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Feb 05 2025 
President Trump’s Obsession with Tariffs Economic Ruse, or Political Blackmail?
By Peter Koenig
It would be fair to call President Trump as obsessed with tariffs. Import tariffs on every country that does not conform to his foreign policy ideas, is the “rules-bases order” converted into the Trump-based order.
Punishment by imposing tariffs is an ill-advised obsession of Donald Trump’s. He played this card already… Continue reading
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Feb 05 2025 
FM Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at 14th Middle East Conference (sidelines)
I would like to thank Board Chairman of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club Andrey Bystritsky and Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies in charge of research of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vitaly Naumkin for their focus on the Middle Eastern and other global priorities. The theme that… Continue reading
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Feb 04 2025 
The Riviera of the Middle East – this could be so magnificent
Trump will take over Gaza for the US, scatter the Gazan Palestinians to the four winds and develop the Riviera of the Middle East for ‘the world’s people’.
His maga media considers a complete ethnic cleansing on top of genocide just wonderful. US MAGA Media: “Why not give something new a try?” while they have… Continue reading
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Feb 04 2025 
Ottoman Empire 2.0?
Pepe Escobar joins #NewRulesPodcast to discuss Turkey’s political and economic expansion in Syria, Africa, and Central Asia.
(2:20) Turkey’s political elites
(7:42) 90% of Turkish elites are Atlanticists
(11:31) Erdogan’s double game with Russia and China
(16:16) Will Syria backfire?
(27:12) Turkey: Energy superpower?
(32:50) Central Asia: Turkey’s next frontier
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Feb 04 2025 
Ben Norton and Michael Hudson: Trump’s tariffs could cause huge global crisis
Donald Trump’s tariffs could destabilize the global economy, warns economist Michael Hudson. US protectionist policies could cause financial crises, as many currencies depreciate and countries can’t earn the dollars needed to pay their foreign debts. Ben Norton hosts the interview.
The transcript is on Ben Norton’s site: https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2025/02/04/trump-tariffs-global-crisis-economist-michael-hudson/
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Feb 04 2025 
SMO: Large frontline summary 27-31 January 2025 – Marat Khairullin
From Marat’s Substack
Today, a surprising situation has developed. To understand what is happening at the front, it is necessary to take into account the international context, and vice versa, without taking into account international issues, it is impossible to analyze the situation at the front.
Therefore, let us immediately outline foreign policy priorities in order to… Continue reading
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Feb 04 2025 
Daily Chronicles
Today, we find ourselves resisting the First War on BRICS in its various salients. We are in madness, in a strategy of chaos from the side of the empire who cannot fight but are singularly talented at fomenting chaos in order to swoop in, brutally kill, grab and gain benefit. The strategy of empire going… Continue reading
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Feb 04 2025 
FM Lavrov article: The UN Charter as the legal foundation of a multipolar world
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s article for Russia in Global Affairs magazine, «The UN Charter as the legal foundation of a multipolar world»
Eighty years ago, on February 4, 1945, the leaders of the victors of World War II − the Soviet Union, the United States, and Britain − opened the Yalta Conference to determine the… Continue reading
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Feb 03 2025 
Welcome to the gaslighting jungle
Let’s start with USAID. There is rejoicing all around because it is going to be closed. Musk thunders his ‘victory’. (Let me say at this time that I am no fan of USAID or NED, and it should be dismantled – on the other hand, economic dependency on the US must be broken). No, no,… Continue reading
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Feb 03 2025 
A few site notes: Short and Sweet
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Feb 03 2025 
Medvedev hopes US deep state won’t swallow Musk
MOSCOW, February 3. /TASS/. Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev commenting on the situation surrounding the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) expressed hope that the US deep state won’t consume Elon Musk.
Earlier, Musk, who leads the US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), said that USAID had been closed down.
“Smart move by @elonmusk,… Continue reading
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Feb 03 2025 
US Hegemony 2.0
Trump was brought to power to create “30 Ukraines” out of a united Europe
One of the key areas of activity of the new owner of the White House has become an extremely strange, at first glance, fight against globalist projects – that is, against everything that was so dear to his predecessors from the US… Continue reading
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Feb 02 2025 
Wolff Responds: “It Should Be Called A Purge”
Dr. Richard Wolff
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Feb 02 2025 
Fascinating: Russia and DeepSeek
DEEPSEEK: THE GHOST OF THE SOVIET UNION HAUNTS SILICON VALLEY
Turns out DeepSeek, the AI titan shaking up the tech world, wasn’t born in Beijing boardrooms or Silicon Valley labs. It was built on the forgotten code of the Soviet Union.
“I won’t lie, our AI was created on the basis of Soviet developments – the OGAS… Continue reading
