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Brazil and Lula: Undeliverable Expectations
When Lula won the Brazilian elections, we all knew that it was going to be tough going, He inherited a government structure with budgets three years old, with most social support withdrawn from the population, and from the international arena,…
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Feb 28 2023 
The Stage Is Set for Hybrid World War III
The strategists of Russia and China are now working full time on how to return all strands of Hybrid War against the Hegemon.
By Pepe Escobar with permission and posted at Strategic Culture
A powerful feeling rhythms your skin and drums up…
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Feb 28 2023 
America – The World’s Bully
By Larry Romanoff and posted with permission
Contents
Iranian Oil & The US Banking System
The Swiss Banking System
The Japanese Yen and The Plaza Accord
The RMB Exchange Rate
International Financing
The Financial Rating Agencies
Bank Card Payment Systems
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Feb 28 2023 
Vladimir Putin: meeting of the Federal Security Service Board.
Vladimir Putin took part in an expanded meeting of the Federal Security Service Board.
President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Comrade officers,
Today, at the annual expanded meeting of the Board you will sum up the results of the Federal Security Service’s work in 2022, outline key areas to be focused on in the future and improve…
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US resumes theft of Syrian oil after deadly quake
First posted at the Cradle
White House officials have previously boasted that Washington ‘owns’ one third of Syria’s territory, in particular the resource-rich northeast
The US occupation army renewed its oil smuggling campaign in northeast Syria three weeks after a 7.7 magnitude…
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Feb 28 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. The rough theme for this…
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Radhika Desai & Michael Hudson: rise of US dollar imperialism
The rise of US dollar imperialism, and why it failed – with Radhika Desai & Michael Hudson
Economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson explain the relations between money and debt, their role in imperialism, and the rise of the US dollar… -
Feb 27 2023 
The West, NATO and a dark Manichean vision
With thanks to Nat South
“There, a year of massacres and horror. Here, a year of easy exaltation and filthy Manichaeism. A year repeating the worst mistakes of a West so sure of its moral superiority, so intoxicated with its narrative.…
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Feb 27 2023 
Lineaments of Multipolar World Rising: Africa and Russia harmonize (Part 2)
By AHH
[Please first read Part 1 here]
REALIGNMENT
“If the full moon loves
you, why worry
about the stars?”
— African Proverb
The quickening emotional and psychological decoupling from the West since the start of the SMO reminded Russians of an African saying, “the rain does… -
Medvedev: for “National Defense” magazine
Medvedev’s article for the magazine “National Defense”
✔️ History repeats itself. Once again, we are confronted by almost an entire empire of various enemies: Ukrainian and European neo-fascists, the United States, other Anglo-Saxons and their vassals (about fifty countries). They set…
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Feb 24 2023 
Lineaments of Multipolar World Rising: Africa and Russia harmonize (Part 1)
By AHH
INRODUCTION
“The axe forgets but
the tree remembers.”
— African Proverb
The first anniversary of commencing the Russian Special Military Operation (SMO) in the Ukraine provides us a time for reflection. The tip of a complex iceberg, the SMO marked the divergence into…
