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South Africa Mulls Moving BRICS Summit To China Over Putin Arrest Warrant

South African media is reporting that the country is mulling forfeiting its role as host of this year’s BRICS summit due to growing pressure from the West over the ICC arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin. It was on March 17 that the International Criminal Court issued the arrest warrant on charges of war crimes, which “requires” countries party […]

China’s Military Chief Says Clash With US Would Be “Unbearable Disaster” For World

Over the weekend Chinese Defense Minister Li Shangfu told the Shangri-La Dialogue security summit that any potential future conflict between the United States and China would bring “unbearable disaster for the world”. But he said both rival powerful countries should be able to grow together and to avoid confrontation. His words came as the US condemned what it called […]

German Investigators Find Nord Stream Evidence Points To Ukraine

Seven months after explosions severed three of Russia’s four Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea, German investigators are now pursuing leads that point to Ukraine as the responsible country. At the same time, a multinational consortium of European investigative journalists has also found leads pointing to Kiev.  A long-running Western propaganda campaign — abetted by media that’s credulous […]

CIA Releases Video Urging Russians To Spy On Their Own Country

In an unusual attempt at public outreach ‘spy-style’, the world’s most powerful intelligence organization is openly encouraging Russians to spy on their own country.  The CIA released a nearly 2-minute video Monday on its official YouTube, Twitter, and Telegram channels. The Russian-language, professionally produced video urges individual Russians to provide intelligence on their country in the […]

Joe Biden claims he couldn’t attend King Charles’ coronation because he’s got a ‘lot going on’

President Joe Biden brushed his decision not to attend King Charles III’s coronation on Saturday during a softball interview with MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle by saying: ‘I told him I couldn’t be there because I have this going on.’ Biden, 80, said that he told the king that he would be in the United Kingdom during the summer during the […]

Mayotte Crisis: Putrid Leftover of France’s Imperialist and Colonialist Scrooge?

The cycle of empires It is not as if President Macron and his administration needed a new crisis to add to the turmoil of his second term in power. Unlike Mali or Burkina Faso, where French troops were bluntly asked to leave by military juntas, Mayotte is in effect a full-fledged French department. The reminiscence […]

China, Russia and India Versus USA, EU and Japan: Axes Powers of a New Global Cold War?

The birth of a bipolar world order? Since 2014, which marked the first Russian intervention in Ukraine, a new global geopolitical dynamic has amplified under conflicting impulses. The areas of direct, or more often proxy conflicts, have been in many senses contained with some sort of cynical pressure-cooker mechanism. If empires always seek hegemony, sane […]