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  • | Photo Credit The Cradle | MR Online

    De-dollarization kicks into high gear

    Originally published: The Cradle on April 27, 2023 (more by The Cradle)  |

    The U.S. dollar is essential to U.S. global power projection. But in 2022, the dollar share of reserve currencies slid 10 times faster than the average in the past two decades.

  • | Credit The Cradle | MR Online

    In Moscow, Xi and Putin bury Pax Americana

    Originally published: The Cradle on March 22, 2023 (more by The Cradle)  |

    In Moscow this week, the Chinese and Russian leaders revealed their joint commitment to redesign the global order, an undertaking that has ‘not been seen in 100 years.’

  • | Credit The Cradle | MR Online

    Sergey Glazyev: ‘The road to financial multipolarity will be long and rocky’

    Originally published: The Cradle on March 13, 2023 (more by The Cradle)  |

    In an exclusive interview with The Cradle, Russia’s top macroeconomics strategist criticizes Moscow’s slow pace of financial reform and warns there will be no new global currency without Beijing.

  • | The failed coup in Brazil | MR Online

    Why the CIA attempted a ‘Maidan Uprising’ in Brazil

    Originally published: The Cradle on January 11, 2023 (more by The Cradle)  |

    The failed coup in Brazil is the latest CIA stunt, just as the country is forging stronger ties with the east.

  • | Credit The Cradle | MR Online

    The Global South births a new game-changing payment system

    Pepe Escobar

    Challenging the western monetary system, the Eurasia Economic Union is leading the Global South toward a new common payment system to bypass the U.S. Dollar.

  • | Credit The Cradle | MR Online

    The role of UK intelligence services in the abduction, murder of James Foley

    Originally published: The Cradle on November 25, 2022 by William Van Wagenen (more by The Cradle)  | (Posted Nov 28, 2022)

    An investigation into British and American collusion with the terror groups that kidnapped and murdered western hostages in Syria.

  • | Putin Biden | MR Online

    Who profits from Pipeline terror?

    Originally published: The Cradle on September 29, 2022 (more by The Cradle)  |

    Secret talks between Russia and Germany to resolve their Nord Stream 1 and 2 issues had to be averted at any cost.

  • | Photo The Cradle | MR Online

    The real U.S. agenda in Africa is hegemony

    Originally published: The Cradle on September 21, 2022 (more by The Cradle)  |

    Forget development. Washington’s primary interest in Africa today is keeping the Chinese and Russians out.

  • | Saad Hariri Photo Credit The Cradle | MR Online

    Saad Hariri and the collapse of Lebanon

    Originally published: The Cradle on September 12, 2022 by William Van Wagenen (more by The Cradle)  | (Posted Sep 15, 2022)

    The Syrian regime-change war and Lebanon’s economic collapse happened under Saad Hariri’s watch, but the Future Movement leader is seldom mentioned for the pivotal role he played in Lebanon’s unravelling.

  • | Photo Credit The Cradle | MR Online

    Russia, Turkey launch new economic ‘roadmap’

    Originally published: The Cradle on August 8, 2022 (more by The Cradle)  |

    The Putin-Erdogan meeting in Sochi has rapidly accelerated Russian-Turkish economic initiatives and financial ties. These include bypassing western sanctions, integrating money transfers, and trading outside the dollar.

  • | Prime Minister Yair Lapid | MR Online

    With eye on the CIA, Moscow cracks the whip at Israel

    Originally published: The Cradle on July 25, 2022 (more by The Cradle)  |

    The Jewish Agency is Israel’s life source and the Kremlin shut it down this month. The fallout may be a measurable schism between Moscow and Tel Aviv, in which the latter has a lot to lose.

  • | Pakistans ousted president Imran Khan trounces his opponents by a wide margin in their own stronghold of Punjab Photo Credit The Cradle | MR Online

    Imran Khan rewrites Pakistan’s political history

    Originally published: The Cradle on July 18, 2022 (more by The Cradle)  |

    Against the odds and powerful rivals pitted against him, former PM Khan’s win in Punjab elections is a victory for democracy and Pakistan’s sovereignty

  • | Photo credit Middle East Eye | MR Online

    U.S. president confirms deployment of troops in Yemen

    Originally published: The Cradle on June 12, 2022 (more by The Cradle)  |

    Biden’s letter to Congress reaffirms continued U.S. support for the Saudi-led coalition.

  • | NATO vs Russia | MR Online

    NATO vs Russia: what happens next

    Originally published: The Cradle on May 24, 2022 (more by The Cradle)  |

    In Davos and beyond, NATO’s upbeat narrative plays like a broken record, while on the ground, Russia is stacking up wins that could sink the Atlantic order.

  • | Winners and losers West Asian geopolitics are shuffling during the Russia Ukraine conflict as states are increasingly forced to take sides | MR Online

    Iran makes gains as Israel, Turkey test Moscow’s limits on Ukraine

    Originally published: The Cradle on April 25, 2022 (more by The Cradle)  |

    Under pressure to side with the west on Ukraine, Israel and Turkey risk falling out with Russia–which will benefit Iran in the long-term.

  • | Leading Russian economist Sergey Glazyev says a complete overhaul of the western dominated global monetary and financial system is under works And the worlds rising powers are buying into it | MR Online

    Russia’s Sergey Glazyev introduces the new global financial system

    Originally published: The Cradle on April 14, 2022 (more by The Cradle)  |

    The world’s new monetary system, underpinned by a digital currency, will be backed by a basket of new foreign currencies and natural resources. And it will liberate the Global South from both western debt and IMF-induced austerity.

  • | The US may control a handful of Pakistani political and military officials but PM Imran Khan owns the street Photo Credit The Cradle | MR Online

    U.S. ousts Imran Khan but his revolutionary narrative endures

    Originally published: The Cradle on April 5, 2022 (more by The Cradle)  |

    Washington has reactivated old cronies in Islamabad to unseat PM Imran Khan, but the latter has sown seeds of immense dissatisfaction with the old guard and their U.S. backers within the Pakistani public. And Khan’s domestic and foreign allies will not sit by idly either.

  • | Syria is now the eighteenth Arab state to join the ambitious Chinese Belt and Road Initiative | MR Online

    Defying U.S. Caesar Act, China admits Syria into BRI

    Originally published: The Cradle on January 14, 2022 by Giorgio Cafiero (more by The Cradle)  | (Posted Jan 18, 2022)

    Syria’s entry into China’s Belt and Road Initiative is to support its economic integration into West Asia and fortify its post-conflict recovery.

  • | Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinpings December video summit could mark the start of some major global financial shifts | MR Online

    Putin and Xi plot their SWIFT escape

    Originally published: The Cradle on December 17, 2021 by Pepe Escobar (more by The Cradle)  | (Posted Jan 09, 2022)

    Russia and China’s announcement of an independent financial trading platform will free nations under US sanctions from western intrusion into their commercial activities.

Monthly Review Essays

  • Ruy Mauro Marini’s Contribution to the Political Economy of Imperialism
    Torkil Lauesen | | MR Online

    In “The Dialectics of Dependency,” Ruy Mauro Marini developed a theory of dependency and unequal exchange that is still invaluable today.

Lost & Found

  • Militarism and the Coming Wars
    István Mészáros | What Did You Learn from Iraq | MR Online

    The dangers and immense suffering caused by all attempts at solving deep-seated social problems by militaristic interventions, on any scale, are obvious enough. If, however, we look more closely at the historical trend of militaristic adventures, it becomes frighteningly clear that they show an ever greater intensification and an ever-increasing scale, from local confrontations to […]

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