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Aug 13 2025 
The War & Genocide Thread
Keep talking about Gaza!
Permanent X link to Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur – the Occupied Territories.
Francesca has her blue checkmark back.The previous thread contains Netanyahu’s spiritual needs.
Aug 20
When you wake up, keep your eyes on Gaza, which is being subjected…
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Aug 12 2025 
Slices of Life
with gratitude to Linh Dinh at Postcards from the End.
Empty Bellies, Emptier Minds — Aug 06, 2025.
Arriving at Coffee Seven around 3:40AM, I sat on its one park bench to use the wifi. Five minutes later I could hear Mrs. Seven…
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Aug 12 2025 
Towards Lasting Peace between Azerbaijan and Armenia.
From Zamir Awan
On August 8, 2025, an event unfolded on the world stage that once seemed unimaginable: at the White House, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev signed the “Agreement on the Establishment of Peace and…
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Aug 12 2025 
The Bear and the Eagle Face-Off in Alaska
All eyes on Alaska. The Bear-Eagle face-off is part of an astonishing acceleration of history in the summer of 2025.
By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.
Two weeks after Alaska, there’s the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) annual summit in Tianjin, China. India’s Narendra…
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Aug 12 2025 
‼️ Michael Hudson: Note 2 on the planned Alaska meeting
The discussion and the thinking continue: Note 1 is here
Putin started this year’s meetings with Trump by saying that the root of their problems is not Ukraine. Ukraine is only an arena in the fight by NATO (led by the…
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Aug 12 2025
‼️ Michael Hudson: Note 1 on the planned Alaska meeting
It is a distortion of reality for the press to depict Russia as at war with Ukraine. It is at war with NATO; Ukraine is the battlefield for this war, the arena.
NATO uses the old police tactic of Good Cop…
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Aug 11 2025 
Alastair Crooke : The Pressures on Trump
With the Judge:
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Aug 11 2025 
What is Mexico doing in terms of tariffs and sovereignty
Quite a lot. Mexico is now a developing socialist country. This makes the slavering dogs howl. But, so far, so good. Following is a podcast by Soberania, in English, which means sovereignty. There is a growth in independent media and…
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Aug 11 2025 
Let’s Invade Mexico! (replay)
This is an old essay by Fred Reed, who is no longer writing. He lived in Mexico for many years with his Mexican wife. He was a prolific, beloved and popular writer. I replay this in relation to the US…
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Aug 11 2025 
Trump’s trade tantrums and bullying hit a wall of solid BRICS
U.S. power has become increasingly redundant and indeed something to repudiate.
August 8, Op Ed from Strategic Culture.
President Donald Trump’s estimation of American power, like that of his own abilities, is increasingly seen to be badly overblown. This week, he threatened…
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Aug 10 2025 
Getting Used To Abuse
Featured image: As the Smashing Pumpkins said, ‘despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage’. Photo of author in Svalbard, Norway
By indi.ca
At one point it would have been farcical that I’d be banned from…
