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Jan 13 2024 
2024: the Year of the Dragon
It’s possible to advance that the Year of the Dragon will be a year where Sovereignty reigns. China, Russia and Iran will take the fight towards a more equal and just system to the next level…
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Strategic Culture
As we enter incandescent 2024, four major trends will define the progress… Continue reading
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Jan 12 2024 
YEMEN & RED SEA … Open Thread, 12.01.2024
Please use as an Open Thread for the new aggression on Yemen, especially those who lack Salon access. I will continue my updates there as that format better supports mixed media (writing, images, links, embedded YT videos, etc). Here: https://sovereignista.com/globalsouthforum/topic/west-asia-front-thread-10-jan-2024/
IMO, this new expansion of West Asian war shouldn’t immediately result in a conflagration. The Empire… Continue reading
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Jan 11 2024 
Chinese dual-loop trading system
Arnaud Bertrand
I find this explanation of the Chinese system by Prof Keyu Jin (in a recent lecture at Harvard’s Fairbank center) absolutely fascinating. Keyu Jin is a professor of economics at LSE (London School of Economics) and serves on the board of companies like Credit Suisse. She’s also the daughter of Jin Liqun, former Vice… Continue reading
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Jan 11 2024 
Russian Fifth Column – (SVR) Director Sergey Naryshkin has said.
https://sputnikglobe.com/20240111/efforts-to-recruit-russian-fifth-column-highlight-pervasive-nature-of-us-surveillance-state-1116122142.html
Mere weeks ahead of the 2024 presidential election in Russia, the United States intends to ramp up efforts to recruit Russian graduates of US exchange programs in order to form a “fifth column” in Russia and to meddle in Russia’s internal affairs, Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Director Sergey Naryshkin has said.
Commenting on this development,… Continue reading
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Jan 11 2024 
Israel – Confronted with the International Criminal Court (ICC): Does it Matter?
by Peter Koenig
(Please note that there is a difference between the ICC and the ICJ – These proceedings are at the ICJ.)
Does anybody believe that the ICC will accuse Israel of committing Genocide on Palestinian People, notably in Gaza, as accused by the government of South Africa?
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Jan 11 2024 
LIVE: South Africa begins its case at the International Court of Justice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXZy2zErPzk
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Jan 10 2024 
BRICS member South Africa takes Zionism to court
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at the Cradle
Pretoria’s genocide case against Israel is crucial, not just to stop Tel Aviv’s carnage in Gaza, but to plant the first flag of mutipolarism in the globe’s courtrooms: this is the first case of many that will seek to halt western impunity and restore international law as… Continue reading
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Jan 10 2024 
Forget Baseball, Genocide Is America’s Favorite Pastime
from FiveGunsWest and penned by Bones
“Humanity is acquiring the right technology for all the wrong reasons—and only as driven by looming wars and the fear of being annihilated by the enemy. Humanity could acquire the technology for the purpose of total success and enduring peace. We say we cannot afford it in peace times, but… Continue reading
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Jan 10 2024 
Sergey Lavrov & Wang Yi
On January 10, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov spoke over the phone (https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1924819/)with Foreign Minister of the People’s Republic of China
🤝 The Ministers summed up and spoke positively of the key outcomes of cooperation in 2023, expressing satisfaction with the high tempo of the political dialogue and practical cooperation, which are marked by stability and positive… Continue reading
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Jan 09 2024 
Daily Chronicles
The Daily Chronicles are snippets of the most important news across the world for this and each day as it rolls in – as such, this thread is non-structured with the latest news on top. Facts without the fluff but there is plenty of fluff when necessary.
Jan 13
I have some other priorities today and it… Continue reading
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Jan 09 2024 
Valdai Club on the road in India “International Turbulence: Challenges and Opportunities for India-Russia relations”
Approximately 2 years ago Mr Putin made a comment at a Valdai Club discussion to the effect that Valdai should create a multinational profile and Valdai should go on the road. For anyone watching carefully, just recently Dr S Jaishankar visited Moscow to high praise from all parties. A part of Valdai is in India,… Continue reading
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Jan 09 2024 
Galloway & Medhurst: State of the Six Fronts
“The Yemenis intervention in support of Gaza by targeting ships in the Red Sea has disrupted global trade and effectively taken shipping back 200 years”
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Jan 08 2024 
In Gaza, there are no mountains; there is Wael Al-Dahdouh
There remain honorable journalists even within discredited Five Eyes media organs such as British-Qatari Al Jazeera. One is the Mountain of Gaza, Wael Al-Dahdouh. His family was carefully assassinated, picked off one by one over the last 2.5 months, by the cowardly Anglo-Zionists in order to silence his popular and potent voice bringing the news… Continue reading
