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Dec 18 2025 
Julian Assange’s Legal Brief on the Nobel peace prize for Maria Corina Machado
The Greyzone, Max Blumenthal and Wyatt Reed comment:
https://thegrayzone.substack.com/p/julian-assange-sweden-broke-own-laws
By awarding its peace prize to Trump’s favorite Venezuelan opposition figure, pro-war coup plotter Maria Corina Machado, the Nobel Committee contravened the principles enshrined in its founding documents, as well as Swedish law, Julian Assange alleged in an explosive brief reviewed by The Grayzone.The Swedish government violated its own… Continue reading
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Dec 18 2025 
Richard Wolff & Michael Hudson: Trump Wants Venezuela — Here’s Why
Michael tells what most probably happened with the so-called announcement of action or war against Venezuela. Michael and Richard also explains the National Security Strategy and how it really is intended to work.
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Dec 18 2025 
Pakistan–Indonesia: Renewing a Strategic Partnership for a Shared Future.
By Zamir Awan
The official visit of President of the Republic of Indonesia, H.E. Prabowo Subianto, to Islamabad from 8–9 December 2025 marks a defining moment in Pakistan–Indonesia relations. Undertaken at the invitation of Prime Minister H.E. Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif, this landmark visit—President Prabowo’s first to Pakistan—coincides with the 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the… Continue reading
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Dec 18 2025 
FM Lavrov answers media questions at a joint news conference following talks with FM Abbas Araghchi, Iran
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s statement and answers to media questions at a joint news conference following talks with Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran Abbas Araghchi, Moscow, December 17, 2025
[Note: We posted the highlights but the context makes it so much clearer]Media members,
Foreign Minister of Iran Abbas Araghchi and I held detailed and… Continue reading
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Dec 18 2025 
The end of ‘Russia lost Syria’ and ‘deceived us all’ …
This utterly false representation which we’ve discussed many times, still continues with gusto. It has morphed into a hard-headed unwillingness to examine the matter with care. Hopefully, this explanation by FM Lavrov calms the turbulent waters.
Eva Bartlett reports:
MOSCOW, December 15. /TASS/.
“Former Syrian President Bashar Assad did not coordinate his approaches with Russia prior to… Continue reading
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Dec 18 2025 
Daily Chronicles
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Dec 21
It is quite challenging to find a Christmas image that is suitable for all of us.
Here is a Dove of Peace.
Remember 80,000 doves of peace were released over Tiananmen… Continue reading
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Dec 17 2025 
George Galloway: MOATS
BLEAK MIDWINTER | ‘Warmongering’ Trump | No peace | Bethlehem lament |
❄️ A BLEAK MIDWINTER for the world — and George Galloway is LIVE to confront it. As accusations of warmongering swirl around Donald Trump, peace slips further out of reach in Gaza, and Bethlehem marks another Christmas under siege, MOATS goes live with fearless… Continue reading
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Dec 17 2025 
Expanded meeting of the Defence Ministry Board: Putin and Mr Belousov
The President took part in an expanded meeting of the Defence Ministry Board at the National Defence Control Centre of the Russian Federation.
President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Mr Belousov, Comrades,
Today, at the expanded meeting of the Defence Ministry Board, we will discuss our results over the past period and identify priority tasks for strengthening the Armed Forces and enhancing the country’s defence capability.
I would like to highlight that… Continue reading
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Dec 17 2025 
Seeking creativity but all there is, is stacking failures and a blue funk
Usually, the creativity is findable and if not, an understanding of the world is there. Moving into 2026 feels like a dark hole.
President Putin stated this morning: “There is no such thing as a civilized family in the West today – only total degradation.”
The good news is that Lavrov and Putin, in separate conferences, are… Continue reading
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Dec 17 2025 
FM Lavrov and Iran FM Araghchi: Joint Press Conference After Moscow Talks
Lavrov and Iran FM Araghchi Hold Joint Press Conference After Moscow Talks
A few Lavrov quotes:
West is attempting to distort all norms of international law, trying to replace it with their own rules — Lavrov
This just reflects their 500-year neocolonial desire ‘to try to live at the expense of others,’ Lavrov adds
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Russia reaffirms once again its… Continue reading
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Dec 17 2025 
A Tunnel in Time
Europe’s choice is to surrender or die.
By Rotislav Ishchenko at ukraine.ru.
(machine translation)
Alastair Crook, a retired British diplomat, has stated that the European Union is preparing a provocation on a scale comparable to Pearl Harbor, with the aim of drawing the United States into a war with Russia.
In principle, this is not news. We have been writing… Continue reading
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Dec 16 2025 
All under heaven
Featured Image: Children play on a sculpture of the mythical beast Jiliang, a divine horse mentioned in the Shan Hai Jing, by Qiu Qijing on display at an exhibition on the Kunlun Mountains Photo: Courtesy of Qiu Qijing
Global Times
Editor’s Note:
Perched on the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, a stone has captivated scholars by reshaping the narrative of early… Continue reading
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Dec 16 2025 
Chinese MFA spox: Guo Jiakun
-Declassified Russia-provided archives on Soviet interrogations of the Japanese Unit 731
-Election Chile
-No Pandas for Japan
-Countermeasures against Shigeru Iwasaki, former senior official of Japan’s Self-Defense Forces
-Mass shooting in Sydney, Australia’s
-Watercannon and Filipino fishers.
-Jimmy Lai’s sentencing
-Cambodia and ThailandCCTV: On December 13, the National Archives Administration of China published a batch of declassified Russia-provided archives on Soviet… Continue reading
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Dec 16 2025 
Brian Berletic: Thai-Cambodian Conflict Threatens Asian Stability by Design
“Major hostilities erupted once again in early to mid-December in Southeast Asia along the borders of Thailand and Cambodia following a troubled “ceasefire” that included incidents and provocations for months since the last round of major fighting took place in July 2025.
Despite any resulting ceasefire, the fundamental issues driving the conflict remain entirely unresolved, primarily… Continue reading
