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Dec 31 2024 
2025: A Second Renaissance, or Chaos?
Featured Image: From Renaissance Florence, one of the – few – peaks of humanity, now living in memory, tread carefully across this flame-filled 2025.
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Strategic Culture
FLORENCE – It’s a dazzling Tuscan winter morning, and I am inside the legendary Dominican church of Santa Maria Novella, founded in the early… Continue reading
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Dec 30 2024 
John Potash shares his new movie, “CIA Drugs R Us!” Just released, it is a must see!
Jeff J Brown interviewed John Potash about his new movie, “CIA Drugs R Us!”
Sometimes you hear some history that you know, but to see it again in one fell swoop, it shocks yet again. This goes further than the Charles Manson story and Dave McGowan’s ‘Weird Scenes inside the Canyon’. There is good evidence that… Continue reading
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Dec 30 2024 
Crash of Azerbaijani civilian airliner in Kazakhstan
Accidental tragedy or monstrous provocation?
Editorial at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
It may be hoped that the attempts by Russia’s adversaries to politicize this tragedy and use it to weaken the trusting relations between historically close nations are doomed to failure.
The crash investigation of the Brazilian-built Embraer 190 airliner is ongoing, and therefore, it is too early… Continue reading -
Dec 30 2024 
First statement by the emerging Syrian Resistance
We leave the old year with the very welcome news that, inshallah, we now have an organizing Syrian Resistance.
The statement is angry, and not fully focused. But, this is a resistance forming. No doubt Hezbollah will do some teaching here.
The Syrian resistance has condemned the “new Al-Qaeda regime,” accusing it of betraying Syria with the… Continue reading -
Dec 29 2024 
Your word of the year?
Mine is Oreshnik or Hazel.
The Oxford Dictionary is I kid you not .. brain rot
Merriam-Webster’s word of the year is polarization
Dictionary.com is brat
Collins is delulu
Cambridge is manifest
Macquarie is enshittification
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Dec 29 2024 
Racism on steriods from the empire
There is a controversy raging in the US about H-1B visas. Initially this was a program for Indian techs to work in the US. I am not so interested in the controversy per se, but in what it it is unveiling, the big Maga battle. After Trump’s win, I posted a few… Continue reading
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Dec 29 2024 
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Rossiya Segodnya, December 29, 2024
Question: Will Russia withdraw from the New START before it expires considering the aggressive Western policy? Or maybe Moscow will be willing to comply with the quantitative limits as set forth in the New START even after the February 2026 deadline?
Sergey Lavrov: There is an objective reality in which the destructive policy by the United… Continue reading
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Dec 29 2024 
The Perfect Energy Storm Arrives in Europe…
… and Uncle Sam runs “to help”.
💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 Ukraine bought “democratic” gas from the USAThe energy company DTEK (owned by oligarch Rinat Akhmedov through SCM Limited) purchased the first batch of 100 million cubic meters of LNG . The gas was delivered from the state of Louisiana by the Gaslog Savannah vessel (flag… Continue reading
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Dec 29 2024 
China: A debate – How China’s Rise Heralds a World Without Conscience?
How China’s Rise Heralds a World Without Conscience
I was made aware of this by one of our China Writer’s Group members. What makes it interesting is that none of the commentators are anti-China. This is a real attempt to plumb China’s strategies vis a vis the ongoing genocide and future war.
This post consists… Continue reading
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Dec 28 2024 
Russia’s Inroads into Africa: The Unstoppable March of the Global South
Russia by all standards is probably the most “sanctioned” country by the west. But her economy keeps growing faster than any western economy. A normal thinker would say, there is something wrong.
Since the Russian Special Operation (SO) in Ukraine, the Russian economy has repeatedly defied expectations. The current forecast for 2024 is a 4% growth,… Continue reading
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Dec 28 2024 
Trump: Opposite of isolationism but rather extreme imperialism
Ben Norton
While Donald Trump's supporters falsely claim he is an "isolationist", he is threatening to colonize the Panama Canal, annex Canada, and take over Greenland (and its rare earth elements).Trump's team is discussing plans to invade Mexico, bomb Iran, & wage economic war on China. pic.twitter.com/bO583vnGka— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) December 28, 2024
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Dec 28 2024 
Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff with Nima from Dialogue Works
This is an older discussion but it is evergreen. Prof. Wolff’s starting description of what happened in South Korea is brilliant and applicable to a number of other destabilization efforts. It is topical now as South Korea is in governmental crisis and impeaching anything that moves. The decline of the American empire… Continue reading
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Dec 28 2024 
Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) reports on Syria
(Note: This confirms the concept of terrorist and chaos wars from a people that are not brave enough to fight a war and are not interested in a peace, but use and pay the most odious in our world to attack others in order to steal benefits. They cannot fight a war; they… Continue reading
