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Dec 14 2025 
From exploding cigars to poisoned milkshakes: CIA’s 634 failed assassination attempts on Fidel Castro
(For Nicholás Maduro)
These efforts began shortly after Castro’s 1959 revolution and persisted under US presidents from Dwight Eisenhower to Richard Nixon (who oversaw 184 attempts), often involving Cuban exiles with CIA support.
Key failed plots include:
Exploding cigars and toxins: A cigar rigged to explode during Castro’s UN visit in New York; another contaminated with botulinum toxin… Continue reading
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Dec 14 2025 
Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples
Russian MFA
65 years ago, on December 14, 1960, the 15th UN General Assembly adopted a landmark document: the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples (https://legal.un.org/avl/ha/dicc/dicc.html). This historic step was taken on the initiative of the Soviet Union.
The Declaration, drafted and promoted largely through Soviet efforts, became a true milestone… Continue reading
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Dec 13 2025 
Development of hydrogen drones in China
Development of hydrogen drones in China
🔻 At the 7th Zhejiang International Intelligent Transportation Industry Exhibition on December 11, it was announced that the Chinese Tianmu Shan-1 drone has set a world record and entered the Guinness Book of Records.
The UAV completed a non-stop flight of 188,605 km on November 16. The duration of the continuous… Continue reading
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Dec 13 2025 
Professor Marandi: Demystifying Iran | Iran Beyond the Myths
Professor Marandi has his own show now on … tadaaa … Al Mayadeen.
(I said previously it was Al Jazeera, but I was mistaken).
For over four decades, Iran has been one of the most discussed and most distorted countries in the global media. Western and regional outlets have consistently portrayed it as unstable, irrational, dangerous, or… Continue reading
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Dec 13 2025 
Mexico: People’s Mañanera December 11
Every day, President Claudia Sheinbaum gives a morning presidential press conference and Mexico Solidarity Media posts English language summaries, translated by Mexico Solidarity’s Pedro Gellert Frank.
The bold section explains Mexico’s Tariffs. No, Mexico is not in cahoots with Trump on Tariffs. LAC countries that stand with Palestine are of course attacked. Mexico is one of… Continue reading
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Dec 13 2025 
China’s Manufacturing Hubs
The complete supply chain for any part of a product is within 5 kilometers of the many assembly shops. That is why any one city in China can outcompete whole countries.
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Dec 13 2025 
Alastair Crooke: NATO declared to be ‘not forever’ – A critical reading of the new U.S. National Security Strategy
The European ruling strata now stand isolated, widely unpopular and bereft.
Alastair Crooke at Strategic CultureA National Security Strategy (NSS) is produced periodically by U.S. Administrations (Trump authored one during his first term). Mostly these documents lay out an idealised version of an Administration’s foreign and security policy, and do not have great practical import –… Continue reading
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Dec 13 2025 
FM Lavrov: Embassy roundtable discussion “Ukraine crisis. Diplomacy and settlement prospects”
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to questions during an embassy roundtable discussion titled “Ukraine crisis. Diplomacy and settlement prospects,” Moscow, December 11, 2025
[Comment: It is noticed that frequently now, Russia calls the so-called ‘Peace Agreement’ for Gaza into question as a key part and a leading component of their public speeches. In this… Continue reading -
Dec 12 2025 
Pepe Escobar: Fragments of civilization: on the road in Italy
If the current, fragmented collective West would ever have a chance to be rescued from the Centaur of oblivion, that task must be carried out by the definitive, Western civilization-state: Pallas Athena Italia.
Pepe Escobar at Strategic Culture
In Botticelli’s masterpiece Pallas and the Centaur (1482-83), to be seen at the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence, the… Continue reading
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Dec 12 2025 
AI : a demonstration of how China is rewriting the rules of the game
This is partially based on a Pascal Coppens Book launch. His book is called China’s Next Miracle. He describes that the book launch (Europe) went far beyond his own expectations because the interest in China and its ‘miracles’ has become real. He explains that people are ready for a new narrative. They feel that something… Continue reading
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Dec 12 2025 
Friends talking on Plan Asset Seizure Europe and Japan Militarization
This is what fell on the radar of friends quietly talking:
Financial implications of EU and UK emergency powers.
UK Banks Warn Starmer Asset Seizure Plan Illegal; Kiev Energy Close To Collapse; Siversk Huiliapole
11 Dec 2025. Mercouris. 1 hour, 9 mins.
https://www.ft.com/content/7e90d3be-687c-4348-a663-132576f98086
11 Dec 2025. UK Bankers’ warning to UK government. [Behind a paywall.]
https://tass.com/society/2057847
12 Dec 2025. Bank of Russia files a lawsuit against Euroclear in Moscow Arbitration Court
https://tass.com/politics/2057999
12 Dec 2025. EU to rue… Continue reading
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Dec 12 2025 
End-of-year sherpa/sous-sherpa meeting of BRICS countries under the Brazilian chairmanship
Deputy Foreign Minister and Russia’s Sherpa for BRICS Sergey Ryabkov took part (https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/2065247/) in the end-of-year sherpa/sous-sherpa meeting of BRICS countries under the Brazilian chairmanship in Brasília on December 11-12.
The participants reviewed this year’s cooperation outcomes. More than 260 political, economic, and humanitarian events, including the #BRICS Summit and nearly 20 ministerial meetings, took place… Continue reading
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Dec 12 2025 
Hemispheric Fault Lines: Venezuela’s Resistance & LATAM Crossroads, Sovereignty vs Neocolonialism
Posted specifically for Diego Sequera’s input.
As Washington targets Latin America, with a Monroe Doctrine on steroids, LATAM Nations navigate coercion, alliances, and the quest for a possible yet increasingly difficult, post-hegemonic future. In this episode of Critical Perspectives, Vanessa and I discuss an on-the-ground report from journalist Diego Sequera, who reveals how Venezuelans, navigating Western… Continue reading
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Dec 12 2025 
Drowing in videos
The end of this year seems to be the end of the world for some. The number of videos, commentaries, and outright sorrow about Europe, for one, is unbelievable. I’ll do a Trumper – We’ve never seen anything like this before. We are overwhelmed by commentary, sometimes just because all the talking heads nowadays believe… Continue reading
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