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Apr 06 2025 The Brutal and Deliberately Forgotten Korean War
“Unrestricted submarine warfare, unrestricted air bombing . . . this is total war. Time and the ocean and some guiding star and High Cabal have made us what we are.”
By Professor Dr. Syed Mujahid Kamran at Daily Pakistan.
The Korean War…
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Apr 06 2025 Chinese Government’s Position on Opposing U.S. Abuse of Tariffs: Global Response
https://www.mfa.gov.cn/eng/xw/zyxw/202504/t20250406_11589042.html
April 5, 2025
Recently, the United States has imposed tariffs on all its trading partners, including China, under various pretexts.
This severely infringes upon the legitimate rights and interests of all countries, severely violates World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, severely undermines the rules-based multilateral trading system, and severely… -
Apr 06 2025 Mission to Moscow (1943 film about Joseph E. Davies’ visit to Russia as US Ambassador to the Soviet Union)
Eric Arnow, our Bumble Buddist from the China Writer’s Group presents a movie. It is perfect day today, to take in some history and step outside of Tariffs (so much noise, so little substance), and current wars.
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Apr 05 2025 Michael Hudson & Richard Wolff with Nima
Can the World Unite Against U.S. Trade Weaponization?
Revenge Economics: How Trump’s Trade War Hurts America First
NIMA ALKHORSHID: Hi, everybody. Today is Thursday, April 3rd, 2025, and our friends, Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff are back with us. Welcome back.
Let’s talk…
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Apr 05 2025 Kurabiye: Middle Eastern flower cookies that became truly Soviet
It is slowly getting to be hot summer in the tropics and the airconditioner is almost in full use. I don’t bake because it is too hot, but I do check out lovely baked goods and plan for the cooler…
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Apr 05 2025 Vietnam Blinks (or did they Wink?)
After Trump’s 46% tariff thunderclap on Vietnamese imports, Hanoi didn’t flinch, it countered. Not with confrontation but with conditions. It is important to check the actual response from Hanoi vs. Trump’s post.
Vietnam has signaled readiness to cut tariffs to zero,…
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Apr 04 2025 China’s Done With USA: Brutal 54% Tariff Signals End Of Trade, BRICS Is The Future
I went to check Chinese commentary and found that China is not playing games. So, I wanted to write about that, but thought .. let me check what Seun Foo says.
Let’s just see … China has not stopped since just…
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Apr 04 2025 Trump 2.0: Between the slip and the fall
From Quantum Bird
Most people have witnessed someone slip and fall while trying to go down a slippery, wet slope. The person’s actions in the short moments between the initial slip and the inevitable fall are crucial to the final severity…
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Apr 04 2025 Mao Tse-Tung and I Were Beggars: Part 3
Prepared and published by Godfree Roberts, for his substack
The Buddhist Monastery on Wei Shan
Part 1: Mao’s Struggle for Learning, Farm boy buys freedom.
Part 2: He Hu-tzu’s House.In the evening we arrived at Wei Shan. As we approached, the uniform green…
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Apr 04 2025 Michael Hudson & Richard Wolff with Nima
The Geopolitical Chessboard: Trump, Iran, and the Shadow of War
Ed Note: This interview was done BT – before Tariffs. I look forward to hear this dreamteam discuss the tariffs. Yes, this is my dreamteam because of the…
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Apr 04 2025 Dmitry Polyanskiy at the latest UNSC Briefing on the Situation in the OPT
Statement by First Deputy Permanent Representative Dmitry Polyanskiy at a UNSC Briefing on the Situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
Mr. President,
We note the statement by Mr. Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. We thank Mr. Younes Al-Khatib, President…
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Apr 04 2025 Kirill Dmitriev : US Interview with Greta von Susteren
Image: File Image
On Thursday’s “The Record with Greta Van Susteren,” Putin Investment Envoy Kirill Dmitriev responded to questions about American hostages, the war in Ukraine, and restoring Russian American relations and business.