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Brazil with Lula: Significance for the world
Lula da Silva has returned as Brazil’s president. This will cause a major geopolitical shift. Meanwhile, far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro fled to Florida
This is Ben Norton and Brian Meir who is Brazil-based about what Lula’s 3rd government means for the world.
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Jan 03 2023 General Suleimani
Iran’s Raeisi: Revenge for the assassination of General Soleimani ‘definitive’
It’s the 3rd anniversary of Gen Suleimani’s assassination.
On Jan. 3, 2020, the U.S. military assassinated Soleimani in a drone strike near the Baghdad International Airport. The assassination was condemned by Iran as “state terrorism.”
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Jan 02 2023 The WHO?
We are all aware of the Russian objectives in the Ukraine, that of denazification and demilitarization. The real objective is toward security stability in the area, and to do that, Russia must deal a healthy blow to NATO.
There is a concomitant process. Let’s call it de-westernization. We described the current woes of the WTO here: … Continue reading
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Jan 01 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. Kindly also use it as an open thread.
Putin announces Christmas truce
https://www.rt.com/russia/569439-russia-putin-truce-christmas/A view from the gentlemen at the Duran on the fairly positive moves regarding Syria.
I love… Continue reading
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Dec 31 2022 127 countries file WTO protest against the US
A riot is brewing. 127 countries have filed a protest to the WTO against the United States
(and hang on, my prediction is that the WHO is next.)I found and translated this from https://cont.ws/@ATRcons/2452300,m who did a good job analyzing this for us.
While Russia, fighting off Western sanctions, is busy with its own agenda, China has… Continue reading
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Site Bits and Pieces
So, two new records in December. The one was on the 27th, and the stats say we had 8,359 guests and this does not include scrapers and bots and so on – these are readers. I get confirmation of that in my email, as I get a lot of emails lol!
I posted the first article… Continue reading
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Dec 30 2022 Getting tired of fighting Russia?
It is difficult to believe any words that come out of this man’s mouth, but I think sometimes these types leak a little, and they leak truth. Take a look at the Ollie North interview that I posted on Daily Chronicles. He has no shame and openly pours out the evil deeds done.
Amazing candor from Iran-Contra felon Ollie North:
Ukraine is just like Reagan's dirty wars in Central America, Africa and Afghanistan
Most of the aid is a kickback to US weapons makers and Beltway contractors
The proxy war is preparation for a larger war w/ China over Taiwan pic.twitter.com/kmKW2JZCH4
— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) December 29, 2022
Now we have… Continue reading
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Dec 30 2022 Brian Berletic on the Ukraine
I’m posting this for a specific reason. During the last few weeks I expressed my own doubt that Russia will in short order go over to a winter offensive and major actions in the Ukraine. Most analysts and commentators were keenly awaiting ‘Russia’s major offensive’. Now, I am not saying a major offensive will not… Continue reading
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Dec 30 2022 Xi Jinping & Vladimir Putin + Update
Most of the substantive issues discussed in this video conference will only trickle out with more time. Here is a short summary of what is public now.
Relations between 🇷🇺 & 🇨🇳 ‘Best in History’ – Putin-Xi Video Call Key Points
📍The Russia/China partnership is a stabilizing force against the backdrop of geopolitical tensions and pressure
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Dec 29 2022 Pentagon theorists predict scenarios
This is a machine translation of an article by Director Elena Panina of the Russtrat Institute
MOSCOW, December 29, 2022, RUSSTRAT Institute. The RAND Corporation (an analytical center working for the US Department of Defense) published a report in which it presented its vision of the confrontation between the united West and Russia, which is based only on… Continue reading
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A Discussion: ¿A dónde vas? or Quo Vadis?
This is our 42 thread – remember Douglas Adams and the Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Where the Deep Thought computer went away for millions of years to calculate the answer to the question of the meaning of life, the universe and everything.
More updates coming after this day that they call Christmas in certain spheres… Continue reading
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Dec 27 2022 Let the Patriot Games Begin
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Strategic Culture
Little did we know that by 2023 the raging would go beyond paroxysm, Pepe Escobar writes.
It’s idle to dwell on the cringe-worthy visit of the Kiev clown to Crash Test Dummy at the White House, coupled with a “Churchillian” speech at the War Party dominions in Capitol… Continue reading
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Dec 27 2022 Lavrov: interview with TASS
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s year-end interview with TASS news agency, December 27, 2022
Question: The launch of the special military operation in Ukraine and ensuing developments, including an unprecedented deterioration of our relations with the West, was the main event of the outgoing year. Do you think the conflict in Ukraine can last a long time,… Continue reading -
Informal summit of CIS heads of state
The Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library in St Petersburg hosted an informal meeting of the heads of state of members of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Attending the meeting were President of Russia Vladimir Putin, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov, President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon, President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov and President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev.
Traditional informal… Continue reading