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Apr 24 2026 
The Oil Shock and the Coming Reset: A Dire Forecast
User Request
Sean Stinson
In 1973, the world learned a terrible lesson. A 7 percent cut in global oil supplies, lasting barely six months, triggered a decade of economic agony. Stagflation—that crippling marriage of high inflation and high unemployment—took root across the industrialised West. Factories closed. Workers walked the streets. Governments lurched from one emergency to… Continue reading
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Apr 24 2026 
FM Lavrov : West declares ‘open war’ against Russia, using Ukraine as ‘arrowhead’
The Russian foreign minister said the Kiev regime and the Ukrainian state are openly being used as a geopolitical battering ram
TASS
MOSCOW, April 24. /TASS/. Western countries have declared war against Russia, using Ukraine as the “arrowhead,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told representatives of Russian NGOs.
“An open war has been declared on us. For this,… Continue reading
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Apr 24 2026 
Victor Gao’s brutal warning to Trump : Iran & China Won’t back down from War
With Danny Haiphong
Victor Gao : Trump is damned if he escalates, and damned if he does not escalate.
China condemned the war, China tried to put a stop to the war, China’s position has been consistent, China’s position is clear – no arms supply to any country at war, China’s position is cast in stone. Iran… Continue reading
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Apr 24 2026 
Sony Thăng on South Africa
Having spent considerable time in South Africa, this is one of the very best overviews that I have ever seen. There are issues that are debatable, but overall, this is the part of the development (rather non-development) since the 1994 freedom election that is the most difficult to explain to others. This also is complex… Continue reading
