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Oct 21 2023 
Orthodox Russia Serves Notice!
Amid the last two weeks of heart-stopping genocidal barbarity in occupied Palestine, much attention was focused on the Muslims’ internal plight and their external response in neighboring countries, with massive crowds chanting, “beat, beat, beat Tel Aviv, Nasrallah!” Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah of the Lebanese Hezbollah has been circumspect so far, carefully aligned with the graduated… 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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Oct 19 2023 
Multipolarity: China, Russia, Israel, India, and the difficult birth of a new world
Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson are joined by geopolitical analyst Pepe Escobar
transcript
RADHIKA DESAI: Hello and welcome to the 17th Geopolitical Economy Hour, the show that examines the fast-changing political and geopolitical economy of our time. I’m Radhika Desai.
MICHAEL HUDSON: And I’m Michael Hudson.
RADHIKA DESAI: And today, once again, we are joined by the roving reporter… Continue reading
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Oct 18 2023
Russia’s neutrality ballet on Israel-Palestine
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at The Cradle
While some Russian heavyweights push to recast Israel as a hostile state, the Kremlin is unlikely to budge. Instead, Moscow will stay ‘neutral’ to maximize its West Asian influence, all while edging closer to the Arab and Muslim worlds.
Is it possible that the philo-Semitic Russian President Vladimir Putin… Continue reading
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Oct 17 2023 
Rostislav Ishchenko: Beijing raises the stakes
Rostislav Ishchenko asks “What is China trying to achieve in the Middle East crisis?” This article has been machine translated from ukraina.ru
Vladimir Putin will soon travel to China, where he will open his fifth dozen meetings with Xi Jinping at the Belt and Road Forum on October 17.
The two leaders had a lot to talk… Continue reading
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Aug 18 2023 
Putin’s Meeting with Government members – climate
With hopes that we can discuss this without feathers flying and hitting one another with hard ideology clubs. It is time to rediscuss these issues.
President Putin had a meeting with his government members basically on internal Russia issues. I would not call it a ‘must-read’ as it focused on internal Russia and what we are… Continue reading
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Jul 28 2023 
Declaration of the Second Russia–Africa Summit
http://en.kremlin.ru/supplement/5972
We, the Heads of State and Government of the Russian Federation and African States recognized by the United Nations (UN) (hereinafter also referred to as the Russian Federation and African States), and representatives of the African Union and Africa’s leading integration organizations, gathered on 28 July 2023 in Saint Petersburg (Russian Federation) to participate in the Second Russia–Africa Summit,
Reaffirming the principles and objectives enshrined in the Declaration of the First Russia–Africa Summit (Sochi, 24 October 2019), which laid the strategic foundation for our relations in the 21st century,
Building on the historical… Continue reading
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Apr 25 2023 
Moscow talks: Syria-Turkey-Iran-Russia
President Putin and Erdogan and Rouhani started this five years ago in Tehran in 2018.
With all the good news coming out of the Middle East and West-Asia with China proverbially splitting the Red Sea and allowing and supporting new peace, it is easy to forget the difficulty of the Syrian position. They have to remove… Continue reading
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Apr 12 2023 
Lineaments of Multipolar World Rising: Africa and Russia harmonize (Part 7)
By AHH
Please read in order: Part 1 ; Part 2 ; Part 3 ; Part 4 ; Part 5 ; Part 6
INSPIRATIONAL
“No matter how beautiful
and well crafted
a coffin might look,
it will not make anyone
wish for death.”
— African ProverbA) The spiritual plane. The Main Cathedral of the Russian Armed Forces (Cathedral of the Resurrection of… Continue reading
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Apr 01 2023 
Lineaments of Multipolar World Rising: Africa and Russia harmonize (Part 6)
By AHH
Please read in order: Part 1 ; Part 2 ; Part 3 ; Part 4 ; Part 5
TRANSFORMATIONAL
“В ти́хом о́муте че́рти во́дятся
The devil lives in the still waters.”
— Russian ProverbA) The Empire Strikes Back.
What to do about the West and its primordial way of life? We’ve watched them totally unleashed since 1991, even… Continue reading
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Mar 25 2023 
Vladimir Putin: Russia – Africa in a Multipolar World
International Parliamentary Conference Russia – Africa in a Multipolar World
Vladimir Putin spoke at the International Parliamentary Conference Russia – Africa in a Multipolar World, held in Moscow under the auspices of the State Duma of the Russian Federal Assembly.
President of Russia Vladimir Putin:
Dear friends,
I would like to sincerely welcome all the representatives of legislative bodies and leaders of political parties and public movements from African states in Moscow and at the international parliamentary conference.
Your conference is undoubtedly important in the context of the continued development… Continue reading
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Mar 22 2023 
In Moscow, Xi and Putin bury Pax Americana
In Moscow this week, the Chinese and Russian leaders revealed their joint commitment to redesign the global order, an undertaking that has ‘not been seen in 100 years.’
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at The Cradle
What has just taken place in Moscow is nothing less than a new Yalta, which, incidentally, is in Crimea. But… Continue reading
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Mar 18 2023 
Lineaments of Multipolar World Rising: Africa and Russia harmonize (Part 5)
By AHH
Please read in order: Part 1 ; Part 2 ; Part 3 ; Part 4
CIVILIZATIONAL
“Swift as the wind.
Quiet as the forest.
Conquer like the fire.
Steady as the mountain.”
— Sun TzuThe promising portends of 2022 gave way to an exhilarating and quickfire start to 2023. Along with the Global Security Initiative (GSI) concept paper, China released… Continue reading
