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Jul 16 2025 
Judo – The “Gentle Way” (柔道)
Judo serves as a metaphor for the strategy that Russia, China, and other non-Western powers can use against the West. Judo is about using the opponent’s strength and momentum against themselves, rather than direct brute force. A desirable approach to…
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Jul 16 2025 
SCO+ partner category incoming
It is a pleasure and surprise to read Mr Lavrov’s comments following the SCO Foreign Ministers Council Meeting, Tianjin
SCO is growing from 10 member states and 2 observers to SCO+ with a partner category, and with the Lao People’s Democratic…
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Jul 15 2025 
U.S. hubris-driven blunders transform the entire complexion of the wider war
Trump continues to be seized by the delusional view that his Israeli-centred vision could all be accomplished merely by ending the genocide in Gaza.
Alastair Crooke – Strategic Culture
The big issue emerging from the U.S.’ 22 June strike on Iran –…
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Jul 15 2025 
Andrei Martyanov on war and Europe
Andrei highlights something today that is now impossible to ignore. This is that we are in the foothills of a bigger war than the SMO. This is being planned. The theater is being shaped. From Belgium, we have a piece…
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Jul 15 2025
Pathways to inner freedom
How Buddha, Ayyub, Chitraketu and other sages teach us to embrace aging, illness and death as pathways to inner freedom.
Do you wish to be free? Then learn to live in surrender. The stories of Buddha, Ayyub, Chitraketu and…
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Jul 14 2025 
Forget détente, Moscow must fight to the end
By Dmitry Trenin, a research professor at the Higher School of Economics and a lead research fellow at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations. He is also a member of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC).
Many now speak…
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Jul 14 2025 
Trump on Weapons to Ukraine
Summary
Trump in a meeting with Mark Rutte (NATO) announced that the U.S. will impose 100% secondary sanctions on Russia and its trading partners if a ceasefire deal in Ukraine isn’t reached within about 50 days—that is, by the end of…
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Jul 14 2025 
President Trump’s Tacit NATO Killing
By Peter Koenig
The NATO Summit of The Hague, 24-25 June 2025 has come and gone.
However, the scene of the infamous Sumit reverberates with many uncertainties, illusions for some, deceptions for others.
At the outset, it looks like President Trump came to…
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Jul 13 2025 
Sweet Sunday Story: Mexico and Chocolate
I received this story from the first independent news organization in Mexico. They describe themselves as the Mexico Solidarity Project with the aim to bring together individuals and organizations in the US and México that support Mexico’s social movements, its…
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Jul 13 2025 
Daily Chronicles
Daily Chronicles features issues, small or large, that have the potential to change our world.
Evolving Strategy of Empire.
Fund Raiser: I call a formal month of donations for July to fill up the kitty for the 2nd half of the year.…
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Jul 12 2025 
Pepe Escobar: Trump terrified by BRICS strategic threat
Strategic Culture
This is it. The ruling classes of the Empire of Chaos, plus the current, clownish Circus Ringmaster have finally realized that BRICS is a serious strategic threat – and existential challenge – to their unilateral domination of the current…
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Jul 12 2025 
Abraham Accords, Abraham Shield, Abraham Alliance: a diabolical trinity
The Plot thickens in the Middle East / West Asia
The Abraham Accords are a set of agreements that were drawn up during the previous Trump administration to establish diplomatic normalization between Israel and several Arab states. The main aim is…
