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May 23 2026 
Post Russia – China Summit Beijing
By Amarynth
We know the form of what happened during this summit—for example, the 40 agreements that were signed. Can you imagine how much pre-work went into that? The pleasant tone of the summit, the gracious Chinese welcoming ceremonies and pomp and circumstance, are great to see. But they also naturally cover aspects we didn’t necessarily… Continue reading
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May 22 2026 
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May 22 2026 
Forcing Russia’s Hand as Baltic States Escalate War
Finian Cunningham
Strategic CultureRussia’s hand is being forced to hit the new front to restore deterrence and avoid a total escalation.
The shooting down of a Ukrainian drone by a NATO warplane over Estonia this week shows how close the proxy war with Russia is to a European-wide escalation.
NATO and the EU leadership are pushing the Baltic… Continue reading
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May 19 2026 
Pepe Escobar with Mario Nawfal : Trump threatens new Iran strikes, Putin to meet XI
Mario Nawfal is the host of the largest show on X (formerly Twitter) with guests including Hunter Biden, Elon Musk, President Bolsonaro, President Novak, PM Imran Khan, RFK Jr, Bill Ackman, Marc Cuban, Marc Andreessen and Tucker Carlson reaching millions of people a week and leading the citizen journalism movement.
Mario is also the founder… 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 18 2026 
Sergey Karaganov: “We Are Facing a Major Historical Dual Task: To Save the Country and to Save the World”
Sergey Karaganov in an initial interview with Yuliya Novitskaya, published at Neo
[Note: The responses to Professor Karaganov’s argument run the gamut of mocking him personally and professionally, right through to taking him seriously. Within my group of discussion partners the main objection is: that nuclear exchange is never only one way and retaliation… Continue reading -
May 17 2026 
From Hondurasgate to BRICS
By Amarynth
Part I
Hondurasgate is the name given to a series of leaks of conversations via audio between right-wing political figures in South America — including former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, Javier Milei and current President Nasry Asfura — that revealed an international plan to attack leftist politicians and governments in Honduras and other Latin… Continue reading -
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 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 15 2026 
Pepe Escobar : Trump pays tribute to the Temple of Heaven
If all of us are magnanimous enough, we might infer that Xi and Trump agreed on a three-year stability framework.
Strategic Culture
SHANGHAI – The headline on the front page of China Daily this past Thursday was a thunder and lightning “Red-carpet welcome for Trump in Beijing”.
Well, complete with electric jumpin’ children waving flowers and a visit… Continue reading
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May 14 2026 
Some good news! Court halts US sanctions against Albanese for Gaza genocide statements
A federal judge in the District of Columbia has suspended US sanctions against Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian territories.
PressTV
Albanese confirmed the ruling on X, writing: “The US court has suspended the US sanctions against me! Thanks to my daughter and my husband for stepping up to defend me, and everyone who has… 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
