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Jan 01 2024 
A necessary repeat – Michael Hudson
Michael Hudson published this as far as I know first at Ben Norton’s PoliticalEconomy
Note Featured Image: I don’t see that Russia has new imaging out for their presidency 2024 as yet.
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How could a BRICS+ bank and settlement currency work? Economist Michael Hudson explains: My notes follow:Economist Michael Hudson details how BRICS could create a mutual… Continue reading
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Dec 31 2023 
The Traditional World resists the Satanic Order
A timely reminder of the spiritual war at play. This interview aged really well in the last month since it came out; the continued maintenance of an irrational Genocide which provokes the entire Islamic world of 2 Billion and places the Zionist entity at existential risk indicates atypical calculations are at work. This is largely… Continue reading
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Dec 29 2023 
How Yemen changed everything
In a single move, Yemen’s Ansarallah has checkmated the west and its rules-based order.
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at The Cradle.
Whether invented in northern India, eastern China or Central Asia – from Persia to Turkestan – chess is an Asian game. In chess, there always comes a time when a simple pawn is able… Continue reading
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Dec 28 2023 
Lavrov Unplugged
We’ve heard of mafia-like “pistol-whips” about the face, and cruder “b” slaps, but this a third path being delivered by Uncle Lavrov, delivered with quintessential dry diplomatic sadness..
💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ Dollar has become a tool of interference in domestic affairs and regime changes, Lavrov notes
⭕ Lavrov in an interview with Sputnik and Rossiya 24 broadcaster: the… Continue reading -
Dec 13 2023 
Putin Soars Ahead of BRICS Expansion
Elijah Magnier interviewed by Rachel Blevins: Russia & BRICS expansion
Putin made a visit to both the UAE and Saudi Arabia to meet with leaders, as the two countries are set to join the BRICS alliance next month.
Veteran Journalist @ejmalrai noted that the celebration of the Russian President’s visit in each country is a reminder that… Continue reading
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Dec 12 2023 
BRICS and the Resistance Axis Converge
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at The Cradle
MOSCOW – Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin made a notable pit stop in the UAE and Saudi Arabia to meet, respectively, Emirati President Mohammad bin Zayed (MbZ) and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman (MbS) before flying back to Moscow to meet Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi.
The… Continue reading
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Nov 23 2023 
Gaza: a pause before the storm
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at The Cradle
While the world cries “Israeli genocide,” the Biden White House is gushing over the upcoming Gaza truce it helped broker, as though it’s actually “on the verge” of its “biggest diplomatic victory.”
Behind the self-congratulatory narratives, the US administration is not remotely “wary about Netanyahu’s endgame,” it fully endorses it -… Continue reading
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Nov 22 2023
Will Russia-China Strategic Patience Extinguish the Fire in West Asia?
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Sputnik
Once upon a time, by the Don river, in the southern steppes of what today is still known as “Ukraine”, the Great King of Persia, the mighty Darius, leading the most powerful army ever assembled on earth, received a puzzling message from a foe he was pursuing: the nomad… Continue reading
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Nov 15 2023
Why the US needs this war in Gaza
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at The Cradle
Washington needs to win its Gazan war against Iran because it failed to win its Ukrainian war against Russia.
The Global South was expecting the Dawn of a New Arabian Reality.
After all, the Arab street – even while repressed in their home nations – has pulsed with protests expressing… Continue reading
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Oct 20 2023
Russia, China Map Out New Economic Order in Beijing
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Sputnik
History – complete with poetic justice overtones – presented us this week with the ultimate, glaring contrast between the geopolitics of the past, enacted in an incendiary corner of southwest Asia, and the geopolitics of the future, enacted in East Asia’s Beijing, one of the capitals of emerging multipolarity.
Let’s… Continue reading
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Sep 18 2023 
BRICS – A Window to the Light? – Or the Latest Make-Believe Deception?
Is De-dollarization a Pipedream?
By Peter Koenig
During the 15th BRICS Summit, 22-24 August 2023, in Johannesburg, South Africa, chaired by South Africa’s President, Cyril Ramaphosa, six new countries were admitted to the bloc. The BRICS are now called the BICS-11 and include the five original nations, Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa. The new members invited… Continue reading
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Aug 30 2023 
NATOstan Robots Versus the Heavenly Horses of Multipolarity
The entire West is waiting at the room at the station with black curtains – and no trains.
From Pepe Escobar and first posted at Strategic Culture
We will all need plenty of time and introspection to analyze the full range of game-changing vectors unleashed by the unveiling of BRICS 11 last week in South Africa.
Yet time… Continue reading
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Aug 26 2023 
‘Welcome to the BRICS 11’
‘No mountains can stop the surging flow of a mighty river.’ With the addition of six new members that add geostrategic clout and geographic depth to the once sputtering BRICS, the multilateral institution is now gathering the momentum needed to reset international relations.
By Pepe Escobar and posted at the Cradle
In the end, History was made.… Continue reading
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Aug 23 2023 
BRICS2 on Day 2 – Nalendi Pandor; FM South Africa
She says the agreements on growth and expansion of BRICS are complete and we will know before the end of the Summit.
(And speaks about a tiny little hiccup in interpretation and sound management – oops, little it was not).
She says Dilma Rousseff is bringing innovative thinking.
Minister Pandor further expanded on the… Continue reading
