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May 21 2023 Adventures in NATOstan: Sparks Flying in Ibiza, Locked Down Bilderberg in Lisbon
With G7 “leadership” mired in a sticky swamp of intellectual shallowness, predictably the only agenda in colonized Japan was more sanctions on Russia.
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Strategic Culture
Let’s start with a graphic depiction of where the Global North and the Global South really stand.
1. Xian, former imperial capital, and key hub of… Continue reading
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May 20 2023 Here Comes China and Two Minute News
From our China group, this note:
Frans: “The Chinese are richer than we are”
Frans Vandenbosch writes from Beijing: “I’m in China now, for the first time since December 2018, before Corona. Before that I lived in Suzhou and Shanghai. Yesterday I was briefly in Shanghai, this morning I was in Nanjing, today and tomorrow in Suzhou. This… Continue reading -
May 20 2023 Bashar al-Assad’s full speech at the Arab League
With thanks to Resistance News, who translated and provided this to us!
The 2023 Arab League summit, officially the 32nd Ordinary Session of the Council of the League of Arab States at the Summit Level, is a meeting of heads of state and government of member states of the League of Arab States that took place… Continue reading -
May 20 2023 Douglas Macgregor: Within the last 24 hours we’ve seen 1600 Ukrainian troops killed
Many of the previous questionable comments by Doug Macgregor are answered in this talk with Andrew Napolitano.
Watch on Youtube as embedding has been disabled.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV_V73dr9Xo(Thank-you for the ‘hitting the wall’ graphic)
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May 19 2023 Hassan Nasrallah: In Gaza, Netanyahu suffered a resounding failure
With thanks! Translated and provided to us by Resistance News
Speech by Hezbollah Secretary-General, Sayed Hassan Nasrallah, on May 12, 2023 (one day before the ceasefire in Gaza), commemorating the martyrdom of Commander Mustapha Badreddine, known as “Zulfiqar,” killed in Syria in 2016.
Transcript:
[…] I will now address what is happening today in Gaza and (occupied) Palestine,… Continue reading
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May 19 2023 China and Central Asian States sign Xi’an Declaration
According to Chinese President Xi Jinping, the summit participants approved a list of the results of the meeting and outlined a plan for the future development of relations
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan signed the Xi’an Declaration of the China-Central Asia Summit. Chinese President Xi Jinping told reporters about this on Friday.
“We jointly signed… Continue reading
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May 19 2023 Peace Train Ukraine: Potemkin Villages All! (Update)
The ‘always non-authoritative’ Wikipedia is good enough for now.
In politics and economics, a Potemkin village (Russian: потёмкинские деревни, romanized: potyómkinskiye derévni) is a construction (literal or figurative) whose purpose is to provide an external façade to a situation, to make people believe that the situation is better than it is. The term comes from stories of… Continue reading -
May 19 2023 China does it again! America’s Coercive Diplomacy and Its Harm
China has written a number of white papers or communiques dealing with the various structural cruxes of geopolitical affairs. One of these would be The Global Security Initiative Concept Paper and the forerunner of this specific new communique would be US Hegemony and Its Perils.
Now we have America’s Coercive Diplomacy and its Harm.
One can say… Continue reading
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May 18 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: Some people going about their business, other people going about the business of perpetual war.
(Featured image: Aftermath… Continue reading
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May 18 2023 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Tsargrad TV, Moscow
This again is a must-read. FM Lavrov lays it out as it is.
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Tsargrad TV, Moscow, May 17, 2023
Question: I would like to begin with the most contentious issue. It seems to me that diplomacy no longer has a part in the modern world. Rudeness has become a feature of… Continue reading -
May 17 2023 The Power Behind the Throne
With thanks to Larry Romanoff, our writer.
This essay contains lists of Jews holding positions in the US Federal government, with accompanying discussion as to the extent and nature of the control Jews possess and exercise over US domestic and foreign policy. The information here is presented in the hope of giving readers a better understanding… Continue reading
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May 17 2023 Current History: The Central Asian Vector
From the Valdai Club.
Notes: Although this speaks to the Central Asia area, it is valid in principle for all countries, areas, and regions that are moving to multipolarity. In the recent article on South Africa, I mention internal factors that need to be present in order for a successful break with the single polar hegemon… Continue reading
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May 17 2023 Brian Berletic: Ukraine update – Kinzhal Missile Strikes US Patriot System in Kiev + the Fundamental Disadvantage West Faces
Update on the conflict in Ukraine for May 17, 2023:
– Russia’s Ministry of Defense and US officials confirm Russian hypersonic Kinzhal missiles successfully targeted US-made Patriot air defense systems;
– Patriot systems launched approximately 30 missiles over 2 minutes, representing tens of millions of dollars of missiles that were already in short supply;
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May 16 2023 Pepe Escobar: US Empire of Debt Headed for Collapse
From Sputnik International and this is Pepe’s first post in a regular column for Sputnik. What a wonderful gesture for his first column: A beautiful review of Michael Hudson’s new book The Collapse of Antiquity.
Pepe says:
I’m VERY pleased to announce that my Sputnik column is BACK.
That was the top read column on Sputnik International from… Continue reading