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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
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Sep 09 2025 
President Maduro: The U.S. Evades Its Responsibility in the Fight Against Drugs
On Monday, during a television program broadcast by Russia Today, former Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa interviewed Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, with whom he analyzed the geopolitical implications of the presence of U.S. military forces in the Caribbean.
RELATED:
President Maduro Activates Communal Militia Units in Response to US Interference
“What Washington wants is to control Venezuela’s wealth. That… Continue reading -
Sep 09 2025 
Mohammad Marandi & Pepe Escobar: Iran Warns: Ready to CRUSH Any Israeli Strike- BRICS Takes on Trump
Prof. Marandi weighs in on Qatar.
Pepe changes the subject as he does not want to talk about something that is suicide inducing.
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Sep 09 2025 
Israel bombs Qatari capital in assassination attempt of Hamas leaders
Officials in Tel Aviv say the US president gave the ‘green light’ for the attack in the allied Gulf country
The Cradle
The Israeli military and Shin Bet have confirmed launching an attack in the Qatari capital, Doha, on 9 September that targeted Hamas leaders who were meeting to discuss US President Donald Trump’s ceasefire proposal.
“Today’s action… Continue reading
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Sep 09 2025 
Regime change industrial complex w/ Brian Berletic : The Duran
Empire is regime change status hot currently. Nepal for one is turning very violent. The protesters demand to appoint the new prime minister as the mayor of Kathmandu, Balendra Shah, who used to be a rapper.
Brian Berletic now comes into his own as he has studied the methodologies, the financing and the slow… Continue reading
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Sep 09 2025 
From Tianjin and Beijing to Vladivostok, the Eurasia High-Speed Train Keeps-a-Rollin’
History will register that the first week of September 2025 propelled the advent of the Eurasia Century to a whole new level.
By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.
That was the expectation ahead of three crucial intertwined dates: the SCO annual summit in Tianjin; the Victory Day parade in Beijing; and the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok.
Yet expectations… Continue reading
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Sep 08 2025 
Those kind charity workers in China: They were nabbed hot
China’s Ministry of State Security discloses espionage case involving overseas individuals disguised as charity workers
China’s Ministry of State Security on Tuesday revealed that a foreign organization sent operatives into remote southwestern regions in China disguised as mountaineers and charity workers, where they posed as providing medical aid to gain villagers’ trust and recruit guides to… Continue reading
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Sep 08 2025 
Here Comes China
A few interesting selections from Godfree Roberts’ Newsletter: Here Comes China
Flight test begins of world’s first megawatt-level ‘windmill’ airship, the S1500, with 1MW energy generation, equivalent to a traditional 328-foot (100-meter) wind turbine.
DeepSeek becomes China’s AI model of choice overnight. HarmonyOS update of its AI assistant, Xiaoyi, is bringing deep integration of Deepseek-R1 to all… Continue reading
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Sep 08 2025 
Naim Qassem: No Power on Earth Can Disarm Hezbollah
From Resistance News Unfiltered
By lecridespeuples
Speech by Hezbollah Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem at the memorial service for Sayed Abbas Ali Moussaoui, August 25, 2025.
Note: The first part of this speech, not translated here, paid tribute to Sayed Abbas Ali Moussaoui, a Lebanese scholar who passed away the previous week. In the political section translated below,… Continue reading -
Sep 08 2025
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Sep 08 2025 
The End of the Unipolar World Order – A Tectonic Shift Away from the West.
By Peter Koenig
“No mountain or ocean can distance people who have shared aspirations,” China’s President Xi Jinping said in July 2024, addressing leaders from fellow Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member states and a few other nations, in Astana, Kazakhstan.
It is not reaching too far, saying that this year’s 25th SCO Summit (SCO) in Tianjin, China, from… Continue reading
