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Apr 08 2025 
Michael Hudson: How Private Banking Replaced Public Money
Graeber discussion group April 4, 2025
(INTRO)
Michael Hudson: The problem is not government debt, it’s private debt. People who say that government debt is the problem are people who want to get rid of the government and take it over themselves.What gives money its value?
Money is basically a public utility. Prior to Western civilization, money was… Continue reading
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Apr 08 2025 
From Dmitry Medvedev on the risk of nuclear war
Fifteen years ago in Prague, I signed the New START Treaty with President Obama.
Unfortunately, it did not reduce the risk of nuclear war. This failure can be attributed to the US and its allies’ approach. At some point, they decided they could maintain technical nuclear parity with Russia while simultaneously waging an undeclared war, first… Continue reading
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Apr 08 2025 
Alastair Crooke : Trump Demands the Impossible from Iran
With Judge Nap.
This is a must listen interview as Alastair Crooke exposes the demands from the US to Iran, and it is not only to reduce nuclear activities. Yesterday in the Trump/Netanyahu public discussions (can one even call them discussions, or do we call them publicly announced kill plans?) Netanyahu proposed for Iran, the… Continue reading
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Apr 07 2025 
Daily Chronicles
The strategy of empire going forward will be one of denial of world development through chaos creation. While the approach has shifted, imperialist aspirations endure. The fragile veil of a pretense of peace lies irrevocably torn asunder, its remnants eclipsed by the unrelenting tide of violence that now reigns. The strategy is beginning to unravel… Continue reading
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Apr 07 2025 
New Atlas live: Trump Tariffs, Fake “Peace,” Real War
Some comments from an article by Brian Berletic, just a little earlier but it states the immediate history up to now:
▪️Despite distancing itself from the corporate-funded “Project 2025” policy papers, the Trump administration is now systematically implementing every aspect of the policy blueprint;
▪️The Trump administration has announced what is likely to be… Continue reading
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Apr 07 2025 
The Middle-East/West Asia wars are continually escalating
Current local time Jerusalem: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/israel/jerusalem
Previous thread: https://sovereignista.com/2025/03/19/the-middle-east-west-asia-wars-are-escalating/
Apr 13
Ansar Allah military spokesman: Over the past two weeks, Ansar Allah has downed four American drones, Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said. The latest MQ-9 Reaper was reportedly shot down with a domestically made surface-to-air missile in Yemen’s Hajjah Governorate. According to official sources, the… Continue reading
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Apr 06 2025 
The Brutal and Deliberately Forgotten Korean War
“Unrestricted submarine warfare, unrestricted air bombing . . . this is total war. Time and the ocean and some guiding star and High Cabal have made us what we are.”
By Professor Dr. Syed Mujahid Kamran at Daily Pakistan.
The Korean War fought between Communist forces of North Korea, the U.S. puppet regime of the South and… Continue reading
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Apr 06 2025 
Chinese Government’s Position on Opposing U.S. Abuse of Tariffs: Global Response
https://www.mfa.gov.cn/eng/xw/zyxw/202504/t20250406_11589042.html
April 5, 2025
Recently, the United States has imposed tariffs on all its trading partners, including China, under various pretexts.
This severely infringes upon the legitimate rights and interests of all countries, severely violates World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, severely undermines the rules-based multilateral trading system, and severely disrupts the global economic order.
The Chinese government strongly condemns and resolutely opposes such move.By taking… Continue reading
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Apr 06 2025 
Mission to Moscow (1943 film about Joseph E. Davies’ visit to Russia as US Ambassador to the Soviet Union)
Eric Arnow, our Bumble Buddist from the China Writer’s Group presents a movie. It is perfect day today, to take in some history and step outside of Tariffs (so much noise, so little substance), and current wars.
A little about Eric: “I trained as a Zen monk and continue practicing Zen and Buddhism. I’m interested in… Continue reading -
Apr 05 2025 
Michael Hudson & Richard Wolff with Nima
Can the World Unite Against U.S. Trade Weaponization?
Revenge Economics: How Trump’s Trade War Hurts America First
NIMA ALKHORSHID: Hi, everybody. Today is Thursday, April 3rd, 2025, and our friends, Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff are back with us. Welcome back.
Let’s talk about the “Liberation Day,” and the new tariffs on each and every country on this… Continue reading
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Apr 05 2025 
Kurabiye: Middle Eastern flower cookies that became truly Soviet
It is slowly getting to be hot summer in the tropics and the airconditioner is almost in full use. I don’t bake because it is too hot, but I do check out lovely baked goods and plan for the cooler months.
To my surprise, I found these cookies from my favorite Russian recipe site, https://www.russiaislove.com/russian-kitchen/332305-kurabiye-east-flower-cookies-recipe-photo
The description… Continue reading
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Apr 05 2025 
Vietnam Blinks (or did they Wink?)
After Trump’s 46% tariff thunderclap on Vietnamese imports, Hanoi didn’t flinch, it countered. Not with confrontation but with conditions. It is important to check the actual response from Hanoi vs. Trump’s post.
Vietnam has signaled readiness to cut tariffs to zero, but only as part of a mutual agreement. In other words: reciprocity, not subjugation.
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Apr 04 2025 
China’s Done With USA: Brutal 54% Tariff Signals End Of Trade, BRICS Is The Future
I went to check Chinese commentary and found that China is not playing games. So, I wanted to write about that, but thought .. let me check what Seun Foo says.
Let’s just see … China has not stopped since just literally a few hours ago it declared reciprocal tariffs. It did not stop there. Since… Continue reading
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Apr 04 2025 
Trump 2.0: Between the slip and the fall
From Quantum Bird
Most people have witnessed someone slip and fall while trying to go down a slippery, wet slope. The person’s actions in the short moments between the initial slip and the inevitable fall are crucial to the final severity of the episode. Logically, it would be better to avoid going down such a slope,… Continue reading
