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Jan 31 2025 
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Jan 31 2025 
Into the storm – Open Thread: grappling with the chaos reshaping our world today
Let us sit back for a moment and observe and reflect. It is too early; it is premature, to claim solutions or control.
Most of the commentators are assessing the supposed results of Trump’s first week in office. Let them do it. Let us sit back for the next day and… Continue reading
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Jan 30 2025 
Richard D. Wolff & Michael Hudson: Israel’s Dead End – US Empire’s Collapse: Losing Touch w/ Reality
Transcript is not out yet but we will post it up when available.
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Jan 30 2025 
Vovan and Lexux score big
Bundestag Hawk Caught Admitting the Harsh Truth About Ukraine By Russian Pranksters
Johann Wadephul, a top CDU warmonger, just got exposed in the best way possible, tricked by Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus, who posed as Zelensky’s right-hand man, Andriy Yermak. And what did Germany’s loudest anti-Russia hawk reveal?
❗️There will be NO German boots on the… Continue reading
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Jan 30 2025 
Gaza Update: Prisoner exchange interrupted by Israel
Today is a hostage exchange and a prisoner exchange in Gaza. Again, Hamas fighters are out in the Gaza rubble, supporting the Palestinians and making sure that these two exchanges happen without mishap. Again, the Israelis are torn, as they were told that Hamas is a conquered force, but playing out on their TV screens… Continue reading
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Jan 30 2025 
What Sültan Erdogan is really up to
On the table, a geopolitical banquet – served by some of the best independent analytical minds from Bursa to Diyarbakir.
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
CONSTANTINOPLE – The scene is a Circassian restaurant off fabled Istiklal street in historic Beyoglu. On the table, a geopolitical banquet – served by some of the best independent… Continue reading
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Jan 29 2025 
From the channel: Glazyev for Thinking People – Chinese Economy
These are a couple of short postings of other writers on Sergei Glazyev’s Telegram channel, translated by translator Maxwell Scott and kindly provided to us by a supporter.
Note what the first one says about Large Language Models in AI. They are probably more widespread than is assumed. The comment at the… Continue reading
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Jan 29 2025 
Chinese Wolf Warrior Diplomacy redux: Resistance everywhere
Here is an an interesting discussion with some members of the China Writer’s Group on Wolf Warrior Diplomacy. Initially this was partially condemned in China. The issue has been picked up again and the response of Wang Yi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of China, in a telephone conversation with Marco Rubio, US Secretary… Continue reading
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Jan 29 2025 
Shahid Bolsen: Trump: Overseeing the Downfall
Shahid Bolsen from the Middle Nation Group (generally the countries of the Arabian Peninsula) posits that the US is now under a planned and designed take-down and demolition. We all know the empire must fall. Shahid’s concept is that it is more than that, it is being taken down and Trump is the take-down master… Continue reading
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Jan 28 2025 
Dancing to Trump’s Disco Inferno
The spectacle of Trump’s sound and fury … something veils the same old imperial mindset, now blasting out in the open as a weaponized three-ring circus.
By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.
In the late 1970s Donald Trump, in his early thirties, cocky as ever and recently married to Ivana in 1977, could be seen on and off… Continue reading -
Jan 28 2025 
Does it matter what we write?
Does it matter what we say? Isn’t everything already fixed or is there little to change? Quite a few things have been written down and said and most of it is really just repetition. Most of it is just familiar and the world moves on.
Once a bright mind writes down something new, few read it… Continue reading
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Jan 28 2025 
Update: LAC
This is from La Jornada (quite a mouthpiece locally in Mexico but at least we get the facts that are being omitted in the US, under a blanket of “He Caved”. (I made some changes to the translation where it was not clear).
https://www.jornada.com.mx/noticia/2025/01/27/editorial/trump-contra-colombia-3736
Featured image: Petro’s election in 2022.
NO! PETRO DID NOT CAVE. HE IS ACCEPTING… Continue reading
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Jan 27 2025 
Sergey Karaganov: Russia must help overthrow Western Europe’s dangerous political elites
By Professor Sergey Karaganov, honorary chairman of Russia’s Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, and academic supervisor at the School of International Economics and Foreign Affairs Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Moscow
(Note: Sergey Karaganov says the quiet part out loud, and he states the controversial subjects.)
Small update: RT has now provided a link… Continue reading
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Jan 27 2025 
BRUTAL: US Economy HIT By China’s Retaliation Over 10% Tariff Threat – Blow-for-blow?
From Seun Foo
If you listen carefully, China will do to the US the same as what Michael Hudson explained to us, that the US have planned for the rest of the world. But this time, the numbers are unbelievably massive.
