Substack SitRep: 28 August 2023

Prigozhin remains identified, Haiti crisis, BRICS follow-up, Henry Kissinger, Vivek Ramaswamy, RFK Jnr and much more...

It’s OK if you go insane clicking these links. Sanity is on the other side of Monday.

HOT QUOTES

“Since 2020, the US government has spent a jaw-dropping $25 TRILLION. To put this in perspective, the market cap of the S&P 500 is $37 trillion. Spending since 2020 is equivalent to 68% of the entire S&P 500 market cap.” - Larry Mcdonald

THE HOT WAR

• Tucker Carlson wants to interview Putin

• The New York Times debunked Poland’s claims that Wagner threatens Suwalki Corridor

• Russia confirms death of Wagner chief Prigozhin after genetic tests

• Was the Prigozhin hit Putin's work?

• Why did Prigozhin's 2nd plane head for Azerbaijan capital Baku?

• Wagner: Dmitry Utkin, Russian nationalism and war in Syria and Libya

• Western depleted uranium shells turn Ukraine into uninhabitable territory

• "Yes, They Were Being Bribed": Fired Ukraine prosecutor corroborates Biden corruption

• A Skeptic's war in Ukraine news aggregator

• US, Ukraine clash over counteroffensive strategy

• Washington’s ‘wishful thinking’ on Ukraine

• Director Lars von Trier: “Russian lives matter!”

THE COLD WAR

• Fleeting mirage of imagined supremacy

• Abnormalize the Empire

• Strategic Culture back up after attack

• Henry A. Kissinger, still a war criminal

• “Reshuffling World Order” on Press TV (Iran)

• Russia hopes to raise fish, seafood exports to China after Japan ban

• President Xi tells BRICS that world doesn't want a New Cold War

• "Information designed to show ..."

• Slavoj Žižek’s slavish support of NATO

THE WEST

• Vivek, money wars, cities, end game

• Covid, the War, and election 2024

• US debt jumps $97,000,000,000 in one week

• Judge Napolitano: Torture comes home to roost

• US sues Musk's SpaceX over alleged hiring discrimination against asylees and refugees

• US health care sucks, even if you have health insurance

• US 30-year mortgage rate soars to highest since 2000

• RFK, Jr.’s hard truths about economic devastation of the Middle Class

• Hollywood studios aren’t serious about ending the Writers’ Strike

BRICS

• Xi and China at the BRICS Summit

• Expansion of BRICS - a huge setback to the world order dominated by the US

• Five key takeaways from the BRICS summit

• What benefits will Iran reap from BRICS+ membership?

• BRICS ‘expansion’ jolts NATO to pivot towards Africa

• Xi expands BRICS over India's objections

AFRICA

• The renaissance of African entrepreneurial history

• Beating the drums of war in Africa

• Years in jail for no reason – new court case exposes disturbing abuse by South Africa’s police

• A year after the assassination of its leaders, South Africa’s Abahlali baseMjondolo continues to advance

• Niger military rulers order France ambassador to leave the country

• Nigerien army makes its own light-armoured vehicles to fight jihadhi terrorism

• Top Mozambican militants killed in operation, FADM says

• Cape Independence polling results for 2023

EVERYWHERE ELSE

• Colombia's social leaders and ex-combatants are being exterminated

• How neocolonialism crippled Haiti

• Cuba’s worsening food crisis means US blockade must end now

• The China we never knew existed

• India’s reported pushback against US meddling in Bangladesh

• Iran ambassador to Armenia on Azerbaijan plans to change borders

SOMETHING ELSE

• A clear horizon

• In defense of boring leaders

• False advertising: A short collection of news and thoughts

• Oliver Anthony, for the Working Class, not the Left nor the Right

PODCAST

• Scott Horton: The coup in Niger and the troubling state of West Africa

WAKE UP, THERE’S A BURMA COUP HAPPENING BEHIND YOU

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