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Brazil with Lula: Significance for the world
Lula da Silva has returned as Brazil’s president. This will cause a major geopolitical shift. Meanwhile, far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro fled to Florida
This is Ben Norton and Brian Meir who is Brazil-based about what Lula’s 3rd government means for the world.
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Jan 02 2023 
The WHO?
We are all aware of the Russian objectives in the Ukraine, that of denazification and demilitarization. The real objective is toward security stability in the area, and to do that, Russia must deal a healthy blow to NATO.
There is a concomitant process. Let’s call it de-westernization. We described the current woes of the WTO here: … Continue reading
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Jan 01 2023 
A Retrospective of 2022 and Forebodings for 2023
From guest-writer AHH and now part of our chronicles
“During this year, we saw the popularity of a new kind of coup culminating in 2 coups in 2 days in Latin America: Peru and Argentina. These are visible as a parliamentary coup or judicial lawfare. Trade wars must be so passe.”
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Dec 29 2022 
Pentagon theorists predict scenarios
This is a machine translation of an article by Director Elena Panina of the Russtrat Institute
MOSCOW, December 29, 2022, RUSSTRAT Institute. The RAND Corporation (an analytical center working for the US Department of Defense) published a report in which it presented its vision of the confrontation between the united West and Russia, which is based only on… Continue reading
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Informal summit of CIS heads of state
The Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library in St Petersburg hosted an informal meeting of the heads of state of members of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Attending the meeting were President of Russia Vladimir Putin, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov, President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon, President of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov and President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev.
Traditional informal… Continue reading
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Dec 27 2022 
Lavrov speaks to Russian Media
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s opening remarks at a working meeting with senior executives of the Russian media, Moscow, December 26, 2022
Summary:⚠️ Everything that we are now witnessing in Europe in its broadest sense and on other continents, where US “messengers” want every country to take an anti-Russia position, to join the sanctions and to keep… Continue reading
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Russia dropping US dollar for Chinese Yuan – and fast
From Ben Norton and excellent research as usual:
In response to Western sanctions, Russia’s central bank is dropping the US dollar and plans to buy Chinese yuan on the foreign exchange market. The yuan’s share of trading on Russia’s currency market increased from 1% to 40-45% in less than a year, while dollar trade halved from… Continue reading
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Tentative forecast: Ukraine SMO
This is a writing from the TG channel Donbass Devushka written by a regular contributor Alcibiades. My comments follow:
Alcibiades on the War: Ultimatum.
Something’s caught my attention over the last several days. Russian leaders have, across the board, become noticeably more substantive in their rhetoric about the war and where it’s going. Specifically, I noticed that… Continue reading -
Medvedev: The results of 2022 changed World Order
Medvedev – on the results of 2022, which changed the world order
Following is a machine translation of Medvedev’s year-end article. While the content may be Russia-specific in some areas, in most areas it is clearly not only Russia-specific. Bear in mind that Medvedev has just returned from a visit to Xi Jinping, and this article… Continue reading -
Transformative Z..oomerangs of 2022
We are not seeing Boomerangs returning on the sanctions and repression policies. They turn and come back at a tremendous Zoomerang speed. A Zoomerang is a karma boomerang and as we know, karma is a beetch.
“Sanctions against Russia ‘boomeranged’ “– Lukashenko
Last year around this time, we were looking on in stunned amazement while Russia gave… 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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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
