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May 04 2025 
SWIFT’s decline: Global powers are escaping the dollar trap
The weaponization of global finance has become a cornerstone of US foreign policy. Central to this has been Washington’s control over the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), a financial messaging service once considered a neutral platform but now…
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May 03 2025 
China Threatens U.S. and Rallies Global South to Defy Tariffs
Paul assesses recent statements by Xi’s right hand man, which Washington will regard as threatening and how he told the Global South to stand up and protect its interests against US tariffs.
Mr Wang Yi’s two addresses to the BRICS Ministerial:
The…
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May 03 2025 
“Chosen people”?
Sony Thang – a word from Vietnam
“Chosen people”?
Every empire says that.
The British called themselves the torchbearers of civilization.
The Americans call themselves defenders of freedom.
Israel is just another chapter of the same sickness:
The belief that theft…
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May 03 2025 
The Two Contradictions Of Nacism
National Capitalism (Nacism) is the idea that capitalists should run nations. As we reach the ‘into the ground’ part of that calculation, the whole project is plagued by two glaring contradictions. If capitalism is the best, how can it get…
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May 02 2025 
Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson with Nima from Dialogue Works
Michael’s opinion is that if Ukraine was not Trump’s war before, it is so now, as a result of the so-called mineral (and other) sham deal with Ukraine. He explains the reasons and results of this deal.
There is discussion on…
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May 02 2025 
United Nations is broke: Get ready for a major change
According to Reuters, most of which may be badly slanted, they have an exclusive from a secret UN memo.
UN eyes major overhaul amid funding crisis. The US is not paying its dues. Speculation currently is that the UN Security Council…
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May 02 2025 
China – on the manufacturing street
A few days ago Trump felt sorry for China.
‘I was saddened to hear it… they are getting absolutely HAMMERED in China’ – Trump says his tariffs mean factories there closing, economy doing ‘very poorly”I don’t want that to happen to…
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May 02 2025 
100 Days of Change, the United States Has Changed the World, and We Have Fallen Into the “Rabbit Hole” Chinese writer Yan Mo
With thanks to Karl Sanchez karlof1’s Geopolitical Gymnasium
Chinese writer Yan Mo
Pepe Escobar initially pointed to this great essay whose content is clear from the title. Eventually, Trump’s behavior is compared to some of China’s past Emperors whose actual doings…
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May 01 2025 
Brian Berletic & Carl Zha with Danny Haiphong
In a stunning turn, Trump just called China to settle the trade war & its the US military’s plan for Taiwan that hangs in the balance. Geopolitical analysts Brian Berletic and Carl Zha join the show to reveal the true…
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May 01 2025 
Pepe with Judge Napolitano
Thanks to Tariffs, China Ditching US Tech. Napolitano interviews geopolitician Pepe Escobar, April 30th, 2025.
“… in this wilderness of narrative mirrors, Trump should be perceived as all characters combined: the White Rabbit, Humpty Dumpty (“When I use a word, it…
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May 01 2025 
Dmitry Medvedev: About International Labor Day
About International Labor Day
If the United States had an award for valiant labor, the current president could be its recipient for his first hundred days of work, and especially for starting the tariff battle.
At the same time, the hammer and…
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Apr 30 2025 
Going to Kashmir…just to find Alice in Wonderland
Welcome to “Ruler of the World” does Wonderland – to the sound of that hypnotic ‘Kashmir’ riff.
By Pepe Escobar at Strategic Culture Foundation.
Two overarching taboos reign on the – now shattered – collective West:
Can’t define the Ukraine regime as…
