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Oct 18

Pakistan and Afghanistan agree on IMMEDIATE ceasefire during Doha negotiations — Qatar’s Foreign Ministry

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Gaza is now teetering on the brink of breaking out into war again. Hamas is reporting and Egypt and Qatar and Turkey started talking to Trump (or so they say) in order to stop Netanyahu. He has just ordered to cancel plans of opening the Rafah Border Crossing. The Rafah crossing will not open until Hamas fulfills its obligations by returning the bodies of the captives. Gazans are still being killed and the socalled peace agreement is now routinely being broken – 47 times at the last count. The murder rate is increasing day by day.

Pretexts are being built: Dr. Rami Abdo, Director of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, confirmed that recent events clearly indicate that the Israeli occupation deliberately refuses to retrieve the bodies of Palestinian prisoners in Gaza, aiming to use them as a pretext to continue policies of oppression and subjugation against Palestinians.

Abdo explained that one of the most evident indicators of this approach is the occupation authorities’ refusal to allow rescue teams and specialized equipment into areas destroyed by airstrikes, preventing the recovery of bodies and missing persons from under the rubble. This refusal intensifies the suffering of families and magnifies the humanitarian disaster in the Gaza Strip.

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It is understandable why there will be many who are very upset seeing this image and I am in agreement given what has gone before historically and what is going on now. However there is something at play now which explains why Putin is shaking hands with Al-Sharaa. Soon enough… pic.twitter.com/LUlM1r9kQw

— The Sirius Report (@thesiriusreport) October 18, 2025

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Dmitry Medvedev: As he met with the whiny beggar, Trump said an obvious but rather curious thing: “Let both [Russia and Ukraine] claim Victory.” This is indeed how military conflicts often end. But that’s not the case here.

And it’s not only because we need a victory on specific terms everyone is aware of. That goes without saying.

It’s also because the Bandera gang ruling Ukraine today will not be seen as a winner at home under any circumstances. The cokehead and his cronies know that full well. He won’t be forgiven for losing territory – neither by the rabid Ukronazis, nor by his political rivals. The end of the war means the death of his regime. Therefore, Trump’s formula doesn’t apply.

Meanwhile, the peacemaker‑in‑chief put on a good show with the Tomahawks – in his trademark style, keeping global public opinion on edge – and ended his play with a ‘nuclear submarine’ style flourish: Sorry, bro, we don’t have enough ourselves. Admittedly, Trump has been firm in his stance of “It’s not my war, blame senile old B.” Though even senile old B was against sending long-range weapons to the Banderites.

But this, of course, is far from the end of the story of pumping new weapons into Kiev. To be continued – and we must be ready for any turn of events.

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While we are on trade this morning, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says they have lost the biggest market: “We’re 100% out of china — from 95% market share to 0%. Whatever policy did that, made America lose one of the world’s biggest markets.”

China side of the world and trade: There is so much happening in terms of trade, research, programmes for anything you can think of, education, new products, poverty alleviation, building a moderately prosperous society, culture – too much to mention. Here are a very few sentences from Martin Jacques, 1.5 mins, talking on this. Despite the overwhelming amount of data now flowing from China, there is an overall coherence and what presents as a unity of purpose.

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202510/1345961.shtml

Contrasting are comments from Bessent, desperately spinning a vision of China vs the World, such as: “If some in the Chinese government want to slow down the global economy through disappointing actions and through economic coercion, the Chinese economy will be hurt the most — and make no mistake: this is China vs. the world.” (Nobody sensible is buying the narrative spin.  China is doing business with the rest of the world to beat the band.) Yet, there was a telephone call on trade just yesterday. A frequent comment on statistics of China and US trade is that China’s exports to the US are now less than 10% of its GDP and falling. Michael Hudson says debt that cannot be paid will not be paid. A similar type of comment to that is that if trade is made too complicated, people will trade elsewhere.  Bessent continued:  “The Trump administration will set price floors across a range of industries to combat market manipulation by China.”  There is no more free lunch for the U.S. despite desperate measures.  I agree with Prof. Wolff’s comment that sheer desperation is the order of the day.

What we can almost begin to call the trade snubbing of the US, is widespread.  Bessent has commanded begged the World Bank to do something.  But Trump and Scott Bessent’s attempt at an anti-China alliance looks dead on arrival.  Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman skipped this year’s Annual Meeting of the World Bank and IMF.  They sent a lower-level secretary.  The IMF raised its forecast for China’s 2025 economic growth to 4.8%, despite US trade war.

This is not only in the US.  The EU auto industry may have to shut down because of Nexperia shortages.  Nexperia is the Chinese-owned chip company that the Netherlands just seized.   There are signals that China is banning the export of components to Nexperia altogether, which will mean no more Nexperia and no more chips for the EU auto industry.

For interest sake, this is how business and big trade are reforming themselves.  The second gas pipeline from Russia to China, Power of Siberia 2, or the Altai gas pipeline through Mongolia, is in progress.  There is spinoff business here, and India walked in and took it.   Agreements are signed or in progress on mineral resources like coking coal and copper, and Mongolia will enter into the International Solar Alliance.  India is making available a credit line to fund a new oil refinery in Mongolia.  Mongolia seeks maritime access via “third-neighbor” ports.  RIC is working in tandem here, and BRICS is fast following.  No, BRICS is not dead.  Professor Wolff says the tired announcements that BRICS is dead are a result of sheer desperation, as BRICS, in reality, is seen as the biggest threat or rival to the US.

We are also seeing efforts in Africa to start trading in local currencies.  My head spins, as some of those currencies may be low in value. Still, the news that there is an alternative trading mechanism to the Dollar is certainly welcomed. It is being trialled as these countries become knowledgeable about the extraordinary privilege that the dollar holds over them.  There is a common misconception when we talk about de-dollarization.  We should talk about the Dollar changing status as the world’s reserve currency to become just another currency – that would be more accurate.   This is the trend that is now running on steroids, still with a preference to trade in local currencies.

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UNSC Resolution 2231, which endorsed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA, or nuclear deal) in 2015, expires today, terminating all past UNSC restrictions against Iran. “As an NPT (Non-Proliferation Treaty) signatory, Iran will remain bound solely to its rights and obligations under the NPT Treaty,” Iranian FM Abbas Araghchi said. This means no more threats from the IAEA and no limits whatsoever on the scale of IRAN’s nuclear program. In practice we will have to see what happens to the sanctions regime.

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About Tomahawk missiles: Neither a yes nor a no from Trump, but much dithering.  We wait now for the meeting between FM Lavrov and Marco Rubio, apparently set up for the coming week, and then a possible summit between Trump and Putin. There is consistency of commentary that Putin’s telephone call with Trump may have revived the Anchorage agreement. We do not know what this agreement is, but it may be the purported Russia-Alaska tunnel.

“We started the feasibility study of the Russia–Alaska tunnel six months ago,” Russian special presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev wrote on X.

As you will see from the following Ukraine war update, Russia is not slowing down on the SMO side.

Martyanov considers (and quite dramatically) that Vladimir Putin must have explained to Donald Trump during their phone call that the only way the US can launch TLAMs against Russia FROM the territory (and possibly airspace) of 404 is by basing B-52 or B-1B Lancers at airfields INSIDE 404. That also means that once those TLAMs are released against targets inside Russia, most military-intel targets and US (and NATO) personnel cease to exist all over Europe (together with 404, of course), and the new civilization emerges within the next 1 to 2 hours. But then, Donny is correct, the US needs those TLAMs because to get even a hundred or so leakers against Russian targets, the US will need most of its TLAM arsenal, if to imagine that the US launches outside 404. One, single salvo. There will be no second one. Meanwhile, the decommunization of 404 cities continues unabated.

UNSC Resolution 2231, which endorsed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA, or nuclear deal) in 2015, expires today, terminating all past UNSC restrictions against Iran. “As an NPT (Non-Proliferation Treaty) signatory, Iran will remain bound solely to its rights and obligations under the NPT Treaty,” Iranian FM Abbas Araghchi said. This means no more threats from the IAEA and no limits whatsoever on the scale of IRAN’s nuclear program. In practice we will have to see what happens to the sanctions regime.

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About Tomahawk missiles: Neither a yes nor a no from Trump, but much dithering.  We wait now for the meeting between FM Lavrov and Marco Rubio, apparently set up for the coming week, and then a possible summit between Trump and Putin. There is consistency of commentary that Putin’s telephone call with Trump may have revived the Anchorage agreement. We do not know what this agreement is, but it may be the purported Russia-Alaska tunnel.

“We started the feasibility study of the Russia–Alaska tunnel six months ago,” Russian special presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev wrote on X.

As you will see from the following Ukraine war update, Russia is not slowing down on the SMO side.

Martyanov considers (and quite dramatically) that Vladimir Putin must have explained to Donald Trump during their phone call that the only way the US can launch TLAMs against Russia FROM the territory (and possibly airspace) of 404 is by basing B-52 or B-1B Lancers at airfields INSIDE 404. That also means that once those TLAMs are released against targets inside Russia, most military-intel targets and US (and NATO) personnel cease to exist all over Europe (together with 404, of course), and the new civilization emerges within the next 1 to 2 hours. But then, Donny is correct, the US needs those TLAMs because to get even a hundred or so leakers against Russian targets, the US will need most of its TLAM arsenal, if to imagine that the US launches outside 404. One, single salvo. There will be no second one. Meanwhile, the decommunization of 404 cities continues unabated.

Ukraine war update:

Weekly summary (7 days from October 11 to 17)
Weekly losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in equipment: 7 tanks, 90 armored vehicles, 1304 drones. Also destroyed, traditionally not coinciding – from 526 (according to the weekly report) to 539 vehicles (according to the daily report), and from 65 (according to the weekly report) to 183 artillery pieces (according to the daily report).

The weekly losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were the highest since the end of March and amounted to 10,685 soldiers (9970 a week earlier), of which 3,705 were in the Pokrovsky direction (3120 a week earlier), 2,315 in Yuzhno-Donetsk (2,360), 1,570 in Kupyansk (1,575), 1,345 in Donetsk (1,115), and 1,315 in Kharkiv-Sumy (1355), 435 on Chersonsky (445).

No information is available about the captured Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers.

Average daily losses of the Armed Forces amounted to 1526 servicemen (1424 a week earlier). Minimum losses were recorded on October 15 – 1415, maximum on October 16 – 1670.

During the week, there were also 1 massive and 7 group strikes on the rear regions of the former Ukraine. The losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were not counted.

Oct 17

From Pepe Escobar:

A GLOBAL FIRST

THE PREMIERE IS TODAY

Last May, with an ultra-pro crew/great human beings, I crossed Iran from the Caspian Sea to the Persian Gulf, all the way to the strategic port of Chabahar and the Iran-Pakistan border, tracking the International North South Transportation Corridor (INSTC).

Which is, crucially, a BRICS project, linking Russia, Iran and India.

Our documentary – Golden Corridor – premieres today on Press TV. Don’t miss it.

Friday, October 17th | 15:00 GMT

📺 Rebroadcasts:

🕚 Friday | 23:00 GMT
🕢 Saturday | 07:30 & 19:00 GMT
🕜 Sunday | 01:30 & 13:30 GMT
🕓 Monday | 04:00 GMT

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Wait just a little Orbán.  Trump does not set my schedule.

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orbán spoke over the phone .

Viktor Orbán expressed his readiness to provide conditions for organizing a possible Russia-US Summit in Budapest.

The Russian President informed him of the key points of his conversation with US President Donald Trump, noting that upcoming talks with American counterparts would seek to define the next steps toward a peaceful settlement of the Ukrainian crisis, including the prospect of a Russia-US Summit in Budapest.

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This needs to be watched. Israeli settlers block aid trucks heading to Gaza at the Kerem Abu Salem crossing. These crazy settlers put their babies in front of the trucks. https://t.me/presstv/161360

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The US military has reportedly struck another vessel in the Caribbean, as the admiral overseeing the Trump administration’s military campaign announced an early resignation, raising questions about the legality and human cost of the operations.  Trinidad and Tobago (traditionally US chihuahuas) warned their fisherman and other small boaters to stay close to the shore so that they don’t get shot to smithereens into the deep.  Precisely like the zionist-israeli regime, which shot Palestinian fishermen out of the water.  It is the same deep-seated pathology where people are gleefully deprived of their livelihood.  This is standard practice across the Caribbean for small fisherman to go out in the evenings and come back early morning with their catch.  We’ve frequently made our way to the fishermen’s wharf to buy fresh catch.

Oct 16

Yesterday was a day when Trump again dominated the headlines. He stopped another war, this time between Iran and Pakistan. We have to differentiate between what is real and what is not real.

Little is real, and it is a pity that the world’s press reports everything with little understanding.  India’s spox just noted that  India says no call happened between Modi & Trump.  The phone calls that Trump refers to, are mostly not real.

Some are laughing from Venezuela, which asks when the CIA really was not attempting to overthrow or take out Maduro. The United States killed two citizens of Trinidad and Tobago in their recent strike on a boat in the Caribbean Sea.

India, which supposedly agreed to stop buying oil from Russia, has a different story and quite correctly states that it will make decisions based on the needs of their own farmers and citizens.

Trump said that he wants to impose sanctions on Russia, but the EU must do it first.

He said the US is in a trade war with China, and Bessent stated that the US will impose tariffs on China at the laughable rate of 500%. China made its normal comments (entirely out of patience), that a trade war cannot be won, and both parties get hurt.

I cannot really think what else he said of consequence, besides threatening Hamas again and rejoicing that the fishermen in the Caribbean are not out fishing.  He killed an industry and took food out of the mouths of people.  That is viscerally real.

His tone in his presser showed a more decisive move and mode to instruct the world on what to do.  Clearly he believes that he is God’s gift to humanity.  That is the kind of stuff I saw when I studied, like when people thought they were Napoleon or Jesus and stood in common areas, and as Smoothie says, shook the air.   And he will instruct this one or that one on what to do and what not to do.  The response is that everyone says ‘yes’ to shut him up, and then does just what they consider to be in their own interests.  Even coalitions are shattering and scattering.  It must be visible in the US now.  Those who are ‘running on MAGA faith’ must have an inkling that something is very twisted in the head.  One (or rather two) words that may describe what we see, is ‘euphoric megalomania’.

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Peace talks between high level delegations of Pakistan and Afghanistan to begin in Doha, Qatar.

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Key statements by Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov:

➡️The Russian Armed Forces have all the necessary capabilities to ensure the country’s interests and security

➡️Russia will continue the special military operation until all the objectives are met, but it is ready to turn the process into diplomacy if such an opportunity arises

➡️The functions of the World Trade Organization (WTO) are currently unclear

➡️Russia will provide all the necessary assistance to the people of Palestine

➡️It will only be possible to assess US President Donald Trump’s meeting with Vladimir Zelensky after it actually takes place

➡️The entire global economy will inevitably feel the consequences of the trade war between Washington and Beijing

➡️The situation around Ukraine would escalate to a new stage if the United States decides to supply Tomahawk cruise missiles to Kiev

Oct 15

Updates on Gaza are on War and Genocide.

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From the NYT: Trump Administration Authorizes Covert C.I.A. Lethal Action in Venezuela.  The development comes as the U.S. military is drawing up options for President Trump to consider, including possible strikes inside the country.  I’m not keen to link the NYT.  Here is a copy:  https://www.disclose.tv/id/ip42gsme6y/

If this is true, and I have no doubt that it is in full or in part, it means they’re gonna take Maduro out, fair means or foul.  Two US B52 Stratofortress long-range bombers circled off Venezuela all morning.

UPDATE;  We now have confirmation by Trump:  https://t.me/rtnews/116315

Trump CONFIRMS he’s authorized CIA to operate in Venezuela

For 2 reasons:

— ‘They’ve emptied their prisons into US’
— ‘We have a lotta drugs coming in from Venezuela’

Trump also says in this same presser that India had agreed not to buy oil from Russia and he is going to get China to do the same.  (True, Not True – we will see)

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Lots of threats flying.

Bessent threatens 500% TARIFFS on China for buying Russian oil.  Sure, sure, wishful thinking.

At NATO:  ‘HARD POWER is only thing belligerents respect’ — Hegseth

NATO will ‘take steps necessary to impose COSTS on Russia’

War Dept ready ‘to do its part in ways only US can do’ to force Moscow to peace deal

Insists Ukraine must retain ‘credible military to defend itself’

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Greasy Pete Hegseth has arrived in Brussels, where a meeting of NATO defense ministers and the Ukraine Weapons Contact Group “Ramstein” will take place. The message overall is ‘more money for purchasing more weapons from the U.S. to attack Russia’. The war talk does not stop for one moment and messages, besides the one of more money and more weapons which one can understand, are quite insane.

Hegseth: “Firepower, that’s what is coming. Expectation today is that more countries donate even more, that they purchase even more to provide for Ukraine to bring that conflict to a peaceful conclusion’. (Hey Pete, we’re not falling for it!)

Rutte announced: “NATO is 25-times bigger and infinitely superior to Russian military.”
“Air space is not the same as ground, there’s a big difference, militarily, but also politically. Please take that into account. The only thing I’m encouraging all of us is to take comfort in the fact that as NATO we are 25-times bigger than the Russian economy. Our military is infinitely superior to the Russian military. When it comes to our air force, the Russians cannot even stand in our shadow with these MiG-31s, or whatever they call them, with their not well trained fighter pilots.”

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Trump said Washington may halt trade with China across several sectors, citing Beijing’s “hostile economic behavior.” He said the US can produce its own cooking oil. (Soybean oil must be a thing.) According to Trump, China is deliberately cutting soybean purchases to pressure American farmers.

China is not letting up on the rhetoric. “The US side cannot seek talks on one hand while threatening to introduce new restrictive measures on the other. This is not the right way to get along with China,” a spokesperson for China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) said on Tuesday. “China’s position concerning tariff or trade wars has been consistent – if forced to fight, China will fight to the end, and for talks, the door is open,” the spokesperson said.

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Amid the tariff and trade disputes and the rare earths battle, Barron Trump, the 19-year-old son of President Donald Trump, is reportedly being considered for a board position at TikTok’s new U.S. entity following his father’s deal to separate the app from Chinese ownership. (China still owns the algorithm and just on 20% of the company.) From all the technical talk, the rehabilitation of Netanyahu on TikTok and X is in full swing, and watchers are noticing new instructions to the ‘pro-zionist $7,000 per post influencers’, and a massive increase in bot postings. Everything is about women captives now, deliberately forgetting that all women and children were released many months ago. It is a narrative battlefield which the pro-Palestinians are winning hands down in the cut and thrust of the social media internet, but in the western MSM, one would find that statement hard to believe. Do take a listen to Michael Hudson and Prof. Wolff where they describe this. The other side of the coin is well described by Prof. Marandi in an interview with Nima, posted on War and Genocide.

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The Russian Embassy in the US handed over a 350-page document, which contains their detail on who was behind the assassination of John F. Kennedy, according to Rep. Anna Paulina Luna.

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Afghanistan and Pakistan are still skirmishing and sometimes intensely clashing across the border with more and more references to the Durand Line. Reliable information is scarce. The scuttlebutt is that Pakistan is being encouraged by the US to pressure Afghanistan to let the U.S. back into the Bagram military base. I have not seen any sources that can be considered reliable, although reliable commentators support this theory.  Pakistan has hit Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital, and claims 37 Taliban fighters were killed.

.  Last evening, they shelled Kandahar province, according to an Afghanistan spokesperson, and at least 12 people were killed and more than 100 others wounded.  The Taliban reportedly launched ballistic missiles from the Soviet-era R-17E Elbrus system at Pakistan.

How Imran Khan planned to solve Pakistan-Afghanistan issue:

💬 “I do not believe in military solutions. I’m anti-military solutions. So I always believe that, as a politician, political dialogue is the way ahead, which I always believed was the case in Afghanistan,” the jailed ex-Pakistan PM Imran Khan said in 2019.

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The coup on the impoverished little island of Madagascar, just off the coast of Mozambique, leaves me baffled. This island is not strategically significant, but if one knows that it is mainly France that is encouraging militant Islam in various areas of Africa, notably the Sahel Alliance and down the East coast, and you also know that the former president escaped in a French jet, and that he had dual French Malagasy citizenship, it starts looking different. Yet, I cannot determine whether this small coup is intended to hold the island as a training ground for militants, as those who have taken over are equally suspect. Madagascar may be slated to become a training ground for militants, an erstwhile pirate hangout. The new Chief of Staff is Greek Malagasy. The whole area used to be under a Portuguese influence, as Mozambique was a Portuguese colony. It is unusual to see French and Greek. In my visits there, it was only local people, Portuguese, and South African people, usually on vacation. China has been involved in infrastructure development in Mozambique for years.

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Key U.S. economic indicators face delays or cancellations due to the ongoing government shutdown.

• Consumer Price Index (CPI) release is not expected.
• Producer Price Index (PPI) release is not expected.
• Jobless Claims data is not expected to be published.
• Retail Sales figures are unlikely to be released.
• Import/Export Price Index is at risk of delay.
• Energy reports from the U.S. Energy Information Administration have uncertain release status.

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Venezuela:  Nobel winner/regime change pimp Machado to the US inadvertently let’s the cat out of the bag: Venezuela’s drugs oil is all yours.

Venezuelan ‘opposition leader’ Maria Corina Machado makes a compelling case for regime change in her own country to Donald Trump:

💬 “We’re going to kick off the government from the oil sector. We are going to privatize all our industries. Venezuela has huge resources: oil, gas, minerals, land, and technology.”

It’s going to be “the brightest opportunity for investment of American companies,” says the rabid regime change proponent.

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Key statements of Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov:

🔹Kiev is daily being provoked by Europeans to continue the war;

🔹Everything Putin does is done to ensure the present and the future of Russia, this is why the military operation is being conducted;

🔹Russia is grateful to the US for its stated willingness to further contribute to a peaceful settlement of the Ukraine conflict;

🔹Putin has repeatedly stated his openness to using diplomatic means to resolve the Ukrainian conflict;

🔹The Russian economy has a significant margin of safety in order to implement all set plans;

🔹The Kremlin has no information that BRICS countries allegedly intend to leave the association due to a threat of US tariffs;

🔹Trump did not send congratulations to Putin on the occasion of his past birthday yet;

🔹The details about Trump’s announced call to Putin are not yet known;

🔹First high-level contacts between Russia and Syria are important;

🔹It can be expected that Russian military bases in Syria will be raised in one way or another during the talks between Putin and al-Sharaa;

🔹Russia will not comply with the ECHR ruling on compensation payments to Georgia.

Oct 14

The US murdered another six people on a boat off Venezuela in the Caribbean.  (Trust me Bro, they were narcos).

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A little Victor Gao:

Oct 13

So, the US, Egypt, Qatar and Turkiye signed the document on Gaza ceasefire deal. No Palestinian, no zionist-israeli. It is difficult even to frame this.

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The exchanges in Gaza are complete. The scenes were historic on both sides. The summit has started. Zionist-israel is handling Trump well, generally praising him 100 times more than what he praises himself.

I have a new theory. The bigger the circus the bigger the treachery. The circus around Trump in the Knesset brought to our eyes an unforgivable joy and euphoria on the current (may be temporary) cessation of a genocide. The hope is that it will be forgotten and forgiven. Trump asked the Israeli President to pardon Netanyahu — Knesset erupts in applause.

Mr Lavrov:
Trump’s Gaza plan ‘best thing on the table’, but it doesn’t solve the broader Palestinian issue.
Long-term settlement of Middle East conflict is impossible without creation of Palestinian state.
Russia is ready to participate in any formats on Middle East settlement.
Trump’s peace plan is limited to the Gaza Strip. A peace plan must have concrete terms, including the borders of the Palestinian state.

Russia hopes that all agreements on Trump’s Gaza plan will be fulfilled.

Russia remains skeptical that sustainable settlement in Gaza is achieved, as the hopes for peace in region have been dashed many times.

A little Medvedev:

Oct 12

Trump announces the war is over. Netanyahu announces the war is not over yet. Go figure.

-The release of Palestinian prisoners and Zionist-israeli captives is in progress. The first 7 Zionist hostages have just been handed over to the Red Cross in Gaza.  Agreement on the list of Palestinian prisoners went down to the wire and was finally agreed only a very few hours ago. Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya is on the list.

-Trucks carrying aid are pouring into Gaza. Hamas is keeping control as always. Trump said he gave Hamas a ‘temporary license to operate and remain armed’ for security in the Gaza Strip. Since trucks started rolling in, not one was attacked, which gives the lie to the Zionist statements that Hamas steals the aid. Hamas is meting out swift field justice to the militant groups that the Zionists planted specifically to raid the trucks and to create chaos. The young settler mobs who raided the trucks are not operating.

-The UN humanitarian scale-up in the Gaza Strip is well underway, with cooking gas entering Gaza for the first time since March, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Sunday. More tents for displaced families, along with frozen meat, fresh fruit, flour, and medicines, crossed into Gaza throughout the day on Sunday, OCHA said in a press release. The United Nations and its partners distributed hundreds of thousands of hot meals and bread bundles in both the south and the north, the office said. We have footage of young children eating apples and fruit for the first time in their lives.

-The peace summit in Sharm el-Sheikh will start in the next few hours. 20 Countries are attending, but Israel will not attend, Hamas will not attend, and Iran will not attend. Attendees:
🟠 Middle East: Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Turkiye, UAE 🟠 Europe: Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Spain, UK 🟠 Asia: Armenia, Azerbaijan, India, Indonesia, Pakistan 🟠 International: UN Chief Guterres, Arab League, European Council
It is here that I think they will announce, even partially, the technical temporary administration. Tony Blair is being roundly rejected, and Hamas says this has to be under Palestinian leadership.

-As in all wars, small cruelties abound. The IDF destroys or sets fire to the homes that they used as bases during the war, and are still shooting selected Palestinians.  The zionists are still attacking Yemen as well as the West Bank. Zionist threats against Hamas continue. The settler mobs move in and harvest the few remaining Palestinian olive crops for themselves, beat Palestinians and then cut down the trees.

-The worldwide street action and protests and activism are ongoing, now for justice for Gaza and the Palestinians. Nobody is forgetting that punitive action for those who perpetrated a genocide is necessary.

The cover-up and still very major online campaign, the ‘cleansing of Netanyahu’ of the crimes will not succeed.

https://bdsmovement.net/news/palestinian-civil-society-reacts-trump-netanyahu-genocidal-plan

Phase II of this deal? Prof. Marandi expects renewal of the attacks and activism must continue. The resistance is global. The social consciousness is alive. The zionist regime is hated across the world.

Hamas is unbowed. In a statement minutes ago: Hamas reaffirms its commitment to the agreement thus far as Israel adheres to it. The agreement is the result of the resilience of our people and the steadfastness of their resistance. Israel was unable to free its captives through military pressure, despite superior intelligence and overwhelming force. Israel could have released most of their captives alive months ago but continued to delay and refuse.

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I saw this somewhere and thought it was a joke.   It’s not.  (Its Taco Time).

There is a lot of media saying that this is a ban.  No, it’s not.  It is export control. ‘We’re not gonna sell weapons grade materials to those that want to build those weapons to threaten us’.  The cope is running strong today.

China’s MOFCON slammed the tariffs.  He Weiwen, a senior fellow at the Center for China and Globalization, told the Global Times on Sunday that China’s new export control measures aim to prevent diversion for purposes such as the manufacturing of weapons of mass destruction or use by smugglers and terrorists – threats to China’s national security and global stability, a concern shared by the international community.

If the US needs rare earths for civilian use, it can obtain licenses through compliance procedures and there is no need for such an overreaction, He said.

China declined a US phone call after export controls announcement – Bloomberg

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Friday at the UNSC meeting.  Washington’s claim its military campaign is an anti-drug effort is as fake as “a Hollywood blockbuster plot,” Moscow’s UN envoy has said.   “Americans once again save the world,” but in reality it is pure fiction, according to Nebenzia. He noted that the UN Office on Drugs and Crime “doesn’t even consider Venezuela a drug trafficking hub,” as 87% of cocaine entering the US comes via the Pacific Ocean, to which Venezuela has no access.

“Washington must immediately stop escalating under false pretexts and avoid the irreparable mistake of military action against Venezuela,” he urged.

Other members of the Security Council also called for de-escalation, but US Political Counselor John Kelley insisted that Washington would use its “full might” to eliminate Venezuela’s “drug cartels.”  (He fully channeled Greasy Pete Hegseth.)  

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(It looks like Russia got their messaging regarding the US-Russia relationship back on track – Ushakov, Peskov and Ryabkov now sing out of the same hymnbook, but I question the message).

Key statements of Russian presidential aide Yury Ushakov:

🔹Contacts between Russia and the United States through closed channels continue, and the sides are constantly talking;

🔹Work between Russia and the US is underway, and though some things are invisible now, sooner or later they will be noticeable;

🔹The agreements between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump in Alaska are the “guiding star” in the work of the two countries on the issues of the Ukrainian settlement;

🔹The Alaska agreements between Putin and Trump are the basis of a possible settlement of the Ukraine conflict;

🔹The current belligerent stance of Europe toward Russia closes doors to finding any nuances in relations with Moscow;

🔹There were many unfounded accusations against Russia, and many countries believed them;

🔹The US can and does influence European policy on the issue of the Ukrainian crisis;

🔹Any voices in the West which express reasonable thoughts about Russia are “drowned in hatred.”

Oct 11

Whereas there is little faith in the Gaza Peace plan, the Gazans are receiving respite. A sigh of relief and joy! Food and medical equipment are entering, and the Gaza Municipality workers are out already, cleaning roads.  The sheer size of the atrocity will become clearer because they clean the roads after searching for bones and corpses of the dead.   While we are joyful that there is a respite, we will keep reporting, as faith in the plan as a whole is lacking from most who were stalwart commentators and understand the history.

The zionist-israel media is brimming with rage and frustration following the redeployment of resistance and internal security forces across Gaza after the IDF’s withdrawal. Israeli commentators described the situation bluntly: “This is how it looks, for those who were wondering no victory, no absolute victory. Hamas has remained in power in Gaza. It is a painful settlement.”  Meanwhile, other outlets lamented the reopening of the Rafah crossing, set to resume civilian movement between Egypt and Gaza next Tuesday.

This @WFP bakery is up & running—and it’s only the beginning.

As soon as we get full access in #Gaza, we will immediately mobilize to deliver food for 1.6M people, revive our network of food distribution points, and scale up nutrition for women & children.

We’re ready to roll.

— Cindy McCain (@WFPChief) October 11, 2025

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The authorities of Burkina Faso will not accept citizens of African countries who have been deported from the United States. This was stated by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the country Caramoko Jean-Marie Traoré.

“We found the offer made indecent. Burkina Faso cannot be a destination for deportees,” the head of the Foreign Ministry said.

Traoré noted that the decision of the U.S. authorities to suspend visa services in Ouagadougou was a response to the refusal of the government of Burkina Faso to conclude an agreement under which the country would accept persons expelled from the United States.

According to him, Burkina Faso “will remain a land of dignity, not a country of deportation”. Traoré stressed that the decision on free visas for citizens of African countries cannot be used to justify the expulsion policy.

He added that the country’s authorities will not remain indifferent to Washington’s step and will take retaliatory measures “based on the principle of reciprocity”, while expressing readiness to continue dialogue with the United States.

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That Nobel peace prize.  Well,  some evil cooked in that pot.

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The DPRK had a bang-up beautiful military parade!  They were marching as if they were Chinese.  Just as impressive as the Beijing Military Parade.  Medvedev was a worthy Russian envoy and Kim Jong-un stood up and started clapping when Shaman sang.  The assistance and heroism of the DPRK soldiers who defended Russian land have strengthened the peoples and entered the treasury of relations between the two countries, Medvedev noted.  The star of the show:

North Korea unveils its new-generation nuclear Hwasong-20 ICBM

🔶 Country’s strongest nuclear strategic weapon system

🔶 Designed for the delivery of multiple warheads

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Qatar must be feeling very happy after Israel bombed them.   Qatar is reportedly building an air force facility… in IDAHO — Hegseth

💬 “The location will host a contingent of Qatari F-15s and pilots to enhance our combined training, increase lethality, interoperability,” said Secretary of War Crimes Pete Hegseth — briefly off Israel duty.  (Qatar is pronounced Cutter with a slightly gutteral C – These days we just call them Gutter).

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