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Feb 28 2025 
Capital as Power in the Polycrisis
A Conversation on Geopolitical Economic Theory
Michael Hudson, Jonathan Nitzan, Tim Di Muzio and Blair Fix
A Conversation
MICHAEL HUDSON, JONATHAN NITZAN, TIM DI MUZIO, and BLAIR FIX
February 2025
AbstractOn December 3, 2024, Michael Hudson met with capital-as-power researchers Jonathan Nitzan, Tim Di Muzio, and Blair Fix to discuss the intersections between their two lines of research. What follows… Continue reading
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Feb 28 2025 
Richard Wolff: Trump’s victory & theatrics are just symptoms of US decline
Will Brics nations pose a real challenge to Donald Trump’s second term in office? And how do Trump’s tariffs stack up against this rising bloc?
US economist Richard D. Wolff joined us for an extended conversation on Trump, tariffs Brics, as well as the US plan to ‘take over’ Gaza.
“This is difficult here in… Continue reading
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Feb 28 2025 
Baltic/Black Sea power games and red lines intersect in a “strange war”
No one ever lost money betting on the batshit crazy “policies” of the ferociously yapping Baltic chihuahuas.
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
No one ever lost money betting on the batshit crazy “policies” of the ferociously yapping Baltic chihuahuas. Their latest power play of sorts is a drive to turn the Baltic Sea into… Continue reading
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Feb 28 2025 
Elena Panini: Conservative values of Trump-Vance America & the attempted killing of Crimean Metropolitan Tikhon
https://russtrat.ru/
[Background: Russian law enforcement operatives have thwarted a terrorist attack against Crimean Metropolitan Tikhon of the Russian Orthodox Church which was ordered by Ukrainian military intelligence, the Federal Security Service (FSB) has said. One of the suspects was Tikhon’s aide, who received threats that his family would be killed if he refused to cooperate.
In… Continue reading
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Feb 27 2025 
Gaza Youth Release a Powerful Counter-Video to Trump’s Racist AI Propaganda
Gaza (Quds News Network)- Young people in Gaza have released a powerful video in response to a bizarre racist AI-generated video posted by US President Donald Trump. This video firmly declares: “Gaza is Palestinian.”
🔥In response to the AI-generated video posted by @POTUS Trump about Gaza, which featured @elonmusk , young people in Gaza produced a… Continue reading
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Feb 27 2025 
More multilateralism is the key bulwark for the world against US unilateralism: BRICS
From Global Times with added notes. This is from the perspective of BRICS and BRICS countries reacting to the tariff regime.
As the aggressive US tariff policies have sent shockwaves through the global economy, placing great pressure on global trading networks, the BRICS nations – alongside other emerging economies – need to deepen regional collaboration and… Continue reading
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Feb 27 2025 
Russian ‘presnukha’: A rustic rye galette with cottage cheese
This is so simple to make, and with cream and cottage cheese instead of cream cheese. Much more economical and I guess much healthier.
Rural life has always been different from city living; not only in everyday life, but also in culinary traditions. I realized this when I heard my friend talking about her childhood in… Continue reading -
Feb 27 2025 
From the Greyzone: Where did the Gaza Beachfront development video come from?
Before Trump promoted an outrageous AI video dramatizing the transformation of Gaza into an ethnically cleansed, Dubai-like golden riviera, Netanyahu uploaded a remarkably similar blueprint, “Gaza 2035,” on his website @MaxBlumenthal explains pic.twitter.com/3hovNjGZDG
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Feb 27 2025 
Dump Trump’s News Cycle
The strategy of empire going forward will be one of denial of world development through chaos creation.
Full-on and open-throated Trump supporters are now beginning to say .. WHAT? It is too early to say that he is beginning to lose parts of this base, but the first signs are there.
The continual half-day-long press chats every… Continue reading
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Feb 27 2025 
The Flood Of The Free
Politically, the act of freeing Palestinians—whether they’re Hamas or not—has unified and extended Hamas’s political appeal across the entire nascent State of Palestine. With the Al Aqsa Flood, they proved that they are a people’s army, and with the Flood Of The Free, they prove that they are a people’s government.
By Indi.caThe Flood Of The… Continue reading
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Feb 27 2025 
The Pentagon and Starlink Satellites
The stakes are high. If successful, the US could again intimidate the world through nuclear blackmail.
Alan Macleod from Mintepress News and published at the Greanville Post
[Comment: I have no idea whether this is technically feasible. Yet, the concept makes sense. There are also Russian and Chinese initiatives to keep space free from warfighting. There has… Continue reading
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Feb 27 2025 
Pepe Escobar & Judge Nap: The Resistance Gathers
Talkin’ to The Judge – on the Russia/US casino and most of all, The Power of the Resistance.
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Feb 27 2025 
How Trustworthy is President Trump?
By Peter Koenig
Is President Trump the Peace President he makes out to be, and under which banner he has campaigned? – Sick and tired of the fraud called Biden Administration, people believed Trump.
The quick answer after a month in office is – Trump is not a Peace President. Trump is a badly deranged person. See… Continue reading
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Feb 26 2025 
Guns, babies and beachfront in Gaza
How shameful—that we cloak our moral collapse in the tattered rags of progress. How devastating—that we mistake cruelty for strength, and callousness for pragmatism. How hollow—that we chase mirages of power, clutching at the golden crown of empire while babies shiver and die of cold in the rubble of Gaza, their breath frosting in air… Continue reading
