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Dec 31 2024 
2025: A Second Renaissance, or Chaos?
Featured Image: From Renaissance Florence, one of the – few – peaks of humanity, now living in memory, tread carefully across this flame-filled 2025.
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at Strategic Culture
FLORENCE – It’s a dazzling Tuscan winter morning, and…
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Dec 30 2024 
John Potash shares his new movie, “CIA Drugs R Us!” Just released, it is a must see!
Jeff J Brown interviewed John Potash about his new movie, “CIA Drugs R Us!”
Sometimes you hear some history that you know, but to see it again in one fell swoop, it shocks yet again. This goes further than the Charles…
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Dec 30 2024 
Crash of Azerbaijani civilian airliner in Kazakhstan
Accidental tragedy or monstrous provocation?
Editorial at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
It may be hoped that the attempts by Russia’s adversaries to politicize this tragedy and use it to weaken the trusting relations between historically close nations are doomed to failure.
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Dec 30 2024 
First statement by the emerging Syrian Resistance
We leave the old year with the very welcome news that, inshallah, we now have an organizing Syrian Resistance.
The statement is angry, and not fully focused. But, this is a resistance forming. No doubt Hezbollah will do some teaching here.
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Dec 29 2024 
Your word of the year?
Mine is Oreshnik or Hazel.
The Oxford Dictionary is I kid you not .. brain rot
Merriam-Webster’s word of the year is polarization
Dictionary.com is brat
Collins is delulu
Cambridge is manifest
Macquarie is enshittification
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Dec 29 2024 
Racism on steriods from the empire
There is a controversy raging in the US about H-1B visas. Initially this was a program for Indian techs to work in the US. I am not so interested in the controversy per se, but in what it…
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Dec 29 2024 
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Dec 29 2024 
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Rossiya Segodnya, December 29, 2024
Question: Will Russia withdraw from the New START before it expires considering the aggressive Western policy? Or maybe Moscow will be willing to comply with the quantitative limits as set forth in the New START even after the February 2026…
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Dec 29 2024 
The Perfect Energy Storm Arrives in Europe…
… and Uncle Sam runs “to help”.
💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 Ukraine bought “democratic” gas from the USAThe energy company DTEK (owned by oligarch Rinat Akhmedov through SCM Limited) purchased the first batch of 100 million cubic meters of LNG .…
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Dec 29 2024 
China: A debate – How China’s Rise Heralds a World Without Conscience?
How China’s Rise Heralds a World Without Conscience
I was made aware of this by one of our China Writer’s Group members. What makes it interesting is that none of the commentators are anti-China. This is a real attempt to…
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Dec 28 2024 
Russia’s Inroads into Africa: The Unstoppable March of the Global South
Russia by all standards is probably the most “sanctioned” country by the west. But her economy keeps growing faster than any western economy. A normal thinker would say, there is something wrong.
Since the Russian Special Operation (SO) in Ukraine, the…
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Dec 28 2024 
Trump: Opposite of isolationism but rather extreme imperialism
Ben Norton
While Donald Trump's supporters falsely claim he is an "isolationist", he is threatening to colonize the Panama Canal, annex Canada, and take over Greenland (and its rare earth elements).Trump's team is discussing plans to invade Mexico, bomb Iran, &…
