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Jul 21 2023 
A possible plus for South Africa as a BRICS member, or the Grim Reaper cometh
We support our BRICS members, despite the frequent sharp critique. After the debacle with Mr.Putin’s possible visit to South Africa, and the eventual announcement that he will not attend the BRICS summit in August in Johannesburg, but will attend via…
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Jul 21 2023 
Breaking Predatory Brazil Narratives from the Imperialist North / Brian Mier
Taking a look at Brazil in the runup to BRICS
Today’s episode features an interview with This Is Hell! regular Brian Mier. Brian updates Chuck on what the US corporate media has been getting wrong about Brazil. We also have the…
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Jul 20 2023 
Russia has Demilitarized, Denazified, and Rebuilt Ukraine Before
From Deborah Armstrong and first posted at the Greanville Post
In the years following WW2, the Soviets purged Ukraine of Nazis while the US gave them safe havenFeatured Image: Soviet “Banderite Hunters” denazified Ukraine at the end of WW2 and in…
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Jul 20 2023 
An Evening with Carl Zha: Understanding the Dynamics of the Asia Pacific
Carl, at his Silk and Steel Podcast has an encyclopedic knowledge on Chinese History and the Asia Pacific basin.
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Jul 19 2023 
On the UN chief’s comments on the Istanbul agreements
Russian MFA
On the day when the Black Sea Grain Initiative on the export of Ukrainian grain expired, the UN Secretary-General issued a large press release. Apart from twisting the facts about the implementation of the Istanbul agreements again, Antonio Guterres…
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Jul 19 2023 
EU-CELAC summit: instead of condemning Russia, demands on the EU
From Elena Panini, Russtrat.ru
Instead of condemning Russia, demands on the EU
The recent summit of the European Union and Latin America can already be considered a failure for Europe and the “former order.” The final toothless declaration was signed somehow. And…
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Jul 19 2023 
Extreme Heat
It does not matter what you think about ‘climate change’, there is extreme heat over a large part of the world that is in summer. I’ve heard all the jokes – yes, it is hot in summer did you not…
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Jul 19 2023 
Briefing by Chief of Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Protection Troops Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov on U.S. military and biological activity
Read in full at the link:
https://telegra.ph/Briefing-by-Chief-of-Nuclear-Chemical-and-Biological-Protection-Troops-General-Lieutenant-Igor-Kirillov-on-US-military-and-biolo-07-14
Key facts:
• The U.S. State Department launched an active outreach campaign to neutralise Russian accusations that US military biologists had violated the provisions of the Biological Weapons Convention.
• The U.S. military specialists have been successful…
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Jul 19 2023 
Dustup in South Africa: Putin at BRICS summit – yes or no! (Update 1 & 2)
The lawfare is in full swing in South Africa about Putin’s visit (or not) during the upcoming BRICS summit because of the ICC warrant of arrest against Putin. It is taking a bizarre twist.
An opposition party, the DA (Democratic Alliance)…
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Jul 18 2023 
The Black Sea Grain deal — now what?
With thanks to Nat South, and first posted on Livejournal
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results” – Einstein“The decision on the Black Sea initiative is final, there are no more negotiations” – Russian mission…
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Jul 18 2023 
In Sicily, Top of the Mountain, Watching the New Barbarians
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Strategic Culture
It’s another stunning sunset in the western edge of the Sicilian coast, and I’m right in front of the Real Duomo in Erice, the pluri-millenary “Mount”, sung by Virgil in the Aeneid…
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Jul 18 2023 
CELAC-EU Summit
There is no shortage of straight talk from the CELAC leaders at the EU summit. They demand sanctions on Venezuela and Nicaragua to cease, and the blockade on Cuba to be lifted.
The Honduran president was forceful in her address to…
