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A BRIC-o-rama Travelogue
Thanks for the excellent update, Pepe. I think the paragraph...
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Daily Chronicles … OT April 29
Bernard is back … https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/0...
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War, they say
Dentistry, the ad hoc sort… In zone 404 Partisans have...
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War, they say
“… In Ukraine, almost 300,000 displaced people s...
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Daily Chronicles … OT April 29
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Daily Chronicles … OT April 29
This has been known since week one of the invasion of Gaza &...
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Daily Chronicles … OT April 29
Yury Ushakov made the BRICS+ intentions clear that there wou...
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Students – Triggers to Stop Wars?
Thanks AHH. Duh Col – too much haste in your reading ...
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Daily Chronicles … OT April 29
Comrade Woody> https://youtu.be/VwcKwGS7OSQ (All you fasc...
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Daily Chronicles … OT April 29
Medvedev extends his May Day greetings to us all. Is that a...
November 2022

Monthly Archives

  • Here Comes China

    With respect to Godfree Roberts and his excellent newsletter and I comment.

    This is a statement that has massive repercussions:  250 million smallholders with 2-3 hectares of land produce 80% of China’s food

    The attached article is a WEF article, so kindly read it without taking seriously the propaganda, but glean the facts. https://europeansting.com/2022/11/08/how-has-china-maintained-domestic-food-stability-amid-global-food-crises/

    Talking about food production, this is possible that…

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  • BRICS

    TASS reports Mr Lavrov’s comments on BRICS.  The list of countries wanting to join, is growing.
    Lavrov lauds BRICS as model for true multilateral diplomacy
    The top diplomat added that global issues in many spheres can be resolved only through multilateral cooperation and, in this context, pointed to the forum’s broad agenda.

    I summarize but this is a…

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  • Electric War

    By Pepe Escobar, and always with his permission.  First posted at Strategic Culture

    Current Russian tactics are the absolute opposite of the military theory of concentrated force developed by Napoleon, Pepe Escobar writes.

    Footfalls echo in the memory
    Down the passage which we did not take
    Towards the door we never opened
    Into the rose-garden. My words echo
    Thus, in your…

    1
  • 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.

    Comment 3 – Today, 29th November seems a quiet day so far.

    Comment 2 – Generally today, 28 November seems a quiet day.  The Chinese riots were…

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  • Vassily Nebenzia: UNSC briefing-Ukraine

    Note:  This is one of the best and clearest speeches of Nebenzia at the UNSC.  It is excellent reference material.  The RT article on this is also good – Amarynth

    https://www.rt.com/news/567073-security-council-ukraine-proxy-war/

    Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at UNSC briefing on Ukraine (November 23, 2022)

    Key points:

    ☝️ In the course of our special military operation, we have to…

  • CSTO summit

    The President of Russia took part in a regular session of the Collective Security Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) in a restricted format.

    Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan, President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, President of the Kyrgyz Republic Sadyr Japarov, President of the Republic of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon and CSTO Secretary General Stanislav Zas met in a restricted format.

    Talks continued in an extended format with…

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  • Bolsonaro Rises

    Bolsonaro Fights Brazil Election Defeat
    Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is arguing some votes from the knife-edge election battle defeat to Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva should be “invalidated” after his coalition found “signs of irreparable malfunction” in older models of electronic voting machines.
    Gleisi Hoffmann, President of Lula’s Workers Party, branded the move as “chicanery” and an…

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  • 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.

    Notes:  The technical commenting issues are looking better.  In the main, the comment formatting now works as designed, but there are still conditionalities where it loses…

  • Bombs away: in Jerusalem

    The first blast was during the morning rush hour close to the Central Bus Station in the city.  The second, just a scant 30 minutes after the first, happened near the Ramon intersection in northern Jerusalem with a bus as target.  There are injuries and deaths.  These were nail bombs.  This has not happened in…