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Aug 16 2025 
Slices of Life 3
Like a much more famous billionaire, this pitiful man is boastful, exaggerates numbers and loves to play with girls. Insane people are lost in their fantasized greatness.
with gratitude to Linh Dinh at Postcards from the End.
Well Prepared for the Worst! — Aug 13, 2025.
This pre dawn at Coffee Seven, there’s a new half face. The other half is… Continue reading
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Aug 03 2025 
How To Live, What To Do
They have all shoehorned themselves into the system, each immersed in an ecology with clear, unspoken rules, taboos, heroes and villains. To be evicted from all that has forced me, daily, to encounter a much larger world, and to be freer than ever.
with gratitude to Linh Dinh at Postcards from the End.
Pairing me with Hung… Continue reading
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Aug 02 2025 
What can the US do against China?
Preparing for aggression and “just in case” exercises.
By Rostislav Ishchenko at Ukraine.ru.
(machine translation)
Trump found himself in a difficult situation. He failed to convince Russia to sign a peace treaty (or rather, a ceasefire) with Ukraine on American terms.
As far as I can tell, Trump’s confidence that Moscow would quickly accept his proposal was based on… Continue reading
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Aug 02 2025 
Flush, Of Course, Without One Glance Backward
… When an Asian says the American dream is dead, you know we are in deep trouble.
with gratitude to Linh Dinh at Postcards from the End.
Six months into the Golden Age of America, manufacturing jobs are down, inflation and unemployment are up, despite fudged numbers, foreign tourists have mostly stayed away, and there are no… Continue reading
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Jul 28 2025 
Why Thailand and Cambodia Are at War in the Heart of ASEAN
what toxic confluence of factors has crystallized into a hot war in the heart of Southeast Asia? It starts with a family feud – involving the Thai Shinawatra and the Cambodian Hun Sen clans
By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.
Fog of war rules. A crack Thai analyst worries about the intersection of so many vectors not making… Continue reading -
Jul 25 2025 
Dodging Wars in Departure Lounges
A soulful globe-trotter reports from Vietnam, traveling from Cambodia, of life and timeless imperial pyrotechnics
Linh Dinh at Postcards from the End.
Since I’ve shown an interest in her past, Mrs. Seven, a 63-year-old widow living with two dogs, keeps telling me more. In Hai Phong 40 years ago as part of a performance troupe, she was… Continue reading
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Jul 21 2025 
Iran’s Grand Strategy — Vali Nasr
“Either the U.S. lets Iran become nuclear, or the U.S. has to engage diplomatically.”
In this interview, Negar Razavi speaks with @vali_nasr about his new book, Iran’s Grand Strategy: A Political History — and the choices ahead for U.S. foreign policy.
It was pleasure to speak with Security in Context on my book Iran’s Grand Strategy https://t.co/7By3bceGnS
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Jul 20 2025 
“Superhumans” on the March
What’s emerging in America is not a retreat from hegemony, but a reformatting of it.
By Artyom Lukin on Russia in Global Affairs.
[Ed.: this is a machine translation]
Where does the threat to the world come from, or Superhumans again on the march.
For half a thousand years, the West has been the dominant civilization in the world.… Continue reading -
Jul 17 2025 
Anglo-Zionist Savagery is Relentless
Leader of Ansar Allah, Abdul-Malik Badreddin al-Houthi, on the developments of the Israeli aggression on Gaza and the latest regional and international updates – 22 Muharram 1447 AH, July 17, 2025:
The Israeli enemy continues the genocide against the Palestinian people and seeks to accumulate its criminal record.The Israeli enemy persists in the comprehensive destruction… Continue reading
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Jul 06 2025 
Degaussing your Mind of NUTS
Jamarl Thomas interviews KJ Noh on China’s hidden role in Iran’s new defense posture against US aggression, and the big view at the moment.
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Jamarl Thomas: You look good. You look good. You look good. Let me bring him on. KJ. No. The man himself. KJ is a journalist, political analyst, writer, and teacher specializing… Continue reading
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Jun 30 2025 
Iran Pivots East
After direct aggression of the messianic West on herself, Iran blocked US-controlled GPS and switched to the more advanced Chinese BeiDou. This is more than a technologic paradigm change..
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Jun 30 2025 
The Angel of History as a symbol of Resistance
The Global South now seems to have a crystal clear perspective of the new contours of the catastrophe laid at the feet of the Angel of History .. now they have met an immovable symbol of Resistance.
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
It’s one of the most mesmerizing passages in the history of knowledge.… Continue reading
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Jun 29 2025 
West isolated, Iran to nuclearize
“… on June 22 Trump struck and a terrible beauty was born.”
By Ambassador MK Bhadrakumar at the Indian Punchline.
The former President and Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council Dmitry Medvedev who is one of the most authoritative voices in the Kremlin, wrote on the Telegram channel on June 23 a critique on the Middle East… Continue reading
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Jun 28 2025 
The United States Cannot Defeat Iran
Those whose calculus of a US/Iran war assumes overwhelming American air superiority will abruptly find the parameters of their equations altered.
By William Schryver at imetatronink.
How soon people have forgotten that, earlier this year, the US dispatched two carrier strike groups and a half-dozen B-2s (and other USAF assets) to disarm the Yemeni and open the… Continue reading
