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Oct 30 2025 
The world financial and geo-political framework at a time of imminent disorder
Putin remains focussed on achieving a new Europe-wide security architecture, writes Alastair Crooke.
Alastair Crooke: Strategic Culture
Trump’s attempt to build a ‘Budapest scenario’ (i.e. a Putin-Trump summit grounded on the earlier Alaska ‘understanding’) was unilaterally cancelled (by the U.S.) amid acrimony.…
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Oct 30 2025 
The Death House
Chris Hedges
The genocide in Gaza is not a freakish anomaly. It is a harbinger of what awaits us as the ecosystem disintegrates and governments embrace climate fascism.
Gaza does not mark the end of the settler colonial project. It marks, I…
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Oct 30 2025 
Think BRICS: Ex-VP of BRICS Bank Reveals Truth About Western Sanctions
Ex-VP Paulo Nogueira Batista Jr. exposes the untold truth about Western sanctions, IMF control, and dedollarization. Discover why the BRICS Bank, built to escape the dollar, remains trapped.
In this exclusive interview with Think BRICS, former vice president of the…
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Oct 30 2025 
Pepe Escobar: How ASEAN Keeps Its Centrality Between China & US
Sputnik
ASEAN is quite a delicate geopolitical entity: gracious, polite and consensual but at the same time, always privileging its “centrality”. The collective 11 Southeast Asians (East Timor is the new member) are very serious global players – with a GDP…
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Oct 29 2025 
Pepe Escobar: Iran Arms Up, Russia Warns, and China Makes Its MOVE!
This is a very serious conversation – the day before Xi-Trump.
Enter The Beast – or The Giant Pigeon – as the current frightening incarnation of the Empire of Chaos.
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Oct 29 2025 
Post Asean – All Business is Yuan Business
While countries are generally dealing with tariffs individually, they will now be handled as a bloc. The broader business environment is moving toward Yuan-based transactions.
The Most Important – Extension of the Free Trade Area
Recently, positive progress has been made in…
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Oct 29 2025 
Cash Is Peasant
indi.ca
When I was in England I never saw cash until my kids lost teeth. Then I was like WTF, this money has Churchill on it? and gave the boy an exorbitant Jane Austen while he sleeped. England is an increasingly…
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Oct 29 2025 
Yevgeny Primakov
96 years ago, on October 29, 1929, Yevgeny Primakov was born – an eminent Soviet and Russian statesman, brilliant diplomat and Arabist.
He is among the world’s greatest statesmen and diplomats of the XX-XXI centuries, known as a consistent supporter…
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Oct 29 2025 
A very remarkable Ukraine frontline report: about those cauldrons and the soldiers within them
Marat Khairullin hits it out of the park! I have not included the maps, but do take a look at them on the substack. https://maratkhairullin.substack.com/p/afu-against-afu-who-will-take-revenge
I guarantee you, you will not need the maps to understand this wonderful writing with its…
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Oct 28 2025 
Richard D. Wolff & Michael Hudson: Trump FUMES as China, India & Russia Unite — The Shift Begins!
With Transcript
The money that America has given Ukraine isn’t to Ukraine — it’s not to the people — it’s to the kleptocrats that have said: We are willing to fight to the last Ukrainian. We are willing to try to…
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Oct 28 2025 
The New Rand Report – Stabilizing the US-China Rivalry
So my email is exploding with this new Rand Report, as if it is different from the others. There are differences and the main one here, is that it is not a Rand Report. But as you can see from…
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Oct 28 2025 
LAC, Russia’s new Comprehensive Strategic Partnership with Venezuela – where’s the beef?
This short essay serves to illustrate the difference between upbeat reporting, and reality. I am not criticising anyone, so no names need to be mentioned. I am illustrating how we should take note and take most everything with a grain…
