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Jul 23 2023 
Collapse of Antiquity: Review of Michael Hudson’s last book by Pepe Escobar
https://sputnikglobe.com/20230515/pepe-escobar-us-empire-of-debt-headed-for-collapse-1110374196.html
Pepe Escobar: US Empire of Debt Headed for Collapse
Prof. Michael Hudson’s new book, The Collapse of Antiquity: Greece and Rome as Civilization’s Oligarchic Turning Point” is a seminal event in this Year of Living Dangerously when, to paraphrase Gramsci, the old geopolitical and geoeconomic order is dying and the new one is being born at… Continue reading
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Jul 23 2023 
Michael Hudson: The Looming War Against China
Ed Note: There is a video which will be posted when available. In the meantime, the transcript of Prof. Hudson’s full presentation and we’ve all seen Pepe Escobar quoting from this. Here is the full presentation to Global University, Hong Kong.
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Economic Logic has been Replaced by National Security Overrides
The July NATO summit in Vilnius had… Continue reading -
Jul 23 2023 
A short Ukraine update
Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation
(23 July 2023)https://t.me/mod_russia_en/8548
▫️ Last night the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation launched a group strike with long-range, sea- and air- based precision weapons against sites where terrorist acts against the Russian Federation were being prepared with the use of unmanned boats, as well… Continue reading
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Jul 22 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.
Jul 26
Kremlin spokesman Peskov says US and its Western allies tried preventing countries from attending Africa-Russia summit
🗣 Yes, there is indeed… Continue reading
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Jul 21 2023 
Vladimir Putin: Meeting on current issues with permanent members of the Security Council
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/71714
Taking part in the meeting were Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko, State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev, Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Anton Vaino, Secretary of the Security Council Nikolai Patrushev, Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Defence Minister… Continue reading
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Jul 21 2023 
A possible plus for South Africa as a BRICS member, or the Grim Reaper cometh
We support our BRICS members, despite the frequent sharp critique. After the debacle with Mr.Putin’s possible visit to South Africa, and the eventual announcement that he will not attend the BRICS summit in August in Johannesburg, but will attend via video link, the South Africans put lipstick on a pig, and announced the great miracle… Continue reading
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Jul 21 2023 
Breaking Predatory Brazil Narratives from the Imperialist North / Brian Mier
Taking a look at Brazil in the runup to BRICS
Today’s episode features an interview with This Is Hell! regular Brian Mier. Brian updates Chuck on what the US corporate media has been getting wrong about Brazil. We also have the second of a two-part Moment of Truth from Jeff Dorchen.
Brian Mier is a Chicagoan who… Continue reading
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Jul 20 2023 
An Evening with Carl Zha: Understanding the Dynamics of the Asia Pacific
Carl, at his Silk and Steel Podcast has an encyclopedic knowledge on Chinese History and the Asia Pacific basin.
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Jul 19 2023 
On the UN chief’s comments on the Istanbul agreements
Russian MFA
On the day when the Black Sea Grain Initiative on the export of Ukrainian grain expired, the UN Secretary-General issued a large press release. Apart from twisting the facts about the implementation of the Istanbul agreements again, Antonio Guterres acted in violation of all the laws of diplomatic correspondence by making public his personal… Continue reading
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Jul 19 2023 
EU-CELAC summit: instead of condemning Russia, demands on the EU
From Elena Panini, Russtrat.ru
Instead of condemning Russia, demands on the EU
The recent summit of the European Union and Latin America can already be considered a failure for Europe and the “former order.” The final toothless declaration was signed somehow. And that’s not all: Nicaragua refused to sign the document, calling the declaration “pompous and false”… Continue reading
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Jul 19 2023 
Extreme Heat
It does not matter what you think about ‘climate change’, there is extreme heat over a large part of the world that is in summer. I’ve heard all the jokes – yes, it is hot in summer did you not know, but what I hear and what we experience is extreme. El Niño, they say… Continue reading
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Jul 19 2023 
Briefing by Chief of Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Protection Troops Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov on U.S. military and biological activity
Read in full at the link:
https://telegra.ph/Briefing-by-Chief-of-Nuclear-Chemical-and-Biological-Protection-Troops-General-Lieutenant-Igor-Kirillov-on-US-military-and-biolo-07-14
Key facts:
• The U.S. State Department launched an active outreach campaign to neutralise Russian accusations that US military biologists had violated the provisions of the Biological Weapons Convention.
• The U.S. military specialists have been successful in adapting and growing vectors collected from their natural habitat. The methods they have developed… Continue reading
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Jul 19 2023 
Dustup in South Africa: Putin at BRICS summit – yes or no! (Update 1 & 2)
The lawfare is in full swing in South Africa about Putin’s visit (or not) during the upcoming BRICS summit because of the ICC warrant of arrest against Putin. It is taking a bizarre twist.
An opposition party, the DA (Democratic Alliance) made a representation in the form of an affidavit to a High Court to ensure… Continue reading
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Jul 18 2023 
The Black Sea Grain deal — now what?
With thanks to Nat South, and first posted on Livejournal
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results” – Einstein“The decision on the Black Sea initiative is final, there are no more negotiations” – Russian mission to the UN
After the NATO Summit, Ukraine carried out the final “coup de grace” on… Continue reading
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