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Dec 13 2025 
Development of hydrogen drones in China
Development of hydrogen drones in China
🔻 At the 7th Zhejiang International Intelligent Transportation Industry Exhibition on December 11, it was announced that the Chinese Tianmu Shan-1 drone has set a world record and entered the Guinness Book of Records.
The UAV…
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Dec 13 2025 
Professor Marandi: Demystifying Iran | Iran Beyond the Myths
Professor Marandi has his own show now on … tadaaa … Al Mayadeen.
(I said previously it was Al Jazeera, but I was mistaken).
For over four decades, Iran has been one of the most discussed and most distorted countries in the…
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Dec 13 2025 
Mexico: People’s Mañanera December 11
Every day, President Claudia Sheinbaum gives a morning presidential press conference and Mexico Solidarity Media posts English language summaries, translated by Mexico Solidarity’s Pedro Gellert Frank.
The bold section explains Mexico’s Tariffs. No, Mexico is not in cahoots with Trump on…
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Dec 13 2025 
China’s Manufacturing Hubs
The complete supply chain for any part of a product is within 5 kilometers of the many assembly shops. That is why any one city in China can outcompete whole countries.
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Dec 13 2025 
Alastair Crooke: NATO declared to be ‘not forever’ – A critical reading of the new U.S. National Security Strategy
The European ruling strata now stand isolated, widely unpopular and bereft.
Alastair Crooke at Strategic CultureA National Security Strategy (NSS) is produced periodically by U.S. Administrations (Trump authored one during his first term). Mostly these documents lay out an idealised version…
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Dec 13 2025 
FM Lavrov: Embassy roundtable discussion “Ukraine crisis. Diplomacy and settlement prospects”
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to questions during an embassy roundtable discussion titled “Ukraine crisis. Diplomacy and settlement prospects,” Moscow, December 11, 2025
[Comment: It is noticed that frequently now, Russia calls the so-called ‘Peace Agreement’ for Gaza into… -
Dec 12 2025 
Pepe Escobar: Fragments of civilization: on the road in Italy
If the current, fragmented collective West would ever have a chance to be rescued from the Centaur of oblivion, that task must be carried out by the definitive, Western civilization-state: Pallas Athena Italia.
Pepe Escobar at Strategic Culture
In Botticelli’s masterpiece Pallas…
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Dec 12 2025 
AI : a demonstration of how China is rewriting the rules of the game
This is partially based on a Pascal Coppens Book launch. His book is called China’s Next Miracle. He describes that the book launch (Europe) went far beyond his own expectations because the interest in China and its ‘miracles’ has become…
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Dec 12 2025 
Friends talking on Plan Asset Seizure Europe and Japan Militarization
This is what fell on the radar of friends quietly talking:
Financial implications of EU and UK emergency powers.
UK Banks Warn Starmer Asset Seizure Plan Illegal; Kiev Energy Close To Collapse; Siversk Huiliapole
11 Dec 2025. Mercouris. 1 hour, 9 mins.
https://www.ft.com/content/7e90d3be-687c-4348-a663-132576f98086
11 Dec 2025. UK Bankers’ warning to UK government. [Behind a paywall.]
https://tass.com/society/2057847
12 Dec 2025. Bank of…
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Dec 12 2025 
End-of-year sherpa/sous-sherpa meeting of BRICS countries under the Brazilian chairmanship
Deputy Foreign Minister and Russia’s Sherpa for BRICS Sergey Ryabkov took part (https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/2065247/) in the end-of-year sherpa/sous-sherpa meeting of BRICS countries under the Brazilian chairmanship in Brasília on December 11-12.
The participants reviewed this year’s cooperation outcomes. More than 260 political,…
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Dec 12 2025 
Hemispheric Fault Lines: Venezuela’s Resistance & LATAM Crossroads, Sovereignty vs Neocolonialism
Posted specifically for Diego Sequera’s input.
As Washington targets Latin America, with a Monroe Doctrine on steroids, LATAM Nations navigate coercion, alliances, and the quest for a possible yet increasingly difficult, post-hegemonic future. In this episode of Critical Perspectives, Vanessa and…
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Dec 12 2025 
Drowing in videos
The end of this year seems to be the end of the world for some. The number of videos, commentaries, and outright sorrow about Europe, for one, is unbelievable. I’ll do a Trumper – We’ve never seen anything like this…
