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May 18 2026 
Putin, Xi Jinping to Hold Talks in China in Narrow, Expanded Formats – Kremlin Aide
© Sputnik
Sputnik International
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping will hold negotiations in China both in narrow and expanded formats, Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov said on Monday.
Putin will pay an official visit to China on May 19-20 at the invitation of Xi Jinping.After the welcoming ceremony, our president’s meeting with… Continue reading
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May 18 2026 
Ecocide: Israel and America’s War on the Environment in the Middle East
New Eastern Outlook
The ongoing war in the Middle East has seen America and Israel indulge not just in gross violations of human rights but also in wanton violations of the rights of Mother Nature.
In the annals of international law, an area that is rapidly gaining traction among countries is environmental law. Environmental law states that… Continue reading
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May 16 2026 
Trump-Xi summit: ‘China is winning the competition against the USA’ – Prof. Zhang Weiwei
Going Underground
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Prof. Zhang Weiwei, Director of Fudan University’s China Institute and former Translator for Chinese Paramount Leader Deng Xiaoping.
He discusses China’s current attitude to the Trump Administration amid the war on Iran, how China acted over decades to lessen the impact of the US’ attempts to… Continue reading
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May 16 2026 
How Lebanon’s Leaders Are Enabling Israel’s War on Their Own Country
Mourners cry over a coffin during the funeral of three Lebanese Civil Defense members who were killed in an Israeli air strike, in the southern city of Tyre on 30 April 2026 (AFP)
Amal Saad – Middle East Eye
By adopting a US State Department memo and entering asymmetrical talks, Beirut has enlisted in Israel’s counter-resistance project… Continue reading
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May 16 2026 
Uranium Over Democracy: Why France’s Expulsion from Niger Is the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Africa
New Eastern Outlook
Paris loves to play the knight in shining armour – the defender of democracy, the fighter against terrorism, the guardian of humanitarianism.
But in the Sahel, that armour has long since tarnished. After ten years of the so-called “counterterrorism” Operation Barkhane, France not only failed to defeat the jihadists but actually drove its former… Continue reading -
May 16 2026 
‘Argentina Stopped’: Unions Hold Second General Strike Over Milei Austerity
A family sleeps in front of a closed office building in Buenos Aires, Argentina, next to posters calling for a general strike against President Javier Milei’s cuts and privatizations. (Photo: dpa)
Common Dreams
“It is a day of resistance and demand,” said trade groups that organized the action “in defense of democracy, labor rights, and the living… Continue reading
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May 16 2026 
Bolivians Declare a General Strike Against Their President
Indigenous movements in Bolivia are mobilizing against a land rights law, which they fear could be setting into motion the dissolution of their collective lands.
Olivia Arigho-Stiles – Jacobin
In Bolivia, the unions representing miners and peasants have declared an indefinite strike, seeking the resignation of President Rodrigo Paz. They are protesting a new law that undermines… Continue reading
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May 15 2026 
Zionism Has Poisoned the UK’s Central Nervous System
Craig Murray
Unquestioning Zionism has for decades been the entry ticket to the British political and media Establishment. Anybody who was not a fully certified and compliant zionist would find their career limited – as Jeremy Corbyn, Alan Duncan, Robin Cook and David Mellor all found. Most others, of course, were never allowed to progress that… Continue reading
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May 13 2026 
The Emperor has no clothes and no cards
© Photo: SCF
Pepe Escobar at Strategic Culture
Business Shanghai is not exactly impressed by the arrival of the Emperor of Barbaria.
SHANGHAI – China’s powerhouse moves on like a speed-breaking EV. The atmosphere is electric. At a business dinner in a landmark Cantonese restaurant, Trump’s visit to China at least propels the conversation towards something more tangible:… Continue reading -
May 12 2026 
‘Gray Rhino’ of Japan’s Remilitarization is Running Toward Us, Chinese FM Warns Amid Tokyo’s Security Policy Shift
Global Times
The “gray rhino” of Japan’s remilitarization is running toward us. Many international experts, scholars and media have noted that Japan has abandoned pacifism, and is undergoing its most dangerous shift in military and security policy since WWII, posing great threats to peace and stability in the region and beyond, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo… Continue reading
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May 12 2026 
Could Trump’s Iran Fiasco Be America’s Suez Crisis?
Global Research
Smoke rises from oil tanks beside the Suez Canal hit during the initial Anglo-French assault on Port Said, 5 November 1956.Empires rise and fall. They do not last forever. Imperial declines follow a gradual shifting of the economic tides, but are also punctuated and defined by critical tipping points. There are many differences between… Continue reading
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May 12 2026 
‘Ways of War’ Are in Metamorphosis: Lessons from the Iran War
Alistair Crooke at Strategic Culture © Photo: Public domain
A U.S. carrier no longer induces fear as once it might have; It now radiates vulnerability.
Although the Iran war largely has been viewed through the lens of conventional western warfare, its lessons are anything but conventional. They are in fact insurrectionary.The post-war western approach (especially in… Continue reading
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May 10 2026 
Join Evelyne and Me for a Mother’s Day Calligraphy Class, Learning Oracle-Bone Characters That Trace a Woman’s Life.
Eight Images Fully Explained and Translated. Stupendously Fascinating!
Radio Sinoland
Introduction
One common feature of Mother’s and Father’s Day in China is the children thank their parents for all that they do, as shown in the picture below. The two big red characters to the left, 感恩 = gǎn ēn, mean “grateful and thankful”. Below is the Mandarin,… Continue reading -
May 09 2026 
Russia to Show no Mercy if Nazis Try to Disrupt Victory Day Celebrations – Lavrov
From Tass News Agency
“Problems continue to pile up every day, created by those who have turned Zelensky into the direct instrument and the tip of the spear of the aggression against Russia,” the Russian foreign minister added
MOSCOW, May 8. /TASS/. Moscow will respond without mercy if Nazis try to disrupt Victory Day celebrations in Russia,… Continue reading
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