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Dec 12 2025 
Pepe Escobar: Fragments of civilization: on the road in Italy
If the current, fragmented collective West would ever have a chance to be rescued from the Centaur of oblivion, that task must be carried out by the definitive, Western civilization-state: Pallas Athena Italia.
Pepe Escobar at Strategic Culture
In Botticelli’s masterpiece Pallas and the Centaur (1482-83), to be seen at the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence, the… Continue reading
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Dec 12 2025 
AI : a demonstration of how China is rewriting the rules of the game
This is partially based on a Pascal Coppens Book launch. His book is called China’s Next Miracle. He describes that the book launch (Europe) went far beyond his own expectations because the interest in China and its ‘miracles’ has become real. He explains that people are ready for a new narrative. They feel that something… Continue reading
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Dec 12 2025 
Friends talking on Plan Asset Seizure Europe and Japan Militarization
This is what fell on the radar of friends quietly talking:
Financial implications of EU and UK emergency powers.
UK Banks Warn Starmer Asset Seizure Plan Illegal; Kiev Energy Close To Collapse; Siversk Huiliapole
11 Dec 2025. Mercouris. 1 hour, 9 mins.
https://www.ft.com/content/7e90d3be-687c-4348-a663-132576f98086
11 Dec 2025. UK Bankers’ warning to UK government. [Behind a paywall.]
https://tass.com/society/2057847
12 Dec 2025. Bank of Russia files a lawsuit against Euroclear in Moscow Arbitration Court
https://tass.com/politics/2057999
12 Dec 2025. EU to rue… Continue reading
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Dec 12 2025 
End-of-year sherpa/sous-sherpa meeting of BRICS countries under the Brazilian chairmanship
Deputy Foreign Minister and Russia’s Sherpa for BRICS Sergey Ryabkov took part (https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/2065247/) in the end-of-year sherpa/sous-sherpa meeting of BRICS countries under the Brazilian chairmanship in Brasília on December 11-12.
The participants reviewed this year’s cooperation outcomes. More than 260 political, economic, and humanitarian events, including the #BRICS Summit and nearly 20 ministerial meetings, took place… Continue reading
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Dec 12 2025 
Hemispheric Fault Lines: Venezuela’s Resistance & LATAM Crossroads, Sovereignty vs Neocolonialism
Posted specifically for Diego Sequera’s input.
As Washington targets Latin America, with a Monroe Doctrine on steroids, LATAM Nations navigate coercion, alliances, and the quest for a possible yet increasingly difficult, post-hegemonic future. In this episode of Critical Perspectives, Vanessa and I discuss an on-the-ground report from journalist Diego Sequera, who reveals how Venezuelans, navigating Western… Continue reading
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Dec 12 2025 
Drowing in videos
The end of this year seems to be the end of the world for some. The number of videos, commentaries, and outright sorrow about Europe, for one, is unbelievable. I’ll do a Trumper – We’ve never seen anything like this before. We are overwhelmed by commentary, sometimes just because all the talking heads nowadays believe… Continue reading
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Dec 12 2025 
Marwa Osman: Yesterday in Gaza …
… a crime was committed; one that should have brought the sky crashing down and split the heavens in two… but it passed.
Terrorist Israeli Ocupation soldiers shot dead a ten-year-old boy, Zaher Nasser Shamiya. He fell to the ground.
But wait, killing him wasn’t enough. While his body was still warm, still trying to understand the… Continue reading
