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  • The BRICS Weigh in on Palestine

    The gravity around the newly-enlarged BRICS constellation is drawing in Arab, Muslim, and Global South adherents to the influential group’s message on international law, Palestine, and halting forever wars.

    By Pepe Escobar at The Cradle.

    Something of extraordinary magnitude happened in Moscow on 23 May. Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa personally asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to help… Continue reading

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  • Chronicle of a Death Foretold

    Death of Petrodollar is a Biden legacy

    By Ambassador MK Bhadrakumar at the Indian Punchline.

    The Deep State should have been alert five years ago when Candidate Joe Biden announced that he, if elected as president, was determined to make the Saudi rulers “pay the price, and make them in fact the pariah that they are.”

    Biden was… Continue reading

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  • The Summer of Living Dangerously

    The plutocracy believes that afterwards they can buy the whole thing for a pittance while flies are still laying eggs in radioactive European carcasses.

    By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.

    So Le Petit Roi in Paris was predictably crushed in the European polls. He has called parliamentary snap elections, dissolving the Assemblée Nationale in an… Continue reading

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  • Russia on the Way Forward

    Debriefing SPIEF-2024. On the Units (and chords) of the Harmonic Symphony. From the rockin’ Heartland of the Multipolar World. With a side of the “Small Garden with High Walls,” symmetrical escalatory responses, hot summers, & Armageddon..

  • Exciting Times

    by Julian Macfarlane at News Forensics.

    Lugansk: a war crime

    The Ukrainians used ATACMs Missiles to strike Lugansk. Almost all were shot down but one (at least) got through — hitting an apartment building and killing 22 people.

    Lugansk, of course, is now part of Russia. A red line crossed? Again?

    St Petersburg SPIEF

    But in St Petersburg, Putin was… Continue reading

  • Prof. Postol: Western Strategic Indolence

    Putin & China Drop Bombshell on U.S. Military Strategy as Ukraine Collapsing | MIT Prof. Ted Postol

    Theodore Postol is Professor of Science, Technology and National Security Policy in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT.
    🔸️He did his undergraduate work in physics and his graduate work in nuclear engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of… Continue reading

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  • Notable from SPIEF

    From Pepe at SPIEF:

    Russia, Palestine, and BRICS: Three revolutionary forces changing the world

    How can the global majority dethrone the American empire? This question was at the center of an elite roundtable discussion between Russian lawmakers and a delegation of foreign intellectuals on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. Here… Continue reading

  • Ukraine: Russia won’t escalate, US will

    The United States’ proxy war with Russia is at another inflection point. The battleground is shifting dramatically to Russian territory — something without precedent even in the Cold War. How this pans out will be a momentous event in 21st century politics.

    By Ambassador MK Bhadrakumar at the Indian Punchline.

    There are three defining issues here. One,… Continue reading

  • The Afghans Who Came in from the Cold

    The whole Russia-Taliban love affair involves a humongous package – encompassing oil, gas, minerals and loads of rail connectivity.

    By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
    Russia, SCO, BRICS: The normalization of Afghanistan
    This past Sunday in Doha, I had a meeting with three high-level representatives of the Taliban Political Office in Qatar, including a founding member… Continue reading

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  • The West is Hell-Bent against Russia

    “… Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
    the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
    .. the worst are full of passionate intensity.”

    By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.
    The warning by President Putin could not be starker: “In the event of the use of long-range weapons, the Russian Armed Forces will again have to make decisions about expanding the… Continue reading

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