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Nov 12 2025 
Slices of Life, #15
“No life is boring if properly recounted. His given name, Quyết Chiến, means Determined to Fight. Quyết Thắng means Determined to Win.”
with gratitude to Linh Dinh at Postcards from the End.
Nguyễn Quyết Chiến — Nov 05, 2025.
An extraordinary story imperfectly told is…
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Nov 12 2025 
Gustavo Petro’s Powerful Speech on Freedom, Sovereignty, and Latin America’s Role at EU-CELAC
I’m so glad Pepe Escobar paid attention as I did not. That EU nomenclature is so off-putting and when I saw Kaja Kallas, I left the room.
Pepe says: “Petro absolutely RIPPED at the CELAC-EU summit in…
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Nov 11 2025 
Brazil: COP30 – Indigenous Climate Protestors take the house down
I have not seen much reporting but these indigenous climate protestors apparently came ready for a fight. The RT reporter says: Climate protesters barge into COP30 conference in Brazil wielding fists and flagpoles. Doors booted down, conference…
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Nov 11 2025 
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Russian media outlets
https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/2058518/
Question: Moscow and Washington have almost simultaneously announced nuclear test plans. Does this signify global instability or rather demonstrate equal capabilities and thus the preservation of parity?
Sergey Lavrov: I have heard nothing about Moscow announcing nuclear tests, so it is…
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Nov 11 2025 
Hamas Statement on Israel’s Ceasefire Violations in Gaza
### Press release issued by the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas, regarding the occupation’s violations of the ceasefire agreement signed in Sharm el-Sheikh one month after its implementation.
In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful
In this statement, we…
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Nov 11 2025 
US Plans for China Blockade Continue Taking Shape
Brian Berletic
What was once a theoretical discussion in U.S. military journals about blockading China’s oil supply is now steadily turning into a tangible, multi-layered strategy aimed at containing Beijing and preserving American global dominance.
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Nov 11 2025 
Beyond the Dollar: BRICS Initiatives for a Multipolar Financial System
Paulo Nogueira Batista Jr. at the Valdai Club
There are two sections to this.
First is the discussion at the Valdai club and second the following talk by Think-BRICS. This is not casual reading, but instead requires careful study.
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The need to face…
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Nov 11 2025 
Talk shows are talk shows and Russian talk shows are talk shows
Andrei Martyanov writes an explanatory piece on Russian Talk Shows, which is necessary reading. Gilbert Doctorow, whom I certainly had some words about in the past, enters the arena again.
Read the complete short piece at Andrei’s blog. We summarize here:
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Nov 10 2025 
If the going gets tough, the tough goes cooking
Lazy Kuban dumplings in tomato sauce
From my favorite Russian site. We will talk about it, think about it, understand the process, and enjoy every minute. The one thing that I love about my favorite Russian food site is the many… -
Nov 10 2025 
Fẹ̀mi Akọ̀mọ̀làfẹ̀: My reply to Nigeria’s Foreign Minister article
From Fẹ̀mi Akọ̀mọ̀làfẹ̀’s substack.
It is clear that Femi is not cool, calm and collected in this writing about Nigeria. But there may be more to the story that we do not necessarily know about. In common parlance, we call President…
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Nov 10 2025 
Pepe Escobar: Timur Trump sets out to reconquer the Heartland. Really?
So history ruled that no conqueror coming from the West would traverse the Pamirs; that happened with Alexander the Great, and that happened with Islam. But that may well happen with Timur Trump, Conqueror of China.
Pepe Escobar, Strategic Culture
President Donald…
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Nov 10 2025 
The Continual War Against Russia & Its Primary Defense Mechanism–Ethnic Unity
As disclosed at the 90-minute meeting of the Presidential Council for Interethnic Relations.
With thanks to Karl Sanchez from karlof1’s Geopolitical GymnasiumFeatured Image: Ethnic groups map that still comes up short of the overall total but offers a good look.
The Interethnic Relations…
