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Apr 25 2025 China successfully launches Shenzhou-20 crewed spaceship; technical improvements, new life science experiments
from Global Times
Here is a one minute clip of the launch:
https://t.me/TheIslanderNews/39849
China is doing real honest work in space.
China successfully launches Shenzhou-20 crewed spaceship; mission features technical improvements and new life science experiments
The Shenzhou-20 crewed spaceship blasted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest China, atop the Long March-2F carrier rocket on 5:17… Continue reading
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Apr 24 2025 Emptying Gaza: Norman Finkelstein & Chris Hedges
Is it so that we have to start accepting that nothing will now save Gaza? This is a very disturbing presentation by Norm.
Israel, both materially and rhetorically, has made their intent to destroy the Palestinian people clear. One of the most renowned and courageous Middle East scholars, Norman Finkelstein, has assiduously documented… Continue reading
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Apr 24 2025 Agriculture: BRICS countries approve Joint Declaration with focus on food security
This was a ministerial meeting of agriculture ministers, and the Joint Declaration will now be forwarded to the BRICS summit, where the leaders can agree or not. We will be looking at the formal article that accompanies the Declaration.
First Assessment:
This Agricultural BRICS Joint Declaration is the result of a talk shop that did not create… Continue reading
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Apr 23 2025 Run-up to BRICS in Brazil – not only in Moscow circles
In the run-up to BRICS in Brazil, this message is very important, not only in Moscow circles. Let me ask you a question. BRICS is a revolution no? Even though the presentation is one of building alternatives, it is a revolution in that it moves away from a single polar world to… Continue reading
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Apr 23 2025 Michael Hudson with Ben Norton: Will Trump’s Tariff Games Backfire?
Donald Trump’s tariffs are benefiting rich elites at the expense of the majority of the population, argues economist Michael Hudson. He explains how the US trade war on China is isolating the United States and encouraging countries to seek alternatives. Ben Norton hosts the interview.
Transcript
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BEN NORTON: Why has US President Donald Trump imposed tariffs on… Continue reading
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Apr 22 2025 Iran: a strategic mistake in the making?
With thanks to Quantum Bird
Iran’s history is rich and complex. From the days of the glorious Persian Empire to today’s Islamic Republic, Iran has experienced all kinds of geopolitical circumstances, including being, for a period, a colony of the Western powers. Like any former colony that has liberated itself through a popular revolution, Iran has its… Continue reading
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Apr 22 2025 Economic Prosperity – Neutrality and Peace
By Peter Koenig
“Peace is the most powerful weapon for mankind.”—Mahatma Gandhi
***Peace is an economic driver for every country, for the world and even more so in a globalized world, where countries and regions are connected. Conflicts and wars interrupt not only supply chains, harming also economies that have nothing directly to do with the conflict,… Continue reading
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Apr 22 2025 Trump’s Christian Cult is freaking out after catastrophic week
Something completely different: Viewing the Crazy
Bringing awareness of a subject, does not necessarily mean compliance or complicity. This short video talks about the Crazy US Christians, but one has to filter on both sides, as the narrator is frequently off the mark as well. What is important, is to know about the Crazy, and not… Continue reading
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Apr 22 2025 US Plays “Mediator” in its Own War on Russia
By Brian Berletic for NEO
The survival and success of multipolarism depends on the multipolar world cooperating against US attempts to reassert American primacy – not only through direct and proxy war, but also through economic coercion and political interference – and to understand that a US war on Russia in Ukraine or a proxy war… Continue reading -
Apr 21 2025 Nicolás Maduro reacts furiously to Nayib Bukele’s proposal to exchange CECOT imprisoned VenezuelansCECOT
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele proposed carrying out a prisoner swap with Venezuela on Sunday, suggesting he would exchange Venezuelan deportees from the United States his government has kept imprisoned for what he called “political prisoners” in Venezuela.
In a post on the social media platform X, directed at President Nicolás Maduro,… Continue reading
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Apr 21 2025 Old Schwab is gone – long live the new Schwab?
Elena Panina
On April 20, 2025, 87-year-old Klaus Schwab, the founder and permanent — for 54 years! — chairman of the World Economic Forum, officially resigned as chairman of its board of trustees. The acting chairman was appointed 80-year-old Peter Brabeck-Letmathe (pictured) , whose “history” includes Nestlé, Credit Suisse Group, the Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator… Continue reading
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Apr 21 2025 Daily Chronicles
The strategy of empire going forward will be one of denial of world development through chaos creation. While the approach has shifted, imperialist aspirations endure. The fragile veil of a pretense of peace lies irrevocably torn asunder, its remnants eclipsed by the unrelenting tide of violence that now reigns. The strategy is beginning to unravel… Continue reading
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Apr 21 2025 Trump Is The Dog Who Caught The Trade Car. Now What?
The ritual humiliation of the Japanese trade delegation
by Indi.caJapan seppuku’d its economy once at their master’s command, but now even the must loyal vassals cannot hear their master’s voice nor discern his plan. The Japan trade delegation walked out of the Oval Office, hat in hand. There is no deal to be had with America… Continue reading
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BRICS: The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated
MORE COUNTRIES JUMP ON BOARD THE BRICS PEACE TRAIN – (at Warp Speed now) 🙂
By Colin Maxwell
There is an increased flood of nations looking to jump on board the BRICS train.
No doubt with renewed urgency, thanks to Captain Chao$ declaring a trade war on the entire planet, including on his own extremely fragile domestic economy.