par Issiaka Coulibaly

Dans ce nouvel épisode du podcast Tandem de Sputnik Afrique, Badou S Koba, spécialiste malien des questions sécuritaires et géopolitiques, décrypte les enjeux de la visite du premier ministre malien Abdoulaye Maïga à Alger.

Badou S Koba rappelle que le général Tchiani a obtenu des promesses concrètes : construction d'une centrale électrique financée à hauteur de 50 milliards de francs CFA, ainsi que des projets d'infrastructures hydroélectriques et gazières visant à créer une synergie entre le pétrole nigérien et algérien pour des bénéfices partagés.

By Andrew Korybko
Andrew Korybko's Newsletter  

August 29, 2026

It's actually NATO that might soon test Russia's resolve.

Politico cited unnamed officials to report that CIA chief John Ratcliffe's unannounced trip to Russia was primarily meant to warn it against testing NATO's resolve through unspecified kinetic actions against the Baltic States. This follows Russia's CIA analogue warning in late May that their country is ready to retaliate against Latvia if it allows Ukraine to use its territory for launching drone attacks against Russia.

By Wanjiru Njoya
Mises.org  

August 29, 2026

The economist Thomas Sowell frequently reminds us that inequality is inherent in human nature. Rather than being puzzled by economic inequality, we should be concerned with understanding the causes of productivity. It is productivity that improves everyone's material conditions and their material standard of living.

Yet, for several decades, economists have been less concerned with the causes of productivity and more concerned with wealth distribution.

By Andrew Wallace  

August 29, 2026

The Title is a direct quote from George Washington's Farewell Address in 1796. He also said to "have as little political connection as possible". Our government and the Parasitic Super-Rich Ruling Class (PSRRC) have ignored George Washington, our Founding Fathers, and our Constitution. This has cost us PARADISE and the LIVES of our children in the military. This was Treason by cowards for money at the People's expense, pure and simple.

By Paul Craig Roberts
PaulCraigRoberts.org  

August 29, 2026

Since 2014, I have been puzzled by the absence of a Russian foreign policy strategy. The Kremlin had the carrot-diplomacy-but no stick, the absence of which made the diplomacy ineffective. If the diplomacy failed, there was no backup plan.

We saw this in 2014 when Washington overthrew without Russian opposition the Russian-friendly government in Ukraine and installed an anti-Russian puppet government.

By Aysar Yousef
Gaze At This

August 29, 2026

When tracing the origins of modern capitalism, historians instinctively point to Amsterdam in 1602.

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While the Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, or VOC) undoubtedly birthed the modern financial system, the architecture they utilized was not created out of thin air. The true foundations of this financial revolution were laid centuries earlier by Arab merchants and Italian bankers along the Mediterranean and Silk Road trade routes.

Reflections on how quickly a nation may fall from grace.  

By John Leake
The Focal Points  

August 29, 2026

Oh Deutschland, bleiche Mutter!
Wie haben deine Söhne dich zugerichtet
Dass du unter den Völkern sitzest
Ein Gespött oder eine Furcht!

Oh Germany, pale mother!
How have your sons ill-served you
That you are scorned by all people-
A thing of obloquy and terror!

Bertolt Brecht, "Deutschland"

By George F. Smith  

August 29, 2026

Apple builds and sells iPhones. I happen to own one of the older models, for the same reason I own a last-legs older model car. What if Apple could skip the build part and sell only the phone ? The money saved would be an enormous boost to its bottom line. And if Apple passed the savings onto customers I could conceivably afford to upgrade.

Where would the phones come from ? From a bookkeeping entry, of course.

By Martin Armstrong
Armstrong Economics  

August 29, 2026

The Bank for International Settlements is warning that near-record public debt and the growing role of hedge funds and other nonbank financial institutions have created what it calls a "fiscal-financial stability nexus." That is sanitized bureaucratic language for a system in which governments, banks, pension funds, insurers, hedge funds, and central banks are all chained to the same mountain of sovereign debt.

By Edward Curtin
EdwardCurtin.com  

August 29, 2026

Here where I sit once again looking easterly to the vast sea, the wind and the waves and winding vistas along the north Atlantic coast drown out trivial thoughts. We are here for a few days to empty our minds of trash, as a vacation should so vacate. Unlike many, we are lucky for this opportunity.

Yesterday, while walking down the far deserted beach, we saw a dark mountainous form high up on a sand dune that perplexed us from a distance.

By Madge Waggy
MadgeWaggy.blogspot.com  

August 29, 2026

Fernando de la Rúa left the Casa Rosada on December 20, 2001, through a side door, boarding a helicopter from the building's roof. It was not symbolic. It was a literal escape from a capital in flames, where 22 people had died in two days of protests, supermarkets had been systematically looted, and banks remained closed with deposits frozen.

By Jacob G. Hornberger
The Future of Freedom Foundation  

August 29, 2026

Why not just admit the obvious: The welfare-warfare state that 20th-century Americans brought into existence and that 21st-century Americans have kept in existence has failed. Wouldn't that be a lot better than to waste time, energy, and money coming up with ways to save and reform it ? After all, if several generations of Americans haven't been able to make this deadly, destructive, immoral, and dysfunctional system work, what are the chances that people living today will make it work ? No chance at all!

Les efforts de Macron pour déployer des ogives stratégiques en Scandinavie risquent de tendre les relations avec la Russie - et au sein de l'OTAN.

Source : Responsible Statecraft, Pavel Devyatkin, Naman Karl-Thomas Habtom
Traduit par les lecteurs du site Les-Crises

Les craintes de l'Europe en matière de sécurité sont réelles et légitimes. Mais le déploiement d'avions à capacité nucléaire aux portes de la Russie n'est pas la solution, et les contradictions de Washington ne font qu'aggraver la situation.

On n'en parle plus guère mais la procédure judiciaire relative aux attentats du 11 septembre 2001 suit son cours aux États-Unis où elle est mise en œuvre par une juridiction militaire.

Pour l'instant en effet, aucun présumé responsable de ces attentats n'a été jugé, pas même Oussama Ben Laden qui a été tué lors d'un raid américain au Pakistan et dont le corps aurait été jeté à la mer.

par The Black Elephant Experience et Le Monde Moderne

Norman Finkelstein présente Gaza's Gravediggers: An Inquiry into Corruption in High Places, son nouveau livre consacré aux responsabilités politiques, judiciaires, médiatiques et institutionnelles dans la destruction de Gaza.

Dans cet épisode de The Black Elephant Experience, Félix Marquardt et Alexis Poulin reçoivent le politologue américain Norman G.

Par Moon of Alabama - Le 28 aout 2026

Mercredi, le directeur de la CIA, John Ratcliffe, a atterri à Moscou pour quelques heures de conversation avec des responsables de la sécurité russes. Le voyage n'était pas un secret car les avions transportant Ratcliffe et son entourage étaient facilement identifiables.

Il n'y a eu aucune annonce officielle de part et d'autre sur le contenu des pourparlers.