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Dec 21 2023 
Shipping update
Please bear in mind that Russian ships can travel undisturbed. For most of the rest of the world, contracts are being canceled, container prices are rising, and even oil is nudging upwards. The supply chain is showing an increase everywhere you…
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Dec 21 2023 
Letter to the Taiwan Peace Movement
Author Micheal Wong : English version in Peace and Planet News, a project of members of Veterans For Peace: https://peaceandplanetnews.org/letter-to-the-taiwan-peace-movement/
Chinese version, in the Storm news in Taiwan: https://www.storm.mg/article/4950730?mode=whole
To my fellow lovers of peace in Taiwan, Greetings from the United States,…
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Dec 21 2023 
Abdel Bari Atwan: Yemen & Hamas
YEMEN AND THE WAR ON GAZAHow will the US respond to the Houthi challenge to Israeli shipping?
By Abdel Bari Atwan via Rai Al Youm
By intercepting Israeli shipping and engaging US and French naval vessels in the Red Sea, Yemen’s Houthi…
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Dec 20 2023 
Pepe Escobar: Yemen Ready to Stare Down a New Imperial Coalition
No one ever lost money betting on the ability of the Empire of Chaos, Lies and Plunder to construct a “coalition of the willing” whenever faced with a geopolitical quandary.
In every case, duly covered by the reigning “rules-based international order”,…
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Dec 20 2023 
Exclusive: Interview with Hamas leader Saleh al-Arouri
cannot embed this video so please find it here:
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2023/12/18/716613/interview-with-Saleh-al-Arouri
In this exclusive interview with Press TV, senior Hamas leader Saleh al-Arouri discusses the reasons behind the October 7 operation against the Israeli occupation and what lies ahead now.
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Dec 20 2023 
President Putin arrived at the National Defence Control Centre of the Russian Federation to attend an expanded meeting of the Defence Ministry Board.
The President arrived at the National Defence Control Centre of the Russian Federation to attend an expanded meeting of the Defence Ministry Board.
December 19, 2023
14:40
Moscow
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At the expanded meeting of the Defence Ministry Board. Photo: Artem Geodakyan, TASS
President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Comrade officers,…
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Dec 20 2023 
Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Channel One’s Bolshaya Igra (Great Game) political talk show
Dimitri Simes: The year is drawing to a close, and we can start to consider preliminary results.
I would like to ask you about something that I think is among the most important developments, namely changes in the collective West and…
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Dec 19 2023 
They Can Wait at Leisure, Whilst Netanyahu Labours – and Errs
Netanyahu is in the midst of ‘a campaign’. It’s not an election campaign, because he has no real chance of surviving an election.
Author – Alastair Crooke and first posted at Strategic Culture
In a small dimly lit room in Gaza, it…
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Dec 19 2023 
A few comments : Argentina
Gathered via regular and reliable journalists and bloggers.
Argentina’s far-right “libertarian” regime is going Pinochet-style fascist: The government is imposing brutal neoliberal shock therapy while threatening protesters A coalition ally of President Milei told protesters their options are “prison or…
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Dec 18 2023 
Historical Nihilism and the Fall of the USSR [ENG subs] [Chinese Documentary]
Chet Ozman, from our Writer’s Group, does translations from Chinese as well as audio books. Take a look at his material. https://www.youtube.com/@COzmun1
Here is his latest, and he says: ”This is my first large-scale translation project. A full-length Chinese documentary on why the USSR…
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Dec 18 2023 
Is neoliberalism really dead? Or does it live on like a zombie?
Political economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson discuss neoliberalism, and the premature predictions about its demise.
RADHIKA DESAI: Hello and welcome to the 20th Geopolitical Economy Hour, the show that examines the fast-changing political and geopolitical economy of our time. I’m…
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Dec 18 2023 
Daily Chronicles
The Daily Chronicles are snippets of the most important news across the world for this and each day as it rolls in – as such, this thread is non-structured with the latest news on top.
Dec 23
Whoopsie!
So, let’s not play with…
