August 20, 2026
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The Personal is Geopolitical
The world is undergoing profound change. For many Americans, this change is intense, overwhelming, and confusing. Many don’t recognize it’s happening due to the pro-US hegemony and empire propaganda blitz they’re fed everyday coupled with the economic and social alienation of material reality in the “USA.” Yet it’s still happening. Continue reading
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Ukraine’s Ultranationalist War On History
Over the past two decades, hardline Ukrainian ultranationalists have waged an ever-escalating war on history at home and abroad, with dramatic, world-changing consequences. In the country itself, a highly repressive legal apparatus is increasingly enforcing dangerously skewed narratives of Kiev’s near and distant past, with excessive criminal penalties even for those who unwittingly fall foul… Continue reading
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GM Watch Daily Digest 20 August 2026
Thursday, 20 August 2026 — GMWatch Former Fauci adviser pleads guilty to conspiracy to conceal Covid-19 records A former adviser to infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci has pleaded guilty to conspiring to evade public records laws and conceal government documents related to grant research funding and the Covid-19 pandemic. David Morens, who had worked under… Continue reading
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The West on the Path to World War
The most important question of social systems is what creates order by managing competing interests? In international security, we must therefore ask the question: How do we manage the competing security interests of states? Continue reading
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Day 1049 | “Board of Peace” talks while Israel kills
Thursday, 20 August 2026 — The Electronic Intifada Continue reading
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Pepe Escobar: Iran LAUNCHES Offensive!? Missiles SLAM UAE — US Army FLEES Middle East
Geopolitical analyst and independent journalist Pepe Escobar discusses the new phase of war ignited by the expiration of the MoU. Has Iran really struck the UAE, and what’s behind the extreme confidence expressed by both sides of the conflict amid renewed escalation? We answer these questions and so much more. Continue reading
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LARRY & PEPE:Trump Tried to Buy Iran’s Revolutionary Guard IRAN REJECTS TRUMP’S BILLIONS IN BRIBES
Thursday, 20 August 2026 — Transition Protocol Trump’s White House tried to buy off Iran’s Revolutionary Guard with a multi-billion-dollar offer modeled on the Venezuela playbook — and got refused twice, first by IRGC commander Vahidi, who called it treason, and then by Pakistan’s Army Chief Asim Munir, who told Trump directly that Islamabad would… Continue reading
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Why Trump’s blockade cannot turn Iran into an island
Even strategic patience has its limits. Tehran kept a nutcracker on the Strait of Hormuz for 5.5 months. The Empire of Piracy didn’t back off. On the contrary: the reaction, piling up on Trump’s blockade, focused on ruthless, terminal market manipulation keeping oil prices relatively low – using everything from depletion of the Strategic Petroleum Reserves… Continue reading
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The Roots of Capitalism Run Through Slavery: The Thirty-Fourth Newsletter (2026)
Behind the polished story of Western progress lies another history: steam power, modern banking, and industrial capitalism were not born of peaceful innovation but paid for with the blood of enslaved people. Continue reading
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The spy unit that runs Britain’s secret wars
In a departure from the norm, the Chief of MI6, Richard Moore, admitted that MI6 and its various allied intelligence agencies have been engaged in covert operations against Russia — specifically in Ukraine. The timing was auspicious. Only ten weeks before, the cover of the main central co-ordinating group for all covert ops in Russia,… Continue reading
