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Sep 04 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.
Image from https://bumblebuddhist.com/russia-journey-2023-first-leg-moscow-from-july-25-august-4th/ It reminded me of the currently visible results of Mr.Putin’s iconic Munich speech – 2007.
Sep 7
From RT India: … Continue reading
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Aug 30 2023 Radhika Desai & Michael Hudson: Imperialism: How the struggle of both classes and nations creates our world
The Geopolitical Economy Hour
“Imperialism: How the struggle of both classes and nations creates our world”nation and class (re)create our world,” Geopolitical Hour 16, August 29, 2023.
Transcript
RADHIKA DESAI: Hello and welcome to the 16th Geopolitical Economy Hour, the fortnightly show in which we discuss the political and geopolitical economy of our times. I’m Radhika Desai.
MICHAEL HUDSON:… Continue reading
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Aug 29 2023 Pepe Escobar and Michael Hudson: BRICS plus six, Ukraine, multipolar world economy (Now with Transcript)
Transcript:
BRICS+ is here. Danny Haiphong interviews Michael Hudson and Pepe Escobar, August 25, 2023.
DANNY HAIPHONG: As you can see, it’s your host, Danny Haiphong, and I’m joined by two very special guests, friends of each other and friends of this show.
We have the renowned economist Michael Hudson, author of The Collapse of Antiquity, his recent… Continue reading
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Aug 29 2023 Russia’s position at the seventy-eighth session of the UN General Assembly
The UNGA 78 opens on Tuesday, September 5
1. The primary objective of the 78th session of the UN General Assembly is to reaffirm the central and coordinating role of the universal Organization in global affairs and to strengthen the multipolar system of international relations. The UN rightly remains a unique platform for an open and equal… Continue reading
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Aug 29 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.
We follow the African situation, Niger and Gabon here. It is still in a phase of information gathering as analysis would… Continue reading
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Aug 29 2023 Purity and power: missionary strategy for social engineering.
By Dr. Thomas Wilkinson and first posted at Jeff J Brown’s new Seek Truth from Facts Foundation.
Intro: Dr. Thomas P. Wilkinson is not only a wonderful writer and analyst, but is also a great friend. We got to meet when I went to Porto, Portugal in 2020 and stay in regular contact.
Much of his work… Continue reading
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Aug 28 2023 Zelensky and the ‘Israel Model’
Is this a Zelensky fever dream or a real possibility that is being discussed?
https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/78916
Kiev would risk losing international support if the conflict spills over into Russian territory, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said in an interview on Sunday.
When journalist Natalia Moseichuk asked him if the conflict should “be transferred to the territory of Russia”,… Continue reading
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Aug 28 2023 FM Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to questions at the news conference following the BRICS Summit with my comments
One can write three books on the 2023 BRICS summit in Johannesburg. Why?
ASEAN wants to drop the dollar.
The biggest economies in Africa want to drop the dollar.
The biggest economies in Latin America want to drop the dollar.
Why? Because the U.S. dollar is a global economic wrecking ball.
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Aug 26 2023 From Maria Zakharova; War and Reindeer
#Opinion by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova
💬 The tombstone of Western values deserves a worthy inscription. A good contender cropped up yesterday: “Norwegian authorities killed 40 reindeer fearing they would again graze in Russia.” (https://www.svoboda.org/a/v-norvegii-ubili-40-oleney-rossiya-trebuet-milliony-za-ih-vypas-u-sebya/32565664.html) I am not at all surprised that Radio Liberty reported this with certain pride.
The drama unfolded gradually. According to the… Continue reading
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Aug 26 2023 Grayzone’s Anya Parampil and Ahmed Kaballo of African Stream report live from Johanesburg, South Africa,
Comments: Eventually, I moved the video up to pick up the conversation of Ahmed Kaballo of African Stream and skipped the Grayzone comments because it was clear that they were out of their comfort zone (this is not a criticism, just an observation). Ahmed made the very same observations that I made, on the 2nd… Continue reading
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Aug 26 2023 Jeff J Brown and Amarynth
Jeff recently started a foundation called Seek Truth from Facts. The objective is multifold and Jeff says it is to:
Give a broader voice to the deeply talented and knowledgeable members of the esteemed China Writers’ Group(CWG).
Promote unsung, deserving journalists and writers, who do not have a decent platform to share their valuable work.
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Strategic Culture
Please take down the new url for Strategic Culture.
The Strategic Culture Foundation’s online journal was this week hit by a massive cyberattack (https://telegra.ph/Cyberattack-on-This-Journal-Proving-Truth-Is-the-First-Casualty-of-War-08-25). The assault resulted in the forum being shut down on its regular internet site. Readers who normally access the journal were informed that the site was no longer available.
The online journal… Continue reading
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Aug 25 2023 From Argentina on BRICS
Pepe Escobar pointed us to this, saying, “Excellent analysis by my dear friend Vior in Buenos Aires.” I translated via DeepL.com
The decision of the non-aligned bloc to incorporate our country into a different international system and gives us access to the New Development Bank (NDB).
This columnist ended his previous article, this very week, expressing… Continue reading
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Aug 24 2023 BRICS Summit Results
I am going to keep this thread up and update it for a period because we heard some wonderful talk, but for BRICS + the newbies, action will make the difference.
Modi-Xi Discuss ‘Expeditious Disengagement & De-escalation’ Along 🇮🇳-🇨🇳 Border
The two leaders met on the sidelines of the BRICS summit and agreed to direct officials involved… Continue reading