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Sitzkrieg & Salsa
Chaos is the name of the game but there is nothing that is of burning importance. China is getting ready to welcome the Year of the Rabbit.
So I’m taking this relatively quiet time for two salsas, that I learned to…
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Jan 06 2023 
Valdai: New Era of De-Westernization Has Begun
From the Valdai club:
The political equivalence structure between the West and the non-West is increasingly strengthened and is becoming an important feature of world politics in the third decade of the 21st century. Of course, the world in 2023 will not be mellow, but in any case, amid the “de-Westernisation”,…
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Jan 06 2023 
Why BRI is back with a bang in 2023
As Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative enters its 10th year, a strong Sino-Russian geostrategic partnership has revitalized the BRI across the Global South.
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at The Cradle
The year 2022 ended with a Zoom call to end…
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Let’s invade Mexico (Blast from the past)
A blast from the past. Fred Reed wrote this in November, 2019 because Trump wanted to invade Mexico and war with the cartels.
My Notes: What we’ve seen this past week, is that the son of famous drug lord El…
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Jan 06 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. Kindly also use it as an open thread.
AMLO: Calls On Biden…
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Jan 05 2023 
Zircon missile of words: Medvedev
Dmitry Medvedev writes :
The US State Department has published a pep talk to the people of Russia, saying, “We love you all.” It ends in their typical vile Jesuit style: “We stand in solidarity with every one of you who…
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Jan 03 2023 
Exposing the Big Ugly
During December 2022, Angela Merkel let a mad cat out of a dark bag. Soon after, the previous French president Hollande confirmed that they only signed the Minsk agreements to afford the time for the Ukraine, to build up its…
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Brazil with Lula: Significance for the world
Lula da Silva has returned as Brazil’s president. This will cause a major geopolitical shift. Meanwhile, far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro fled to Florida
This is Ben Norton and Brian Meir who is Brazil-based about what Lula’s 3rd government means for the…
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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… -
Jan 02 2023 
The WHO?
We are all aware of the Russian objectives in the Ukraine, that of denazification and demilitarization. The real objective is toward security stability in the area, and to do that, Russia must deal a healthy blow to NATO.
There is a…
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Jan 01 2023 
A Retrospective of 2022 and Forebodings for 2023
From guest-writer AHH and now part of our chronicles
“During this year, we saw the popularity of a new kind of coup culminating in 2 coups in 2 days in Latin America: Peru and Argentina. These are visible as a parliamentary… -
Jan 01 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. Kindly also use it as an open thread.
Putin announces Christmas truce
https://www.rt.com/russia/569439-russia-putin-truce-christmas/A…
