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Oct 30 2025 The Death House
Chris Hedges
The genocide in Gaza is not a freakish anomaly. It is a harbinger of what awaits us as the ecosystem disintegrates and governments embrace climate fascism.
Gaza does not mark the end of the settler colonial project. It marks, I fear, its final phase. Western states, enriched by their own occupations and genocides — in… Continue reading
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Oct 30 2025 Think BRICS: Ex-VP of BRICS Bank Reveals Truth About Western Sanctions
Ex-VP Paulo Nogueira Batista Jr. exposes the untold truth about Western sanctions, IMF control, and dedollarization. Discover why the BRICS Bank, built to escape the dollar, remains trapped.
In this exclusive interview with Think BRICS, former vice president of the New Development Bank (NDB), Paulo Nogueira Batista Jr, takes us inside the creation and constraints… Continue reading
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Oct 30 2025 Pepe Escobar: How ASEAN Keeps Its Centrality Between China & US
Sputnik
ASEAN is quite a delicate geopolitical entity: gracious, polite and consensual but at the same time, always privileging its “centrality”. The collective 11 Southeast Asians (East Timor is the new member) are very serious global players – with a GDP of $3.8 trillion, and constantly rising.
On a personal level, when I decided to move from… Continue reading
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Oct 29 2025 Pepe Escobar: Iran Arms Up, Russia Warns, and China Makes Its MOVE!
This is a very serious conversation – the day before Xi-Trump.
Enter The Beast – or The Giant Pigeon – as the current frightening incarnation of the Empire of Chaos.
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Oct 29 2025 Post Asean – All Business is Yuan Business
While countries are generally dealing with tariffs individually, they will now be handled as a bloc. The broader business environment is moving toward Yuan-based transactions.
The Most Important – Extension of the Free Trade Area
Recently, positive progress has been made in the process of regional economic integration in the Asia-Pacific. The upgraded protocol of the China-ASEAN… Continue reading
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Oct 29 2025 Cash Is Peasant
indi.ca
When I was in England I never saw cash until my kids lost teeth. Then I was like WTF, this money has Churchill on it? and gave the boy an exorbitant Jane Austen while he sleeped. England is an increasingly cashless society except on the streets, where the hard-working and hard-done-by still take hard currency… Continue reading
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Oct 29 2025 Yevgeny Primakov
96 years ago, on October 29, 1929, Yevgeny Primakov was born – an eminent Soviet and Russian statesman, brilliant diplomat and Arabist.
He is among the world’s greatest statesmen and diplomats of the XX-XXI centuries, known as a consistent supporter of the principles of realism and pragmatism, a staunch defender of Russia’s national interests, who… Continue reading
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Oct 29 2025 A very remarkable Ukraine frontline report: about those cauldrons and the soldiers within them
Marat Khairullin hits it out of the park! I have not included the maps, but do take a look at them on the substack. https://maratkhairullin.substack.com/p/afu-against-afu-who-will-take-revenge
I guarantee you, you will not need the maps to understand this wonderful writing with its vast promise of how to deal with these issues in our world. What was more… Continue reading
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Oct 28 2025 Richard D. Wolff & Michael Hudson: Trump FUMES as China, India & Russia Unite — The Shift Begins!
With Transcript
The money that America has given Ukraine isn’t to Ukraine — it’s not to the people — it’s to the kleptocrats that have said: We are willing to fight to the last Ukrainian. We are willing to try to drain Russia’s resources by sending Ukrainians there; and if the Ukrainian army tries to flee… Continue reading
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Oct 28 2025 The New Rand Report – Stabilizing the US-China Rivalry
So my email is exploding with this new Rand Report, as if it is different from the others. There are differences and the main one here, is that it is not a Rand Report. But as you can see from the image, it was not commissioned by any US government agency. It is not a… Continue reading
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Oct 28 2025 LAC, Russia’s new Comprehensive Strategic Partnership with Venezuela – where’s the beef?
This short essay serves to illustrate the difference between upbeat reporting, and reality. I am not criticising anyone, so no names need to be mentioned. I am illustrating how we should take note and take most everything with a grain of salt.
RUSSIA-VENEZUELA PACT: A Strategic Hit to US Intentions
Putin has just RATIFIED a comprehensive strategic… Continue reading
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Oct 27 2025 Elena Panina: Comments – The war on BRICS
https://t.me/EvPanina/17595 and translated with Telegram
Foreign Affairs: America needs to split BRICS into two parts
It is in the interest of the USA for BRICS to split into two factions, claim on the pages of the influential magazine by former advisor to extremist McCain, CEO of the Center for a New American Security Richard Fontaine, and another… Continue reading
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Oct 27 2025 Colombia’s Left Faces Political Siege as Electoral Council and Courts Undermine Unity
Colombia is being internally attacked as part of the Venezuela threat. A commentator asked for reading material on Colombia a while ago, and I said at the time it is difficult as Colombia is divided. Now the results of that is becoming clear. The hegemon wants its backyard back. This is detailed and perhaps difficult… Continue reading
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Oct 27 2025 Friends talking about Russian weapons
This is a discussion. It contains best of class connecting dots.
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The USA does not understand what is implied by Putin’s remark that, if long-range missiles are sent to Ukraine, the response would be serious, and possibly overwhelming.
They do not understand how rapidly new weapons are being developed in Russia, with the capability to produce them… Continue reading