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Jul 26 2023 
Brian Berletic: Ukrainian Offensive Nears 2 Month Mark: Little Left to Replace Heavy Losses
Brian’s approach is pragmatic. For some or other reason the videos refuse to embed, so there are two options.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKFiJ37Uwi8
Summary:
Update on the conflict in Ukraine for July 26, 2023:
-Ukraine’s offensive nears the 2 month mark, having failed to breakthrough the security zone along the line of contact and reach the first of several layers of… Continue reading
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A few Chinese Funnies
These folks are funny!
This fellow is correct but at the end of this short list, you laugh with him because of the absurdity!
The US has used 14 cards to against China.1. Trade war2. Tech war3. Financial war4. Public opinion war5. Judicial war6. Taiwan7. HongKong8. Xinjiang 9. Tibet10. East China Sea11. South China Sea12.… Continue reading
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Jul 25 2023 
The Sorry Tale of the Provincial Actor and the Anglo-American Empire
With thanks to Batiushka, our author
Not allowing our imperial history to be rubbished is important because if indeed our imperial history was all that they say it was, namely a litany of atrocity, then the moral authority of the West is eroded.
The Oxford Professor of Theology, Nigel Biggar, interviewed on the Conservativehome website, 16 September… Continue reading -
Jul 25 2023 
What Peak Oil?
With thanks to Dmitry Orlov, our writer
A quick note on where we stand with regard to the terminal crisis of global oil production. Spoiler alert: Peak Oil is doing just fine, sharpening its claws, getting ready to take a big bite out of your flank. Why isn’t everyone running around with their hair on fire… Continue reading
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Jul 25 2023 
Safeguarding against maritime drones
By Nat South and first posted at Livejournal
Ed Note: This is how important this study by Nat South is. Just a few hours ago from the Russian MoD:
Last night, the armed forces of Ukraine made an unsuccessful attempt to attack the patrol ship “Sergey Kotov” of the Black Sea Fleet, which was conducting navigation… Continue reading -
Jul 24 2023 
Barbie and the mobilization of imbeciles
From RealQuantumBird and translated by Lady Bahrani, our friends at Comunidad Saker Latinoamérica
The hegemonic machine of brainwashing and civilizing degradation engendered by wokeness – social networks + corporate media – is conducting a test to assess its real capacity to mobilize the masses of human beings pushed into anomie and imbecility in recent decades due… Continue reading
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Jul 24 2023 
BRICS problems, BRI solutions
While the five original BRICS states have their geopolitical differences, they are finding enormous common ground on the geoeconomic front as trade volumes surge and trade routes multiply.
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at The Cradle
As the BRICS approach the most important summit in their history on August 22-24 in Johannesburg, South Africa, some fundamentals… Continue reading
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Jul 24 2023 
About China
Two Philosophical Chinese tracks:
First is from Nury Vittachi, Hong Kong based and editor of FridayEveryday.com
Why does the international media endlessly demonize China? Because the west is locked into their “end of history” thesis, which says that the world’s adoption of the western political model will cause all conflict to end. But it’s clearly… Continue reading
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Jul 24 2023 
As is customary, President Putin wrote an article defining issues before the Russia-Africa Summit
Article by Vladimir Putin “Russia and Africa: Joining Efforts for Peace, Progress and a Successful Future“
On July 27–28, St Petersburg will host the second Russia-Africa Summit and Russia-Africa Economic and Humanitarian Forum. On the eve of these large-scale representative events which will bring together heads of state and government, entrepreneurs, academia and public figures, I would like to share my vision of the development of Russia-Africa relations with the readers of the leading media on the African continent, outlining priority cooperation areas… Continue reading -
Jul 24 2023 
Demystifying Economics
June 30 2023 (Transcribed July 23).
Dr. Michael Hudson is a professor of Economics at the University of Missouri Kansas City, political consultant, commentator, and journalist. His career has focused on the study of debt, both external and internal, with an eye on what happens when the exponentially growing debts of a society outstrip the profits… Continue reading -
Jul 23 2023 
Collapse of Antiquity: Review of Michael Hudson’s last book by Pepe Escobar
https://sputnikglobe.com/20230515/pepe-escobar-us-empire-of-debt-headed-for-collapse-1110374196.html
Pepe Escobar: US Empire of Debt Headed for Collapse
Prof. Michael Hudson’s new book, The Collapse of Antiquity: Greece and Rome as Civilization’s Oligarchic Turning Point” is a seminal event in this Year of Living Dangerously when, to paraphrase Gramsci, the old geopolitical and geoeconomic order is dying and the new one is being born at… Continue reading
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Jul 23 2023
Michael Hudson: The Looming War Against China
Ed Note: There is a video which will be posted when available. In the meantime, the transcript of Prof. Hudson’s full presentation and we’ve all seen Pepe Escobar quoting from this. Here is the full presentation to Global University, Hong Kong.
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Economic Logic has been Replaced by National Security Overrides
The July NATO summit in Vilnius had… Continue reading -
Jul 23 2023 
A short Ukraine update
Russian Defence Ministry report on the progress of the special military operation
(23 July 2023)https://t.me/mod_russia_en/8548
▫️ Last night the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation launched a group strike with long-range, sea- and air- based precision weapons against sites where terrorist acts against the Russian Federation were being prepared with the use of unmanned boats, as well… Continue reading
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Jul 22 2023 
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.
Jul 26
Kremlin spokesman Peskov says US and its Western allies tried preventing countries from attending Africa-Russia summit
🗣 Yes, there is indeed… Continue reading
