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Oct 16 2025 
Yuri Ushakov on the telephone conversation between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.
Machine translated from the Kremlin’s Russian Telegram Channel
Assistant to the President of Russia Yuri Ushakov revealed details of the conversation between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.
— The conversation lasted almost two and a half hours, “was very substantive in nature and was extremely frank and confidential,” Ushakov said.
— Special emphasis was placed on the Ukrainian… Continue reading
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Oct 16 2025 
Pepe Escobar: Two foreign guys walk into a barber shop in Xinjiang…
The future of the former “Western Regions”: an energy-rich, multi-cultural, multi-religious, geostrategic New Silk Road hub of “moderately prosperous” China.
Pepe Escobar and from Strategic Culture
YUTIAN, ON THE SOUTHERN SILK ROAD – We are on the road in southern Xinjiang, after a harrowing back-and-forth in the Taklamakan, across the sand dunes, to visit the “lost tribe”… Continue reading
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Oct 16 2025 
Everything, the world, is now moving to China and Russia
Following is an edited conversation with some Chinese in our Writer’s Group. What it shows is that a new dispensation is now flowing across us and our world. It is a dispensation that is not made up with hatred, and there is understanding, except for those who do not accept the fact that they are… Continue reading
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Oct 16 2025 
Slices of Life, #13
What matters is Thầy Thím’s perseverance against tyranny and misfortune.
with gratitude to Linh Dinh at Postcards from the End.
Holy Water Puddles — Oct 11, 2025.
I’m typing my first words at 6:03PM. Yesterday, I ate beef wrapped in piper lolot leaves dipped in a fermented fish sauce, mắm nêm, which is very salty. This morning I woke up… Continue reading
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Oct 16 2025 
Exclusive: Honest talk with British scholar Martin Jacques
The 2nd World Conference on China Studies is now unfolding in Shanghai. In the new series Global Scholars on China Studies, British scholar in international relations and politics, Martin Jacques, shared with us his views on why the West keeps getting China wrong and how China, as both a nation-state and civilization-state, is blazing a… Continue reading
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Oct 16 2025 
FM Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Kommersant and my notes
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Kommersant, Moscow, October 15, 2025
The Alaska process is ‘not finished’ – Lavrov
[Note: We can title this the Day that Mr Lavrov let a cat out of a bag – but only partially. I’ve bolded that piece. In short, there is an agreement between the Presidents, and Russia is keeping… Continue reading
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Oct 16 2025 
George Galloway: Moats
The Middle East stands on a knife edge. Ceasefire talks hang by a thread, Gaza mourns its dead, and Israel continues its attacks despite growing international pressure. Meanwhile, Trump eyes a new deal, Europe faces political unrest, and global markets tremble.
Tonight on The Mother of All Talk Shows, George Galloway asks: Will the dead finally… Continue reading
