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Dec 31 2025 
MOATS New Year’s Eve | 2025 Reviewed | War, Gaza, Ukraine & the Year That Changed Everything
As the clock ticks towards midnight, George Galloway presents a special New Year’s Eve edition of The Mother of All Talk Shows. With 2026 just hours away, MOATS looks back at the second half of 2025 — a year of war, repression, resistance, and historic turning points that reshaped the world.
In this extended New Year’s… Continue reading
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Dec 31 2025 
Pepe Escobar: Annus Horribilis
So much to do, so little time. May 2026 be the year of the Rebirth of the Pre-Socratics. As well as the year of the Rebirth of the Cool: reflection, introspection, silence, the search for inner equilibrium and when music is needed, an environment, physical and mental, equivalent to the Japanese jazz-kissa ethos.
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Dec 31 2025 
Xi Jinping’s 2026 New Year address
🇨🇳 ‘Let us fight for our dreams and our happiness’: Xi Jinping’s 2026 New Year addressIn his speech, Xi urged people to “charge ahead” with “courage, vitality and energy” to turn their vision into reality pic.twitter.com/PEuTtLMkow— Sputnik (@SputnikInt) December 31, 2025
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Dec 31 2025 
Man of the year: Captain Ibrahim Traoré
Captain Ibrahim Traoré for Person of the Year, and also the Man of the Match.
Single-handedly, he brought the Sahel States together into an alliance, calmly kicked the French overseers out, began developing and recovering an African ethos, and, since then, has not had a day without some war in the Alliance. Yet, he remains resolute,… Continue reading
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Dec 31 2025 
2026 Quo Vadis: The year of the fake in order to fake-out
Col. Macgregor: In fact, I think 2026 is going to blow the doors off the airliner we call the United States.
(In this piece, I’m mixing themes and metaphors as no journalist would do. Luckily, I’m not a journalist, so stay with me raw and unplugged! There are many themes as we set out on… Continue reading
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Dec 30 2025 
Andy Boreham: Beijing’s military drills around Taiwan
Beijing is conducting new military drills around Taiwan Island following announcement of a US$11 billion weapons-of-war deal between Taipei and the Trump regime.
What’s it all about?!
Beijing is conducting new military drills around Taiwan Island following announcement of a US$11 billion weapons-of-war deal between Taipei and the Trump regime.
What’s it all about?! pic.twitter.com/YhWpCujZoU— Andy Boreham 安柏然… Continue reading
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Dec 30 2025 
Pepe Escobar: How political analysis became a target of A.I. fakes
Welcome to A.I. turning the net into an infernal machine bent on erasing meaning, culture and History – and sowing deep intellectual confusion. Exactly like Techno-Feudalism wants it.
Strategic Culture
A.I. is fast expanding as a plague all along the internet spectrum. That’s quite predictable, considering the Big Tech model for A.I. is techno-feudalism, relying on profit… Continue reading
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Dec 30 2025 
Pepe Escobar: Annus Horribilis 29.12.25
From Pepe: My end of the year conversation with TV 247 in Brazil – straight outta NATOstan. Annus Horribilis indeed – and I also address the current A.I. fake epidemic.
Kindly turn on English Subtitles.
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Dec 30 2025 
Mohammad Marandi: Is Israel Listening? Iran’s “Smash” Doctrine
With Nima:
The Israeli regime and its Western and regional allies (especially the UAE) cannot turn the tide. In fact, Turkiye and Arab regimes that preserved trade, intelligence, and political ties with the genocidal regime are increasingly alarmed by its behavior.
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Dec 30 2025 
Berletic: US Seeks Greenland Grab as Pursuit of Primacy Accelerates
All under the guise of “pursuing peace” in a proxy war the US itself engineered, and is, for all intents and purposes, fighting against Russia simply through its Ukrainian proxies.
The US continues setting the stage for wider and more dangerous escalation — both in terms of expanding an emerging global maritime blockade against Russian, Iranian, and… Continue reading -
Dec 30 2025 
Prof Jiang Xueqin: Jesus vs The Church Paul Built
The story of the finding of Christianity as you’ve never heard it.
In this lecture-style historical analysis, we examine one of the most consequential questions in the history of religion: How did a Jewish reform movement centered around Jesus become a Roman-empire-wide institution called Christianity—built on doctrines that often diverge from Jesus’s own ethical teachings?
This… Continue reading
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Dec 29 2025 
Don’t like cryptocurrencies, don’t like CBDC, huh? You may be a westerner
Some cryptocurrencies are dirty. The question is if it is the cryptocurrency or is it what criminals do with it? How is it more dirty than the dollar? I won’t touch a western stablecoin and CBDC in the west is highly questionable.
But, Oh Man! I do like this. The Unit is outclassed, outmatched and drowning… Continue reading
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Dec 29 2025 
The failed US war on drugs vs China’s opium war
China had an incomparably worse drug situation than the US until the end of WWII because of UK imperialism, which forced the opium trade on the Chinese. But in a few decades it got rid of drugs to the point of statistical error without attacking any country for oil, while the US has been in… Continue reading
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Dec 29 2025 
Commentary by Aide to the President Yury Ushakov following a telephone conversation between Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump
From the Russian MFA
Colleagues,
Since it is December 29 today, and the New Year is just round the corner, an interesting – from a political point of view too – detail can be mentioned: in the outgoing year, President Vladimir Putin held 17 contacts with US representatives.
This includes a visit to Alaska (https://t.me/MFARussia/26019), ten telephone conversations with Donald Trump and six meetings with his special envoys. What does this mean?… Continue reading
