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Sep 10 2025 
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Sep 10 2025 
Michael Hudson: Trump’s Tariff Wars Hit Europe, Korea & Japan
[Note: Kindly pay attention, friends and colleagues. This needs to be widely distributed.]
Most discussion of the past week’s SCO and BRICS meetings understandably have focused on the rising strength of their multilateral alternative to America’s attempt to impose its unipolar world control under its own rules calling for other countries’ subordination to U.S. demands to… Continue reading -
Sep 10 2025 
Remarks and answers to questions by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during a meeting with students and faculty at MGIMO
It is frequent that in these lower key events, speaking to students, if we pay attention we see Mr Lavrov’s brilliance. The word sangfroid fits so well: self-possession or imperturbability especially under pressure.
https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/2045680/
Mr Torkunov,
Colleagues,
Friends,
First year students.
I was honoured to learn that Mr Torkunov scheduled this meeting as part of the Day of Knowledge, emphasising the… Continue reading
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Sep 10 2025 
Alastair Crooke: Middle East on the BRINK – Russia Rains Down Drones & Missiles!
with Nima.
Quote Alastair: “There are no rules, no limitations, no contraints on Israel. It goes where it wants. It ignores boundaries, it ignores frontiers, it just goes where it wants, it uses force where it wants, it will decapitate where it can. There is nothing that is stopping it and certainly… Continue reading
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Sep 10 2025 
The 80th UNGA (UN General Assembly) is open
The President of the 80th session, H.E. Annalena Baerbock, opened the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly on 9 September 2025, at 3pm (local time in New York).
I listened to her speech of pablum but could not make it through. You may find it here:
The first period of UNGA consists of maintenance issues… Continue reading
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Sep 10 2025 
Russian Drones over Poland & latest Russian comment
From nowhere comes the news that Polish airspace is full of Russian drones. Airports close, fighter jets are in the air, rhetoric spreads through all major news, while NATO calls for consultations. Photos of ‘downed Russian drones in Poland’ and missile fragments appear. The NATO Secretary General said fighter jets from four countries were involved… Continue reading
