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Jul 31 2025 
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Jul 31 2025 
Lula and Unions Respond to Trump Threats
“The political motivation behind the measures against Brazil violates national sovereignty and the historical relationship between the two countries,” says Brazil’s President Lula da Silva.
From Brian MierOn July 30, US President Donald Trump declared bilateral relations with Brazil a national emergency in order to justify raising import tariffs. In a menacing statement entitled “Addressing Threats… Continue reading
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Jul 31 2025 
China, Cambodia and Thailand hold trilateral informal meeting in Shanghai
From GlobalTimes
An informal trilateral meeting among China, Cambodia and Thailand was held in Shanghai on Wednesday. Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Sun Weidong, along with representatives from Cambodia and Thailand, attended the meeting, according to the Chinese Foreign Ministry.
Both Cambodia and Thailand reaffirmed their commitment to the ceasefire consensus and expressed appreciation for China’s positive role… Continue reading
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Jul 31 2025 
China checkmates BlackRock and Trump in Panama ports game
After all the MAGA chest‑thumping and Wall Street back‑patting, Panama’s crown jewels – Balboa and Cristobal – along with 40+ global gateways are now sailing straight into the hands of Chinese shipping giant COSCO.
How did this chess game unfold?
🔴 March: BlackRock (https://t.me/geopolitics_prime/53919) trumpets a $22.8 billion deal with Hong Kong’s CK Hutchison – 199 berths… Continue reading
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Jul 31 2025 
Sam Landing Jab Means Chinese Troops in Southeast Asia
Sweating and farting bodies are comforted and reassured by metallic extensions. Admiring a car or watch, we imagine ourselves to be just as clean and immortal.
with gratitude to Linh Dinh at Postcards from the End.
In 2018, a Vietnamese in Phnom Penh told me about a miraculous rescue. After being knocked over by a car, he… Continue reading
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Jul 31 2025 
Mightier Dragon: The J-20 Grows Up
This is from Godfree Roberts and his substack is https://herecomeschina.substack.com/
In 2021 China completed the world’s fastest hypersonic wind tunnel, capable of Mach 30 airflow speeds, while America’s latest, at the University of Notre Dame reaches only Mach 10. While the generational gap in fighter jets draws attention, the disparity in scientific infrastructure is even more… Continue reading -
Jul 31 2025 
Pepe Escobar: Chinese foxes, American sharks, European rodents
The “BRICS lab” has a non-stop, ever-adapting creative spirit. Beats Tariff dementia everytime.
By Pepe Escobar on Strategic Culture
The fourth plenary session of the Communist Party of China has been scheduled by the Politburo for October (no precise data announced; probably four days during the second half of October). That’s when Beijing will be deliberating the… Continue reading
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Jul 31 2025 
Kings of Chaos
I wonder what readers expect to find in this essay. That’s actually often part of the fun of writing for me, because I enjoy weaving and twisting things around. Kings of Chaos—who would know this game?
First, let me tell you a little about myself. My attention span averages two years. That means that every two… Continue reading
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Jul 31 2025 
Medvedev’s comment re the fabled ‘Dead Hand”
Ritter explains something that has meaning that we don’t generally know and we should know. That is the background of ‘Dead Hand’. Sometimes, even a broken clock …..
TRUMP AND MEDVEDEV’S DANGEROUS EXCHANGE OF WORDS
As the rhetoric heats up, we must remain cognizant of the consequences.
The sharp exchange of words between President Trump and former… Continue reading
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Jul 31 2025 
The Weaponization of Faith: Meet the current crusaders and their spiderwebs
DDGeopolics examines how faith-based extremism, military privatization, and intelligence-linked trafficking narratives are converging into something new: a weaponized theology of aid: the Modern Crusaders. What began as “help” is fast becoming something else entirely, a gospel delivered at gunpoint and faith weaponized to destroy the amalek.
The report and I would encourage you to read it,… Continue reading
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Jul 30 2025 
From Lenin to Žižek: The Disgraceful End of Western Marxism – feat. Gabriel Rockhill
Gabriel Rockhill on Western Marxism, Intellectual Complicity, and the Global Class Struggle
What if the dominant forms of Marxist theory in the West were not simply flawed, but deeply complicit with the very imperial system they claim to critique?
In this explosive new interview, we speak with Gabriel Rockhill—philosopher, cultural critic, activist, and one of the sharpest… Continue reading
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Jul 30 2025 
BRICS 2025 Summit: Pepe Escobar Reveals Major Insights with Think BRICS
Featured Image: Very old file photo that some of us may remember and enjoy.
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Jul 30 2025 
Missiles Fly, Missives Tossed in Mud
… Hun Sen must be disappointed, at least, at the Middle Kingdom’s relative silence through all this, but who knows what Xi Jinping is up to. Sun Tzu’s ghost must be giving Xi an endless stream of great advices.
with gratitude to Linh Dinh at Postcards from the End.
Consider this astounding statement, “She is not only… Continue reading
