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Jan 27 2024 
The Day the Siege was Broken
Tribute from the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA):
On January 27, 1944, the 872-day siege of Leningrad was finally lifted, marking the end of one of the most tragic episodes of the Great Patriotic War which claimed the lives of over a million Leningraders.
The blockade began on September 8, 1941, when Nazi troops isolated the… Continue reading
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Jan 27 2024 
Five Variables Defining Our Future
What Putin, Xi and Raisi have been explaining to the Global South, explicitly or in quite subtle ways, is that we are right in the crux of a civilizational war.
by Pepe Escobar at Sputnik
In the late 1930s, with WWII in motion, and only months before his assassination, Leon Trotsky already had a vision of what… Continue reading
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Jan 26 2024 
Texas vs US Federalos (Jan 6 Redux?) … Open Thread
Please use as an Open Thread.
At current count, it is 28 states versus the Federalos (two states are led by Democrat Governors but the majority are GOP).
It is too pat how this is being rolled out — just as the Empire sinks into the dual humiliation of 404 and the Red Sea. Qui bono?
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Jan 25 2024
Yemeni ‘Asabiyyah Reshapes Geopolitics
To invoke Chinese wisdom, picture a single rock changing the course of a stream, which then changes the course of a mighty river.
by Pepe Escobar at The Cradle
“When there is a general change of conditions,
It is as if the entire creation had changed
and the whole world been altered,
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Jan 25 2024
The Ukraine Charade, Revisited
Zhuangzi: “You can’t talk about the ocean to a frog living in a well, you can’t describe ice to a summer midge, and you can’t reason with an ignoramus.”
by Pepe Escobar at ZeroHedge
Selected players scattered around the Beltway silos of power, diligently working as messengers for the people who really run the show in the… Continue reading
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Jan 25 2024 
Carl Zha: How to Safely Travel the Red Sea
Joining us today is @CarlZha , a Chinese-born political commentator and the host of the “Silk And Steel Podcast.” We’ll be delving into Zelensky getting shut down by China at Davos, the Taiwan Elections, and exploring safe methods for traversing the Red Sea.
He discusses at length:
The backstory of the Al-CIAda outfit from Xinjiang, China,… Continue reading
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Jan 24 2024 
Lavrov at UNSC: Using Truth as a Hammer
Lavrov at UNSC: Day Two West Asia & Palestine: Using Truth as a Hammer
with thanks to Karl at karlof1’s Geopolitical Gymnasium
Lavrov pulls out a verbal hammer at the end of his remarks at the second day of special UNSC hearings on Ukraine with today’s about the situation in West Asia and Palestine in particular. Here’s Sergey with… Continue reading
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Jan 23 2024 
USUK Seeks Wider War with Iran via Yemen
US-British Strikes on Yemen Seek to Provoke Wider War with Iran
🔹US-British strikes on Yemen have predictably only escalated regional tensions;
🔹Yemen has been targeted for years not only by US-British backed Saudi air and missile strikes, but also a multi-year, Saudi-led ground invasion, neither of which impacted Ansar Allah’s military capabilities;
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Jan 23 2024 
China rallies G77 for Bretton Woods & WTO overhaul
Chinese Vice-Premier Liu Guozhong wins support for speech calling for overhaul of global systems in the G77 + China Summit
Jevans Nyabiage for the South China Morning Post
China rallies G77 countries for major reform of WTO and Bretton Woods at Kampala summit
China is rallying the Group of 77 developing countries to push for reform of the… Continue reading
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Jan 22 2024 
Galloway interviews Ansar Allah’s Al-Bukhaiti
George Galloway interviews Muhammed Al-Bukhaiti of Yemen’s Ansar Allah (Houthi) Political Bureau, and Governor of the Dhamar Governorate, an area bombed recently by the United States and Britain.
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Jan 22 2024 
Empire activates its suicide squads in Europe and in the Syrian desert
An excellent primer on who protects and nurtures ISIS and assorted “our good USUK terrorists” in the huge porous Syria-Iraq-KSA-Jordan desert.
The desperate beleaguered Empire (1) activates them against the Resistance Axis, and in response, (2) the Iraqi Resistance relentlessly and incrementally attrites the US bases in precisely this lawless four-state region populated by the compradore… Continue reading
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Jan 22 2024 
Washington’s entanglement in Yemen
The US will regret being lured into multiple Middle East wars on Israel’s behalf
By Abdel Bari Atwan at Rai Al Youm.
Israel’s success in luring the Biden administration into multiple wars on its behalf, especially in Gaza, Iraq, and Yemen, will inevitably bleed the US politically, financially, and militarily and erode not only its global standing… Continue reading
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Jan 21 2024 
Gaza, Yemen & Ukraine Sound Death Knell for U.S.-Led ‘Rules-Based Global Order’
Editorial at Strategic Culture
The world has reached a point of no return. The fraud of Western powers is spectacularly exposed and has become untenable.
Whatever moral authority or superiority Western states may have presumed to have had in the past, all that is now shredded – irreparably.
The hypocrisy and duplicity of the United States and its… Continue reading
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Jan 21 2024 
Daily Chronicles … Open Thread 21.01.24
Please use as an Open Thread
Jan 26 ICJ preliminary ruling….
SOUTH AFRICA WINS AGAINST ZIONISM
But…
…no ceasefire, in practice.
Highlights:
"The military operation conducted by Israel in Gaza has resulted in untold death and injuries, destroyed substantial infrastructure and housing units, caused mass malnutrition, collapsed the…
— Pepe Escobar (@RealPepeEscobar) January 26, 2024
💠@Pepe Escobar:
⭕ SOUTH AFRICA WINS AGAINST ZIONISM
But…
…no ceasefire, in practice.
Highlights:
🔹”The military operation conducted by Israel in Gaza has resulted in untold death and injuries, destroyed substantial infrastructure and housing units, caused mass malnutrition, collapsed the healthcare system, and displaced the majority of its inhabitants. This war… Continue reading
AHH
