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Jul 16 2026 
Spirit of Anchorage Perfume
Don’t ever say the Russians do not have a sense of humor.
Someone in Russia moves to trademark Spirit of AnchorageMOSCOW, July 15. /TASS/. Someone is trademarking “The Spirit of Anchorage” in Russia, apparently to use as the name of a perfume, a TASS correspondent has found out.
The application for trademark registration was filed with the… Continue reading
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Jul 16 2026 
FM Lavrov : Article on the 25th anniversary of Russian-Chinese Treaty of Good-Neighbourliness, Friendship, and Cooperation,”
Article by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov “A constant in an era of radical change: On the 25th anniversary of the Russian-Chinese Treaty of Good-Neighbourliness, Friendship, and Cooperation,” Kommersant, July 16, 2026
Summary by Sputnik International:Russia and China: 25 years of strategic partnership — and just getting started
On the 25th anniversary of the Russia-China Treaty on Good-Neighbourliness,… Continue reading
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Jul 15 2026 
The MAGA economy is a crashing ponzi scheme : Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson
Michael Hudson and Radhika Desai examine the gap between Trump’s promised economic boom and the reality of an economy sustained by asset bubbles rather than production. They show that the stock market’s rise reflects cheap credit, buybacks, and speculation rather than profit, a Ponzi-scheme dynamic that cannot survive the oil shock triggered by Trump’s war… Continue reading
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Jul 15 2026 
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Jul 15 2026 
Kremlin briefing covers US sanctions plans against Russia, Baltic ‘fearmongering’
TASS Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov
Dmitry Peskov revealed that Moscow had… Continue reading
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Jul 15 2026 
Omani FM says ‘gravest threat to Gulf security’ stems from Israel, not Iran
The Omani diplomat also criticized US military ‘expansion’ in the region, saying it provided ‘no real benefit’ for Gulf states
The Cradle
Omani Foreign Minister Badr Al-Busaidi said on 13 July that the most dangerous threats in the region come not from Iran but from Israel, while lambasting the “myth” of the policy of “containment” that… Continue reading
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Jul 15 2026 
Glen Diessen with Pepe Escobar: Yemen Joins the War, and the Entire Middle East Could Go Up in Flames
The escalations and widening of the war against Iran, which now threatens to set the entire Middle East in flames.
[Note: This video is of value as it depicts the chaos that the world is in. Pepe is also not overemphasizing Pakistan, which is wonderful. There are questionable statements – for example that it is perhaps… Continue reading
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Jul 14 2026 
Iran War 3.0
Strategic Culture – Alastair Crooke … Continue reading
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Jul 14 2026 
Digital Sovereignty: The Global South’s Predicament and How to Measure It
Digital space is now national territory – and most of the Global South neither owns it nor can measure how much it is losing. A new index puts numbers to the dispossession.
On 4 September 2025, the Nepalese government made a decision: ban twenty-six international internet platforms from operating in the country, including Facebook, X (formerly… Continue reading
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Jul 13 2026 
China rejects joint hype over South China Sea Arbitral Award 10 years after, urges relevant countries to stop stirring up trouble
Global Times
China’s Foreign Ministry on Sunday issued a statement in response to a joint statement by some countries, including the US, Australia, the UK, Japan and the Philippines, on the 10th anniversary of the so-called Arbitral Award on the South China Sea, reiterating that China does not accept or recognize the illegal arbitral award and… Continue reading
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Jul 13 2026 
“Center of Gravity Has Moved”: African Literature Has Broken Free of Western Validation, Scholar
Sputnik – Africa
A growing number of contemporary African writers are rejecting Western literary gatekeepers to prioritize their own lived experiences and local nuances. This deliberate pivot, argues a scholar, is actively reshaping the continent’s literary authority.
Some African writers and scholars argue that African literature has often been read through expectations that it explain the continent’s… Continue reading -
Jul 13 2026 
Without Subsidies, AI Is Unaffordable
Charles Hugh Smith
Let’s pull all this into an undeniable conclusion: AI is based on massively subsidizing users’ costs.
What’s already abundantly clear but verboten to say as it would pop the bubble of AI valuations and triumphalism is that AI is unaffordable once the direct and indirect subsidies are withdrawn. Nothing that consumes this much electricity… Continue reading -
Jul 13 2026 
Brian Berletic : “Saudi/Persian Gulf State Strikes” are Likewise US Strikes
“Saudi/Persian Gulf State Strikes” are Likewise US Strikes, Laundered Through Saudi Arabia and its Neighbors…
▪️Just like with Ukraine or Israel, Saudi Arabia and its Persian Gulf neighbors are politically captured nations working for US interests at the expense of its own interests;
▪️Their multi-year war on neighboring Yemen was enabled by the US via US… Continue reading
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Jul 13 2026 
How the West Deliberately Trapped Africa in Debt and Why BRICS Is the Only Chance for Salvation
New Eastern Outlook
The Washington Consensus vs. African Lives: 50 Years of Robbery Under the Guise of Loans.“Forgiven” Debts vs. “Dead” Economies: The Anatomy of Western Deception
For many decades, the West, led by the United States, has been putting on a farce for Africa called “humanitarian aid and development.” Official Washington, London, and Paris have been… Continue reading
