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Apr 04 2025 
Mao Tse-Tung and I Were Beggars: Part 3
Prepared and published by Godfree Roberts, for his substack
The Buddhist Monastery on Wei Shan
Part 1: Mao’s Struggle for Learning, Farm boy buys freedom.
Part 2: He Hu-tzu’s House.In the evening we arrived at Wei Shan. As we approached, the uniform green background gradually resolved into trees surrounding the great white Buddhist temple. Soon, we reached its… Continue reading
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Apr 04 2025 
Michael Hudson & Richard Wolff with Nima
The Geopolitical Chessboard: Trump, Iran, and the Shadow of War
Ed Note: This interview was done BT – before Tariffs. I look forward to hear this dreamteam discuss the tariffs. Yes, this is my dreamteam because of the rich historical knowledge and the skill in which current affairs are placed into the ‘what… Continue reading
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Apr 04 2025 
Dmitry Polyanskiy at the latest UNSC Briefing on the Situation in the OPT
Statement by First Deputy Permanent Representative Dmitry Polyanskiy at a UNSC Briefing on the Situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Mr. President,
We note the statement by Mr. Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. We thank Mr. Younes Al-Khatib, President of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, for his thorough briefing on the situation in the… Continue reading
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Apr 04 2025 
Kirill Dmitriev : US Interview with Greta von Susteren
Image: File Image
On Thursday’s “The Record with Greta Van Susteren,” Putin Investment Envoy Kirill Dmitriev responded to questions about American hostages, the war in Ukraine, and restoring Russian American relations and business.
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Apr 03 2025 
How Trump’s Tariff Tizzy is Burning Down the House
Global Majority, rejoice! And step on the high-speed rail de-dollarization train.
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
Circus ringmaster Trump’s Tariff Tizzy (TTT), christened by himself as “Liberation Day”, is being largely interpreted around the world – Global North and Global South alike – as Slaughterhouse Day.
This de facto uncontrolled economic demolition gambit starts with… Continue reading
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Apr 03 2025 
Trump’s Tariff World War Will Kill the Dollar
On April 2, Donald Trump announced tariffs of at least 10% across all countries, with rates going even higher for 60 countries. CNBC reports goods imported from China now face a 54% tariff rate, CNN stating “China hit hard”.
However, China’s Xinhua News Agency called it “self-defeating bullying.” Chinese strategist, Professor Wang Xiangsui, pointed out two… Continue reading
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Apr 03 2025 
The Alliance of Sahel States is visiting Russia: Mr Lavrov’s Statement
https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/2006951/
Good afternoon, respected members of the media.
We have held the first meeting in the new Russia-Alliance of Sahel States format with our friends from Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger. I would like to once again welcome our friends from this young but dynamically developing association, which was established less than a year ago, to Moscow.
We… Continue reading
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Apr 03 2025
Kirill Dmitriev’s presser after his negotiations with the US
RT has a series of telegram videos that are too long to embed. It starts here:
https://t.me/rtnews/89465
Mr Dmitriev is the head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund. He states that he visited the US on the instruction of his president (President Putin). Note that this is the first visit of a Russian envoy since 2022. He… Continue reading
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Apr 03 2025 
The Zionist are cleaning up and to do that, they coerce and threaten, and perhaps worse.
This will give you a flavor of what is happening, but it is the usual threats, threats to families in human rights groupings, arrests, and throwing anyone that talks into dark jail. The cherry on this cake, of course, is the rehabilitation of Netanyahu by his visit to Hungary. Hungary was in a sense a… Continue reading
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Apr 03 2025 
Dmitry Medvedev
From his Telegram Channel
Trump has roughly bent the global trading system over the table by imposing duties on nearly the entire world. The consequences will be global. Counter-tariffs will be imposed on goods from the United States. Old supply chains will be broken, but new ones will form.
And what about us?
Russia barely does any business… Continue reading
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Apr 02 2025 
Brian Berletic, Danny Haiphong: Trump’s War Threats Backfire: Putin, Iran & China Just Called His Bluff
Brian leaves some warnings which I believe is accurate. The US is in a state of desperation, but still dangerous.
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Apr 02 2025 
Joint Statement by BRICS Deputy Foreign Ministers and Special Envoys on the Middle East and North Africa, Brasília
https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/brics/2006680/
1. BRICS Deputy Foreign Ministers and Special Envoys on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) met on March 28, 2025, in Brasília, Brazil, to exchange views on the current situation in the region.
2. They reiterated their serious concern over continued conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa, especially the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, which threaten… Continue reading
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Apr 02 2025 
Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs (UPDATE)
This is a short comment as we have no details. These few words act at placeholder for now – details now filling in!
In Trump’s view, the United States is being “ripped off” by countries with higher tariff rates on US-made products or countries with which the US runs a trade deficit – that is, nations… Continue reading
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Apr 02 2025 
Of Helicopters And Hypocrites
Now is the time of morons on the imperial side, while the Resistance are philosopher martyrs.
By Indi.caAbubaker Abed writes, “Apache helicopters are drifting low in Deir al-Balah. It is just terrifying and unbearable.” The genocide then, the genocide this time. Their ‘civilization’ is sick, the way its history rhymes. The White Empire takes the name… Continue reading
