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Nov 08 2024 
What we know about collapse of ruling coalition in Germany
From TASS
The German chancellor said he would call for a confidence vote on January 15, 2025, in the Bundestag, which could trigger a snap election before late March
BERLIN, November 7. /TASS/. Germany’s Vice Chancellor and Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, Robert Habeck (The Greens), announced that the country’s ruling three-party coalition has… Continue reading
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Nov 08 2024 
Negotiating? Raise the stakes!
By Nico Cost for GlobalSouth.co
There are signs that the West suddenly wants to negotiate a cease-fire in Ukraine. The first question one then asks is who is actually authorized to negotiate, after all the West is only a supplier and not a principal or executor, right? The only one who can negotiate is Ukraine itself.
Then… Continue reading
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Nov 08 2024 
President Putin’s speech at the Valdai Club
This is a good and complete video out of Putin’s speech. The transcript will be updated here as it is completed. I suggest that this becomes a ‘required course’ for all of us.
The best description of Mr.Putin is cool, calm, collected, warm and friendly with his trademark of a phenomenal grasp of international affairs and… Continue reading
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Nov 07 2024 
We don’t have a dog in this fight
How Alternative Media and Supporter Devotion Secured His 2024 Victory
By Femi Akomolafe and first posted at his substack
“If half the country has decided that Trump is qualified to be president, that means they’re not reading any of this media, and we’ve lost this audience completely,” the executive said. “A Trump victory means mainstream media… Continue reading
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Nov 07 2024
Highlights from Putin’s speech at the plenary session of the Valdai International Discussion Club
Here is a set of highlights but we need to post up the transcript as soon as it is available. The most interesting part is the answers that Putin is still busy giving to the Valdai audience.
Putin names six key principles for the world’s sustainable development
Addressing the Valdai Forum on November… Continue reading
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Nov 07 2024 
Richard D. Wolff & Michael Hudson: Trump Returns! Empire in Decline!
A Dialogue Works interview:
Posted a very short while ago, and no descriptions or transcripts yet.
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Nov 07 2024 
Sensitivities
By Nico Cost for GlobalSouth.co
We tend to lump many things together and then think we understand each other. Communication is the main barrier between people. Not speaking each other’s language, literally and figuratively, means doubting the connection.
How can you explain to yourself a dream that has come to you in loose strangely knotted fragments? If… Continue reading
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Nov 07 2024 
Daily Chronicles – Sticky
We are in the throes of One War, an Omniwar, with one objective : the weaponization of everything. When an empire falls, one cannot make agreement with it. A different figurehead is but a temporary phenomenon as empire is systemic.
Daily Chronicles features those issues small or large, that have the potential to change our world.… Continue reading
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Nov 07 2024 
Trumpquake
“We are living in biblical times. Trumpquake’s coded message is that the Zionist lobby wins – again. The pressing question from now on is whether Trump invests on Israel’s war against Iran and the Axis of Resistance. The real major war is actually Eretz Israel v. the Axis of Resistance in West Asia.”
By Pepe Escobar… Continue reading
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Nov 06 2024 
Hezbollah Secretary-General Sheikh Naim Qassem: Speech
Resistance News Network provided the highlights:
Today, we commemorate the 40th day since the martyrdom of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, a noble leader who walked the path of Allah.
The martyr Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah built a party that unites all segments of society, a party for the young and old, the free and the honorable, the intellectuals,… Continue reading
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Nov 06 2024 
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at the International Symposium Inventing the Future, Moscow, November 4, 2024
https://www.mid.ru/en/press_service/minister_speeches/1979085/
Colleagues and friends,
It is a privilege to be part of this new initiative, which seeks to unite people, identify shared values, and develop recommendations that will enable humanity to live in accordance with the legacies bestowed by the ancestors of each nation and nationality.
In this context, the platform of the Russia National Centre, established under… Continue reading
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Nov 05 2024 
BRICS countries: Media on this US election day
A quick look through the media of the original five BRICS countries :
Russia: English media – RT and Sputnik – Early in the day, wall to wall above the fold election coverage. It looks more normal now.
Tass – normal coverage with a little election coverage – just a tad.
Russian language media – Ria Novosti, not… Continue reading
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Nov 05 2024 
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Rossiya Segodnya, Moscow, November 5, 2024
https://www.mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1979380/
Question: What’s your take on the outcomes of the BRICS summit and Russia’s BRICS chairmanship which is about to conclude? Which countries are active BRICS partners, and what does this status mean in real life?
Sergey Lavrov: Without exaggeration, the 16th BRICS summit in Kazan came as a landmark international event not only of the year,… Continue reading
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Nov 05 2024 
Ilan Pappe: The problem in Palestine was never religion, it was and is toxic ideology
A Middle East Eye interview with a summary by Vanessa Beeley who says: “Excellent interview with Ilan Pappe. Well worth listening to the entire interview.”
Important excerpt:
“Zionism was first an Evangelical Christian project before it was a Jewish one.
There is a connection between their perceptions of an Armageddon, or a doomsday scenario, and the messianic Jewish… Continue reading
