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May 16 2025 
The Ultimate: Michael Hudson
Exposed: The Secret Deal That Started a Global Economic War!
In the first 5 minutes you will learn what the economic situation is all about. In the next 3 minutes to learn what countries are going to have to face. And then you will know why, in the previous piece that we looked at, Michael said… Continue reading
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May 16 2025 
Lavrov calls Istanbul talks ‘intriguing’
IN BRIEF: Lavrov calls Istanbul talks ‘intriguing,’ urges pan-Eurasian unity
“Everyone, of course, is talking about Ukraine right now due to the intrigue that is unfolding in Istanbul,” the Russian foreign minister saidMOSCOW, May 15. /TASS/. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov called the situation surrounding the Istanbul talks on Ukraine intriguing at a meeting of the… Continue reading
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May 15 2025 
The Wounded Memory of the Nakba
Today is Nakba Day
Basel al-Araj ed. by Safarjal Press
May 15, 2025What follows is the first English translation, by Alex Jreisat, of the Palestinian revolutionary intellectual and martyr Basel al-Araj’s essay Al-dhakirah al-jarīhah lil-nakbah (“The Wounded Memory of the Nakba”), which explores political questions of memory during and after catastrophe through unflinching portraits of several geographies… Continue reading
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May 15 2025 
Trump Intends to Knock China Out of Middle East Struggle
Elena Panina – Russtrat Institute
Hudson Institute: Trump Intends to Knock China Out of Middle East Struggle
Donald Trump’s trip to Riyadh is an attempt to restore American influence in the Middle East, begins with a platitude from Zeneb Ribois of the Hudson Institute (Washington). The stakes of the US president’s visit are high, she gets to… Continue reading
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May 15 2025 
Some good news from BRICS (out of Russia)
While we wait in vain for any substantive news out of BRICS Brazil, Russia is continuing.
Maria Zakharova spoke at the II BRICS Women’s Entrepreneurship Forum at the Russia National Center
The National Center is hosting the 2nd BRICS Women’s Entrepreneurship Forum. At the panel session “BRICS and International Institutions: Joining Efforts as a Guarantee of a… Continue reading
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May 15 2025 
Ibrahim Traorés viral interview In Russia that got banned by media
I was not aware that Traoré could speak English with this level of proficiency. Lovely to see the professionalism!
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May 14 2025
Michael Hudson was interviewed by Liberation Daily from Shanghai
[Ed Note: This is a short, concise, and accurate vision of the near future. As Michael ends this interview, his assessment of the future in the US is a political dark age. “The conflict is between social systems”. Another note of real value, is that Michael says there is no walk-back here. The US… Continue reading
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May 14 2025 
Who owns the moon?
Some will say, “No one.” Another will say, “Mine, because I planted my flag there.” But this is not about the Moon. This is about the land beneath our feet. Is the land ours because we discovered it first? Is the land ours because we conquered it?
The extraordinary thing is that there were always previous… Continue reading
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May 14 2025 
What are the Tariff War and the Abolition of USAID? – Deceptions – a US Incurable Disease
Peter Koenig
Most everything we see is not what it appears to be.
President Trump’s tariff war is like a huge TV screen to deviate people’s attention from what happens behind the screen (see article on “US-China Tariff War”, below). For example, did you know that the much-propagated dissolution of USAID – for… Continue reading
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May 14 2025 
Midweek Movie: Mission to Moscow
Pictured above: the city of Le Havre was flattened by totally gratuitous, genocidal Allied bombing across Normandy, before and following D-Day in France on June 6, 1944. Come to think of it, Le Havre looked just like Hiroshima and Nagasaki, after they were wiped of the face of the map with atomic bombs. What a… Continue reading
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May 14 2025 
Syria: including comments from Marwa Osman
While Gaza bleeds, the hegemonic forces and the Gulf States feast.
Trump visited with Al Jolani, the current leader of Syria.
[Note: I understand many are disappointed on how the Syrian situation developed, and feel completely isolated and betrayed. It was a long war, and the end of it is that Assad and his forces could not… Continue reading
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May 13 2025 
Mr Trump’s Speech in Saudia Arabia
The only real and substantive issues:
– Billions changed hands. Saudi Crown Prince Bin Salman also pledged that Saudi Arabia would invest a staggering $600 Billion USD into the U.S. economy. $142 billion Defense sale agreed.Syria – full sanctions removed at the request of MbS and Erdogan, and normalization of… Continue reading
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May 13 2025 
Wars flaming up overnight: Libya (update)
There was a proverbial killing of a proverbial count Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Libya a few hours ago. They’ve erupted into a civil war.
Libyan state-funded powerful Stability Support Apparatus (SSA) militia leader Abdelghani al-Kikli was killed. There are huge clashes in Tripoli and citizens were ordered to stay at home. Forces from the 444th Brigade,… Continue reading
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May 13 2025 
Tariff Trump – what a fold
The analysts have had time to read the short joint statement after the US / China Tariff talks and are beginning to see what a failure the Tariff War on China was and still is. It is such a failure that it is not even spectacular, but somewhat boring and nobody wins in a trade… Continue reading
