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The power troika trumps Biden in West Asia
The presidents of Russia, Iran, and Turkey convened to discuss critical issues pertaining to West Asia, with the illegal US occupation of Syria a key talking point. Oil and gas, wheat and grains, missiles and drones – the hottest topics in global geopolitics today – were all on the agenda in Tehran this week. By Pepe Escobar, posted with the author’s permission and cross posted with The Cradle The Tehran
Major news day for Russia: In conclusion of his working visit to Iran, Vladimir Putin answered questions from the media.
In conclusion of his working visit to Iran, Vladimir Putin answered questions from the media. Question: Mr President, some would think the world has forgotten about Syria amid the numerous issues on the international agenda. But we have seen today that this is not so. We would like to hear your views on the situation on the ground in Syria. A great deal has been said today about points of contact, but there are many differences as well. Have you discussed or coordinated any
Russia’s top diplomat, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, talks with RT’s editor-in-chief, Margarita Simonyan in an exclusive interview about the challenges Russia faces amid the Ukraine conflict
Highlights as seen by Pepe Escobar: 🇷🇺The highlights of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Sputnik and RT: 🔹The EU is forced to make amendments to sanctions against Russia as they have exceeded their potential; 🔹Russia is not happy about energy issues that Europe is currently facing, but “will not worry about it too much”; 🔹Western countries are trying to drag UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres into their “games” around
Finance Capitalism’s Self-Destructive Nature
Posted with Michael Hudson’s permission Transcript of Interview on The Left Lens with Danny Haiphong May 25th, 2022 DANNY HAIPHONG: Good afternoon, everyone. Happy Wednesday, May 25th, welcome to the stream, to another left lens. Today we have a very special guest so as you’re coming in make sure you are liking the stream sharing it, make sure that you are subscribing to the channel and hitting that notifications bell,
Nasrallah: ‘US/Israel must submit to our demands, or risk full-blown war’
From Middle East Observer Description: According to ‘reliable leaks’ shared across social media, Hezbollah’s leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has told thousands of Lebanese that the current situation may soon lead to full-blown war if the US and Israel do not submit to Hezbollah’s demands that crisis-stricken Lebanon be allowed to extract and sell its offshore energy reserves. Nasrallah also said that his movement will not allow the ‘Israeli enemy’ to
Meeting of the guarantor states of the Astana process to facilitate the Syrian settlement + Speech by President Vladimir Putin
Joint Statement by the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the President of the Russian Federation, and the President of the Republic of Turkiey, Tehran July 19, 2022 President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, H.E. Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi, President of the Russian Federation, H.E. Vladimir Putin, and President of the Republic of Turkiey, H.E. Recep Tayyip Erdogan gathered in Tehran on 19 July 2022 for a Tripartite Summit within the framework of Astana format. The Presidents: 1. Discussed the current situation on the ground in Syria, reviewed the developments following the last virtual summit on 1 July 2020 and reiterated their determination to enhance the trilateral coordination in light
On Liberating Europe
By Batiushka for The Saker Blog And they had tails like scorpions and there were stings in their tails and their power was to hurt men for five months. Apocalypse 9, 10 Introduction: ‘The End of History’ Just over thirty years ago the Communist USSR went bankrupt – it could not raise enough money to pay off its debts on capital markets. The West should have gone bankrupt at the
The Xin-Civilization – What The Chinese Can And Cannot Do
By Thorsten J. Pattberg for the Saker Blog This week there will be an Academic Forum in Beijing on ‘Civilizations Amid Profound Changes’. It is organized by the world‘s largest academy for the social sciences: The Chinese Academy of Social Science or CASS. You have never heard of it. You can never find it on Google, in the Western media, or wherever you think information should be available to you
Small update about the blog and Andrei
Dear friends, I just wanted to update you on a few things. First, the Saker blog is almost back to normal. There are a few things to still polish up, like the weird looking guest analyses sections, and the Latin American Saker blog is still down, as we are still waiting for the folks who run it to give us the needed data to fix it. Second, I feel that
Sitrep Operation Z0V: Shifting sands and changing rhetoric
By Saker Staff for the Saker Blog The question went out .. what are the most important actions over the last week, and how do we present those? Mr Shoigu was number one, and this is how we present that by a machine translation from cont.ws: ON ANY HIMARS THERE IS A POSEIDON. THE US QUICKLY UNDERSTOOD SHOIGU’S STATEMENT The tactical pause that the Russian military took a little over
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s article «Staged incidents as the Western approach to doing politics»
https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1822333/ Published in Izvestia newspaper Today, the Russian Armed Forces, together with the self-defence units of the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics, are delivering on the objectives of the special military operation with great resolve to put an end to the outrageous discrimination and genocide of the Russian people and eliminate direct threats to the security of the Russian Federation that the United States and its satellites have been creating
Open Thread for Today
Use as open thread for those aspects of our blue marble that falls within the general Saker discussion sphere. The Big News of the day is that Shoigu took the brakes off and told his commanders in the field that there is a need for speed and bigger and intensified action in the Ukraine. The timing is epic! On July 17, 1942, the Battle of Stalingrad began, one of the
Michael Hudson: Podcast with Michael Hudson, Steve Keen, Steve Grumbine
Posted with Michael Hudson’s permission Grambine, Macro and Cheese, July 9 2022. https://realprogressives.org/podcast_episode/episode-180-the-end-of-dollar-diplomacy-with-steve-keen-and-michael-hudson/. https://realprogressives.org/macro-n-cheese-podcast/ For those who would like to hear the recorded conversation Michael Hudson [intro/music] A central tenet of the World Bank from the beginning is to convince countries not to grow their own food, but to create plantation agriculture to prevent family-owned farming of food, to grow plantation export crops and they become dependent on the United
Ideologies are no longer the way we know them and this means that the world is being reconfigured
By Guilherme Wilbert for the Saker Blog I try to bring a reflection in most of my texts about what competes for the international diplomatic and monetary future after Operation Z in Ukraine, but also, I always try to bring the ideological part into the discussion because this still makes many people’s heads spin. Or are Ukrainian flag-wavers not ideologized? Capitalism and communism have always been enemies at their core,
Andrei Martyanov: Response to YouTube “military analysts”
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To Hell or Not to Hell?
By Batiushka for the Saker Blog The Barbarian West By the fifth century AD the barbarians had moved into Western Europe in significant numbers, bringing about the fall of Old Rome in what is now Italy in 410. Curiously, the barbarianism they brought with them, combined with the systematic brutality of Old Rome by the most brutal of them, the Franks, survives today. Indeed, we can state quite clearly that
In Eurasia, the War of Economic Corridors is in full swing
Mega Eurasian organizations and their respective projects are now converging at record speed, with one global pole way ahead of the other. By Pepe Escobar, posted with permission and cross-posted with The Cradle The War of Economic Corridors is now proceeding full speed ahead, with the game-changing first cargo flow of goods from Russia to India via the International North South Transportation Corridor (INSTC) already in effect. Very few, both
In Search of Enemies
By Femi Akomolafe for the Saker Blog A confession: I borrowed the title of this article from a disillusioned CIA agent, John Stockwell, who wrote the book, In Search of Enemies: A CIA Story. Let me share some quotes: “The CIA was casting about for the next war, amoral, ruthless, eager to do its thing. Its thing being covert little games where the action was secret and no one kept
The Stupendous Tale
“Gold is money, everything else is credit” J. P. Morgan. Tarik in the Vinyard for the Saker Blog Empires, dynasties, new eras, they rise not on ideological abstractions or brute force, but with intellectual or moral discipline. Then they wither not by rigorous reason or righteous fury, but with pompous and extravagant proclamations. That’s just the way it is, that’s what they all do. This particular version of the age
