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Dec 18 2022 
A Travelogue of Felix Arabia, late Autumn 2022
A Travelogue of Felix Arabia, by our own AHH
Summary
Caveat lector: a week’s travel is insufficient to get a good handle on a different people. That being said I married a woman born in and of southern Yemeni culture and learned…
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Dec 17 2022 
Xi of Arabia and the petroyuan drive
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at The Cradle
It would be so tempting to qualify Chinese President Xi Jinping landing in Riyadh a week ago, welcomed with royal pomp and circumstance, as Xi of Arabia proclaiming the dawn of the…
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Michael Hudson interview with a German radio station with reach!
Our most favorite economist and he has such a (black) sense of humor. “MH: Ukraine hardly can be rebuilt. First of all, much of its population has left, and is unlikely to return, given the destruction of housing and…
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Iran: Professor Marandi with the Gaggle
So, what actually happened in Iran?
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Dec 16 2022 
Daily Chronicles
The Daily Chronicles are snippets of the most important news across the world for this and each day as it rolls in. Kindly also use it as an open thread.
From Intel Slava Z: Putin, Shoigu and Lavrov are arriving in…
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Peru: The CIA coup
From Ben Norton at Multipolarista.com
Day before coup, US ambassador in Peru, veteran CIA agent, met with defense minister
The US ambassador in Peru, Lisa Kenna, worked for the CIA for 9 years, as well as the Pentagon. One day before the… -
Surprise: UNGA votes … (update)
for a New International Economic Order
NEW: The UN General Assembly adopts “Towards a New International Economic Order” by a vote of 123-50.
The results speak for themselves: pic.twitter.com/KVE7GeOo4g— Michael Galant (@michael_galant) December 14, 2022
This is what the map looks like:
UPDATE
The UN…
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Topical current events; Multipolar Pain!
There are two erstwhile ‘summits’ going on.
The first we can simply note and then let it go because it is of null value. This is the December 13–15 US-Africa Summit, with 49 delegations from African states and one from the…
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Russia & Asia: the Emerging Order
The Valdai Club is hosting their end-of-year conference titled Russia and Asia: the Emerging International Order. These are expert discussions and all worth looking at. You can find the various live videos on the program and transcripts will become available:
Dynamics…
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Two X Escobar
Pepe says: “I talked to Press TV about Brazil before my current whirlwind tour – back to Europe tomorrow. The itvw was uploaded this past weekend – and of course some of what I learned on the spot is waaaay…
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Dec 11 2022 
Daily Chronicles
The Daily Chronicles are snippets of the most important news across the world for this and each day as it rolls in. Kindly also use it as an open thread.
This is the guy that started the big talk about vaccines…
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A few short comments on Empire
For those that spend their weekends having fun learning, instead of having fun in the sun.
We have no reason to misunderstand the empire. Michael Parenti had a very clear description of what empire is, 10 years ago already.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOF56wYTl1w
And to make…
