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Aug 03 2025 
George Galloway on MOATS with some hard truths
Your Sunday night movie: Galloway on Moats, containing a good overview of the activities of Muslim extremists (ISIS and similar types) in West Africa, now called freedom fighters by French media. Burkina Faso can produce a cheap drone against this activity, at scale.
British serving military, Colonels, and British intelligence officers were taken into custody in… Continue reading
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Aug 03 2025 
How To Live, What To Do
They have all shoehorned themselves into the system, each immersed in an ecology with clear, unspoken rules, taboos, heroes and villains. To be evicted from all that has forced me, daily, to encounter a much larger world, and to be freer than ever.
with gratitude to Linh Dinh at Postcards from the End.
Pairing me with Hung… Continue reading
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Aug 03 2025 
China News: Here Comes China +
Selected from Here Comes China, Godfree Roberts. This is a free post on his substack.
China’s “Artificial Sun” Shatters Fusion Record With Over 17 Minutes of Plasma – https://scitechdaily.com/chinas-artificial-sun-shatters-fusion-record-with-over-17-minutes-of-plasma/
Brazil triples rare earth exports to China as Washington-Beijing rift ripples through trade – https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3318653/brazil-triples-rare-earth-exports-china-washington-beijing-rift-ripples-through-trade
Morgan Stanley Joins Rush for Cheap China Capital With Landmark Bond Deal – https://www.caixinglobal.com/2025-07-29/morgan-stanley-joins-rush-for-cheap-china-capital-with-landmark-bond-deal-102346205.html
China… Continue reading
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Aug 03 2025 
The Cradle Three: Trump threatens to cut trade with NATO allies – over Israel
Wide ranging and interesting discussion with many dots joining up.
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Aug 02 2025 
What can the US do against China?
Preparing for aggression and “just in case” exercises.
By Rostislav Ishchenko at Ukraine.ru.
(machine translation)
Trump found himself in a difficult situation. He failed to convince Russia to sign a peace treaty (or rather, a ceasefire) with Ukraine on American terms.
As far as I can tell, Trump’s confidence that Moscow would quickly accept his proposal was based on… Continue reading
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Aug 02 2025 
Flush, Of Course, Without One Glance Backward
… When an Asian says the American dream is dead, you know we are in deep trouble.
with gratitude to Linh Dinh at Postcards from the End.
Six months into the Golden Age of America, manufacturing jobs are down, inflation and unemployment are up, despite fudged numbers, foreign tourists have mostly stayed away, and there are no… Continue reading
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Aug 02 2025 
Daily Chronicles
Daily Chronicles features issues, small or large, that have the potential to change our world.
Evolving Strategy of Empire.
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I feel much better about Friday’s Summit in Anchorage, since I found out that the Azerbaijan and Armenia agreement is not a peace agreement and is yet another spin from the supreme… Continue reading
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Aug 02 2025 
The War & Genocide Thread
Keep talking about Gaza!
Permanent X link to Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur – the Occupied Territories.
Francesca has her blue checkmark back.Aug 12
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated he feels driven by a “historic and spiritual mission,” emphasizing his deep commitment to the concept of a “Greater Israel” encompassing Palestine, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Egypt.
OK, we… Continue reading
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Aug 02 2025 
Brian Berletic: Range of updates on Thailand – Cambodia
It is time that we understand something. The destabilization is region wide, and it is not really a question of who is worse and who is better. Both Thailand and Cambodia are deeply complicit and need to do a lot of work to escape the clutches of the empire. It is becoming… Continue reading
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Aug 01 2025 
Putin on Oreshnik, disappointment in talks, corruption in Ukraine: in Brief
According to the Russian leader, all the frustrations in the negotiation process stem from “excessive expectations” https://tass.com/politics/1997165
VALAAM /Republic of Karelia/, August 1. /TASS/. The first serially-produced Oreshnik missile system has entered service with the Russian army, President Vladimir Putin told reporters.
He also noted that if Kiev believes that now is not the time for peace… Continue reading
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Aug 01 2025 
Michael Hudson & Radhika Desai: The MAGA Mirage
That’s his great talent: to promise to do one thing, get people paying attention to what he promises, and then doing the opposite. That’s how he got rich, as a real estate crook, basically.
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RADHIKA DESAI: Trump always essentially cherry-picks the evidence. He picks all the statistics that make him look good. And what’s worse, even… Continue reading
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Aug 01 2025 
Slinging Social Media Slurs with Goldfinger
Judge Nap interviews our roving eye nomad on taking on the entire BRICS in one fell swoop. “Moneyprinters with nukes: CHARGE!”
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Jul 31 2025 
Lula and Unions Respond to Trump Threats
“The political motivation behind the measures against Brazil violates national sovereignty and the historical relationship between the two countries,” says Brazil’s President Lula da Silva.
From Brian MierOn July 30, US President Donald Trump declared bilateral relations with Brazil a national emergency in order to justify raising import tariffs. In a menacing statement entitled “Addressing Threats… Continue reading
