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Jan 03 2024 Soleimani geopolitics
Inexorably, we continue to be sucked, deeper and deeper, into the vortex of the Raging Twenties.
The following column was written one year after the assassination of Gen Soleimani in Baghdad, on January 3, 2020, and published as the last essay of my book Raging Twenties, which came out in early 2021.
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Jan 02 2024 Hezbollah statement on killing Deputy Head of the Political Bureau of Hamas, Sheikh Saleh al-Arouri
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
“Say, ‘Do you await for us except one of the two best things while we await for you that Allah will afflict you with punishment from Himself or at our hands? So wait; indeed, we, along with you, are waiting.'” (Quran 9:52)
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Jan 02 2024 Sober up these Western elites, lest they unleash another world conflict in despair at their failures
A RT and Rossiyskaya Gazeta interview with Sergey Karaganov – https://www.rt.com/news/590016-sergey-karaganov-russia-west/
A very good read!
Russians are the real Europeans, the West of the continent has lost its way
In terms of being a global centre of power, the Old World is finished. Moscow understands this reality, but our former partners remain in denialRussia’s HSE University Dean of… Continue reading
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Jan 01 2024 A necessary repeat – Michael Hudson
Michael Hudson published this as far as I know first at Ben Norton’s PoliticalEconomy
Note Featured Image: I don’t see that Russia has new imaging out for their presidency 2024 as yet.
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How could a BRICS+ bank and settlement currency work? Economist Michael Hudson explains: My notes follow:Economist Michael Hudson details how BRICS could create a mutual… Continue reading
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Jan 01 2024 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. Facts without the fluff but there is plenty of fluff when necessary.
Jan 8
Good stuff!
877 Organizations Urge Support For Genocide Case… Continue reading
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Dec 31 2023 President Putin’s New Year’s Message
https://t.me/Slavyangrad/82195
Vladimir Putin: Citizens of Russia, friends,
We are bidding farewell to 2023. Very soon it will become part of history and we will have to move forward, create the future.
We have worked very hard and accomplished a lot over the past year. We were proud of our common achievements and happy about our successes. And we… Continue reading
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Dec 30 2023 Dr Mo is in the house: Dr Mohammed Marandi and Kevork Almassian from Syriana Analysis
Israel is trying to escalate the war
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Dec 30 2023 Prof. Michael Hudson with Ania K, World Predictions for 2024
Transcript
Ania: Michael Hudson. The interview took place on December 29, 2023.
ANIA: Hello everyone, welcome back to my channel. It looks like we are live and we are a few seconds before time, so a little bit better than Swiss precision. Today I have for the second time a very, very special guest. Many of… Continue reading
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Dec 29 2023 2023 through to 2024
The most uncomplicated way to say it, is … we, our planet, our world, demands placed on leaders and ourselves as functional inhabitants of this planet, have all changed. 2023 is the year of awareness, where most became aware of the fall of the rules-based order. Here we can only refer to the various summits… Continue reading
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Dec 28 2023 Simon Patten on Public Infrastructure and Economic Rent Capture
As published in American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 70, No. 4 (October, 2011).
*The author acknowledges funding from Prosper Australia for this article.ABSTRACT. Reflecting the Progressive Era’s reform agenda Simon Patten (1852–1922) argued that freeing markets from one source of economic rent (by taxing land rent) would merely leave the surplus to be taken… Continue reading
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Dec 28 2023 The Central Conference on Work Relating to Foreign Affairs was Held in Beijing: Xi Jinping Delivered an Important Address at the Conference
It was noted at the conference that great transformation is accelerating across the world. Changes of the world, of our times, and of historical significance are unfolding like never before, and the world has entered a new period of turbulence and transformation. Yet the overall direction of human development and progress will not change, the overall… Continue reading