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Jul 25 2023 
What Peak Oil?
With thanks to Dmitry Orlov, our writer
A quick note on where we stand with regard to the terminal crisis of global oil production. Spoiler alert: Peak Oil is doing just fine, sharpening its claws, getting ready to take a big bite out of your flank. Why isn’t everyone running around with their hair on fire… Continue reading
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Jul 25 2023 
Safeguarding against maritime drones
By Nat South and first posted at Livejournal
Ed Note: This is how important this study by Nat South is. Just a few hours ago from the Russian MoD:
Last night, the armed forces of Ukraine made an unsuccessful attempt to attack the patrol ship “Sergey Kotov” of the Black Sea Fleet, which was conducting navigation… Continue reading -
Jul 24 2023 
Barbie and the mobilization of imbeciles
From RealQuantumBird and translated by Lady Bahrani, our friends at Comunidad Saker Latinoamérica
The hegemonic machine of brainwashing and civilizing degradation engendered by wokeness – social networks + corporate media – is conducting a test to assess its real capacity to mobilize the masses of human beings pushed into anomie and imbecility in recent decades due… Continue reading
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Jul 24 2023 
BRICS problems, BRI solutions
While the five original BRICS states have their geopolitical differences, they are finding enormous common ground on the geoeconomic front as trade volumes surge and trade routes multiply.
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at The Cradle
As the BRICS approach the most important summit in their history on August 22-24 in Johannesburg, South Africa, some fundamentals… Continue reading
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Jul 24 2023 
About China
Two Philosophical Chinese tracks:
First is from Nury Vittachi, Hong Kong based and editor of FridayEveryday.com
Why does the international media endlessly demonize China? Because the west is locked into their “end of history” thesis, which says that the world’s adoption of the western political model will cause all conflict to end. But it’s clearly… Continue reading
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Jul 21 2023 
Neocons Want War With China
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Sputnikglobe.com
It was a photo op for the ages: a visibly well-disposed President Xi Jinping receiving centenarian “old friend of China” Henry Kissinger in Beijing.
Mirroring meticulous Chinese attention to protocol, they met at Villa 5 of the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse – exactly where Kissinger first met in person with… Continue reading
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Jul 20 2023 
Russia has Demilitarized, Denazified, and Rebuilt Ukraine Before
From Deborah Armstrong and first posted at the Greanville Post
In the years following WW2, the Soviets purged Ukraine of Nazis while the US gave them safe havenFeatured Image: Soviet “Banderite Hunters” denazified Ukraine at the end of WW2 and in the post-war years. Photo: Twitter
Victory Day, May 9th, is one of Russia’s most sacred holidays.… Continue reading
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Jul 17 2023 
Not so trivial now plus update 1: Crimean Bridge Attack
By Nat South on Livejournal
I wrote an update on the marine drones (USV and UUV types) just yesterday after the dawn attack on Sevastopol. I had my niggling doubts that this was some kind of test, given that the port, the fact that its entrance is heavily defended. I couldn’t put my finger on it,… Continue reading
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Jul 16 2023 
Black Sea — naval USV situation
With thanks to Nat South at livejournal
Recent reports state that several Russian Navy ships will be fitted with laser rangefinder and target tracking units to combat against the ongoing threat of USV attacks. The unit will be operated by a crewmember that will be able to observe targets using a camera and a thermal imager.
It… Continue reading
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Jul 15 2023 
The Incredible Shrinking NATO
With thanks to Dmitry Orlov
I’ve been waiting for the hubbub to die down since the NATO conference in Vilnius, Lithuania, on 11-12 July 2023, waiting for someone — anyone — to point out the obvious reason for why the Ukraine’s cocaine-sniffing mascot-president Zelensky, having been lionized only a year ago, has suddenly fallen into disfavor… Continue reading
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Jul 12 2023 
Lucidly Rethinking the hype about the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant
Welcome to our writer, Lady Bhārani, from Comunidad Saker Latinoamérica
In yet another mature and measured analysis, Andrei Martyanov – corroborating something that Quantum Bird had already commented to us – states that yes, it would be possible, but very unlikely the imminent Ukrainian false flag in the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, in Zaporizhzhia.
The… Continue reading
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Jul 09 2023 
Third-generation French Muslims rebel against failed Western model
Glad to see Ramin Mazaheri reporting for PressTV on the systemic roots of the French protests and rioting.
France has witnessed a week of angry protests – “rioting” to reactionary commentators – following the inexcusably brutal slaying of a 17-year-old boy of Algerian-Moroccan descent by French police.
Viral video of the murder showed unnecessary, reckless and racist… Continue reading
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Jul 08 2023 
The United States’ Financial Quandary: ZIRP’s only Exit path is a Crash.
From Michael Hudson
President, Institute for the Study of Long-term Economic Trends (ISLET)
Emeritus Prof. of Economics, UMKC
AbstractInterest-bearing debt grows exponentially, in an upsweep. The non-financial economy of production and consumption grows more slowly as income is diverted to carry the debt overhead. A crash occurs when a large part of the economy cannot pay its scheduled… Continue reading
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Jul 05 2023
Should there really be a Supreme Court?
Its role always has been anti-democratic.
Vested interests create “checks and balances” primarily to make political systems non-responsive to demands for social reform. Historically, therefore, the checks are politically unbalanced in practice. Instead of producing a happy medium, their effect often has been to check the power of the people to assert their interests at the… Continue reading
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