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Jul 02 2024 
Iran’s election runoff: two candidates, two worldviews
It is good to know what the differences are between the two run-off candidates in Iran.
From the Cradle
The hastily arranged Iranian presidential election to succeed Ebrahim Raisi saw a record low turnout, forcing a 5 July runoff between reformist Masoud Pezeshkian and conservative Saeed Jalili and highlighting deep voter dissatisfaction.
Forty days after the passing… Continue reading
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Jul 02 2024 
Collective West Stepping up Air/Sea Drills in China’s Backyard?
Carl Zha is a Chinese historian and an independent journalist and a very energetic and apt geopolitical analyst. He runs the Silk and Steel podcast. That is where I first became aware of his work, years ago and learned a lot of Chinese history without the romance that one generally finds in among the China… Continue reading
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Jul 02 2024 
The question: Does the US understand Russia?
Judge Napolitano as we all know asks similar questions to those that he interviews in order to compare answers. This is good and one cannot critique that method.
The one question that comes up time and time again, is if the US understands Russia, i.e., do they get it when Russia talks about internediate nuclear missiles,… Continue reading
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Jul 02 2024 
Hamas from a leftist perspective
In this piece, Abdaljawad Omar responds to criticisms of the Palestinian resistance from the left. Omar argues that the Western left must confront the reality that true solidarity with Palestine cannot dismiss or exclude Hamas, despite its complex socio-political dynamics. He explains the diversity within Palestinian society and the evolution of resistance in its various… Continue reading
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Jul 02 2024 
Daily Chronicles – Previous
A reminder, Daily Chronicles sifts out the most important and sometimes interesting in our world today. It is not meant to be an overview of ‘the daily news’, as the selection is toward those issues that have the potential to change our world. We are in world-changing times.
Our work is focused on the anti-human systems… Continue reading
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Jul 01 2024 
What Really Happened to the USSR
There are two themes here.
First, a historical note on how fast Superpowers can collapse:
In early 1991, Soviet citizens voted on the New Union Treaty which proposed to reform-rather than dissolve-the USSR. 76% of Soviet voters ultimately supported maintaining the federal system of the Soviet Union, including a majority in nine of the 15 republics. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Union_Treaty#:~:text=The%20New%20Union%20Treaty%20(Russian,and%20reform%20the%20Soviet%20Union.)
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Jul 01 2024 
The Gaza Death Toll Undercount
From Chris Hedges on his X Account
The Gaza Health Ministry has so far recorded some 38,000 deaths and 85,000 injuries. This is a vast undercount. The Health Ministry only counts the names of deceased recorded by hospitals and morgues.
Given that Israel has bombed most hospitals, clinics and morgues into disuse and blocked medical supplies… Continue reading
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Jul 01 2024 
Investigating the role of Shangai Cooperation Organization (SCO) as leader organization for the new world infrastructure
At GlobalSouth we have posted up many informational essays, data analysis and process descriptions regarding BRICS. We have been very excited and sometimes our hearts dropped down into our knees. The expectation for BRICS to function as exected, is sky high.
We have not looked in any of this detail at SCO, a part of the… Continue reading
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Jul 01 2024 
Israel fears formation of new front as Ansarullah’s clout grows in North Africa
From PressTV
This may be very important in the shorter medium term.
Israeli intelligence agencies are increasingly apprehensive about a potential new front emerging against the regime, as the Yemeni Ansarullah resistance movement is expanding its influence in the North Africa region.
The Israeli i24NEWS news television channel, citing exclusive details authorized for release by Israeli security services,… Continue reading
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Jun 30 2024 
EXPLOSIVE – The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) Exposes WEF’s Klaus Schwab Crossing the Line on Sexual Harassment and Discrimination – Setting the Tone for WEF’s Management
By Peter Koenig
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) exposes the WEF’s long history of Sexual Harassment and Discrimination (color, pregnancies, and new mothers) in an explosive story, published on 29 June 2024.
Both, Discrimination and Sexual Harassment clashes with the WEF’s public stances. The WEF has repeatedly said and published articles about their anti-discrimination and anti-sexual-harassment position.… Continue reading
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Jun 30 2024 
Dongsheng News on China
Much of this we know. Yet it is good to see it from a Chinese perspective and what they consider valuable to report.
Here’s a video of Chinese people singing “Amani” (1991) by Beyond, a popular Chinese rock band from Hong Kong. The title of the anti-war anthem means “peace” in Swahili and is sung here… Continue reading
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Jun 29 2024 
China Today from Here Comes China: Diplomacy
Today’s writing on China comes from Godfree Roberts at his substack.
Before we start, the PandaPlomacy has started up again. These are such glorious animals:
Two Giant Pandas are in San Diego or on the way to San Diego. In these perilous times, this is feelgood. The piece on diplomacy is also feelgood.
(And I also missed Uncle… Continue reading
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Jun 29 2024 
Egypt, legerdemain and brood parasites in BRICS
We have a part 1 article from Vanessa Beeley on Egypt below.
First is a GlobalSouth background. This is dedicated to AHH who gave me hints about Egypt but I had to go and work it through myself. Thank-you AHH – the best co-worker one could want!
Background
Recently we saw press as follows:
Hebrew… Continue reading
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