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Tectonic plates shifting: geo-politics & geo-finance
By Alastair Crooke and first posted at Strategic Culture
Managing the Ukraine Denial Narrative
Look around: the tectonic plates of geo-politics and geo-finance are shifting – shifting radically away from an increasingly flailing West.The inflection has begun. It has been messaged by the Financial Times (FT) and The Economist – the two media that so faithfully… Continue reading
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From the NATOstan-Imposed Meat Grinder
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Strategic Culture
Somewhere in her private pantheon, Pallas Athena, Goddess of Geopolitics, is immensely enjoying the show.
No one ever lost money capitalizing on the unlimited nonsense spewed out by the collective deer caught in the headlights also known as Western mainstream media – complete with showering Person of the… Continue reading
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Dec 18 2022 
A Travelogue of Felix Arabia, late Autumn 2022
A Travelogue of Felix Arabia, by our own AHH
Summary
Caveat lector: a week’s travel is insufficient to get a good handle on a different people. That being said I married a woman born in and of southern Yemeni culture and learned much over the years from her and their other expats. Additionally, I have a huge… Continue reading
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Dec 17 2022 
Xi of Arabia and the petroyuan drive
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at The Cradle
It would be so tempting to qualify Chinese President Xi Jinping landing in Riyadh a week ago, welcomed with royal pomp and circumstance, as Xi of Arabia proclaiming the dawn of the petroyuan era.
But it’s more complicated than that. As much as the seismic shift implied by… Continue reading
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Michael Hudson interview with a German radio station with reach!
Our most favorite economist and he has such a (black) sense of humor. “MH: Ukraine hardly can be rebuilt. First of all, much of its population has left, and is unlikely to return, given the destruction of housing and infrastructure – and husbands.” Prepare a cup of tea, sit back and read… Continue reading
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Iran: Professor Marandi with the Gaggle
So, what actually happened in Iran?
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Dec 16 2022 
Daily Chronicles
The Daily Chronicles are snippets of the most important news across the world for this and each day as it rolls in. Kindly also use it as an open thread.
From Intel Slava Z: Putin, Shoigu and Lavrov are arriving in Belarus today. A wide range of relations within the framework of the Union State is… Continue reading
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Peru: The CIA coup
From Ben Norton at Multipolarista.com
Day before coup, US ambassador in Peru, veteran CIA agent, met with defense minister
The US ambassador in Peru, Lisa Kenna, worked for the CIA for 9 years, as well as the Pentagon. One day before the coup against elected left-wing President Pedro Castillo, Kenna met with Peru’s defense minister, who then… Continue reading -
Surprise: UNGA votes … (update)
for a New International Economic Order
NEW: The UN General Assembly adopts “Towards a New International Economic Order” by a vote of 123-50.
The results speak for themselves: pic.twitter.com/KVE7GeOo4g— Michael Galant (@michael_galant) December 14, 2022
This is what the map looks like:
UPDATE
The UN General Assembly has adopted a Russian resolution to combat the glorification of Nazism. Incredibly, Germany… Continue reading
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Topical current events; Multipolar Pain!
There are two erstwhile ‘summits’ going on.
The first we can simply note and then let it go because it is of null value. This is the December 13–15 US-Africa Summit, with 49 delegations from African states and one from the African Union (AU). It is clear that this summit was called for one reason only. … Continue reading
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Russia & Asia: the Emerging Order
The Valdai Club is hosting their end-of-year conference titled Russia and Asia: the Emerging International Order. These are expert discussions and all worth looking at. You can find the various live videos on the program and transcripts will become available:
Dynamics of Asia’s Development Amidst Rebuilding the International Order (live)
Future of Energy and Food Markets (live)
Potential… Continue reading
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Two X Escobar
Pepe says: “I talked to Press TV about Brazil before my current whirlwind tour – back to Europe tomorrow. The itvw was uploaded this past weekend – and of course some of what I learned on the spot is waaaay more complicated…”
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2022/12/10/694224/Future-of-Brazil
And his conversation (in Portugese): Brazil and its new foreign policy
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Dec 11 2022 
Daily Chronicles
The Daily Chronicles are snippets of the most important news across the world for this and each day as it rolls in. Kindly also use it as an open thread.
This is the guy that started the big talk about vaccines .. i.e., Operation Warp Speed.
This is the guy that took out General Qassem Soleimani, and… Continue reading
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A few short comments on Empire
For those that spend their weekends having fun learning, instead of having fun in the sun.
We have no reason to misunderstand the empire. Michael Parenti had a very clear description of what empire is, 10 years ago already.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOF56wYTl1w
And to make this practical, with maps an’all, we have Daniel Immerwahr with his book, How to Hide… Continue reading
