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Oct 14 2025 
Art, Trade and State power at the Heart of the Silk Road
Part II of the celestial Travelogue through the western regions of China.
By Silk Road pilgrim Pepe Escobar on the Strategic Culture Foundation.
DUNHUANG – Across History, the Silk Road – actually a network of roads – is the supreme Highway Star: the most important connectivity corridor ever, rolling across Ancient Eurasia, linking what Chinese scholars consensually… Continue reading
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Oct 13 2025 
Dangerous Moment
… it’s not so easy to escape from a war you started yourself, leaving your allies to fend for themselves.
By Rostislav Ishchenko at Ukraine.ru.
(machine translation)
We are currently facing a moment of truth: either Russia will be able to complete its military operation in Ukraine within the next three to five months with a victory that… Continue reading
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Oct 11 2025 
On the Silk Road to Isfahan
Judge Nap catches our roving eye nomad—pilgrim between flights to review the incendiary moment
💠 Rock’n Roll Geopolitics:
⭕ 🇺🇸🇷🇺RYABKOV UNPLUGGED“We have a certain building of relations, which has cracked, which is collapsing – the Americans are to blame for this. Now the cracks have reached the foundation. I think it’s easier to destroy than to build.… Continue reading
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Oct 10 2025 
Slices ov da Trumpocalypse, #4
“To regain a few brain cells, turn everything off and listen to insects, wind, memories, ghosts, regrets and God. Lie on the hardest ground to stare up at the darkest leaves and branches, or the moon with its nimbus.”
with gratitude to Linh Dinh at Postcards from the End.
Social Orphans Not Quite Lost — Oct 08, 2025.
Just three… Continue reading
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Oct 08 2025 
Apocalypse in Gulf is now or never
Viewed as a global strategy, Russia is performing a balancing act here, intently testing the US-imposed ‘rules-based system’ in West Asia. By boosting military ties with Iran, Russia underscores that the post-World War international order defined by a ‘rules-based system’ has become an aberration..
By Ambassador MK Bhadrakumar at the Deccan Herald.
An uneasy calm has settled… Continue reading
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Oct 08 2025 
Xiyouji: My Journey to the West
A celestial Travelogue through the western regions of China.
By Silk Road pilgrim Pepe Escobar on Sputnik.
ON THE ROAD IN XINJIANG – Xuanzang, the itinerant Buddhist monk, has got to be one of the most extraordinary figures in History. He certainly is regarded as such in China.
In the early Tang dynasty in the 7th century, Xuanzang… Continue reading -
Oct 08 2025 
Today’s Technofascism
Current events in America gallop towards the dark.
with appreciation to Dr. Karl at karlof1’s Geopolitical Gymnasium.
Most Gym readers are familiar with Orwell’s 1984 and how he envisioned the role of technology in controlling the masses. Much of what he described is now reality, although some are unaware that your “smart” TV is capable of watching you. We have… Continue reading
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Oct 07 2025 
Slices ov da Trumpocalypse, #3
“Trapped inside a psychotic labyrinth with ten thousand maddening turns, Americans are reduced to worshiping slobbering child rapists who don’t even try to make sense.”
with gratitude to Linh Dinh at Postcards from the End.
White Nations Scattered Across Ruins? — Oct 04, 2025.
For two days, I mostly slept. After my predawn session at Coffee Seven, I’d usually go… Continue reading
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Oct 06 2025 
A Capsule of Round One Heroics
A documentary of the missilemen of Iran. “…. the one who finishes a War, is the one claimant of expertise.”
https://x.com/AryJeay/status/1974164482088996971
💠 @Fotros Resistance (Arya – آریا):
Exclusive footages of Iran’s underground missile complexes during the 12-day war.An IRGC member recalls how they operated inside the deep underground missile tunnels during the 12-day war.
He explains the tunnels were… Continue reading
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Oct 02 2025 
Slices ov da Trumpocalypse, #2
… Trump just three months ago, “I love farmers. I won 80%, 85% of the farmers, and I love them. And I’m never gonna do anything to hurt our farmers.”
with gratitude to Linh Dinh at Postcards from the End.
Unsustainable Toasts — Sep 30, 2025.
Since we’re well into America’s Golden Age, as bestowed, unleashed and unfurled by the… Continue reading
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Oct 01 2025 
Slices ov da Trumpocalypse
“… solitary, untraveled men overburdened by practical worries don’t have time to look deeply into anything. As survivors, though, they’ll likely outlast you or me.”
with gratitude to Linh Dinh at Postcards from the End.
End of the World Sit Rep — Sep 28, 2025.
After Coffee Seven, I dropped into Cà Phê Cà Pháo with a collection of Sơn… Continue reading
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Sep 27 2025 
Emblematic Men
“when US imperialism finally ends, historians and political theorists will perhaps be more flabbergasted at how loyal and uncritical the poor were rather than how obnoxious and greedy the rich were.”
with gratitude to Linh Dinh at Postcards from the End.
Emblematic Men — Sep 27, 2025.
Having no phone, watch or clock, I only know what time it is… Continue reading
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Sep 26 2025 
Russia on Iran Snap-Back Sanctions
tomorrow, 27ᵗʰ September 2025, the 2015 JCPOA “snap-back” sanctions will come into force. With disavowal from China and Russia, it will become a milestone day in the disintegration of the post-WW2 UN system.
with appreciation to Dr. Karl at karlof1’s Geopolitical Gymnasium.
One Major FM statement and two by main UN Representative Vassily Nebenzia
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Sep 26 2025 
Goldfinger rips at Hunger Games Podium
“Standing by Jews, Uncle Sam has crapped on the world for 77 years. In the end, though, it’s not about flinging words back and forth, but spears, bombs or missiles .. the neck can’t argue with the sword.”
with gratitude to Linh Dinh at Postcards from the End.
Enough of Necks vs. Bullets — Sep 26, 2025.
Outstinking up even… Continue reading
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