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  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 threatens travel ban for Sudanese

India: The Next Front in the War on the BRICS   There is far more to the current multi-modal geopolitical war than just what’s happening in Ukraine. This conflict has led to a myriad of downstream effects and moves which are just as important as what the encirclement of Bakhmut means. For years the wildcard in the BRICS Alliance has been India. India’s rivalry with China as well as its complicated relationships with both Russia and the West have always served as wedge issues to drive the alliance apart. During the Trump years the “I” in BRICS, India, was slowly working its way under Prime Minister Narendra Modi back into the West’s orbit. It led to me thinking that that “I” had been replaced by Iran, especially pre-COVID-19. Today with the ascendence of Lula to the presidency in Brazil, the BRICS have, for now, lost the “B” in their alliance. So, with all of the talk about the BRICS coming into their own as a global economic and political force the situation is far from settled because

What's a "Yemeni"?! According to the report of Eye for Humanity, in the last seven years of the Yemen war, bombings carried out by the Saudi-led coalition have killed 17,734 people and injured close to 30,000. According to its data, at least 4,017 deaths were of children January 04, 2023  by  Peoples Dispatch Photo: Xinhua/Mohammed Mohammed Data released by the Yemen-based Eye for Humanity Centre for Rights and Development  claims that at least 643  Yemeni civilians were killed in 2022, out of over 3,000 casualties recorded. This is despite last year seeing an unprecedented six-month-long ceasefire and a significant drop in fatalities. The war in Yemen will complete eight years in 2023. The data shows that the total fatalities recorded last year included at least 102 children and 27 women. At least 353 children and 97 women were also injured in this period. The Saudi Arabia-led international coalition also destroyed over 14,300 homes, 12 hospitals, 64 schools, and 22 powe

Many observers expected that in the wake of America and NATO's somewhat frantic and ugly (to put it mildly) pullout from Afghanistan and Kabul airport in August 2021, it was  only a matter of time before China would move in , securing significant resource and infrastructure deals. All along there have even been persistent rumors China was  eyeing takeover  of the large former US base at Bagram.  On Friday  a major deal for oil extraction inked between a Chinese company and the Taliban government  has been revealed, centered in northern Afghanistan's Amu Darya basin. Acting minister of mines and petroleum Shahabuddin Dilawar (L sitting); China's ambassador to Afghanistan Wang Yu (R). AFP/Getty Images CNN  details that  "The agreement with China’s Xinjiang Central Asia Petroleum and Gas Co is the first major international energy extraction deal the Taliban has signed since taking control of Afghanistan in 2021." It underscores that the Taliban  increasingly sees Bei

US ‘suggests’ EU impose a chip export ban on China ASML is not about to voluntarily leave China, where it has sold a thousand chip-making tools over the decades By   JEFF PAO OCTOBER 31, 2022 Dutch firm ASML thinks it gave up enough when it halted exports to China of the world's first extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machines for mass production (pictured). It wants to keep exporting its older DUV technology despite American entreaties. Photo: ASML The United States reportedly is calling on the European Union to impose a semiconductor export ban on China – but Chinese officials and media doubt the Americans, simply by asking, can persuade the Europeans to give up a highly lucrative export market. Bloomberg  reports  that the Biden administration is urging the EU to share information and coordinate enforcement to reinforce the United States’s bilateral restrictions on exports to China, similar to what the US and EU did to Moscow earlier this year. That report comes after Alan E

October 5, 2022 The Federal Reserve has been attacking inflation. The problem is that after printing trillions of dollars, they’re ill-equipped to succeed at their task. Partly, this is because all that cash has to go somewhere and partly this is because their mandate does not extend into ensuring that global energy production expands. While Owners’ Equivalent Rent and wages have remained elevated, those are often seen as the “good” sort of inflation—or at least the benign sort. Meanwhile, all other forms of inflation tend to be characterized as “bad” and frequently the “bad” inflation is caused by elevated energy prices, which then increase the costs of producing and transporting everything else. Therefore, despite the Fed ignoring the inflation they caused for well over a year, when oil cleared $100 a barrel, the Fed finally felt that they had no choice but to do something. The problem is that the only ways to reduce the price of oil are to produce more of it or consume less of it. I