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  How Yemen’s 'Asabiyya' Is Reshaping Geopolitics PEPE ESCOBAR The Arabic word Asabiyya, or ‘social solidarity,’ is a soundbite in the west, but taken very seriously by the globe’s new contenders China, Russia, and Iran. It is Yemen, however, that is mainstreaming the idea, by sacrificing everything for the world’s collective morality in a bid to end the genocide in Gaza. When there is a general change of conditions, It is as if the entire creation had changed and the whole world been altered, as if it were a new and repeated creation, a world brought into existence anew. — Ibn Khaldun Yemen’s Ansarallah resistance forces have made it very clear, right from the start, that they set up a blockade in the Bab el-Mandeb and the southern Red Sea only against Israeli-owned or destined shipping vessels. Their single objective was and remains to stop the Gaza genocide perpetrated by the  Israeli biblical psychopathy . As a response to a morally-based call to end a human genocide, the ...

  Sudan Struggles for Autonomy as Global South's New Battleground SUDAN Sticking with the war theme… Remember when I warned you that the global South was going to become a battleground between the powers? Well, Sudan is now one such battleground. Here’s the timeline: Aug 24, 2022  – US Ambassador is appointed to Sudan following a 25 year lapse. US Ambassador to Sudan Vows to Support Country’s Transition to Civilian Rule Sept 28, 2022  – US Ambassador warns Sudan against finalising Russian naval base deal. Sudan: US warns Khartoum over allowing Russia to build Red Sea naval base | Middle East Eye Nov 11, 2022  – Blinken urges Sudan to consider “US support for the rapid formation of a civilian-led transitional government”. Dec 5, 2022  – UN brokers Framework Agreement between Sudan’s military leaders and leading “pro-democracy parties”.  Sudan: UN welcomes ‘courageous’ military-civilian pact towards democratic future | UN News Dec 7, 2022  – Blinken thre...

  The loss of Ukraine is the beginning of the end “On the eve of the collapse of the Roman Empire, silver coins were so impure and depreciated that whole bags of it were used in circulation.” laughlyn (johan eddebo) All of this is about energy and resources. Capital is nothing but a proxy for goods, services, and the fundamentals of our means of production. Depreciation of the currency is a short-term solution to resource scarcities by externalizing them through exploiting the perceived value of a trusted medium of exchange. This is exactly why we have runaway inflation right now. Energy is the single most important resource, bar none. All forms of economic activity is predicated on available surplus energy as per the laws of thermodynamics. Before the covid situation, Europe and the US each consumed about 20 million barrels of oil per day, totaling around 40 million barrels of oil. Every single day. The shortfall in petroleum production before the Ukraine war was about six million...