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Aug 11 2023 
Sanctions as War: Anti-Imperialist Perspectives on American Geo-Economic Strategy: Interview and Book Review
Sanctions as War: Anti-Imperialist Perspectives on American Geo-Economic Strategy, a book recently published by Brill, offers a comprehensive account of economic sanctions as a US tool for exercising power on the global stage. The text, which should be required reading for those with sympathy for humanity, includes a chapter on Venezuela by Gregory Wilpert. Here… Continue reading
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Aug 09 2023 
A public Appeal To President Tinubu
With thanks to Femi Akomolafe, and the second part. You can see the background here:
“People don’t pine for democracy. They want homes, medicine, jobs, schools… with a few exceptions, democracy has not brought good government to developing countries.” – Singapore former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew
It is quite unfortunate that the Nigerian president, Asiwaju Tinubu,… Continue reading
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Aug 09 2023
Why Europe continues to get it wrong.
With thanks to Femi Akomolafe, a friend from West Africa and posted on his substack.
There will be two parts to Femi’s postings. This one which you should read first, to set the background and the scene and then a Public Appeal To President Tinubu. In the correspondence with Femi, one sentence became very important to… Continue reading
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Aug 08 2023 
NATO’s World War?
Posted with thanks to Batiushka, our writer
Foreword
My father fought against the Nazis. In 1942 he lost his two best friends to one of their shells. For some mysterious reason it killed them, but only injured him, though he did have to spend six weeks in hospital. Sixty years later, as he lay dying of old… Continue reading
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Aug 06 2023 
Alaska, Bering sea and PLAN
From Nat South at her Livejournal
After the well publicised joint exercises between the Russian Navy (Pacific Fleet) and the Chinese Navy, PLA(N), now reports are in of a group of Russian and Chinese naval ships off Alaska, (probably around the Aleutian island chain).
Eleven Russian and Chinese ships came close to the Aleutian Islands, but never… Continue reading
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Aug 05 2023 
Ramping up: Maritime drone attacks, off Novorossiysk, as well as on a tanker: What does it mean for the Russian Navy.
With thanks to Nat South from her Livejournal
This article covers the latest series of maritime drone attacks, namely a serious attack off Novorossiysk, as well as on a tanker. In light of these attacks, I will look at what it means for the Russian Navy and also outline other related issues.
EDIT: 5 August: Once more,… Continue reading
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Jul 31 2023 
World First We Go for Moscow, Then We Take Beijing
Three interventions in St. Petersburg summarize the pan-African drive to finally get rid of exploitative neocolonialism.
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Strategic Culture
The Global Majority is free to choose two different paths to counteract the rabid, cognitive dissonant Straussian neocon psychos in charge of imperial foreign policy; to relentlessly ridicule them, or to work… Continue reading
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Jul 30 2023 
Saker Italia interviews Larry Romanoff: “Propaganda, Media and Conspiracy in action”
With thanks to Larry Romanoff and Saker Italia
We present the interview we had the honor of doing with one of the world’s leading experts on “propaganda.” Larry Romanoff has been dealing for years with the topic of manipulation and consensus management as a tool of governments (and those who maneuver these governments) towards public opinion.… Continue reading
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Jul 30 2023 
Indian role in SCO/BRICS and the region
With thanks to Prof Engr Zamir Ahmed Awan
THE 23rd Summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) was recently convened under the chairmanship of India, albeit in a virtual format. The decision to opt for a virtual summit, despite the easing of pandemic-related restrictions, has sparked curiosity. India, known for its active participation in international events,… Continue reading
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Jul 30 2023 
Pepe Escobar: Geopolitical Chessboard Shifts Against US Empire
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at SputnikGlobe
The geopolitical chessboard is in perpetual shift – and never more than in our current incandescent juncture.
A fascinating consensus in discussions among Chinese scholars – including those part of the Asian and American diasporas – is that not only Germany/EU lost Russia, perhaps irretrievably, but China gained Russia,… Continue reading -
Jul 28 2023 
Exit Strategies and Lies
With thanks to Batiushka, our writer
The End-Game
The US puppet regime in Kiev is staring defeat in the face. The Western elite’s attempt, led by the CIA and backed by the NATO vassals, to dismantle Russia through a coup in Russia’s soft underbelly in Kiev in 2014, has, as usual, failed. Why can the Western elite… Continue reading
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Jul 28 2023 
Larry Johnson pitted against a Ukrainian Cheerleader – a treat
Andrei Martyanov describes this as a ‘treat’ and it is a treat.
“I will apologize in advance for not tolerating patiently the lies spewed by Mr. Dobriansky. My Irish ancestry got the better of me,” says Larry. His first sentence: “Our Ukrainian guest is delusional and lying.” That gives you an immediate flavor.
Please follow on his… Continue reading
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Jul 26 2023 
Debunking the myth of US military supremacy, once again – Part I
By Ramin Mazaheri and first posted at PressTV
The past decade has rendered American boasts of global military supremacy so false and obsolete that it increasingly reveals their amateurism, jingoism, or both.
Running out of basic ammunition to the point that they have resorted to using cluster bombs deemed illegal by the world, a long-awaited counter-offensive by Ukraine which… Continue reading
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Jul 25 2023 
The Sorry Tale of the Provincial Actor and the Anglo-American Empire
With thanks to Batiushka, our author
Not allowing our imperial history to be rubbished is important because if indeed our imperial history was all that they say it was, namely a litany of atrocity, then the moral authority of the West is eroded.
The Oxford Professor of Theology, Nigel Biggar, interviewed on the Conservativehome website, 16 September… Continue reading
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