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Apr 12 2025 
Tariffs: three of the best
Nobody stops talking about Tariffs. In the economic world, in the trade world, in the world of markets and investments (and in your kitchen or garage or where you do your marketing), this will have an effect. Bear in mind…
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Apr 12 2025 
FM Lavrov, IV Antalya Diplomacy Forum
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to media questions during the special session of the IV Antalya Diplomacy Forum
This is a rare pleasure – English commentary by Mr Lavrov. Unfortunately there is no embedding possible now and of…
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Apr 11 2025 
9th Celac summit on Cuba
We can’t stand by in the face of the U.S. blockade on Cuba,” said Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva at the 9th CELAC Summit, where leaders from across the hemisphere called for an end to decades of U.S.…
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Apr 11 2025 
Seun Foo: As China Orders Its Banks To Cancel USD Buying, Spain Makes A Dramatic Pivot To Beijing
A note from one of our China Writers:
In 2018, China welcomed Trump as a super VIP with a $223b trade deal, but Trump tore up the deal signed under his watch the next day and declared a trade war because…
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Apr 11 2025 
China threatens ‘total war’ with US if Trump doesn’t realise he’s made a mistake | Victor Gao
This video is short, less than 15 minutes. Victor Gao is always worthwhile to take a listen to.
There is a comment from the US that attempts to frame the tariff war as an existential issue for the US. It is…
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Apr 11 2025 
A conversation with DeepSeek about AI
Developments in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) appeal to me greatly. The average human lifespan has been extended quite a bit as a result of humans being able to invent and use technology. Technology makes our lives so much…
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Apr 10 2025 
Sony Thang in his inimitable style
It’s always the same voice that calls others aggressive.
Always the same hand that draws the knife, then accuses the wound of hostility.
So let’s speak with clarity.
It was the U.S. that imposed gunboat trade on China in the…
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Apr 10 2025 
Francesca Albanese: There is not much time left to save the Palestinian people
Reported by PressTV
The United Nations’ special rapporteur on Palestine has warned that there is “not much time left” to save the Palestinian people as Israel continues its relentless onslaught on the Gaza Strip and its ongoing oppression in the West Bank.
Francesca…
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Apr 09 2025 
The Sirius Report: After Tariff Pause announcement .. Trump caves over tariffs as Lehman 2.0 beckoned
Paul and Ken discuss the real reasons why the Trump administration caved in with respect to global tariff policies.
@realDonaldTrump
Based on the lack of respect that China has shown to the World’s Markets, I am hereby raising the Tariff charged to… -
Apr 09 2025 
Trump’s Tariff Theory (The Miran Mirage)
by indie.ca
(perhaps not for the little kids)
Trump’s expertise, somehow losing money on casinos and blowing them up
We are witnessing the planned demolition of America as a world trade center. The historical bin is laden with economic bullshit, begging to be… -
Apr 09 2025 
Speaking about Russia, the SMO and Winning
Larchmonter posted a comment on Smoothie’s site and has given me permission to repost it here. First, I agree with him. Second, nothing here is at all critical of Smoothie. Then, the context in which this comment is made is…
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Apr 09 2025 
Worst Case Scenario: Trump’s Tariffs Walling US Off Ahead of Wider World Conflict
From Brian Berletic and first posted at NEO
With the rollout of sweeping US tariffs aimed at nations worldwide, economists and geopolitical analysts alike are astounded by what at face value looks like irrational self-sabotage attributed to incompetence within the White…
