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Jul 21 2023 Breaking Predatory Brazil Narratives from the Imperialist North / Brian Mier
Taking a look at Brazil in the runup to BRICS
Today’s episode features an interview with This Is Hell! regular Brian Mier. Brian updates Chuck on what the US corporate media has been getting wrong about Brazil. We also have the second of a two-part Moment of Truth from Jeff Dorchen.
Brian Mier is a Chicagoan who… Continue reading
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Jul 20 2023 An Evening with Carl Zha: Understanding the Dynamics of the Asia Pacific
Carl, at his Silk and Steel Podcast has an encyclopedic knowledge on Chinese History and the Asia Pacific basin.
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Jul 19 2023 On the UN chief’s comments on the Istanbul agreements
Russian MFA
On the day when the Black Sea Grain Initiative on the export of Ukrainian grain expired, the UN Secretary-General issued a large press release. Apart from twisting the facts about the implementation of the Istanbul agreements again, Antonio Guterres acted in violation of all the laws of diplomatic correspondence by making public his personal… Continue reading
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Jul 19 2023 EU-CELAC summit: instead of condemning Russia, demands on the EU
From Elena Panini, Russtrat.ru
Instead of condemning Russia, demands on the EU
The recent summit of the European Union and Latin America can already be considered a failure for Europe and the “former order.” The final toothless declaration was signed somehow. And that’s not all: Nicaragua refused to sign the document, calling the declaration “pompous and false”… Continue reading
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Jul 19 2023 Extreme Heat
It does not matter what you think about ‘climate change’, there is extreme heat over a large part of the world that is in summer. I’ve heard all the jokes – yes, it is hot in summer did you not know, but what I hear and what we experience is extreme. El Niño, they say… Continue reading
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Jul 19 2023 Briefing by Chief of Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Protection Troops Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov on U.S. military and biological activity
Read in full at the link:
https://telegra.ph/Briefing-by-Chief-of-Nuclear-Chemical-and-Biological-Protection-Troops-General-Lieutenant-Igor-Kirillov-on-US-military-and-biolo-07-14
Key facts:
• The U.S. State Department launched an active outreach campaign to neutralise Russian accusations that US military biologists had violated the provisions of the Biological Weapons Convention.
• The U.S. military specialists have been successful in adapting and growing vectors collected from their natural habitat. The methods they have developed… Continue reading
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Jul 19 2023 Dustup in South Africa: Putin at BRICS summit – yes or no! (Update 1 & 2)
The lawfare is in full swing in South Africa about Putin’s visit (or not) during the upcoming BRICS summit because of the ICC warrant of arrest against Putin. It is taking a bizarre twist.
An opposition party, the DA (Democratic Alliance) made a representation in the form of an affidavit to a High Court to ensure… Continue reading
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Jul 18 2023 The Black Sea Grain deal — now what?
With thanks to Nat South, and first posted on Livejournal
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results” – Einstein“The decision on the Black Sea initiative is final, there are no more negotiations” – Russian mission to the UN
After the NATO Summit, Ukraine carried out the final “coup de grace” on… Continue reading -
Jul 18 2023 In Sicily, Top of the Mountain, Watching the New Barbarians
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Strategic Culture
It’s another stunning sunset in the western edge of the Sicilian coast, and I’m right in front of the Real Duomo in Erice, the pluri-millenary “Mount”, sung by Virgil in the Aeneid as “close to the stars”, and founded by the mythical homonymous son of Venus and… Continue reading
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Jul 18 2023 CELAC-EU Summit
There is no shortage of straight talk from the CELAC leaders at the EU summit. They demand sanctions on Venezuela and Nicaragua to cease, and the blockade on Cuba to be lifted.
The Honduran president was forceful in her address to the meeting, calling these measures straight-out piracy.
President Xiomara Castro: “The CELAC-EU summit must approve a… Continue reading
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Jul 18 2023 Ben Norton: How China became the world’s industrial superpower – and why the US is desperate to stop it
In this detailed and informative video explainer on Geopolitical Economy Report, Ben Norton discusses China’s extraordinary rise and the economic dynamics of the New Cold War.
Ben notes that in 1950, China represented just 5 percent of global GDP. In purchasing power parity (PPP) terms, it currently represents 19 percent of global GDP, compared to 15… Continue reading
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Jul 17 2023 A Scott Ritter Investigation: Agent Zelensky – Part 2
Part 1 is here: https://sovereignista.com/2023/07/12/a-scott-ritter-investigation-agent-zelensky-part-1/
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Jul 17 2023 A Bonfire of the Vanities
By Alastair Crooke and first posted at Strategic Culture
Hubris consists in believing that a contrived narrative can, in and of itself, bring victory. It is a fantasy that has swept through the West – most emphatically since the 17th century. Recently, the Daily Telegraph published a ridiculous nine minute video purporting to show that ‘narratives… Continue reading
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Jul 17 2023 Scott Ritter Responds To Trump’s Solution To The War In Ukraine
Sometimes we have to laugh. Trump says he will tell Zelenski to stop it! and make deal, and he will tell Vladimir Putin if you don’t stop it, we will send many more weapons.