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Aug 06 2026 
Top US commander’s accusation against China over SCS exposes its hegemonic double standard: Chinese experts
File Photo: The US Pacific Command chief, Admiral Samuel Paparo, delivers his speech during the opening ceremony of the Super Garuda Shield 2025 joint military exercise at the Navy Staff and Command School in Jakarta, Indonesia, 25 August 2025. Photo: VCG
Global TimesThe US Pacific Command chief’s latest accusations against China over the South China Sea… Continue reading
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Aug 06 2026 
The Caspian pact tightening a corridor noose around Iran
The Cradle
By reviving a long-stalled Caspian treaty amid a regional war, Tehran risks surrendering the transit leverage its adversaries have spent years trying to break.
Last week, Iran’s cabinet revived one of the country’s most contentious regional files, approving a bill to ratify the 2018 Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea. The agreement… Continue reading -
Aug 06 2026 
Richard Wolff & Michael Hudson: The Bill Comes Due: Trump & Netanyahu’s War Spirals Out of Control
With Nima Alkorshid – Dialogue Works
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Aug 06 2026 
UN High Level Week
FM Sergei Lavrov will attend High Level Week at the United Nations. This will be the 81st session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 81) and will open on Tuesday, 8 September 2026. The first day of the high-level General Debate will be Tuesday, 22 September 2026.
Moving up to that, we may see something very… Continue reading
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Aug 06 2026 
Sony Thăng : Richly Inspirational
https://t.me/nxt888/2120
Let me say the uncomfortable thing directly.
The critique that Russia and China “stand for nothing” comes, in many cases, from a political tradition that loves resistance as an aesthetic and is less comfortable with resistance as a project.
Resistance as aesthetic is:
The speech.
The gesture.
The flag.
The recognition.
The statement of solidarity.
The vote at the United Nations.Resistance as project… Continue reading
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Aug 06 2026 
US empowering Pakistan AGAINST India
The US Department of Defence has approved a $2.5 billion arms sale to Pakistan, enabling the export of advanced Raytheon AIM-120 AMRAAM missiles by 2030.
These beyond-visual-range (BVR) weapons are a perfect fit for Pakistan’s F-16 fleet — the same jets used in past confrontations with India, including Operation Sindoor and the 2019 Balakot airstrikes.
US-Pak escalating… Continue reading
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Aug 06 2026 
Maria Zakahrova and Grigory Lukiyantsev: Topics – falsifying history
https://t.me/MFARussia/31317
On the anniversary of the atomic bombing, the Mayor of Hiroshima once again failed to tell the world who was responsible for his city’s suffering.
He made no mention of the United States – the country that dropped an atomic bomb on civilians.
🤷♀️ Instead, he criticised Russia and its actions in Ukraine.
The distorting mirror of Western… Continue reading
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Aug 06 2026 
A war story
Carlos
In 1947, a People’s Liberation Army unit pushed into the Dabie Mountains during the counteroffensive against the Kuomintang. The men arrived exhausted and desperately short of supplies, in thin clothing and straw sandals. Kuomintang forces had already been through those villages. They had plundered them, and forcibly conscripted the son of a local farmer, Ding… Continue reading
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Aug 05 2026 
NATO is being installed into Ukraine’s military
European factories, NATO software, and defense companies are now built into Kiev’s war effort
[Nore: This is very similar to the combination and integration of the US military forces and Israel i forces. I can only see it as the sides forming up before major war. Many commentators say that there is no ability for Europe… Continue reading
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Aug 05 2026 
To Imagine a New Development Theory from the Global South
The Global North’s prescriptions for development, including the IMF’s tired dogmas, have failed. It is time for a new development theory rooted in the experiences of the Global South.
https://thetricontinental.org/newsletterissue/global-south-development-theory/
Attributed to Jacopo de’ Barbari (Italy), Portrait of Fra Luca Pacioli with a Pupil, 1495–1500.
Dear friends,
Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research.
In 2015, the… Continue reading
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Aug 05 2026 
Michael Hudson: The Dollar Empire Is Collapsing – The Rise of New Global Economic Order
With Lena Petrova : World Affairs In Context
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Aug 05 2026 
Putin legalizes crypto in Russia
The president has authorized a regulated digital currency market while keeping a ban on domestic payments
(The reality in Russia is that Russians use cryptocurrencies).
RT
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a landmark law legalizing cryptocurrency trading, which will be regulated as part of the country’s financial system.
The Law on Digital Currencies and Digital Rights, signed and… Continue reading
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Aug 05 2026 
Al Mayadeen’s Minab Documentary asks the right questions
Five months after US missile attacks devastated an elementary school for girls in Minab, southern Iran, a documentary by Al Mayadeen English dismantles mainstream narratives surrounding the attack. While Western media outlets relied on satellite imagery and AI analysis to allege the presence of an IRGC military facility or human shields, Director Maryam Yousefi Sadr’s… Continue reading
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Aug 05 2026 
Elijah Magnier: Trump Doubles Down: Iran Will Be “Hit Really Hard” If They Back Out
with Nima from Dialogue Works
