump’s First Day in office
OK, this is a bit of humor drawn together from real planned actions and all from Trump’s Truth Social in the last eight days.
On Trump’s first day in office he will:
– stop the Ukraine SMO in 24 hours (Oops, maybe it will take a little longer, say 36 hours?)
– Define a new geography and strategic… Continue reading
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Jan 03 2025 
UN Security Council on Gaza today
It is worth while to watch this even if only one time during this whole period. You will soon see that the representatives know everything. It is not that they don’t know. The briefers in the beginning tell the story as it is, excepting the first one who, at the 3rd sentence blames Hamas (of… Continue reading
