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Jul 03 2023 
Daily Chronicles
The Daily Chronicles are snippets of the most important news across the world (and a joke or two) for this and each day as it rolls in – as such, this thread is non-structured with the latest news on top.
Jul 9
Slow for new news. The old news is being regurgitated and the discussion is around… Continue reading
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Jul 03 2023 
Perfidious Albion and Perfidious America
With thanks to Batiushka, our writer
Introduction: Perfidy
The word ‘perfidious’ has many synonyms: deceitful, untrustworthy, duplicitous, disloyal, faithless, false, traitorous, treacherous. The term ‘Perfidious Albion’ has been used by the French of the British since at least the thirteenth century and later by many other nationalities (1). Why? Where does this view come from?
Part One: The Perfidious… Continue reading
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Jul 02 2023 
The Age of Confrontation: Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev-on how the tectonic civilizational rift can and should be resolved
Statements by Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, made during an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta:
Summary
▪️ The course of the AFU counter-offensive proved unexpected for Kiev’s Western sponsors, who believed in the “omnipotence of unlimited dough”. The defeat of the AFU in the Artemovsk direction was a foregone conclusion;
▪️ European businesses that have… Continue reading
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Jul 02 2023 
“Zaluzhny’s revelations”: the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine found those responsible for the problems of the counteroffensive
From https://ria.ru/20230702/zaluzhnyy-1881678702.html
Ed Note: Alexander Mercouris speculates that Zalushni disappeared because he would not take part in the Ukrainian counter-offensive or offensive. He deals with these issues in some depth, as well as the secret meeting of Burns to Ukraine and his video is posted at the end.
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Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny… Continue reading
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Jul 02 2023 
Why I Joined The ‘Special Military Operation’ – Russian Medic Interview Uncut – Part 1 & 2
This never happens – Russian soldiers do not talk. Ivan who joined the ‘SMO’ as a Medic in the very early days tells his story. He is careful in what he says, but he does criticize. He is interviewed by Australian podcaster, Willie OAM.
Ivan Martynov, who completed a 6-month contract as part of a special… Continue reading
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Jul 01 2023 
A Matryoshka of Psyops: And Why General Armageddon Is Not Going Anywhere
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Strategic Culture
The main problem faced by Russia is not the Hegemon and NATO: it’s domestic, Pepe Escobar writes.
The secret of a perfect psyop is that no one really understands it.
A perfect psyop accomplishes two tasks: it renders the enemy dazed and confused while achieving a set of very… Continue reading
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Jul 01 2023 
Weekend Discussion: How will the Ukraine war end?
It will not end with a peace treaty, but with an unconditional surrender and those circumstances will define the how and when of an eventual cessation of hostilities. The surrender may be in words, or it may be that Ukraine will just peter out until the hostilities cease on the ground because there is nobody… Continue reading
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Jun 30 2023 
Briefing and Q&A by Russian FM Sergey Lavrov on topical foreign policy issues, including humanitarian aspects of the situation around Ukraine
Mr Lavrov did this briefing just a few hours ago. There is no transcript yet, but this briefing is important.
https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1lDxLnLZAkMGm
RT has a very basic overview here:
https://www.rt.com/russia/578975-lavrov-destroy-mercenaries-generals/
For me, the very important comment from FM Lavrov is not something that we do not know, but here is the confirmation of what we all saw the past few… Continue reading
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Jun 30 2023 
Who sits at the head of the table?
Here is the strategy of the imperialist hegemonic power and to my reckoning, this is what we are going to have to fight for possibly 5 years into the future.
They are fighting for the chair at the Head of the Table, despite what the rest of the world, the Global Majority decides is to be… Continue reading
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Jun 30 2023
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with the Great Game programme on Channel One, Moscow
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with the Great Game programme on Channel One, Moscow, June 28, 2023
Question: President of the United States Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken have said in their statements that Washington was not involved in any manner in the June 24, 2023 mutiny. They even claimed that they do… Continue reading -
Jun 29 2023 
BRICS and the Political Economy of the New World Order: An Expert Discussion (now with summary transcript)
Video on this page:
https://valdaiclub.com/multimedia/video/brics-and-the-political-economy-of-the-new-world-order/
Alternative link: https://vk.com/video-214192832_456239104
On June 29, the Valdai Club hosted an expert discussion, titled “BRICS and the Political Economy of the New World Order.”
Under the stress experienced by the traditional institutions of globalisation and global governance, the BRICS association (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) is becoming the most important centre for the… Continue reading
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Jun 29 2023 
Here Comes China
For America to be displaced by an Asian people long despised and dismissed with contempt as decadent, feeble, corrupt and inept, is emotionally very difficult to accept. The sense of cultural supremacy of the Americans will make this adjustment most difficult. – Lee Kwan Yew
Editorial from Godfree Roberts
Biden’s Legacy of Ashes?
Lee Kwan Yew’s prescient observation, “The sense of… Continue reading
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Jun 28 2023 
SCOOP! Michael Hudson: America has Just Destroyed a Great Empire
New Essay by Michael Hudson
Herodotus (History, Book 1.53) tells the story of Croesus, king of Lydia c. 585-546 BC in what is now Western Turkey and the Ionian shore of the Mediterranean. Croesus conquered Ephesus, Miletus and neighboring Greek-speaking realms, obtaining tribute and booty that made him one of the richest rulers of his time.… Continue reading
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Jun 28 2023 
Daily Chronicles
The Daily Chronicles are snippets of the most important news across the world (and a joke or two) for this and each day as it rolls in – as such, this thread is non-structured with the latest news on top.
Please note, our site is being hammered very hard, from a different vector today than the… Continue reading
