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Aug 05 2026 
Michael Hudson: The Dollar Empire Is Collapsing – The Rise of New Global Economic Order
With Lena Petrova : World Affairs In Context
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Aug 05 2026 
Putin legalizes crypto in Russia
The president has authorized a regulated digital currency market while keeping a ban on domestic payments
(The reality in Russia is that Russians use cryptocurrencies).
RT
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a landmark law legalizing cryptocurrency trading, which will be regulated as part of the country’s financial system.
The Law on Digital Currencies and Digital Rights, signed and… Continue reading
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Aug 05 2026 
Al Mayadeen’s Minab Documentary asks the right questions
Five months after US missile attacks devastated an elementary school for girls in Minab, southern Iran, a documentary by Al Mayadeen English dismantles mainstream narratives surrounding the attack. While Western media outlets relied on satellite imagery and AI analysis to allege the presence of an IRGC military facility or human shields, Director Maryam Yousefi Sadr’s… Continue reading
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Aug 05 2026 
Elijah Magnier: Trump Doubles Down: Iran Will Be “Hit Really Hard” If They Back Out
with Nima from Dialogue Works
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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
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Aug 03 2026 
Genocide in Slow Motion: Ambassador Johana Tablada in an Interview about the Blockade against Cuba
Soberanía: The Mexican Politics Podcast
In this episode of El Taller (The Workshop), the interview program from the Soberanía podcast, Kurt Hackbarth speaks with Johana Tablada de la Torre, Deputy Chief of Mission at the Cuban Embassy in Mexico, about the unprecedented offensive of the Trump administration against the island.
Tablada describes how the energy siege, the… Continue reading
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Aug 03 2026 
Banality Of Evil
They will not be able to whitewash the “American Way of War”.
This is an update from Andrei Martyanov. He gives an overall broad overview on Ukraine and what he expects for the immediate future. It is a catastrophe. He also comments on the request from US military brass asking the troops… Continue reading
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Aug 03 2026 
How China Does Tourism Without Losing Itself
indi.ca
China is… China. The tourists are mostly Chinese, seeing different sites in China. The food is mostly said Chinese taking different bites of China. There are many different cultures, but each still a slice of China. The technology is recognizable to an outsider, but every byte stays in China. And the money is ephemeral, but… Continue reading
