FRIDAY FILES 29/09/2023

PADANG MERDEKA WAS EMPTY dunstan chan

ON MUDA chia yongtai

DON’T COUNT ON PPP SOLUTIONS ks jomo

Targeted Subsidies hit M40s hardest theedgemalaysia

Fahmi denies Cabinet reshuffle theedgemalaysia

War of Economic Corridors: the India-Mideast-Europe ploy pepe escobar

Capitalism: an Unstoppable Force Meets an Immovable Object medium

Assessing nickel downstreaming in Indonesia Faris Abdurrachman, New York University

China is in fact hyper-capitalist. An enormous proportion of national income goes to the controllers of capital and is being saved by them. During the earlier hypergrowth period, this worked well………

WAGERNISATION OF POLITICS palladium

QUAD NEXT CHAPTER chicago global affairs

FUTURE OF AI in CHINA Huw Roberts, University of Oxford and Emmie Hine, University of Bologna

JAPAN’S SEMICONDUCTOR REVIVAL Hideki Tomoshige, CSIS

RICHARD WOLFF

Russia plans funneling massive resources into Ukraine offensive to fight ‘hybrid war’ presstv

Russian and Chinese ships now moving away from Alaska abcnews

US-S.Korea-Canada drills push for conflict in NE Asia globaltimes

COUNTERPUNCH

A YEAR OF LYING ABOUT NORD STREAM seymourhersh ■■ Hersh Reveals U.S. Motive For Destruction Of Nord Stream Pipelines moon of alabama

UKRAINIAN ARMY DEMORALISED seymourhersh

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PALESTINE CHRONICLE

Renewal of the Khalistan Movement irf

India’s BJP, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and affiliated Hindu nationalist groups have perfected using social media to spread inflammatory, often false and bigoted material on an industrial scale, earning both envy and condemnation beyond India’s borders………

Impasse as Trudeau fails with assassination claim John Elliot ●● Nijjar affair poses an existential dilemma mk bhadrakumar

Analysts said though it has maintained solid ties with Azerbaijan, Moscow has long counted Armenia as an ally and security partner in its immediate neighborhood. However, it appears to lack the capacity to enforce its role as peacekeeper and guarantor of stability not just in the South Caucasus, but in Central Asia, where it stood by as recent border skirmishes flared between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.
Nagorno-Karabakh, which its Armenian residents call Artsakh, will cease to exist as of Jan. 1, according to a decree issued Thursday by the territory’s president. A swift, brutal military operation by Azerbaijan last week forced the Nagorno-Karabakh government to capitulate and agree to dismantle its military. The government of Artsakh had fought unsuccessfully for international recognition since declaring independence from Azerbaijan in January 1992. ■■ Russia scrambles as EU surges in Caucasus m.k. bhadrakumar

Syrian ‘revolution’ as Western regime change KitKlarenberg ■■ SINO-SYRIA MEDIATION collective on foreign affairs

NEVER FORGET AMERICA’s TORTURE LEGACY scheerpost

ENDING THE WAR WITH A NEGOTIATED PEACE schiller institute

Vietnamese Syndicates Wiping out African Megafauna Gregory McCann

Roman Abramovich’s nearly $1 billion art collection was transferred to his ex-wife ahead of sanctions the guardian & icij

Cyclone over Libya