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Jul 15 2026 
Glen Diessen with Pepe Escobar: Yemen Joins the War, and the Entire Middle East Could Go Up in Flames
The escalations and widening of the war against Iran, which now threatens to set the entire Middle East in flames.
[Note: This video is of value as it depicts the chaos that the world is in. Pepe is also not overemphasizing Pakistan, which is wonderful. There are questionable statements – for example that it is perhaps… Continue reading
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Jul 14 2026 
Iran War 3.0
Strategic Culture – Alastair Crooke … Continue reading
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Jul 14 2026 
Digital Sovereignty: The Global South’s Predicament and How to Measure It
Digital space is now national territory – and most of the Global South neither owns it nor can measure how much it is losing. A new index puts numbers to the dispossession.
On 4 September 2025, the Nepalese government made a decision: ban twenty-six international internet platforms from operating in the country, including Facebook, X (formerly… Continue reading
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Jul 13 2026 
China rejects joint hype over South China Sea Arbitral Award 10 years after, urges relevant countries to stop stirring up trouble
Global Times
China’s Foreign Ministry on Sunday issued a statement in response to a joint statement by some countries, including the US, Australia, the UK, Japan and the Philippines, on the 10th anniversary of the so-called Arbitral Award on the South China Sea, reiterating that China does not accept or recognize the illegal arbitral award and… Continue reading
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Jul 13 2026 
“Center of Gravity Has Moved”: African Literature Has Broken Free of Western Validation, Scholar
Sputnik – Africa
A growing number of contemporary African writers are rejecting Western literary gatekeepers to prioritize their own lived experiences and local nuances. This deliberate pivot, argues a scholar, is actively reshaping the continent’s literary authority.
Some African writers and scholars argue that African literature has often been read through expectations that it explain the continent’s… Continue reading -
Jul 13 2026 
Without Subsidies, AI Is Unaffordable
Charles Hugh Smith
Let’s pull all this into an undeniable conclusion: AI is based on massively subsidizing users’ costs.
What’s already abundantly clear but verboten to say as it would pop the bubble of AI valuations and triumphalism is that AI is unaffordable once the direct and indirect subsidies are withdrawn. Nothing that consumes this much electricity… Continue reading -
Jul 13 2026 
Brian Berletic : “Saudi/Persian Gulf State Strikes” are Likewise US Strikes
“Saudi/Persian Gulf State Strikes” are Likewise US Strikes, Laundered Through Saudi Arabia and its Neighbors…
▪️Just like with Ukraine or Israel, Saudi Arabia and its Persian Gulf neighbors are politically captured nations working for US interests at the expense of its own interests;
▪️Their multi-year war on neighboring Yemen was enabled by the US via US… Continue reading
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Jul 13 2026 
How the West Deliberately Trapped Africa in Debt and Why BRICS Is the Only Chance for Salvation
New Eastern Outlook
The Washington Consensus vs. African Lives: 50 Years of Robbery Under the Guise of Loans.“Forgiven” Debts vs. “Dead” Economies: The Anatomy of Western Deception
For many decades, the West, led by the United States, has been putting on a farce for Africa called “humanitarian aid and development.” Official Washington, London, and Paris have been… Continue reading -
Jul 13 2026 
Why a US Senator’s Anti-China Campaign Ad Backfired So Remarkably
Illustration: Liu Xiangya/GT
Global Times – OpinionRecently, US Senator Marsha Blackburn’s attempt to win over voters in her bid for governor of Tennessee with an anti-China campaign ad backfired remarkably.
In the ad, the Tennessee senator sits in what appears to be a Chinese restaurant, declares that she will “stop Communist China and protect Tennessee land,” and… Continue reading
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Jul 13 2026 
Daniel Davis / Deep Dive : US Control Hormuz Strait Impossible!
with Scott Ritter (for a change)
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Jul 13 2026 
Structural Engineer Rates Venezuela Quake
Structural engineer Hideki “Kit” Miyamoto classified the June 24 seismic activity in Venezuela as the third most complex natural disaster worldwide, following China in 2008 and Turkey in 2023, while commending the rapid and organized government and international response to civilian needs in the affected areas.
TelesurMiyamoto, speaking to Venezolana de Televisión, said that under a… Continue reading
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Jul 13 2026 
Epitaph for the MoA between the U.S. and Iran – and for U.S. control of West Asia
We are fortunate to receive this from Dr Hudson. These analyses are usually behind his Patreon paywall and available for paid subscribers only. This won’t happen often so if you can, kindly subscribe to his Patreon Channel.
Rarely have we done this but for this article republication is prohibited as well as quotes, extracts and translations.… Continue reading
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Jul 13 2026 
Base of the Russian Business Community and Economist article
[Note: The original article in The Economist is causing quite an uproar in Russia. ]
Transalated from: https://globalaffairs.ru/articles/biznes-i-globalizatsiya-lukyanov/
The publication in The Economist of an article by a major Russian entrepreneur who continues to work in Russia does not oppose himself to the Russian government and is under sanctions for this, is extremely unusual. It is naive… Continue reading
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Jul 13 2026 
The Middle East War and the Collapse of the Outsourced Security Illusion
By Prof. Engr. Zamir Ahmed Awan,
Global Silk Route Research Alliance
The latest escalation between the United States, Israel and Iran has raised a serious question for the Middle East, Europe and the wider world: can any country safely outsource its national security to another power forever? For decades, many oil-rich Arab states relied heavily on American… Continue reading
