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Dec 20 2024 
Pepe Escobar & Scott Ritter: Putin readies war with NATO as Russia strikes Kiev, leaves Syria
Pepe is on during the first half. You may ignore Scott Ritter during the second half if you choose.
Russia hits strategic command center in Kiev amid reports of Syria withdrawl: is Putin preparing for war with NATO? Pepe Escobar & Scott Ritter rip the mask off the huge escalations NATO is undertaking… Continue reading
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Dec 18 2024 
Person of the year: Francesca P. Albanese
It took a while before I could settle on my own personal Person of the Year. In reality, I wanted to put forward a feisty maid at Buckingham Palace, who, at a staff party, got motherless drunk, created chaos, and insulted the King, the Queen, and all their ancestry. She ended up for the night… Continue reading
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Dec 12 2024 
Susan Abulhawa interview with Afshin Rattanzi: The real situation in Gaza
A few days ago, we posted a speech by Susan Abulhawa. This is an interview with Afshin Rattanzi from Going Underground on RT. Susan speaks about the real situation in Gaza.
Susan is a Palestinian American writer, human rights activist and animal rights advocate.She is the author of several books, and the… Continue reading
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Dec 07 2024 
FM Lavrov eviscerates an Al Jazeera Journalist on Doha day
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s answers to questions at the 22th Doha Forum, 07 December 2024
Question: Sergey Lavrov, Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation, thank you for talking to Al Jazeera at the 2024 Doha Forum.
There is so much to talk to you about but I’d like to start with Syria. Those dramatic developments that seem to… Continue reading -
Dec 06 2024 
Erdogan’s Idlib shock shadows “Kursk”
By Alastair Crooke and first posted at Strategic Culture
Companion Reading: An article referred to by Alastair from Professor Sergei Karaganov titled Reflections on the Path to Victory
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To seek a deal on Ukraine is to treat the symptom and to ignore a cure, Alastair Crooke writes.
‘Doomsters’ is an occasional Russian expression used to categorise… Continue reading
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Dec 04 2024 
Guarantors of Syria peace talks to meet in Qatar: Iran FM
From PressTV
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has announced that the top diplomats of the three guarantor states of the Astana peace process will meet in Qatar to discuss the resurgence of terrorism in Syria.
Araghchi on Wednesday said he will head to Qatar “early next week” to take part in the Doha Forum.
Noting that the top… Continue reading
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Nov 29 2024
How Russia and China are rewiring Greek mythology
“.. we see Russia playing chess .. while China is playing Go (Weiqi 围棋), also thinking several moves ahead. And the partnership, all along, in synch, is spawning a lovely Greek mythology revival.”
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
Oh, the wonders chips from dishwashers are able to unleash.
How come Zeus, King of the Gods,… Continue reading
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Nov 29 2024 
“Hazelnuts are here. How long until the hypersonic “pistachios” arrive?”
By Quantum Bird
Straight to the point. The appearance of the new Russian hypersonic weapons system, nicknamed Oreshnik – or hazelnut tree – is a significant step towards the obsolescence of nuclear bombs. Details about the design and operation of the Oreshnik remain scarce, but we do know that it is a medium-range ballistic missile with… Continue reading -
Nov 27 2024 
NATO Faces Capitulation in Europe
“The U.S. has to come to terms with a multipolar world order in which its unilateral diktat is no longer tenable, legally, politically, or morally … It must capitulate in Europe and cease its aggressive global policies.”
with appreciation to Dr. Karl at karlof1’s Geopolitical Gymnasium.
Various sources define capitulation as “an agreement in time of war for the surrender to… Continue reading
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Nov 26 2024 
A defining moment in the Ukraine war
… a terribly beauty is born…
By Ambassador MK Bhadrakumar at the Indian Punchline.
The Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a statement on Thursday regarding the two attacks by Western long-range weapons on Russian territory on November 19 and 21 and Moscow’s reactive strike on a facility within Ukraine’s defence industrial complex in the city of Dnepropetrovsk with a hitherto unknown non-nuclear hypersonic ballistic… Continue reading
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Nov 23 2024 
The Conditions of Colonized Countries will materialize in the west
Shahid Bolsen, the leading Political Commentator on global Muslim affairs – 20 mins
Neo Liberal Capitalist Subjugation, the shift to financialization has reduced the importance of the military industrial complex, the old war profiteers have now to compete for influence over policy, empire’s tools have shifted from bullets to balance sheets, national and anational factions, Europe… Continue reading
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Nov 22 2024 
What else happened yesterday?
Two major news items appeared yesterday, seemingly out of nowhere. There were others.
The first was Mr Putin’s address where he introduced the world to the short and intermediate-range new missile, the Oreshnik. The world was aware of a new weapon that Russia used the previous night and the controversy ran hot in terms of what… Continue reading
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Nov 20 2024 
First international trial for war crimes at Nuremberg
From red@redstreamnet: https://x.com/redstreamnet/status/1859289753159647628
On the loose theme that I’ve been following on recreation of history.
Did you know that the first international trial for war crimes at Nuremberg, which is often credited as a US invention, was, in fact, brought about by the Soviet Union?
US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British PM Winston Churchill… Continue reading
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Nov 18 2024 
Syria in the Eye of the Storm
Israel threatens, but Russia won’t play the role of guard dog.
By Abdel Bari Atwan at Rai Al Youm.
To understand the escalation of Israeli airstrikes against Syria amid renewed US diplomatic moves in the region, we need to go back to last week’s press conference held by Israel’s new foreign minister Gideon Saar.
This coincided with the… Continue reading
