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Jul 18 2026 Kishore Mabubani – multi-civilizational world & China – So what’s gonna happen?
Kishore Mabubani is always provocative, truthful and real. “You Stuffed Their Mouths with Opium”, he let’s fly at one moment; quite exciting for the smooth as silk and perfectly urbane Kishore.
I received this from Wei Ling Chua from our China Group and he says in charming English:
Great speech by Prof Kishore Mabubhani (former Singapore UN… Continue reading -
Jul 17 2026 Richard Wolff: Hell in Hormuz: Shipping Giants No Longer Trust U.S. Military Protection
With Nima Alkorshid at Dialogue Works
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Jul 17 2026 Behind the curtain: Israel quietly instructed Ukraine’s war machine
Geopolitics Prime
[ Note: We cannot say we are surprised]
For nearly 4 years, Israel has claimed neutrality in Ukraine. Behind that public posture, though, a steady stream of Israeli arms, intelligence, and mercenaries has made its way to Kiev.Recent leaked conversations of Ukrainian intelligence Colonel Zhikovich reveal that Mossad has supplied the Zelensky regime with next-generation… Continue reading
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Jul 17 2026 Xi Jinping: Joining Hands to Build a Just and Equitable System For Global AI Governance
The background is here: Xi Jinping announced creation of World AI Cooperation Organization
Keynote Address by H.E. Xi Jinping
President of the People’s Republic of China
At the Opening Ceremony of the 2026 World AI Conference and
High-Level Meeting on Global AI GovernanceShanghai, July 17, 2026
Distinguished Colleagues and Guests,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Friends,Seventy years ago, a group of young scholars proposed the… Continue reading
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Jul 17 2026 On Turkey’s decision to guarantee Ukraine’s maritime security (Update)
By Amarynth
UPDATE: We saw over the past days that Saudi Arabia kept sending bombs into Yemen. This is despite some analysts telling us that the Saudis have changed and they want a security guarantee for the area. We also saw (posted on the War on Iran thread), that the United States has approved nearly $2.5… Continue reading
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Jul 17 2026 Sony Thăng – History is being written right now
History is being written right now.
Not in fifty years.
Not when the archives are declassified and the memoirs are published and the documentaries are made.Right now.
Every government in the Muslim world is making a record.
The votes at the United Nations are on record.
The defense cooperation agreements are on record.
The normalizations are on record.
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Jul 17 2026 Xi Jinping announced creation of World AI Cooperation Organization
This happened just a few hours ago in Shanghai : To my reckoning the first real organization that is created in the time of “the New World with a shared future”, for a new technology and with a new set of objectives. This technology will shape our world and touch each aspect of all our… Continue reading
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Jul 16 2026 Patrick Henningsen: U.S. Targets Iran’s Military Network — Tehran Hits Back Across the Region
With Nima Alkorshid – Dialogue Works
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Jul 16 2026 Spirit of Anchorage Perfume
Don’t ever say the Russians do not have a sense of humor.
Someone in Russia moves to trademark Spirit of AnchorageMOSCOW, July 15. /TASS/. Someone is trademarking “The Spirit of Anchorage” in Russia, apparently to use as the name of a perfume, a TASS correspondent has found out.
The application for trademark registration was filed with the… Continue reading
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Jul 16 2026 FM Lavrov : Article on the 25th anniversary of Russian-Chinese Treaty of Good-Neighbourliness, Friendship, and Cooperation,”
Article by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov “A constant in an era of radical change: On the 25th anniversary of the Russian-Chinese Treaty of Good-Neighbourliness, Friendship, and Cooperation,” Kommersant, July 16, 2026
Summary by Sputnik International:Russia and China: 25 years of strategic partnership — and just getting started
On the 25th anniversary of the Russia-China Treaty on Good-Neighbourliness,… Continue reading
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Jul 15 2026 The MAGA economy is a crashing ponzi scheme : Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson
Michael Hudson and Radhika Desai examine the gap between Trump’s promised economic boom and the reality of an economy sustained by asset bubbles rather than production. They show that the stock market’s rise reflects cheap credit, buybacks, and speculation rather than profit, a Ponzi-scheme dynamic that cannot survive the oil shock triggered by Trump’s war… Continue reading
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Jul 15 2026 Omani FM says ‘gravest threat to Gulf security’ stems from Israel, not Iran
The Omani diplomat also criticized US military ‘expansion’ in the region, saying it provided ‘no real benefit’ for Gulf states
The Cradle
Omani Foreign Minister Badr Al-Busaidi said on 13 July that the most dangerous threats in the region come not from Iran but from Israel, while lambasting the “myth” of the policy of “containment” that… Continue reading
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Jul 15 2026 Glen Diessen with Pepe Escobar: Yemen Joins the War, and the Entire Middle East Could Go Up in Flames
The escalations and widening of the war against Iran, which now threatens to set the entire Middle East in flames.
[Note: This video is of value as it depicts the chaos that the world is in. Pepe is also not overemphasizing Pakistan, which is wonderful. There are questionable statements – for example that it is perhaps… Continue reading
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Jul 13 2026 Brian Berletic : “Saudi/Persian Gulf State Strikes” are Likewise US Strikes
“Saudi/Persian Gulf State Strikes” are Likewise US Strikes, Laundered Through Saudi Arabia and its Neighbors…
▪️Just like with Ukraine or Israel, Saudi Arabia and its Persian Gulf neighbors are politically captured nations working for US interests at the expense of its own interests;
▪️Their multi-year war on neighboring Yemen was enabled by the US via US… Continue reading