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Aug 05 2026 
To Imagine a New Development Theory from the Global South
The Global North’s prescriptions for development, including the IMF’s tired dogmas, have failed. It is time for a new development theory rooted in the experiences of the Global South.
https://thetricontinental.org/newsletterissue/global-south-development-theory/
Attributed to Jacopo de’ Barbari (Italy), Portrait of Fra Luca Pacioli with…
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Aug 05 2026 
Michael Hudson: The Dollar Empire Is Collapsing – The Rise of New Global Economic Order
With Lena Petrova : World Affairs In Context
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Aug 05 2026 
Putin legalizes crypto in Russia
The president has authorized a regulated digital currency market while keeping a ban on domestic payments
(The reality in Russia is that Russians use cryptocurrencies).
RT
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a landmark law legalizing cryptocurrency trading, which will be regulated as…
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Aug 05 2026 
Al Mayadeen’s Minab Documentary asks the right questions
Five months after US missile attacks devastated an elementary school for girls in Minab, southern Iran, a documentary by Al Mayadeen English dismantles mainstream narratives surrounding the attack. While Western media outlets relied on satellite imagery and AI analysis to…
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Aug 05 2026 
Elijah Magnier: Trump Doubles Down: Iran Will Be “Hit Really Hard” If They Back Out
with Nima from Dialogue Works
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Aug 04 2026 
Alastair Crooke : Tensions flicker into flame, lapping across the Middle East
The best Trump can do is to stop the conflicts agglutinating into one global war.
Strategic Culture
The silence surrounding the outcome to the Netanyahu meeting last week in the Oval Office speaks for itself. No American government official came to the…
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Aug 04 2026 
Pavel Durov explains the short removal of Telegram …
Apple removed Telegram from their app store for about 2 hours.
Durov explains:
Last night, Apple briefly removed Telegram from the App Store because a single user had planted illegal pornographic content in a public group chat.
⬅️ Telegram was restored within hours.…
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Aug 04 2026 
Regarding Reports of Empty US Stockpiles
Brian Berletic and I’ve been not confident on the many reports that we’ve seen on counting missiles and saying .. only x many are left.
▪️Yes, stockpiles are likely low, including of ATACMS and PrSM missiles (the newer, longer-range replacement for…
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Aug 04 2026 
This Week in Africa
Jeffrey Paller
Quote of the week
“To the young people of Mogadishu, live! And to young Somalis wherever they are across the globe, live.” – Somali president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud
Politics of Senegal
President Bassirou Diomaye Faye breaks with Ousmane Sonko to launch a…
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Aug 04 2026 
Michael Hudson : Why interest rates will soar when oil prices rise
The price rise will cause widening trade deficits for oil-importing countries such as Japan. Its yen already has been weakening steadily, to the point where the U.S. Treasury is intervening to support it.
But as its payments for oil imports rise…
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Aug 04 2026 
Statement by Chargé d’Affaires a.i. Anna Evstigneeva at a UNSC Briefing on the Situation in the Middle East
https://russiaun.ru/en/news/228072026
Mr. President,
We thank Mr. Ramiz Alakbarov, Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, for his briefing.
The situation in the Middle East has been one of the main items on the agenda of the Security Council virtually since the…
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Aug 04 2026 
Trump’s Venezuelan ‘grab ‘em by the oil’ coup isn’t going as planned
Geopolitics Prime
Eight months after the US kidnapped Maduro and forced Caracas to rewrite its oil ownership, investment and export laws, not a single major new agreement has been finalized with American oil companies looking to cash in on a potential…
