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May 28 2023 
Daily Chronicles
The Daily Chronicles are snippets of the most important news across the world for this and each day as it rolls in – as such, this thread is non-structured with the latest news on top. The rough theme: Birds of no feather
(featured image: genetically modified featherless chicken)
May 30
Serbia-Kosovo: Even the Chinese are saying that NATO… Continue reading
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May 27 2023 
Calling the economists: Small businesses to go public in Russia
The Russian Central Bank head Elvira Nabiullina believes that small and medium-sized businesses have great potential to go public.
“It’s clear that it can be difficult for small and medium-sized businesses to enter the capital market because there are requirements for both corporate governance standards and disclosure of information. Though measures to support access to the… Continue reading
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May 27 2023 
Danny Haiphong: The trend toward a multipolar world is defined by class struggle
These edited remarks were given by Friends of Socialist China co-editor Danny Haiphong at a recent webinar, The Empire Strikes Back: Imperialism’s Global War on Multipolarity. The full event can be viewed on YouTube.
Ed Note: My comments follow Danny’s Essay
In the post-Soviet era, it has become fashionable to strip all geopolitical developments of their class… Continue reading
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May 26 2023 
Michael Hudson & Ben Norton: Origins of debt: Michael Hudson reveals how financial oligarchies in Greece & Rome shaped our world (Updated with transcript)
Economist Michael Hudson discusses his book “The Collapse of Antiquity: Greece and Rome as Civilization’s Oligarchic Turning Point”, and how this history from 2000 years ago is still so relevant to understand our debt-based societies today.
You can find links to all of Michael’s books at his website https://Michael-Hudson.com
Transcript
(The following is a lightly edited transcript.)BEN NORTON:… Continue reading
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May 25 2023 
Eurasian Economic Forum Plenary Session
The Big News: The Eurasian Economic Union, and specifically Belt and Road, is integrating with BRICS.
Karl Sanches grabbed all of the speeches and discussions on his website: https://vk.com/@580896205-eurasian-economic-forum-plenary-session
(Thank you Karl! That was a marathon of work!) Please read it on Karl’s site.
We then ask the question: Why the extensive and detailed transcripts with readouts? It… Continue reading
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May 24 2023 
Vladimir Putin took part in the plenary session of the Eurasian Economic Forum
Plenary session of the Eurasian Economic Forum
We can see truly deep and fundamental changes taking place on the global stage. More and more states are taking a course towards strengthening national sovereignty, pursuing an independent domestic and foreign policy, and adhering to their own development model. All of them are in favour of building a new, more equitable architecture of international economic relations, striving to constructively influence world processes, expand the network of partnerships… Continue reading
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May 24 2023 
Two Videos: Mearsheimer and Ray McGovern
The halfway sensible voices in the United States are expressing complete and utter fear of escalation as a result of the Ukrainian war. Both overstate Russian reaction vis a vis Ukraine but they are not overstating the danger that the whole world is in now, because of US/NATO escalation. Russia has kept a cool head,… Continue reading
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May 24 2023 
Radhika Desai for RT: Is the debt ceiling the real issue for the US economy right now?
The drama around increasing the borrowing limit obscures the growing threat of a crash in the Treasuries market: https://www.rt.com/news/576766-us-debt-treasuries-market/
By Dr. Radhika Desai, a professor at the Department of Political Studies at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada and director of the Geopolitical Economy Research Group. She also writes on current affairs for Valdai Club, CGTN, Counterpunch… Continue reading
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May 23 2023 
The inside story of Russia-Iran-India connectivity
The G7 is stupefied by the dynamic progress of the multipolar order embodied by the Russian-led INSTC and the Chinese-led BRI, with Iran’s strategic port of Chabahar now poised to play a transformative role.
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at The Cradle
Make no mistake about what the G7’s Hiroshima Communique is all about.
The setting: a city in… Continue reading
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May 23 2023 
Pakistan is in real trouble
We all know about the outing by lawfare of Imran Khan (IK) as I’ve done regular updates in the Daily Chronicles.
Pakistan is a critical node on the Belt and Road and a critical country for security against terrorism around Afghanistan. The internal issue is simple. IK is the most popular leader in Pakistan, although he… Continue reading
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May 23 2023 
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at the 31st Assembly of the Council on Foreign and Defence Policy
https://www.mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1871520/
Colleagues.
It is really pleasant and useful to speak here each year and meet with the many experts here between speeches, experts who have long become my comrades and friends who are willing to share their clever ideas (I say this without irony). It is pleasant that in these challenging times certain institutions remain immutable both… Continue reading
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May 23 2023 
Daily Chronicles
The Daily Chronicles are snippets of the most important news across the world for this and each day as it rolls in – as such, this thread is non-structured with the latest news on top. The rough theme: Synchronization: Russia, China, Collective Majority.
May 27
A little Taiwan/Chinese rap (you may have to turn on subtitles):
May 27
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May 22 2023 
G7: Coercive with a side of dishonest false charm, they start the war against the Global South
The first shock is the title of the combined completed G7 statement. Take a look:
G7 Hiroshima Leaders’ Communiqué
Now take a look at a different presentation:
G7 Leader’s Comminiqué: Hiroshima
But no, it is the Hiroshima Leader’s Communiqué, which speaks volumes. It is the leaders of those that perpetrate atrocities like Hiroshima. If that is not a warning,… Continue reading
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May 21 2023 
CIA Stories: The Jakarta Method
It is a joy to see Abby Martin back with the Empire Files. She is a spectacularly good interviewer even though in the last years, she moved a little to the faux left. Hopefully, that phase is over now. This is a superb interview about the hidden CIA mass murder in Indonesia, which created the… Continue reading
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