From the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Recently we posted the Chinese white paper on America’s Coercive Diplomacy and Its Harm
My comment is that we can expect another Nuremberg type trials.
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August 20, 1619. The Dutch deliver the first group of slaves to North America. During almost 200 years of slave trade, over 10 million slaves…
The Daily Chronicles are snippets of the most important news across the world for this and each day as it rolls in – as such, this thread is non-structured with the latest news on top. The rough theme: Birds of no feather
(featured image: genetically modified featherless chicken)
May 28
Pepe Escobar on Sputnik: Exceptional! Please read it…
The Russian Central Bank head Elvira Nabiullina believes that small and medium-sized businesses have great potential to go public.
“It’s clear that it can be difficult for small and medium-sized businesses to enter the capital market because there are requirements for both corporate governance standards and disclosure of information. Though measures to support access to the…
These edited remarks were given by Friends of Socialist China co-editor Danny Haiphong at a recent webinar, The Empire Strikes Back: Imperialism’s Global War on Multipolarity. The full event can be viewed on YouTube.
Ed Note: My comments follow Danny’s Essay
In the post-Soviet era, it has become fashionable to strip all geopolitical developments of their class…
Economist Michael Hudson discusses his book “The Collapse of Antiquity: Greece and Rome as Civilization’s Oligarchic Turning Point”, and how this history from 2000 years ago is still so relevant to understand our debt-based societies today.
You can find links to all of Michael’s books at his website https://Michael-Hudson.com
Transcript
(The following is a lightly edited transcript.)
BEN NORTON:…
The Big News: The Eurasian Economic Union, and specifically Belt and Road, is integrating with BRICS.
Karl Sanches grabbed all of the speeches and discussions on his website: https://vk.com/@580896205-eurasian-economic-forum-plenary-session
(Thank you Karl! That was a marathon of work!) Please read it on Karl’s site.
We then ask the question: Why the extensive and detailed transcripts with readouts? It…
Plenary session of the Eurasian Economic Forum
We can see truly deep and fundamental changes taking place on the global stage. More and more states are taking a course towards strengthening national sovereignty, pursuing an independent domestic and foreign policy, and adhering to their own development model. All of them are in favour of building a new, more equitable architecture of international economic relations, striving to constructively influence world processes, expand the network of partnerships…
The halfway sensible voices in the United States are expressing complete and utter fear of escalation as a result of the Ukrainian war. Both overstate Russian reaction vis a vis Ukraine but they are not overstating the danger that the whole world is in now, because of US/NATO escalation. Russia has kept a cool head,…
The drama around increasing the borrowing limit obscures the growing threat of a crash in the Treasuries market: https://www.rt.com/news/576766-us-debt-treasuries-market/
By Dr. Radhika Desai, a professor at the Department of Political Studies at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada and director of the Geopolitical Economy Research Group. She also writes on current affairs for Valdai Club, CGTN, Counterpunch…
The G7 is stupefied by the dynamic progress of the multipolar order embodied by the Russian-led INSTC and the Chinese-led BRI, with Iran’s strategic port of Chabahar now poised to play a transformative role.
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at The Cradle
Make no mistake about what the G7’s Hiroshima Communique is all about.
The setting: a city in…
We all know about the outing by lawfare of Imran Khan (IK) as I’ve done regular updates in the Daily Chronicles.
Pakistan is a critical node on the Belt and Road and a critical country for security against terrorism around Afghanistan. The internal issue is simple. IK is the most popular leader in Pakistan, although he…
https://www.mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1871520/
Colleagues.
It is really pleasant and useful to speak here each year and meet with the many experts here between speeches, experts who have long become my comrades and friends who are willing to share their clever ideas (I say this without irony). It is pleasant that in these challenging times certain institutions remain immutable both…
