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Aug 25 2024 Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah – televised speech.
Watch the speech with English translation via these links:
These are highlights:
Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah during his speech today, August 25th, 2024, discussing recent developments (1/3):
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Today is the Arbaeen [fourtieth day since the martyrdom] of Imam Hussein on the 20th of Safar, which is a symbol… Continue reading -
Aug 25 2024 Pavel Durov, Kim Dotcom, The Cradle, RNN, Scott Ritter, Richard Medhurst, Dimitri Simes, et al.
There is no freedom of speech on the Internet. There are only different degrees of unfreedom.
No norms of international law, chatter about freedom of speech and opinion, appeals, or people protesting in the streets will protect anyone from anything. Blocs moving to totalitarianism, but generally trusted a few scant years ago, can now act with… Continue reading
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Aug 24 2024 The relationship between Lula and Chavismo has always been one of alliance and divergence
Recommended from Brian Mier. “I highly recommend this interview with Brazilian communist analyst Breno Altman for nuance and context that has been missing on Brazil & Venezuela on Anglo Twitter: “The relationship between Lula and Chavismo has always been one of alliance and divergence.”
From Breno Altman: The Brazilian journalist spoke to Peoples Dispatch about the… Continue reading
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Aug 24 2024 BRICS Economy: Russia Unveils New Crypto Exchanges and The Unit may be a Stablecoin
We have an update on a BRICS currency. This has been in the works with an announcement from the Russian Central Bank some weeks ago. First the report and then some comments.
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Russia Unveils New Crypto Exchanges and Mulls BRICS Stablecoin to Facilitate BRICS Trade
In a major move to counteract economic sanctions, Russia is launching two… Continue reading
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Aug 23 2024 The Autobiography of Omar ibn Said, A Muslim Slave
The Autobiography of Omar ibn Said, A Muslim Slave
In 1807, Omar ibn Said, a Muslim scholar, was stolen from Senegal & sold into slavery in America. He left behind an autobiography written in Arabic. To mark the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade & its Abolition, here is the remarkable story of… Continue reading
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Aug 23 2024 Egypt doubled Israeli imports throughout Gaza genocide: Report
Arabic media reports that several Egyptian ports have been transformed into ‘major hubs’ for trade with Israel since the Gaza war began
From The Cradle
Several Egyptian ports have been transformed into major hubs for shipments to Israel, according to a report by Arabi Post released on 22 August.
“Egyptian seaports have become major stations for many cargos… Continue reading
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Aug 23 2024 Kishore Mahbubani – Why the Future Belongs to Asia & How the West Is Weakening the UN
Veteran diplomat Kishore Mahbubani stops by the YLB studio to talk about his recently-launched memoir, Living in the Asian Century, which covers his storied career spanning diplomacy, academia, and even a stint as Singapore’s Ambassador to the United Nations. In spite of everything he’s seen and accomplished in the past 75 years, why does Kishore… Continue reading
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Aug 22 2024 How Rome Reversed Christianity: from Compassion to Control
Michael Hudson on the System Failure podcast
TranscriptBrian: All right, Nate, we’ve done it. This is the System Failure Podcast number 50, and it’s an exciting one.
Nathan: Yeah, number 50. Yeah, that’s impressive, Brian. That means we’ve been at this for more or less a year now, which is pretty exciting. And I love the idea… Continue reading
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Aug 22 2024 Putin meeting with Premier of the State Council of China Li Qiang
Note: Vladimir Putin had a meeting with the Premier of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China Li Qiang in the Kremlin. This meeting, in the public part of it, deals with economic and humanitarian issues. The depth of the Russia/China relationship cannot be hidden in formal speeches. It shines through.
Vladimir Putin: Friends,
I am… Continue reading
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Aug 22 2024 Yemen is back on the field, using new forms of combat
Yemen has seemingly renewed its military operations against ships in the Red Sea, seemingly using new forms of combat in their targeting.
In recent days, a ship was targeted with RPG shells from close range. Another ship was approached by two boats that opened fire on it . These direct attacks are a deviation from the… Continue reading
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Aug 21 2024 Israel, genocide and crude oil suppliers
This is an article that I did not want to write. It deals with who supplies crude oil to Israel.
Francesca Albanese, the special UN Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories had a short tweet where she congratulated a specific journalist, Nina Lakhani for investigating this and getting a major article into The Guardian on this… Continue reading
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Aug 21 2024 On the human rights situation in Ukraine — Joint Report of Russia’s and Belarus’ MFAs
On the human rights situation in Ukraine — Joint Report (https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/humanitarian_cooperation/1957839/?lang=en) of Russia’s and Belarus’ MFAs
Since 2014, when nationalists seized power in Kiev as a result of an anti-constitutional armed coup d’état (https://t.me/MFARussia/19152) orchestrated by the West, violations of fundamental human rights and freedoms in Ukraine have become widespread and systemic.
🔻 Glorification of Nazism
With active… Continue reading
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Aug 21 2024 The importance of art in growth in consciousness
By Nico Cost for GlobalSouth.co
Art is a driver of human evolution. That’s how important it is. It does not matter what exactly art is and what is or is not art, but our own experience of art causes us to become aware of our Self in The Whole. We step out of ourselves, as it… Continue reading