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Apr 25 2026 
The Persian focus turns to regional consolidation of their unassailable position
From our Group of Friends
What a lovely idyllic weekend, no? Like a universal Last Meal of lobsters and cake on the floating tombs. One could even forget an entire region is about to be murdered by Murder Inc. One could be misled by the calm unperturbed posture of the Iranians.. they’ve resumed commercial flights within… Continue reading
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Apr 25 2026 
US allows Venezuela to fund legal defense for Maduro, his wife
In this regard, the defense withdrew its motions to dismiss the case against the Venezuelan leader on the grounds that it was unable to pay for legal representation
TASS
NEW YORK, April 25. /TASS/. US authorities have allowed the Venezuelan government to pay for legal services for President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro and… Continue reading
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Apr 25 2026 
Fẹ̀mi Akọ̀mọ̀làfẹ̀ : Wilful African ignorance, or carefully cultivated stupidity?
Our big poser for today:
At what precise moment did the African mind become so historically vacant, so thoroughly colonized, that it now confuses barbaric geopolitical violence against defenseless people and sovereign states with Christian duty?
How did it happen that children of a continent that tasted the brutal lashes of colonial empire builders, where missionaries… Continue reading
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Apr 25 2026 
The Forbidden Truth About the Panama Canal: It is buried
This is the haunting 170-year-old history of the 1854 laborers—a story that mainstream history books have largely buried, but one that is now resurfacing as a central point of tension between the U.S. and China.
From the tragic journey of the ship “Sea Witch” to the modern-day 2026 court rulings and the “taking back” of the… Continue reading
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Apr 25 2026 
Michael Hudson with Glenn Diesen : Iran War Ignites Global Financial Armageddonon
Prof. Michael Hudson, a world-renowned classical economist, discusses why the war against Iran has changed the global economy permanently.
There is such a wonderful word used within the discussion and I will certainly add it to my vocab. Enshittification = simply, making things worse! A companion for AI Large Language Models that are… Continue reading
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Apr 25 2026 
Tucker Carlson with Jeffrey Sachs: The Real Origins of the Iran War and the Coming Economic Devastation
This is a long video and contains much that could be debated. Yet, Carlson is doing good work to educate Americans what the real relationship is with Israel. It is not my work and probably not yours, but it is good to know that even how skewed, there are Americans that get it,… Continue reading
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Apr 24 2026 
The Oil Shock and the Coming Reset: A Dire Forecast
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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
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Apr 23 2026 
Maria Zakharova on the killing of Amal Khalil in Lebanon.
The journalist Amal working in the South of Lebanon was deliberately targeted and droned in her vehicle with a college. She escaped into a house which was then deliberately targeted and demolished on top of her. She was under the rubble but still in contact with her people on her cell phone. Then the ambulances… Continue reading
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Apr 23 2026 
Richard Wolff & Michael Hudson: Why Iran Is Crushing US Dominance (It’s Not Military)
With Nima Alkorshid, Dialogue Works
Richard Wolff: ‘Mr Bessent is an embarrassment’.
I heartily agree.
And then Richard goes on to analyze who is dumb. A wonderful opening paragraph!
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Apr 23 2026 
Lula da Silva calls sale of rare earths mining company to US disgrace
Tass
Brazilian President accused former governor of the Goias state Ronaldo Caiado, who signed the agreement, of abuse of authority
[The Americans surely knew that they could not make an agreement with a Brazilian State. Sneaky!]
RIO DE JANEIRO, April 23. /TASS/. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has blasted the sale of Brazilian rare earth metals… Continue reading
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Apr 23 2026 
Time Is On Iran’s Side
indie.ca
Time, as the Rolling Stones said, is on my side. The Iranian side, that is. Iran is on land, commanding the Strait of Hormuz. The United States is out at sea, and all of its base belong to us. Iran can break the imperial economy with its weapon of Mass Economic Destruction (MED), but the… Continue reading
