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Apr 01 2026 Pepe Escobar : The China-Pakistan-GCC riddle
No one is betting that most GCC petro-monarchies in West Asia have seen which way the wind is blowin’.
Strategic Culture
China and Pakistan released a joint 5-points statement on the war on Iran that at face value might be considered as lame as it gets.
Immediate ceasefire & humanitarian access to all affected areas.
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Apr 01 2026 More Predictions: Larry Johnson – US ground invasion of Iran Islands this weekend
LARRY JOHNSON PREDICTS:
[Note: They must be talking about Kharg Island, and not Car Island. Also note Michael Hudson’s comment: If he attacks, huge stock-market gains for insiders.]
Ex CIA Larry Johnson cuts through the noise with a chilling assessment based on troop movements and force deployments right now. Trump has not backed down out of fear.… Continue reading
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Apr 01 2026 Michael Hudson: My guess for Trump’s 9pm talk tonight
Trump’s talks and Truth Social messages are all timed to coincide with the stock market – which has soared for the last few days.
He’s not going to make a speech that collapses the markets on Thursday – with these markets being closed on Good Friday. So …
Trump will announce America’s huge aircraft and sea armada,… Continue reading
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Apr 01 2026 Champions of Regime Change May Soon Face Regime Change at Home
Prof. Engr. Zamir Ahmed Awan,
For most of the last eighty years, few states have been more closely associated with regime change than the United States and Israel. In the American case, the pattern is heavily documented: Iran in 1953, Guatemala in 1954, Congo in 1960, persistent intervention in Cuba, deep manipulation in Chile before… Continue reading
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Apr 01 2026 FM Lavrov: general meeting of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC)
Mr Ivanov,
Colleagues,
I am pleased to welcome the participants of the general meeting of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) members both those present here in person and our colleagues joining us via videoconference. As always, it is gratifying to see many familiar faces that are directly involved in RIAC’s work or otherwise closely cooperate with… Continue reading
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Apr 01 2026 From a place almost no one has heard of
In Zhejiang province, a two-hour drive from Shanghai, lies a city that almost no one has heard of, even though its products are found in every home on the planet.
Yiwu.
A city of two million people. No natural resources. No coastline. Land that barely grows anything. Until the 1980s, it was just a quiet village in… Continue reading