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Jan 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. Kindly feel free to also use it as an open thread.
A little fun!
Tuesday, January 24
Venezuela will send its Foreign Minister… Continue reading
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Peru’s US-backed coup
The Grayzone brings a very good investigation on the coup in Peru. While the first half is about the coup itself, the second half is more interesting. There you will learn about why and why the US supports this coup. You will learn about the critical rail infrastructure that was planned to be built throughout… Continue reading
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Crackdown in Brazil
From the regular Latin American series by Kawsachun News, an update on Lula’s actions post-attempted-coup. You may have a problem with accents, but hang in there!
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Lavrov: News conference: Russian diplomacy
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to media questions at the news conference on the performance of Russian diplomacy in 2022, Moscow, January 18, 2023
Good afternoon, colleagues.
Our tradition has been to meet at the beginning of the new year to discuss the results and events of the past year. 2022 was difficult and even… Continue reading
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The new western narrative (+ update)
A discussion:
Following Pepe Escobar, who is following this Davos meeting in detail, the narrative is changing. Davos is the narrative engine, it is the place where the new narrative is frozen in.
(This language comes from a psychological change process, where one uses mechanisms of unfreezing, change and re-freezing to pump in a new direction -… Continue reading
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Jan 17 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. Kindly feel free to also use it as an open thread.
Festive greetings ahead of Year of Rabbit and Spring Festival!… Continue reading
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Why do we fight?
This writing will weave some personal experiences through the story and modern history of Latin America. Then we will look at Cuba, where a former DIA analyst Ana Belén Montes was imprisoned for 20 years because she shared intelligence with Cuba, and recently received her freedom. We will take a look at why she did… Continue reading
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Jan 15 2023 
Here comes China
From Godfree Robert’s excellent newsletter Here Comes China with my comments
Through the years since starting his newsletter, Godfree had excellent reporting on China and Covid. At my previous site, I could not report any of that, so, with a smile and a sense of freedom from a narrow ‘rules based order’ and a limited range… Continue reading
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Jan 14 2023 
Peru
It is a great surprise to me that Peruvians are still out on the street across the country to reject the coup d’état that overthrew constitutional president Pedro Castillo on December 7th. These mass protests have met mass and brutal violence. The latest numbers are that 48 protestors (it started non-violently and only lately the… Continue reading
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Jan 14 2023 
Pax Sinica in the Middle East?
by Godfree Roberts from the Here Comes China newsletter.
Hope for Palestine and Iran?
In 2022, the China-GCC Summit was one thing, and China’s strategic partnership with Iran another, but both Saudi Arabia and Iran applying simultaneously to multipolar institutions – BRICS and the SCO? Plus the idea of a BRICS Coin as a commodity-weighted neutral reserve… Continue reading -
Brazil Notes
I made a comment in the Daily Chronicles as follows:
Brazil? The USAmerican rightwing is literally vicariously reliving their 6th January via the attempted coup in Brazil. At this moment, do not accept any USAmerican writing on Brazil as the facts are being twisted to fit their historical replay. Its theater. But they are causing untold… Continue reading -
Highly Recommended: Emmanuel Todd
This is the TASS version of a French article by Emmanuel Todd, described as an expert. Escobar notes: “Todd is spot on. He’s one of three or four – not more – French intellectuals who actually knows how the real geoeconomic world works.”
Here is the original in French: https://www.lefigaro.fr/vox/monde/emmanuel-todd-la-troisieme-guerre-mondiale-a-commence-20230112#Echobox=1673601494-1
US may lose control of world finance… Continue reading -
Radhika Desai & Michael Hudson: multipolarity (now + transcript)
Radhika Desai & Michael Hudson explain multipolarity, decline of US hegemony
Geopolitical Economy Hour, from Geopolitical Economy, January 13, 2023
Economists Radhika Desai & Michael Hudson explain multipolarity, decline of US hegemony
Transcript
RADHIKA DESAI: Hi everyone, and welcome to this Geopolitical Economy Hour. I’m Radhika Desai.
MICHAEL HUDSON: And I’m Michael Hudson.
RADHIKA DESAI: Every fortnight we are going to meet for an hour to discuss major development in the fast-changing… Continue reading
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Jan 13 2023 
China delivers
About 3 years ago, when the economic conflict against China started in earnest (remember Trump’s Trade War), quite rightly chips were defined as a critical issue. I made a prediction at the time that what we probably could expect from China is some kind of leapfrog in technology. This kind of leapfrog is easily understood… Continue reading
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