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Ukraine’s Kursk Collapse & Washington’s Rush to Freeze Conflict Under “Minsk 3”
13 March 2025 — The New Atlas As Ukraine’s Kursk operations collapse and wider fears grow regarding the viability of Ukraine’s armed forces, the US is rushing to freeze the conflict, create a European-occupied buffer zone in Ukraine, and buy time to rearm and reorganize Ukraine’s forces for the next round of fighting. Continue reading
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Putin-Trump Phone Chat #2
Here’s the straight edited translation of the Kremlin’s readout of the second publicly acknowledged phone chat between Presidents Putin and Trump. One publication says the call lasted three hours: Continue reading
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Trump hypes up tensions with Iran
On Saturday, US President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon “to launch a decisive and powerful military operation” against the Houthis of Yemen with “overwhelming lethal force” in the most significant military action of his second term, to date. Continue reading
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USA is #1 arms dealer, exporting 43% of world’s weapons: 7 times more than China, 5x Russia
The US is the biggest arms dealer on Earth, responsible for 43% of the world’s weapons exports from 2020 to 2024. The US transferred seven times more than China, and five times more than Russia. Continue reading
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Wildly Unhinged America Expands Orgy of Genocides
In an act that epitomizes the moral and political bankruptcy of the West, President Donald Trump authorized airstrikes on Yemen this weekend—a country already suffering from nearly a decade of relentless war, starvation, and disease. Having laid waste to Palestine, Iraq, Libya, and Syria, mankind’s ancient cultural heritage of Yemen is now in the crosshairs,… Continue reading
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Former Kremlin advisor says ‘best possible outcome is Ukraine’s total capitulation’ | BBC News
From the start of this war, Putin has demanded the “demilitarisation” of Ukraine, which is anathema to Kyiv and its allies. The BBC’s Russia Editor Steve Rosenberg has been speaking to political scientist and former Kremlin advisor Sergey Karaganov. Continue reading
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Russian Representative to the UN: Diplomacy with the US & the Ceasefire Proposal
Dmitri Polyanskiy, the First Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations, discusses diplomacy with the US. Polyanskiy argues that Russia is prepared to continue its military operation until its objectives are achieved through either military means or diplomacy. The US has accepted the key conditions in a peace agreement that must… Continue reading
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“Diplomacy” in a room full of mirrors: postmodernism as a cognitive pathological virus
Postmodernism, with its cognitive relativism and other pseudo-philosophical artifacts, is the place where the West has gone to die. The Western cognitive degenerative disease has entered its terminal stage, and the signs are everywhere. Continue reading
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Putin peels off the masks of the ceasefire kabuki
Putin will never sacrifice Russia’s “indivisibility of security” demands posed to Washington in December 2021 – and met with a no-response response. Continue reading
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Watch: Shalom, the occupation’s home
Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss the Trump administration’s unconstitutional detention of Columbia U student protest leader Mahmoud Khalil and the forces pulling the White House’s strings, as Israel lobby freak outs prompt the firing of Trump’s top hostage negotiator and withdrawal of a national security appointee. They will also cover the latest on Ukraine… Continue reading
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Necropolitics, Ukraine, and the Trump-Brokered Negotiations
The Berlin Congress of 1878 — where Russia’s battlefield triumphs were undone in a diplomatic ambush orchestrated by Britain, Austria-Hungary, and a coldly calculating Bismarck — repeats itself today as Trump plays the “impartial peacemaker,” ensuring that Ukraine’s fate is determined not by war but by the necropolitical calculus of empire, where survival is rationed,… Continue reading
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The US Retreats While Attempting to Increase Its Grip on its “Backyard”
Why is the US bullying Panama, Canada and Mexico so outrageously? It’s an attempt by the new administration to reinstate its dominance over the American Hemisphere; ousting Chinese influence under a reinforced Monroe Doctrine (the statement of US dominance in the hemisphere in the 1800s). As it retreats from Europe and cuts other parts of… Continue reading
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Why is the rivalry between Russia and the West intensifying?
Rivalries between Russia and the West are on the rise, fueled by decades of mistrust, resentment, hybrid conflicts, and strategic divergences. What are the roots of this geopolitical tension? Continue reading
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Ceasefire Without Political Settlement – Another Minsk Agreement?
I had the great pleasure of speaking with Ambassador Chas Freeman regarding the US-Ukraine deal for a 30-day ceasefire. The agreement does not provide any political solutions and would likely be used by the US and the Europeans to pump more weapons into Ukraine. Continue reading
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BREAKING: Mahmoud Khalil Speaks With Attorneys for First Time Since Detention
Mahmoud Khalil was finally able to speak with his legal team after a judge in the Southern District of New York ordered the Department of Homeland Security to allow a call of at least an hour. Prior to that, the Columbia University graduate and pro-Palestine organizer had no meaningful contact with his lawyers since Department… Continue reading
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On Trump-Russia Negotiations: Is the US-Europe Division on Ukraine Real?
The West is likely dividing itself into smaller parties that can present potentially endless demands to keep the Ukraine-Russia conflict going, while enabling Donald Trump to pose as a peace-maker. Continue reading
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The background of Ukrainian-American talks in Jeddah: Koshchei’s needle of the Kiev junta
Everything that is happening now in Saudi Arabia can be assessed from different process levels and several angles. The deepest cut is the general confrontation of globalist elites and the American Deep State with the national forces that came to power in the USA. The next level is the pushing through of their goals by… Continue reading
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Pete Hegseth: Crusader Against Godless Commies and Islam!
Pete Hegseth displays an utter ignorance of reality and an ideologically-blinded worldview combined with a view of himself as a holy warrior against the Godless Commies (China) and Islam. He was a high school valedictorian and American football player before becoming an undergraduate at Princeton (politics, graduating in 2003). There he played in the university… Continue reading
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DOGE is Sharpening the Tools of US Empire – Not Dismantling Them
Many people have become so distracted with debates over the process DOGE is overseeing in exposing and eliminating US government fraud, waste, and abuse, that no one is focused on its purpose. The current US administration has declared its intention to uphold the irrational and unwarranted pursuit of US dominance over the globe and is… Continue reading
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🇺🇸 USAID Streamlined, Not “Dismantled,” Secretary Rubio Confirms
Monday, 10 March 2025 — New Atlas Brian Berletic As predicted, USAID was never “dismantled,” simply streamlined into a more effective tool of foreign interference. I warned over the past weeks that ALL of the organizations mentioned in my research remain operational and fully funded. Now US Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirms after significant Continue reading
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