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Sep 11 2025 
Prof. Marandi: Israel’s decision to bomb Qatar will prove to be a catastropic mistake
Mohammad Marandi, the University of Tehran professor, explains the fallout of Israel’s decision to bomb Qatar in hopes of killing the Hamas negotiating team. He also talks about the Trump administration’s handling of the situation and how Middle Eastern countries that rely on Washington should take note.
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Sep 11 2025 
U.S. officials have no proof : Destroyed ‘drug boat’ in Caribbean waters
During a Pentagon briefing to congressional staff, U.S. officials failed to provide any proof that the boat destroyed in last week’s drone strike in the Caribbean belonged to Venezuela or that its crew were members of the Tren de Aragua gang.
Senator Jack Reed, the senior Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, confirmed after the… Continue reading
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Sep 11 2025 
Joint Statement: Russia–Gulf Cooperation Council Strategic Dialogue
Joint Statement (https://www.mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/rso/sovet-sotrudnicestva-arabskih-gosudarstv-persidskogo-zaliva-ssagpz-/2046392/?lang=en) following the 8th round of the Russia–Gulf Cooperation Council Strategic Dialogue (https://t.me/MFARussia/26356)at the level of Foreign Ministers on the Israeli Aggression on the State of Qatar (11 September 2025)
The Ministers strongly condemned the attack perpetrated against the State of Qatar (https://t.me/MFARussia/26341) on September 9, 2025, by Israeli occupation forces, which targeted… Continue reading
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Sep 11 2025 
Richard Wolff & Michael Hudson: What Has America Become? A Global Power in Decline
The economic and financial war against allies and recreation of colonialism. Somebody else must pay! There is hardly any coverge in the US press of these issues.
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Sep 11 2025 
Sergey Karaganov: Logistics for Greater Eurasia
The need to create and develop the framework of logistics paths “North-South” is overviewed
From https://rg.ru/2025/09/08/logistika-dlia-bolshoj-evrazii.html and machine translated.
Sergey Karaganov (Honored Professor, Scientific Director of the Faculty of World Economy and World Politics of HSE, Honorary Chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy)
The acute period of the military conflict with the… Continue reading
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Sep 11 2025 
The Killing of Charlie Kirk … contrasted
A brutal cycle is playing out in our world, where political violence rages in the country that wants to own the world and has a Secretary of War. A right-wing political activist and Trump ally Charlie Kirk, 31, has died after being shot in the throat while speaking at Utah Valley University. Kirk repeatedly warned against… Continue reading
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Sep 11 2025 
Mao Zedong: Father of Chinese Communism and 20th Century’s Most Influential Leader
Jeff J Brown updated the key chapter in his Big Red Book on China, to commemorate the anniversary of Mao Zedong’s death, 9 September 1976. Mao Zedong: Father of Chinese Communism and 20th Century’s Most Influential Leader.
Updated Chapter
Portrait of Chairman Mao, by Ma Jin (1899-1970). Ink and color on paper, undated. The banners hanging from… Continue reading
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Sep 10 2025 
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Sep 10 2025 
Michael Hudson: Trump’s Tariff Wars Hit Europe, Korea & Japan
[Note: Kindly pay attention, friends and colleagues. This needs to be widely distributed.]
Most discussion of the past week’s SCO and BRICS meetings understandably have focused on the rising strength of their multilateral alternative to America’s attempt to impose its unipolar world control under its own rules calling for other countries’ subordination to U.S. demands to… Continue reading -
Sep 10 2025 
Remarks and answers to questions by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during a meeting with students and faculty at MGIMO
It is frequent that in these lower key events, speaking to students, if we pay attention we see Mr Lavrov’s brilliance. The word sangfroid fits so well: self-possession or imperturbability especially under pressure.
https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/2045680/
Mr Torkunov,
Colleagues,
Friends,
First year students.
I was honoured to learn that Mr Torkunov scheduled this meeting as part of the Day of Knowledge, emphasising the… Continue reading
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Sep 10 2025 
Alastair Crooke: Middle East on the BRINK – Russia Rains Down Drones & Missiles!
with Nima.
Quote Alastair: “There are no rules, no limitations, no contraints on Israel. It goes where it wants. It ignores boundaries, it ignores frontiers, it just goes where it wants, it uses force where it wants, it will decapitate where it can. There is nothing that is stopping it and certainly… Continue reading
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Sep 10 2025 
The 80th UNGA (UN General Assembly) is open
The President of the 80th session, H.E. Annalena Baerbock, opened the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly on 9 September 2025, at 3pm (local time in New York).
I listened to her speech of pablum but could not make it through. You may find it here:
The first period of UNGA consists of maintenance issues… Continue reading
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Sep 10 2025 
Russian Drones over Poland & latest Russian comment
From nowhere comes the news that Polish airspace is full of Russian drones. Airports close, fighter jets are in the air, rhetoric spreads through all major news, while NATO calls for consultations. Photos of ‘downed Russian drones in Poland’ and missile fragments appear. The NATO Secretary General said fighter jets from four countries were involved… Continue reading
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Sep 09 2025 
President Maduro: The U.S. Evades Its Responsibility in the Fight Against Drugs
On Monday, during a television program broadcast by Russia Today, former Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa interviewed Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, with whom he analyzed the geopolitical implications of the presence of U.S. military forces in the Caribbean.
RELATED:
President Maduro Activates Communal Militia Units in Response to US Interference
“What Washington wants is to control Venezuela’s wealth. That… Continue reading
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