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May 21 2026 
Richard Wolff & Michael Hudson: Trump Is FUMING After Iran, China & Russia’s MASSIVE Move
With Nima Alkorshid – Dialogue Works
Ukraine, West Asia, Possible Growing Wars, Where did Iran come from and how did it become ‘the example’? Decline of the American Empire, Economics. This is an in-depth conversation.
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May 20 2026 
Joint Declaration of the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China on the Formation of a Multipolar World and International Relations of a New Type
http://kremlin.ru/supplement/6486
The Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China (hereinafter referred to as the Parties), as civilizations with ancient history, founding members of the United Nations (UN) and permanent members of its Security Council, and important centers of power in a multipolar world, play a constructive role in maintaining the global balance of power and… Continue reading
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May 20 2026 
Joint Statement of the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China
Joint Statement (http://kremlin.ru/supplement/6487)of the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China on Further Strengthening Comprehensive Partnership and Strategic Interaction, and Deepening Relations of Good-Neighborliness, Friendship and Cooperation (Beijing, May 20, 2026)
📄 FULL STATEMENT (http://kremlin.ru/supplement/6487)
[Up to now only available in Russian and I have not seen the Chinese transcript yet]
Key points:
• The Treaty of… Continue reading
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May 20 2026 
In Beijing
It is quite an affaire, trying to find complete videos of speeches and short addresses by Presidents Jinping and Putin so far during the summit, that are not completely politically colored. I watched Al Jazeera, whose Moscow correspondent used the occasion to rip Russia apart in terms of economics.
The overall pomp and… Continue reading
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May 19 2026 
The Sirius Report : Why The Putin-Xi Meeting Really Matters Now
Recommended listening.
This Putin-Xi meeting was planned months ago. But the timing now feels very different.
When you look closely at what’s happening around this summit, it starts to feel less like a routine diplomatic visit and more like two major powers quietly preparing for a world that is changing much faster than most… Continue reading
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May 19 2026 
The Victory of the Multipolar Triumvirate
© Photo: Public domain
Strategic CultureChina defies U.S. sanctions on Iran, declaring them void. With Russia and Iran, the multipolar triumvirate ends Western hegemony and reshapes global power.
The Western world often watches – without fully grasping its extent – the closing of a historical cycle that has dominated the last eighty years. The moment when China… 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 
Pepe Escobar: Trump in PANIC! Iran & China just WIPED OUT His WW3 Strategy
With Danny Haiphong
Pepe Escobar joins the show to discuss the massive fallout of Trump’s trip to China which has sparked a mad push by the US empire to renew its war on Iran despite the devastating consequences this would bring to both itself and the world.
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May 14 2026
Richard Wolff & Michael Hudson: America’s Grip Is Gone – Here’s What Iran, Russia & China Did
With Nima Alkorshid, Dialogue Works
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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 13 2026 
Brian Berletic: Anger, Disappointment, Confusion, and Delusional Hope
Anger, Disappointment, Confusion, and Delusional Hope Ahead of US-China Meeting
▪️The US ultimately seeks to contain and subordinate China/destabilize and destroy it if necessary – and with everything it does it seeks to undermine China’s economic, technological, and political rise, while enhancing its own domination over it and the multipolar world China seeks to create;
▪️China… 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 12 2026
Pepe Escobar on the Shaun Newman podcast
The talk with Pepe starts a little into the podcast – around 10 minutes. As this is a new interviewer for Pepe, he does a thorough overview of his history and career, and this is always interesting. The geopolitical content starts around the middle of the podcast.
Pepe Escobar is a veteran… Continue reading
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May 07 2026 
Pepe Escobar: Trump Goes to China, But Iran Holds All the Cards
A few days ago, we had Mr. Araghchi go to Russia. Earlier this week, we had Mr. Araghchi go to China.
Sputnik
These two trips mirror in full regalia the power of the new Russia-Iran-China triangle, which has emerged as the driving force behind Eurasian integration and multipolarity.
Some of Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi’s observations to Iranian media… Continue reading
