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Jul 05 2023 Where Are You Going, Russia? Article # 100!
With thanks to our writer, Batiushka and congratulations on article number 100!
‘The situation in the Ukraine is not a regional conflict, but the total opposition of the Collective West and the rest of the world, caused by diametrically opposed views about the future development of humanity…The hybrid war they are waging against us now is… Continue reading
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Jul 03 2023 Perfidious Albion and Perfidious America
With thanks to Batiushka, our writer
Introduction: Perfidy
The word ‘perfidious’ has many synonyms: deceitful, untrustworthy, duplicitous, disloyal, faithless, false, traitorous, treacherous. The term ‘Perfidious Albion’ has been used by the French of the British since at least the thirteenth century and later by many other nationalities (1). Why? Where does this view come from?
Part One: The Perfidious… Continue reading
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Jun 28 2023 SCOOP! Michael Hudson: America has Just Destroyed a Great Empire
New Essay by Michael Hudson
Herodotus (History, Book 1.53) tells the story of Croesus, king of Lydia c. 585-546 BC in what is now Western Turkey and the Ionian shore of the Mediterranean. Croesus conquered Ephesus, Miletus and neighboring Greek-speaking realms, obtaining tribute and booty that made him one of the richest rulers of his time.… Continue reading
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Jun 28 2023 Those marine drones in the Black Sea & comments on Grain Deal
From Nat South tracking and tracing a relatively new development
Once more, a Russian Navy ship was attacked in the southern part of the Black Sea in the afternoon of the 11th of June. This article highlights some of the issues arising from the latest attack relating to onboard armament, as well briefly the latest implications… Continue reading
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Jun 23 2023 The Greater Eurasia project: Building bridges and breaking barriers
If you’re counting on Asia’s many new power centers to compete and clash – don’t. The Greater Eurasia Partnership is set to integrate them all – from the SCO, EAEU, and BRICS, to emerging new currencies – in order to replace the ‘rules-based order.’
From Pepe Escobar and first posted at The Cradle
On July 4, at… Continue reading
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Jun 22 2023 Radhika Desai, Michael Hudson, Ann Pettifor: A new Third World debt crisis? The need for system change
Part 12 – Geopolitical Economy Series
Transcript
RADHIKA DESAI: Hello and welcome to this 12th Geopolitical Economy Hour, the fortnightly show on the political and geopolitical economy of our times. I’m Radhika Desai.
MICHAEL HUDSON: And I’m Michael Hudson.
RADHIKA DESAI: And today we are joined by Anne Pettifor to discuss an urgent issue of our time, that of… Continue reading
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Jun 21 2023 On Russia’s use of nuclear weapons
By dear friend Quantum Bird, who handles Communidad Saker Latino Americano https://t.me/SakerLatinoAmerica. Mainly published in Portugese and Spanish, this was translated from the original.
The discussion about using nuclear weapons in “preventive” attacks by the Russian Federation is old and gets reinvigorated, with increasing intensity, whenever Russia plays a leading role in the global geopolitical… Continue reading
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Jun 18 2023 The Denazification of the West
With thanks to Batiushka, our writer
The Background
Under the duress of US despotism, spineless Western politicians agreed to weaponise the Ukraine. What should have finished in March/April 2022 has been prolonged by Western arms to the end of 2023 and maybe longer – with devastating consequences for the Ukraine and for the West. Indeed, the current… Continue reading
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Jun 14 2023 Grading Kunstler, Kirsch and Barrett from Laos!
I used to read Linh Dinh’s Postcards from the End at Unz Review and was pleasantly surprised when this appeared this morning, with a recommendation to post it for us, as most here would enjoy it. I agree. Enjoy this mix of hard politics, lazy living and a dog doing what dogs would do.
[Don Sang,… Continue reading
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Jun 12 2023 June 2023: Satan Laughs With Delight
With thanks to Batiushka, our writer
The Background
The early June wildfires in Canada spread their smoke to large parts of North America and further still. New York was in smoke and by the evening of 9 June the orange haze had actually crossed the Atlantic on the jet stream and spread to London, England. Meanwhile, unseasonable… Continue reading
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Jun 09 2023 So many coups – so little time
Ben Norton created a timeline of recent coups in Latin America
It’s dangerous to be a left-wing leader in Latin America. The US empire and local right-wing oligarchies are always plotting to overthrow you.
A timeline of recent coups in Latin America
2002, Venezuela — briefly successful US-backed right-wing coup against democratically elected President Hugo Chávez (quickly overturned… Continue reading
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Jun 02 2023 The Sultan 2.0 will heavily tilt east
It’s not that Erdogan has a scheme to head east at the west’s expense. It’s just that the world’s grandest infrastructure, development, and geopolitical projects are all in the east today.
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at The Cradle
The collective west was dying to bury him – yet another strategic mistake that did not take… Continue reading
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Jun 01 2023 The End of (Western Triumphalist) History
With thanks to Batiushka, the writer
Part One: The Non-Russian World
Introduction: Providing an Alternative
The technological and ideological transformations of the last thirty years have turned the Russian Federation back into the world’s breadbasket and more or less its main source of fertilisers, gas, oil, many metals and energy. Moreover, the current Special Military Operation to liberate… Continue reading
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May 25 2023 Operation Z: The Last Chance Against Nazism
With thanks to Batiushka, the writer
Introduction: Two Civilisations
The tragic Washington-Moscow war which is starting to come to an end after nine long years on the battlefields of the Ukraine, where very many Ukrainian men are dying in futility, may well be entering its last year. The Western arming of the Kiev regime which began the… Continue reading