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Negotiations Report by Lavrov and Kremlin
On 25 March, Lavrov provided information about the negotiations with Team Trump in an interview with Channel One, Moscow. The Kremlin followed later in the day with two press releases that provided additional details. We’ll begin with Lavrov: Continue reading
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US VP JD Vance admits West wants Global South trapped at bottom of value chain
US Vice President JD Vance made it clear that the West wants to keep poor Global South countries trapped at the bottom of the global value chain, through monopolistic control of advanced technologies. Continue reading
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Do You Think You’ll Ever Know, Now That You Have Handed Your Mind to the Machine?
We live in a 24/7 media society of the spectacle where brainwashing is cunning and relentless, and the consuming public is consumed with thoughts and perceptions filtered through electronic media according to the needs and lies of corporate state power. Continue reading
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From welfare to warfare: military Keynesianism
Warmongering has reached fever pitch in Europe. It all started with the US under Trump deciding that paying for the military ‘protection’ of European capitals from potential enemies was not worth it. Trump wants to stop the US paying for the bulk of the financing of NATO and providing its military might and he wants… Continue reading
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Our ruling oligarchs have made class war inevitable, & the response to Luigi shows where the masses will side in this
There is no stopping the social trend that Luigi Mangione represents, because he’s the kind of person who emerges in a situation of tremendous class-based injustice. This is something we need to understand about the conditions we’re now in: it’s inevitable that these conditions will produce a wave of political unrest, comparable to the “Years… Continue reading
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US Lays “Minsk 3” Ceasefire Trap for Russia as Europe Prepares “Peacekeepers” The New Atlas 283K subscribers
Thursday, 20 March 2025 — The New Atlas The US proxy war in Ukraine is collapsing, prompting urgent attempts to impose a ceasefire on Russia; This includes a European-led “peacekeeping” mission into Ukraine to freeze the conflict and create a bufferzone preventing Russia from neutralizing the threat the US has created on its border; The… Continue reading
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Global War for Opium Poppy
A study done by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) revealed that the Opiates epidemic, alongside overdose deaths in the US, rose by 500% as a result of US intervention in Afghanistan between 2000 and 2016. Continue reading
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“Trump/Putin Phone Call” Kalibrated Live #142 with Brian Berletic
Brian Berletic from @TheNewAtlas Joins me to discuss the recent phone call between Putin and Trump on ending hostilities in Ukraine. Is this just another another stall tactic trying to buy Ukraine time and space or is this a geunuine move to resolve the conflict. Continue reading
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From East to West: A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
Let’s start with that phone call. The Kremlin readout is quite sober – but it does reveal a few nuggets. There is no comprehensive deal – yet – between Moscow and Washington. Far from it: we are just in the initial tentative stage of talking and talking about several interconnected dossiers. Continue reading
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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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