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Aug 31 2023 The Hijacking of Hawaii
With thanks to Larry Romanoff. We publish his work with permission.
Ed Note: With the struggles in Africa to take back their sovereignty, this makes perfect background reading.
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NOTE: This first portion is adapted from an article in The Hawaiian Nation.[1]
Few people know that the Kingdom of Hawaii still exists as a nation-state, that it has… Continue reading
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Aug 30 2023 MARA: Make America Ridiculous Again
With thanks to Batiuska, our writer
Tragedy
It is a truism to say that life is a tragi-comedy.
Surely the greatest tragedy in the world at the moment is the death and destruction in parts of the Ukraine. That sad country has already lost 400,000 dead soldiers, not counting the maimed and those psychologically scarred for life. Worse… Continue reading
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Aug 30 2023 NATOstan Robots Versus the Heavenly Horses of Multipolarity
The entire West is waiting at the room at the station with black curtains – and no trains.
From Pepe Escobar and first posted at Strategic Culture
We will all need plenty of time and introspection to analyze the full range of game-changing vectors unleashed by the unveiling of BRICS 11 last week in South Africa.
Yet time… Continue reading
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Aug 29 2023 Niger – Military Coup – More than Meets the Eye: Wagner – Niger – Washington – What’s the Connection?
With thanks to Peter Koenig, our writer
There were several military coups in West Africa lately. Mostly in former French colonies, and in many ways “neo-colonies” of France, that do arguably more harm to the Sahel countries than the more than 300 years of French “on-the-ground” colonies, or enslavement. Though, this latter crime is not to… Continue reading
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Aug 28 2023 The American Titanic Hits the Russian Iceberg
With thanks to our writer, Batiushka
Introduction: The American Titanic
Under orders from its oligarchs and their politicians and spymasters, the Western media have either talked down BRICS or simply not reported on it at all. They prefer to talk of a Spanish football manager who kissed a Spanish sportswoman or a shady Russian businessman, murdered by… Continue reading
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Aug 27 2023 Argentina on the Political Brink – Again
With thanks to our writer, Peter Koenig
“Don’t Cry for me Argentina”
Sung by Madonna
The lyrics:It won’t be easy, you’ll think it strange
When I try to explain how I feel
That I still need your love after all that I’ve done
You won’t believe me, all you will see is a girl you once knew
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Aug 26 2023 ‘Welcome to the BRICS 11’
‘No mountains can stop the surging flow of a mighty river.’ With the addition of six new members that add geostrategic clout and geographic depth to the once sputtering BRICS, the multilateral institution is now gathering the momentum needed to reset international relations.
By Pepe Escobar and posted at the Cradle
In the end, History was made.… Continue reading
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Aug 24 2023 The Verdict on the Jester
With thanks to Batiushka, our writer
Oh, and while the king was looking down
The jester stole his thorny crown
The courtroom was adjourned
No verdict was returned.
Don McLean, American Pie, referring to Christ the King
Introduction: The Patriots Defeat the Elitists‘Tsars, Stalin, Putin. Russian are a people who like authoritarian regimes’. So read the title in a French news… Continue reading
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Aug 22 2023 BRICS: the China–India factor
By Pepe Escobar: This is BRILLIANT. Strategic Culture has been heavily censored again. Their domain has been canceled. I’ve sent them this first BRICS column via a crucial helping hand, and the column is now out on Telegraph. No pasaran.
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Aug 19 2023 Central Asia is the prime battlefield in the New Great Game
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at The Cradle
Samarkand, Uzbekistan – The historical Heartland – or Central Eurasia – already is, and will continue to be, the prime battlefield in the New Great Game, fought between the United States and the China-Russia strategic partnership.
The original Great Game pitted the British and Russian empires in the… Continue reading
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Aug 17 2023 Inequality: US vs China
From Godfree Roberts and first posted at the Greanville Post
The economy is in such a state that men don’t have enough money to care for elderly parents and support their wives and children. Even in good years their lives are bitter while, in bad years, they struggle to avoid starvation and death. Under such circumstances,… Continue reading
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Aug 16 2023 From Bukhara to BRICS, Searching for Light in the Darkness of Insanity
From Pepe Escobar and first posted at StrategicCulture.
Bukhara The Noble, the “Dome of Islam”, with a history stretching back 2.500 years, bears too many marvels to mention: from the two-millennia-old Ark, a fortress around which the city developed, to the 48-meter high Kalon minaret, built in 1127, which so impressed Genghis Khan that he… Continue reading
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Aug 14 2023 Fish and Chips: microchips and the nuclear contamination of seafoods
From SocialistChina.org
Ed Note: The Japanese insist that the radioactive wastewater is safe enough to bath in and to drink. One of the Chinese Spokespeople said that they should then keep it for themselves and start bathing in it, and use it for drinking water.
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Aug 12 2023 Michael Hudson & Ania K: Debt, Sponsors of the wars, Future of USD and BRICS
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Michael Hudson: Debt, Sponsors of the Wars, Future of USD and BRICS
AK: Hello everyone. Welcome back to my channel. I see we are live already, perfectly on time, with a Swiss Precision today, because I have fantastic guest – Mr. Michael Hudson, who has been recommended to me by the one and only Andre Marciano who said, Ania, you… Continue reading