Selected articles (August 31, 2023)
1a)
NATOstan Robots Versus the Heavenly Horses of Multipolarity
The entire West is waiting at the room at the station with black curtains – and no trains.
By Pepe Escobar
August 29, 2023
1b)
Petrodollar be warned: Three Persian Gulf energy powers just joined BRICS
The BRICS revealed its geopolitical priorities when it added three Persian Gulf states to its once exclusive roster of members. Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE have been strategically included to put an end to the petrodollar.
By M.K. Bhadrakumar
August 28, 2023
1c)
XV BRICS Summit
Johannesburg II Declaration
BRICS and Africa: Partnership for Mutually Accelerated Growth, Sustainable Development and Inclusive Multilateralism
Sandton, Gauteng, South Africa
August 23, 2023
https://www.gov.za/sites/default/files/speech_docs/Jhb%20II%20Declaration%2024%20August%202023.pdf
1d)
India, the reluctant BRICS traveller
By M. K. Bhadrakumar
August 28,2023
India became a beacon of hope for the Western media for a short while in the run-up to the BRICS Summit in Johannesburg — a potential dissenter who might derail the grouping’s acceleration toward a “de-dollarisation” process.
https://www.indianpunchline.com/india-the-reluctant-brics-traveller/
1e)
A Second Geo-Strategic Shoe (Other Than Ukraine) Is Dropping
BRICS 11 establishes a pole of influence and global heft that has the potential to eclipse in scope that of the G7.
By Alastair Crooke
(Former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum.)
August 28, 2023
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2a)
Niger’s Military Junta Is Supported by the Pentagon. Washington’s Unspoken Objective: “Remove France from Africa”
Is There a Genuine „Anti-Imperialist People’s Movement“ in West Africa?
By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
August 30, 2023
2b)
Niger revolution takes Bonapartist turn
By M. K. Bhadrakumar
August 23, 2023
The 4-week old turmoil in the West African state of Niger is taking a curious turn that no longer allows a binary vision of “neo-colonialism and imperialism” versus “national liberation”. Niger’s coup leaders are making overtures to the United States and keeping the Russian military contractors, Wagner PMC, at arm’s length — at least, at the present stage of transition of power.
https://www.indianpunchline.com/niger-revolution-takes-bonapartist-turn/
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3a)
An Engineered Food and Poverty Crisis to Secure Continued U.S. Dominance
By Colin Todhunter
August 26, 2023
https://www.globalresearch.ca/engineered-food-poverty-crisis-secure-continued-us-dominance/5790815
3b)
How Blackrock Investment Fund Triggered the Global Energy Crisis
„Adherence to UN 2030 Sustainability Agenda“. Colossal disinvestment in the trillion-dollar global oil and gas sector.
By F. William Engdahl
August 26, 2023
First published on November 16, 2022
https://www.globalresearch.ca/how-blackrock-larry-fink-created-global-energy-crisis/5799286
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Amir Mortasawi (alias Afsane Bahar) (امیر مرتضوی (افسانه بهار 