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May 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: Birds of…
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May 27 2023 
Calling the economists: Small businesses to go public in Russia
The Russian Central Bank head Elvira Nabiullina believes that small and medium-sized businesses have great potential to go public.
“It’s clear that it can be difficult for small and medium-sized businesses to enter the capital market because there are requirements for…
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May 27 2023 
Danny Haiphong: The trend toward a multipolar world is defined by class struggle
These edited remarks were given by Friends of Socialist China co-editor Danny Haiphong at a recent webinar, The Empire Strikes Back: Imperialism’s Global War on Multipolarity. The full event can be viewed on YouTube.
Ed Note: My comments follow Danny’s Essay
In…
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May 26 2023 
Michael Hudson & Ben Norton: Origins of debt: Michael Hudson reveals how financial oligarchies in Greece & Rome shaped our world (Updated with transcript)
Economist Michael Hudson discusses his book “The Collapse of Antiquity: Greece and Rome as Civilization’s Oligarchic Turning Point”, and how this history from 2000 years ago is still so relevant to understand our debt-based societies today.
You can find links to…
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May 25 2023 
Operation Z: The Last Chance Against Nazism
With thanks to Batiushka, the writer
Introduction: Two Civilisations
The tragic Washington-Moscow war which is starting to come to an end after nine long years on the battlefields of the Ukraine, where very many Ukrainian men are dying in futility, may well…
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May 25 2023 
Eurasian Economic Forum Plenary Session
The Big News: The Eurasian Economic Union, and specifically Belt and Road, is integrating with BRICS.
Karl Sanches grabbed all of the speeches and discussions on his website: https://vk.com/@580896205-eurasian-economic-forum-plenary-session
(Thank you Karl! That was a marathon of work!) Please read it on…
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May 25 2023 
Marine drone (USV / UUV) Sitrep
With thanks to Nat South
Why do I post the drone information so excellently presented by Nat South? There is a reason. We see the uptick of terrorist action from Ukraine. It is a very hard objective to protect and defend…
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May 24 2023 
Vladimir Putin took part in the plenary session of the Eurasian Economic Forum
Plenary session of the Eurasian Economic Forum
We can see truly deep and fundamental changes taking place on the global stage. More and more states are taking a course towards strengthening national sovereignty, pursuing an independent domestic and foreign policy, and adhering to their own development model. All of them are in favour of building…
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May 24 2023 
Two Videos: Mearsheimer and Ray McGovern
The halfway sensible voices in the United States are expressing complete and utter fear of escalation as a result of the Ukrainian war. Both overstate Russian reaction vis a vis Ukraine but they are not overstating the danger that the…
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May 24 2023 
Radhika Desai for RT: Is the debt ceiling the real issue for the US economy right now?
The drama around increasing the borrowing limit obscures the growing threat of a crash in the Treasuries market: https://www.rt.com/news/576766-us-debt-treasuries-market/
By Dr. Radhika Desai, a professor at the Department of Political Studies at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada and director of…
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May 23 2023 
The inside story of Russia-Iran-India connectivity
The G7 is stupefied by the dynamic progress of the multipolar order embodied by the Russian-led INSTC and the Chinese-led BRI, with Iran’s strategic port of Chabahar now poised to play a transformative role.
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at…
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May 23 2023 
Pakistan is in real trouble
We all know about the outing by lawfare of Imran Khan (IK) as I’ve done regular updates in the Daily Chronicles.
Pakistan is a critical node on the Belt and Road and a critical country for security against terrorism around Afghanistan. …
