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Aug 04 2026 
Alastair Crooke : Tensions flicker into flame, lapping across the Middle East
The best Trump can do is to stop the conflicts agglutinating into one global war.
Strategic Culture
The silence surrounding the outcome to the Netanyahu meeting last week in the Oval Office speaks for itself. No American government official came to the airport to receive him, and no red carpet was laid out for him. The visit… Continue reading
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Aug 04 2026 
Pavel Durov explains the short removal of Telegram …
Apple removed Telegram from their app store for about 2 hours.
Durov explains:
Last night, Apple briefly removed Telegram from the App Store because a single user had planted illegal pornographic content in a public group chat.
⬅️ Telegram was restored within hours. But I want to explain what happened — to warn other app developers and help… Continue reading
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Aug 04 2026 
Regarding Reports of Empty US Stockpiles
Brian Berletic and I’ve been not confident on the many reports that we’ve seen on counting missiles and saying .. only x many are left.
▪️Yes, stockpiles are likely low, including of ATACMS and PrSM missiles (the newer, longer-range replacement for ATACMS) – as well as anti-missile munitions;
▪️However all of these munitions are under production, PrSM… Continue reading
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Aug 04 2026 
This Week in Africa
Jeffrey Paller
Quote of the week
“To the young people of Mogadishu, live! And to young Somalis wherever they are across the globe, live.” – Somali president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud
Politics of Senegal
President Bassirou Diomaye Faye breaks with Ousmane Sonko to launch a new political party. Alex Thurston breaks down the new state of Senegalese politics.
Xenophobic violence in… Continue reading
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Aug 04 2026 
Michael Hudson : Why interest rates will soar when oil prices rise
The price rise will cause widening trade deficits for oil-importing countries such as Japan. Its yen already has been weakening steadily, to the point where the U.S. Treasury is intervening to support it.
But as its payments for oil imports rise to reflect the price increases that the world oil shortage has created, Japan must avoid… Continue reading
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Aug 04 2026 
Statement by Chargé d’Affaires a.i. Anna Evstigneeva at a UNSC Briefing on the Situation in the Middle East
https://russiaun.ru/en/news/228072026
Mr. President,
We thank Mr. Ramiz Alakbarov, Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, for his briefing.
The situation in the Middle East has been one of the main items on the agenda of the Security Council virtually since the very establishment of the United Nations.
Nevertheless, despite decades of painstaking work, we have to acknowledge… Continue reading
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Aug 04 2026 
Trump’s Venezuelan ‘grab ‘em by the oil’ coup isn’t going as planned
Geopolitics Prime
Eight months after the US kidnapped Maduro and forced Caracas to rewrite its oil ownership, investment and export laws, not a single major new agreement has been finalized with American oil companies looking to cash in on a potential post-soft coup bonanza.
💬 “We have no new concessions. No new deals. It is absolutely a… Continue reading
