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Update on Russian military operations in Ukraine for March 6
Solid work from Brian Berletic:
Summary:
UK DoD Claims Russians Fighting with “Shovels” – Ukraine Losing Bakhmut, Low on Artillery Shells
▪️Russian forces continue the encirclement of Bakhmut;
▪️Western media admits Russian operations around Bakhmut is exhausting Ukrainian forces and may diminish them ahead of an anticipated Ukrainian spring offensive;
▪️US announces another military assistance package for Ukraine with fewer… Continue reading
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Feb 22 2023 
Dmitry Medvedev: About two performances
From Dmitry Medvedev’s telegram channel followed by my comments. This is part 1 of comments on the Russia’s suspension of the New Start treaty.
Part 2 – Russian Foreign Ministery
Part 3 – Mr Putin’s statement with western responses
1. Yesterday there was a Message from the President of Russia to the Federal Assembly, which, among other things,… Continue reading
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Feb 16 2023 
Series: Ecuador and multipolarity
This is part of the ongoing series on Latin American and Caribbean countries adopting a multipolar structure. Ben Norton, from his newly named site, geopoliticaleconomy.com, interviews economist and politician Andrés Arauz from Ecuador. Ben is very active on Twitter and you should probably have his Tweet Stream in your bookmarks.
The transcript contains the history, but… Continue reading
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Missiles, Earthquakes & Pipelines – US Hegemony
Brian Berletic and Angelo Guiliano are some of the most pragmatic commentators out there. Angelo makes short mention of years back in Africa, where the west was already fighting the USSR at the time, in Africa. I saw some of that, but must say that neither of those sides did me any favors.
This is a… Continue reading
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Nato reaching to Asia
I mentioned Japan on this piece from Patrushev. The idea that the hegemon is now trying to flex its muscles in the East is increasing to the extent that everyone knows and it is now an open secret. But not Taiwan! Rather the chosen proxies are South Korea, Japan and the Philippines.
What is also getting… Continue reading
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Anti-Lula propaganda
One of the categories of information that appears in my email, is to take a look at anti-Lula propaganda. I received this article with the header:
Brazil – Lula’s Third Term – from Leftist to Globalist?
This is of course the type of depiction that comes directly from US Trumper types, who are against socialism but could… Continue reading
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How The Threat Of China Was Made In The USA
This comes from our fraternal site, The Greanville Post, and was written by Peter Man. It is an excellent and in-depth treatment of how western media works vis a vis China and broader propaganda. We can truly classify this as a ‘small encyclopedia’.
Smearing China: Western Media Are Staffed with Unprincipled Careerists & Disinformers.
Peter states: This… Continue reading -
Jan 15 2023 
Here comes China
From Godfree Robert’s excellent newsletter Here Comes China with my comments
Through the years since starting his newsletter, Godfree had excellent reporting on China and Covid. At my previous site, I could not report any of that, so, with a smile and a sense of freedom from a narrow ‘rules based order’ and a limited range… Continue reading
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Jan 03 2023 
General Suleimani
Iran’s Raeisi: Revenge for the assassination of General Soleimani ‘definitive’
It’s the 3rd anniversary of Gen Suleimani’s assassination.
On Jan. 3, 2020, the U.S. military assassinated Soleimani in a drone strike near the Baghdad International Airport. The assassination was condemned by Iran as “state terrorism.”
Iran’s Foreign Affairs Minister Hosein Amir Abdolahian affirmed that his institution and the Judiciary… Continue reading -
Site Bits and Pieces
So, two new records in December. The one was on the 27th, and the stats say we had 8,359 guests and this does not include scrapers and bots and so on – these are readers. I get confirmation of that in my email, as I get a lot of emails lol!
I posted the first article… Continue reading
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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 -
Dec 21 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.
We are in the tropics. We don’t have snow and sleighbells and all the traditional Christmas paraphernalia. The image on this post is then our Christmas… 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 -
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
