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Contents: Gunmen massacre IRGC soldiers and their families during military parade in Ahvaz, Iran; Iran reflexively blames Saudi Arabia, UAE, Israel, Mossad, and United States; Attack blamed on a local Arab terrorist group, al-Ahvazi separatist movement

This month, Myanmar (Burma) signed a series of memos of understanding (MOUs) for joint construction with China to build the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor (CMEC), part of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

Announcing a new book on Iran and Islam by John J. Xenakis; World View: Iran’s Struggle for Supremacy; Subtitle: Tehran’s Obsession to Redraw the Map of the Middle East

Contents: Turkey scores diplomatic victory, as Russia backs down from Idlib assault in Syria; The delusional terms of the Turkey-Russian Idlib agreement

Contents: Russian Orthodox Church in historic split with Constantinople over Ukraine issue; Consequences of an independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church

Contents: Zambia denies defaulting on infrastructure loans from China; Zambia faces long term corruption concerns

Contents: Saudis in Yemen cut the supply routes from Hodeidah seaport to Sanaa; Turkey, desperate to stop Syrian Idlib offensive, is supplying weapons to rebels

Contents: Russia, with China’s participation, launches biggest war games in decades; Russia’s Vostok-2018 war games send a message to Chinal Has Vladimir Putin forgotten the lessons of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact?

Contents: Tensions grow in Philippines as Duterte turns against China in South China Sea; China increasingly rejects Duterte’s ‘diplomatic actions’; Zambia becomes the next nation to fall victim to China’s ‘debt trap’

CONTENTS: In a major escalation, Iran’s missiles strike Kurdish targets in northern Iraq; Iran’s missile attack displays the rising power of the IRGC in Iran.

Contents: Dozens killed in five days of riots in southern Iraq’s Basra; Riots in Iraq’s Basra evoke fault lines of 1980s Iran-Iraq war

Contents: Turkey fails to prevent Russia and Iran from mass slaughter in Idlib, Syria; Turkey prepares for massive refugee problem; Syria and Russia launch a big, new disinformation campaign; The Greek Tragedy in Syria

Contents: Britain ‘provokes’ China by sending warship into South China Sea; China’s ‘nine-dash line map’ makes absurd claims to South China Sea

Contents: Latin American countries open their borders to migrants from Socialist Venezuela; Venezuela’s Socialist president Maduro refuses humanitarian aid

Syria and Russian forces prepare to ‘clean out’ the ‘terrorists’ in Idlib ahead of massive bloodbath.

Contents: China courts African nations as charges of ‘neo-colonialism’ grow; Is Kenya the next Sri Lanka?; Why China’s mothers are refusing to have a second child

Contents: Libya declares state of emergency, closes Tripoli airport; The deterioration of Libya since the 2011 ‘Arab Spring’

Contents: Worldwide alarm as the US ends aid to UNRWA Palestinian refugee agency; UNRWA’s support for exponentially growing Palestinian population is unsustainable; US military cancels $300 million in aid to Pakistan

Contents: Alexander Zakharchenko, leader of Russian forces in eastern Ukraine, is assassinated; Alexander Zakharchenko was increasingly annoying to his masters in Moscow

Contents: US court seizes Socialist Venezuela’s Citgo as compensation for mine nationalization; Argentina’s peso collapses after central bank raises interest rate to 60%; Turkey and Argentina lead the world’s developing countries in falling currencies

Contents: Diplomats fear that proposed Serbia-Kosovo peace deal will lead to Balkans war; Former Balkan diplomats say that land swap proposal ignores 1,000 years of bloodshed

Contents: China ends two-child policy, but considers a ‘wacky’ three-child policy; China evaluates the failure of the two-child policy; China may adopt a ‘wacky’ policy with a ‘reproduction fund’

Contents: Saudis target women and children in Yemen to make them ‘shiver’ for generations; US Military under pressure to end support of Saudis in Yemen

Contents: Genocide of Rohingyas in Burma (Myanmar) appears to be almost complete; Syria, Cameroon, Sudan Darfur genocides follow the same pattern

Contents: China, North and South Korea confounded by cancellation of Kim Jong-un meeting; Trump pursues risky strategy, trying to avoid a greater risk

Contents: In dreaded scenario, Ebola spreads to densely populated war zone in Congo; The dreaded tribal war zone scenario

Contents: South Africa politics roiled by Trump tweet on killing white farmers; Cyril Ramaphosa defends land expropriation policy

Contents: Russia demands that US and EU pay to rebuild Syria; Putin pressures Germany’s Angela Merkel to fund rebuilding Syria; Bolton says that Iran must withdraw from Syria

Contents: El Salvador receives harsh criticism for switching allegiance from Taiwan to China; Taiwan’s Tsai Ing-wen says that China is ‘out of control’

Contents: ISIS claims credit for coordinated attacks across Russia’s Chechnya region; Brief generational history of Chechnya

Contents: Afghanistan’s president Ghani announces ceasefire with Taliban; Taliban says no peace in Afghanistan until foreign ‘occupation’ withdraws

Contents: Socialist Venezuela introduces new fantasy currency and new Socialist changes; Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says that capitalism has not always existed

Contents: New Pentagon military assessment details China’s preparations for war; China’s ‘low-intensity coercion’ in the South China Sea; People’s Armed Forces Maritime Militia (PAFMM); China’s preparations for war with Taiwan; The growing military threat from China

Contents: US imposes new North Korea sanctions on Chinese and Russian shipping companies; Profound connection between the sanctions on Turkey and North Korea

Contents: China-Cambodia grow closer militarily, as Hun Sen steals parliamentary election; China’s military aid and infrastructure investments bring debt trap to Cambodia

Contents: Chinese workers in Pakistan injured in terrorist bombing; War of words grows over IMF funding for Pakistan’s debt