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Jul 21 2023 
Vladimir Putin: Meeting on current issues with permanent members of the Security Council
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/71714
Taking part in the meeting were Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko, State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev, Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Anton Vaino, Secretary of the Security Council Nikolai Patrushev, Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Defence Minister… Continue reading
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Jul 21 2023 
Neocons Want War With China
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Sputnikglobe.com
It was a photo op for the ages: a visibly well-disposed President Xi Jinping receiving centenarian “old friend of China” Henry Kissinger in Beijing.
Mirroring meticulous Chinese attention to protocol, they met at Villa 5 of the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse – exactly where Kissinger first met in person with… Continue reading
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Jul 21 2023 
A possible plus for South Africa as a BRICS member, or the Grim Reaper cometh
We support our BRICS members, despite the frequent sharp critique. After the debacle with Mr.Putin’s possible visit to South Africa, and the eventual announcement that he will not attend the BRICS summit in August in Johannesburg, but will attend via video link, the South Africans put lipstick on a pig, and announced the great miracle… Continue reading
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Jul 21 2023 
Breaking Predatory Brazil Narratives from the Imperialist North / Brian Mier
Taking a look at Brazil in the runup to BRICS
Today’s episode features an interview with This Is Hell! regular Brian Mier. Brian updates Chuck on what the US corporate media has been getting wrong about Brazil. We also have the second of a two-part Moment of Truth from Jeff Dorchen.
Brian Mier is a Chicagoan who… Continue reading
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Jul 20 2023 
Russia has Demilitarized, Denazified, and Rebuilt Ukraine Before
From Deborah Armstrong and first posted at the Greanville Post
In the years following WW2, the Soviets purged Ukraine of Nazis while the US gave them safe havenFeatured Image: Soviet “Banderite Hunters” denazified Ukraine at the end of WW2 and in the post-war years. Photo: Twitter
Victory Day, May 9th, is one of Russia’s most sacred holidays.… Continue reading
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Jul 20 2023 
An Evening with Carl Zha: Understanding the Dynamics of the Asia Pacific
Carl, at his Silk and Steel Podcast has an encyclopedic knowledge on Chinese History and the Asia Pacific basin.
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Jul 19 2023 
On the UN chief’s comments on the Istanbul agreements
Russian MFA
On the day when the Black Sea Grain Initiative on the export of Ukrainian grain expired, the UN Secretary-General issued a large press release. Apart from twisting the facts about the implementation of the Istanbul agreements again, Antonio Guterres acted in violation of all the laws of diplomatic correspondence by making public his personal… Continue reading
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Jul 19 2023 
EU-CELAC summit: instead of condemning Russia, demands on the EU
From Elena Panini, Russtrat.ru
Instead of condemning Russia, demands on the EU
The recent summit of the European Union and Latin America can already be considered a failure for Europe and the “former order.” The final toothless declaration was signed somehow. And that’s not all: Nicaragua refused to sign the document, calling the declaration “pompous and false”… Continue reading
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Jul 19 2023 
Extreme Heat
It does not matter what you think about ‘climate change’, there is extreme heat over a large part of the world that is in summer. I’ve heard all the jokes – yes, it is hot in summer did you not know, but what I hear and what we experience is extreme. El Niño, they say… Continue reading
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Jul 19 2023 
Briefing by Chief of Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Protection Troops Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov on U.S. military and biological activity
Read in full at the link:
https://telegra.ph/Briefing-by-Chief-of-Nuclear-Chemical-and-Biological-Protection-Troops-General-Lieutenant-Igor-Kirillov-on-US-military-and-biolo-07-14
Key facts:
• The U.S. State Department launched an active outreach campaign to neutralise Russian accusations that US military biologists had violated the provisions of the Biological Weapons Convention.
• The U.S. military specialists have been successful in adapting and growing vectors collected from their natural habitat. The methods they have developed… Continue reading
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Jul 19 2023 
Dustup in South Africa: Putin at BRICS summit – yes or no! (Update 1 & 2)
The lawfare is in full swing in South Africa about Putin’s visit (or not) during the upcoming BRICS summit because of the ICC warrant of arrest against Putin. It is taking a bizarre twist.
An opposition party, the DA (Democratic Alliance) made a representation in the form of an affidavit to a High Court to ensure… Continue reading
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Jul 18 2023 
The Black Sea Grain deal — now what?
With thanks to Nat South, and first posted on Livejournal
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results” – Einstein“The decision on the Black Sea initiative is final, there are no more negotiations” – Russian mission to the UN
After the NATO Summit, Ukraine carried out the final “coup de grace” on… Continue reading -
Jul 18 2023 
In Sicily, Top of the Mountain, Watching the New Barbarians
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Strategic Culture
It’s another stunning sunset in the western edge of the Sicilian coast, and I’m right in front of the Real Duomo in Erice, the pluri-millenary “Mount”, sung by Virgil in the Aeneid as “close to the stars”, and founded by the mythical homonymous son of Venus and… Continue reading
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Jul 18 2023 
CELAC-EU Summit
There is no shortage of straight talk from the CELAC leaders at the EU summit. They demand sanctions on Venezuela and Nicaragua to cease, and the blockade on Cuba to be lifted.
The Honduran president was forceful in her address to the meeting, calling these measures straight-out piracy.
President Xiomara Castro: “The CELAC-EU summit must approve a… Continue reading
