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Aug 18 2025 
What really happened in Alaska
The Putin–Trump meeting dropped some important veils. It revealed that Washington views Russia as a peer power, and that Europe is little more than a useful American tool.
By Pepe Escobar at The Cradle.
Alaska was not only about Ukraine. Alaska was mostly about the world’s top two nuclear powers attempting to rebuild trust and apply the… Continue reading
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Aug 18 2025 
Slices of Life 4
Like the US itself, Trump is nothing but his image, so when he looks weak, confused, ridiculous or petty, the world can see exactly how his eviscerated nation is doing
with gratitude to Linh Dinh at Postcards from the End.
Image War — Aug 16, 2025.
Since American presidents are now at risk of stumbling headfirst going up or down Air… Continue reading
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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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Jul 23 2025 
AI is the New Empire
Exploring the dystopian technofeudalism at heart of the western A.I. race
The unnamed book EMPIRE OF AI is mine, based on 300+ interviews, 7 yrs covering AI, & my time as the first reporter who got extensive access to OpenAI. I sought OpenAI’s perspective throughout. For months they said it was coming. It never did. Pre-order:… Continue reading
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Mar 09 2025 
Imperial Games
The big questions remaining for every single human being in the Global Majority, watching these Imperial Games are: Are we, too, playing along in these games? .. What are the values we hold sacred?
By Nora Hoppe at Al Mayadeen.
“You don’t have the cards right now!”, Wheeler-Dealer Trump informed the no longer useful, wretched pawn… Continue reading
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Dec 25 2024 
Shattering Anglo-Zionist Delusions
“On @Dialogue_NRA discussing the power vacuum in Syria and the many problems facing Erdogan and Al-Qaeda.
Zionists have occupied the south.
Iran, Russia, and Iraq have been sending oil, refined products, and goods to Syria, that’s now Erdogan’s burden.”
[Russia used to send a lot of the grain for food]≈≈≈
A massive switcheroo and psyop has been underway in… Continue reading
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Nov 22 2024 
G20 knocks out G7 agendas
This G20 in Rio was all about the power of the Global South, with poverty eradication and genuine economic progress trumping the old G7 agendas of war, profit, and arm-twisting.
By Pepe Escobar at The Cradle.
The G20 summit in Rio earlier this week offered the quite intriguing spectacle of a deeply divided world, geopolitically and geoeconomically,… Continue reading
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Sep 14 2024 
9.11 to 10.7: The Fake ‘War on Terror’ Collapses
For years, the US executed Israel’s regional destabilization program using phantom terrorists as justification for the ‘War on Terror.’ But 7 October 2023 killed Washington’s never-ending war project – with a flip of the switch, US adversaries have now turned the ‘Long War’ on Israel.
By Pepe Escobar at The Cradle.
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Sep 10 2024 
The War against Reality: Soft Power and Owning Narratives – a Western Obsession
And whoever ends up “owning the narrative” – a new trendy trope – is “the winner”… a winner who has attained a position of omnipotence…
By Nora Hoppe at Al Mayadeen.
In recent years “narratives” have become more sophisticated, devious… and compulsorily spurious, especially in the service of the Hegemon, to uphold its political, economic and especially… Continue reading -
Aug 27 2024 
EU to Telegram – We’re Coming to Get You
The Pavel Durov saga is a gift that will keep on giving for a long time to come. This is what hot information war is all about. So let’s attempt to connect several loose ends.
By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.
A high-level Russian analyst makes the case that Durov’s arrest is connected with “anti-French protests in its… Continue reading
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Apr 30 2024 
Students – Triggers to Stop Wars?
Top Universities’ Pro-Palestine Encampments – A shift Towards Justice or Just Illusion?
Peter Koenig
30 April 2024
“The whole world thinks that Gaza is occupied by Israel.
The truth is that the whole world is occupied by Israel except Gaza.” (anonymous)
This makes sense, as the whole world – or its western “leaders” (sic) – is cheering for Zionist-Israel. But… Continue reading -
Mar 17 2024 
Karl’s Twist of the Fabric
Dr. Karl extends the thoughts of Crooke and Todd using American history. Well done. The rejection of the Global Majority of the West’s post-Christian ideas is manifest. There will be a change of elites.
with thanks to Karl at karlof1’s Geopolitical Gymnasium.
Growing out of Alastair Crooke’s talk at the Night Falls Conference: Night Falls in the Evening… Continue reading
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Mar 16 2024 
What is China’s Economic Future?
Political economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson are joined by Beijing-based scholar Mick Dunford to discuss what is actually happening in China’s economy, explaining its technological development and transition toward a new industrial revolution.
Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson at The Geopolitical Economy Hour.
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RADHIKA DESAI: Hello and welcome to the 24th Geopolitical Economy Hour, the show that examines… Continue reading
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Feb 29 2024 
The Reality of Bidenomics
Political economists Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson discuss the rhetoric and reality of Bidenomics, and how good US President Joe Biden really was for the economy.
Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson at The Geopolitical Economy Hour
“what is Bidenomics? It’s a slogan for a war economy, financed by a financial bubble.”
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