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Apr 03 2023 
An Easter Message: On the Coming Resurrection of the Civilisations that the West Buried in the Jungle of its Soul
With thanks to Batiushka, the author
Europe is a garden. We have built a garden. Everything works. It is the best combination of political freedom, economic prosperity and social cohesion that humankind has been able to build – the three things together….Most of the rest of the world is a jungle, and the jungle could invade… Continue reading
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Apr 03 2023 
A Song, from Debt during the Crusades
Michael Hudson is a prolific writer. He is already onto his next book dealing with Debt in the Crusades, while the previous one is hardly dry from the printers. We are exceedingly fortunate to get snippets of the new material, which is captivating.
This is a song that we all know. And if we do not… Continue reading
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Apr 03 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. The rough theme: Breaking some beaks! The sheer size of the lashback against the US and NATO countries.
“The Provencal poet… Continue reading
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Apr 02 2023 
The Tragedy of Libya: Larry Romanoff
On Nov. 14, 1969, Muammar Gaddafi greets the crowd for the first time since the overthrow of the Libyan monarchy. Gamma-Keystone / Getty Images. Source
With thanks to Larry Romanoff, the author.
This is one of a long series of tragic tales involving US imperialism and media disinformation. As with all the others, you need to put… Continue reading
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Apr 02 2023 
FM Lavrov: Interview with Prensa Latina Cuban News Agency
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with the Prensa Latina Cuban news agency, Moscow, March 30, 2023
(Note: How very decent of Mr Lavrov to grant an interview with possibly one the smallest media outlets. And even in this interview, he defines Global South and Global Majority as the terminology to use. )Question (retranslated from Spanish):… Continue reading
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Apr 01 2023 
Lineaments of Multipolar World Rising: Africa and Russia harmonize (Part 6)
By AHH
Please read in order: Part 1 ; Part 2 ; Part 3 ; Part 4 ; Part 5
TRANSFORMATIONAL
“В ти́хом о́муте че́рти во́дятся
The devil lives in the still waters.”
— Russian ProverbA) The Empire Strikes Back.
What to do about the West and its primordial way of life? We’ve watched them totally unleashed since 1991, even… Continue reading
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Mar 31 2023 
The Capital of the Multipolar World: A Moscow Diary
By Pepe Escobar posted with permission and first posted at Katehon
How sharp was good ol’ Lenin, prime modernist, when he mused, “there are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen”. This global nomad now addressing you has enjoyed the privilege of spending four astonishing weeks in Moscow at the heart of… Continue reading
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Mar 31 2023 
Michael Hudson & Danny Haiphong: BRICS, de-dollarization, banking crisis, multipolarity
This is a wonderful interview. Each time I listen to Michael, he unfolds the economic terrain in a totally realistic manner, so that we actually know what is happening. In this interview, there also is a surprise, and because I am so thrilled, I’ll give it to you now: “I got some of the ideas… Continue reading
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Brian Berletic & Angelo Giuliano: Broad Update
There are a number of Ukraine and broader updates in the social media, from generally reliable commentators that we all know. As we’ve seen, many of them have their blind spots as well. But it is sounding more and more hysterical. I find Brian Berletic and Angelo Giuliano clear with the least hysterics and both… Continue reading
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Mar 30 2023 
Web of U.S. Foreign policy
With thanks to Nat South, the author
Introduction: This article is in response to the 2nd “Summit for Democracy”, co-organised by Washington, which has generated quite a lot of comments on social media, but more tellingly, a sharp appraisal of the current U.S hegemony and geopolitical situation by Russian and Chinese officials no less. This article… Continue reading
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Iraq, Kuwait, and the Gulf War
With thanks to LARRY ROMANOFF, the author
President George H.W. Bush (second from right) meets with Defense Secretary Dick Cheney (third from left) and military advisors General Norman Schwarzkopf (second from left) and Joint Chiefs Chairman Colin Powell (right) at the Pentagon to discuss the Gulf crisis, August 15, 1990.Gary Cameron/Reuters Source
Between the Tigris and Euphrates… Continue reading
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Radhika Desai & Michael Hudson now + transcript
Note: I brought this forward in time to enjoy this for the second time now with transcript.
Did big banks take over the Treasury? Bank crisis exposes public realities of private banking
Economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson discuss the US banking crisis and the effective privatization of the Treasury in this episode of their program Geopolitical… Continue reading -
Mar 30 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. The rough theme : picking up many world pieces
April 2
(pen name Vladlen Tatarsky) has so far not been linked… Continue reading
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Mar 29 2023 
A change in the tone, specificity and scope of China’s diplomacy
Having read the Chinese Foreign Ministry reports and announcements as a matter of course across years, a change is noticeable. At this level, the one of diplomacy, China has taken aim at the main pillars of US propaganda. China is now not only making defensive statements to US threats and belligerence, but it is also… Continue reading
