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Dec 31 2024 
China: The era of unchecked hegemony is over
China lashes back against the Panama Canal Issue: Why does Panama have the confidence to push back against the US?
In recent days, US President-elect Donald Trump has threatened to take the Panama Canal back into US control, accusing Panama of “ripping off” the US by charging high shipping rates.
Panama, a small but strategically significant nation,… Continue reading
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Dec 31 2024 
Russians have more media freedom on Telegram than EU citizens – Pavel Durov
Western outlets remain “freely accessible” on the platform in Russia, CEO Pavel Durov has said
From RT
The EU imposes more media restrictions on Telegram than Russia does, the platform’s founder, Pavel Durov, has noted in a New Year’s message.
“Access to certain Russian media has been restricted in the EU under DSA/sanctions laws. Meanwhile, all Western media… Continue reading
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Dec 31 2024 
Falling off the escalation ladder
So what can we expect in the new year? Pepe Escobar says: Be prepared – for anything.
An extremely complex world situation can be summed, as it is one war, with more wars threatening.
These are not traditional wars and they may start as destabilization, lawfare, removing governments by any means, more appointing of leaders after destabilizing… Continue reading
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Dec 31 2024 
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Dec 31 2024 
2025: A Second Renaissance, or Chaos?
Featured Image: From Renaissance Florence, one of the – few – peaks of humanity, now living in memory, tread carefully across this flame-filled 2025.
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Strategic Culture
FLORENCE – It’s a dazzling Tuscan winter morning, and I am inside the legendary Dominican church of Santa Maria Novella, founded in the early… Continue reading
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Dec 30 2024 
John Potash shares his new movie, “CIA Drugs R Us!” Just released, it is a must see!
Jeff J Brown interviewed John Potash about his new movie, “CIA Drugs R Us!”
Sometimes you hear some history that you know, but to see it again in one fell swoop, it shocks yet again. This goes further than the Charles Manson story and Dave McGowan’s ‘Weird Scenes inside the Canyon’. There is good evidence that… Continue reading
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Dec 30 2024 
Crash of Azerbaijani civilian airliner in Kazakhstan
Accidental tragedy or monstrous provocation?
Editorial at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
It may be hoped that the attempts by Russia’s adversaries to politicize this tragedy and use it to weaken the trusting relations between historically close nations are doomed to failure.
The crash investigation of the Brazilian-built Embraer 190 airliner is ongoing, and therefore, it is too early… Continue reading -
Dec 30 2024 
First statement by the emerging Syrian Resistance
We leave the old year with the very welcome news that, inshallah, we now have an organizing Syrian Resistance.
The statement is angry, and not fully focused. But, this is a resistance forming. No doubt Hezbollah will do some teaching here.
The Syrian resistance has condemned the “new Al-Qaeda regime,” accusing it of betraying Syria with the… Continue reading -
Dec 29 2024 
Your word of the year?
Mine is Oreshnik or Hazel.
The Oxford Dictionary is I kid you not .. brain rot
Merriam-Webster’s word of the year is polarization
Dictionary.com is brat
Collins is delulu
Cambridge is manifest
Macquarie is enshittification
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Dec 29 2024 
Racism on steriods from the empire
There is a controversy raging in the US about H-1B visas. Initially this was a program for Indian techs to work in the US. I am not so interested in the controversy per se, but in what it it is unveiling, the big Maga battle. After Trump’s win, I posted a few… Continue reading
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Dec 29 2024 
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Rossiya Segodnya, December 29, 2024
Question: Will Russia withdraw from the New START before it expires considering the aggressive Western policy? Or maybe Moscow will be willing to comply with the quantitative limits as set forth in the New START even after the February 2026 deadline?
Sergey Lavrov: There is an objective reality in which the destructive policy by the United… Continue reading
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Dec 29 2024 
The Perfect Energy Storm Arrives in Europe…
… and Uncle Sam runs “to help”.
💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 Ukraine bought “democratic” gas from the USAThe energy company DTEK (owned by oligarch Rinat Akhmedov through SCM Limited) purchased the first batch of 100 million cubic meters of LNG . The gas was delivered from the state of Louisiana by the Gaslog Savannah vessel (flag… Continue reading
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Dec 29 2024 
China: A debate – How China’s Rise Heralds a World Without Conscience?
How China’s Rise Heralds a World Without Conscience
I was made aware of this by one of our China Writer’s Group members. What makes it interesting is that none of the commentators are anti-China. This is a real attempt to plumb China’s strategies vis a vis the ongoing genocide and future war.
This post consists… Continue reading
