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Apr 26 2025 
BRICS Brazil: Xi Jinping Delivers Remarks at the Leaders Meeting on Climate and the Just Transition
On April 23, 2025, President Xi Jinping delivered remarks at the Leaders Meeting on Climate and the Just Transition via video link.
Xi Jinping noted that this year marks the 10th anniversary of the Paris Agreement and the 80th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations. As unprecedented global changes unfold at a faster pace, humanity has come… Continue reading
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Apr 25 2025 
China, Hong Kong and The Art of Blinking
Captain Chaos definitely does not have the cards – which as even South Pacific penguins know, are all made in China.
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
SHANGHAI and HONG KONG – So, predictably, Captain Chaos did blink first. As much as he – and his sprawling media circus – could not possibly admit it.
It all… Continue reading
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Apr 25 2025 
Argentina: IMF Loans and chainsaws
We recently had a short discussion on Argentina in the Hearty Salon. I mentioned casually that I am not sure how much of Argentina actually still belongs to Argentina, given their IMF loans. It is generally known that Argentina has the most enormous IMF loans in the world.
Here is an update with Ben Norton… Continue reading
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Apr 25 2025 
Glen Diesen & Sean Foo: China Won the Economic War
Sean Foo is a financial analyst and a China expert who discusses how China won the economic war.
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Apr 25 2025 
Medvedev on the International Criminal Court (ICC)
Dmitry A. Medvedev: Security Council of the Russian Federation
Abstract
A strive for justice and a desire to bring the powerful to liability for crimes against public good and humanity is the idea that has always united people. Yet not all embodiments of this idea are worth existing, the ICC being the case. Legal… Continue reading -
Apr 25 2025 
China successfully launches Shenzhou-20 crewed spaceship; technical improvements, new life science experiments
from Global Times
Here is a one minute clip of the launch:
https://t.me/TheIslanderNews/39849
China is doing real honest work in space.
China successfully launches Shenzhou-20 crewed spaceship; mission features technical improvements and new life science experiments
The Shenzhou-20 crewed spaceship blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest China, atop the Long March-2F carrier rocket on 5:17… Continue reading
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Apr 24 2025 
Emptying Gaza: Norman Finkelstein & Chris Hedges
Is it so that we have to start accepting that nothing will now save Gaza? This is a very disturbing presentation by Norm.
Israel, both materially and rhetorically, has made their intent to destroy the Palestinian people clear. One of the most renowned and courageous Middle East scholars, Norman Finkelstein, has assiduously documented… Continue reading
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Apr 24 2025 
Agriculture: BRICS countries approve Joint Declaration with focus on food security
This was a ministerial meeting of agriculture ministers, and the Joint Declaration will now be forwarded to the BRICS summit, where the leaders can agree or not. We will be looking at the formal article that accompanies the Declaration.
First Assessment:
This Agricultural BRICS Joint Declaration is the result of a talk shop that did not create… Continue reading
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Apr 23 2025 
Run-up to BRICS in Brazil – not only in Moscow circles
In the run-up to BRICS in Brazil, this message is very important, not only in Moscow circles. Let me ask you a question. BRICS is a revolution no? Even though the presentation is one of building alternatives, it is a revolution in that it moves away from a single polar world to… Continue reading
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Apr 23 2025 
Michael Hudson with Ben Norton: Will Trump’s Tariff Games Backfire?
Donald Trump’s tariffs are benefiting rich elites at the expense of the majority of the population, argues economist Michael Hudson. He explains how the US trade war on China is isolating the United States and encouraging countries to seek alternatives. Ben Norton hosts the interview.
Transcript
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BEN NORTON: Why has US President Donald Trump imposed tariffs on… Continue reading
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Apr 23 2025 
The United Global South Front against the Tariff Paper Tiger
An excellent wide ranging discussion and follow-up on the Spirit of Shanghai article.
coalescence of new Primakov Triangle with all three at once under the Orange devil-storm
Yanquis about to be submerged in their own Century of Humiliation
BRICS regain focus with urgency, propelled by ASEAN and China
can Lula & Brazil deliver in three… Continue reading -
Apr 22 2025 
Iran: a strategic mistake in the making?
With thanks to Quantum Bird
Iran’s history is rich and complex. From the days of the glorious Persian Empire to today’s Islamic Republic, Iran has experienced all kinds of geopolitical circumstances, including being, for a period, a colony of the Western powers. Like any former colony that has liberated itself through a popular revolution, Iran has its… Continue reading
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Apr 22 2025 
Economic Prosperity – Neutrality and Peace
By Peter Koenig
“Peace is the most powerful weapon for mankind.”—Mahatma Gandhi
***Peace is an economic driver for every country, for the world and even more so in a globalized world, where countries and regions are connected. Conflicts and wars interrupt not only supply chains, harming also economies that have nothing directly to do with the conflict,… Continue reading
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Apr 22 2025 
Trump’s Christian Cult is freaking out after catastrophic week
Something completely different: Viewing the Crazy
Bringing awareness of a subject, does not necessarily mean compliance or complicity. This short video talks about the Crazy US Christians, but one has to filter on both sides, as the narrator is frequently off the mark as well. What is important, is to know about the Crazy, and not… Continue reading
