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Aug 07 2026 Saudi Arabia, Turkiye and Pakistan Join Forces… But Against Whom? UPDATE
UPDATE: Speaking to Al Mayadeen on Friday, Professor Mohammad Marandi dismissed the threat of the newly signed Saudi-Turkey-Pakistan defense agreement, emphasizing that none of the three US-aligned nations have ever formed a coalition to protect Palestine or confront the Israeli regime.
However, Marandi issued a warning to Riyadh, referencing its long track record of… Continue reading
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Aug 06 2026 Richard Wolff & Michael Hudson: The Bill Comes Due: Trump & Netanyahu’s War Spirals Out of Control
With Nima Alkorshid – Dialogue Works
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Aug 06 2026 UN High Level Week
FM Sergei Lavrov will attend High Level Week at the United Nations. This will be the 81st session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 81) and will open on Tuesday, 8 September 2026. The first day of the high-level General Debate will be Tuesday, 22 September 2026.
Moving up to that, we may see something very… Continue reading
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Aug 06 2026 Sony Thăng : Richly Inspirational
https://t.me/nxt888/2120
Let me say the uncomfortable thing directly.
The critique that Russia and China “stand for nothing” comes, in many cases, from a political tradition that loves resistance as an aesthetic and is less comfortable with resistance as a project.
Resistance as aesthetic is:
The speech.
The gesture.
The flag.
The recognition.
The statement of solidarity.
The vote at the United Nations.Resistance as project… Continue reading
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Aug 06 2026 US empowering Pakistan AGAINST India
The US Department of Defence has approved a $2.5 billion arms sale to Pakistan, enabling the export of advanced Raytheon AIM-120 AMRAAM missiles by 2030.
These beyond-visual-range (BVR) weapons are a perfect fit for Pakistan’s F-16 fleet — the same jets used in past confrontations with India, including Operation Sindoor and the 2019 Balakot airstrikes.
US-Pak escalating… Continue reading
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Aug 06 2026 Maria Zakahrova and Grigory Lukiyantsev: Topics – falsifying history
https://t.me/MFARussia/31317
On the anniversary of the atomic bombing, the Mayor of Hiroshima once again failed to tell the world who was responsible for his city’s suffering.
He made no mention of the United States – the country that dropped an atomic bomb on civilians.
🤷♀️ Instead, he criticised Russia and its actions in Ukraine.
The distorting mirror of Western… Continue reading
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Aug 06 2026 A war story
Carlos
In 1947, a People’s Liberation Army unit pushed into the Dabie Mountains during the counteroffensive against the Kuomintang. The men arrived exhausted and desperately short of supplies, in thin clothing and straw sandals. Kuomintang forces had already been through those villages. They had plundered them, and forcibly conscripted the son of a local farmer, Ding… Continue reading
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Aug 05 2026 NATO is being installed into Ukraine’s military
European factories, NATO software, and defense companies are now built into Kiev’s war effort
[Nore: This is very similar to the combination and integration of the US military forces and Israel i forces. I can only see it as the sides forming up before major war. Many commentators say that there is no ability for Europe… Continue reading
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Aug 05 2026 To Imagine a New Development Theory from the Global South
The Global North’s prescriptions for development, including the IMF’s tired dogmas, have failed. It is time for a new development theory rooted in the experiences of the Global South.
https://thetricontinental.org/newsletterissue/global-south-development-theory/
Attributed to Jacopo de’ Barbari (Italy), Portrait of Fra Luca Pacioli with a Pupil, 1495–1500.
Dear friends,
Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
In 2015, the… Continue reading
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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