CHINA’S TRADE SURPLUS SMASHES $1 TRILLION: Decoupling From the US Accelerates
by New Rules [12-10-2025]. The latest customs data reveals a landmark achievement: China is reaping the rewards of deliberate economic restructuring, with exports showing remarkable resilience despite high US tariffs. The IMF has raised its 2025 growth forecast for China to 5.0%, reinforcing confidence in the economy’s medium-term trajectory. Trade patterns highlight a strategic global…
How Iran’s Gas Turbines Can Reshape Global Energy Map
by New Rules [12-11-2025]. First of all, what are gas turbines used for? A gas turbine is a powerful engine that turns fuel into electricity. They are used to power cities, factories, offshore platforms, and energy-intensive industries like oil & gas, petrochemicals, and heavy manufacturing. The best turbines are more efficient, reliable, and exportable, giving…
Europe has THREE Problems: United Kingdom, France, Germany
by Daniel Foubert [12-9-2025]. Europe doesn’t have “a problem”. It has THREE problems: 3 European nations are suffering from a severe “post-imperial hangover”. First, there is the United Kingdom, a nation that voted for Brexit to “take back control” only to realize it has completely forgotten how to drive. The British identity crisis is like…
China has already won the green energy war
by André Benoit [11-20-2025]. André Benoit is a French consultant working in business and international relations, with an academic background in European and International Studies from France and in International Management from Russia. As Washington debates fossil fuels, Beijing builds the clean-energy systems of the next century. As the United States under Donald Trump dismantles…
How America Rigged the End of World War II & Ignored Important Agreements
by Wave Media & KurtisG [12-9-2025]. (RAD: As many of us have come to realize, the United States doesn’t play fair & often breaks agreements & treaties when they don’t serve the US by those in power. The US often has a complete disregard for the other parties in those agreements & treaties, thinking that…
Alex Krainer, Glenn Diesen: New U.S. National Security Strategy Signals New World Order
by Glenn Diesen [12-8-2025]. (RAD: This provides a much more nuanced & wide ranging discussion about the implications on the new National Security Strategy that was just published. As such, it is worth listening to for a better understanding of where things might be heading & the challenges. – RAD) Alex Krainer is a market…
Scott Ritter: Vindication
by Scott Ritter [12-7-2025] Scott Ritter(bio). Back in 2023 I began a journey of peace. Many have since joined me. Today, some two and a half years later, we are able to see the finish line. We’ve come a long way, Baby! Now let’s finish the race! In April 2023 I was preparing to board…
Scott Ritter: New US National Security Strategy Marks Death Blow to NATO Expansion
by Sputnik [12-5-2025] Scott Ritter(bio). The Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy has sent shockwaves across the globe, dropping ‘Russian threat’ language completely and crossing out the vision of NATO “as a perpetually expanding alliance.” Sputnik asked prolific geopolitical analyst Scott Ritter to break down the document and its implications. The new US National Security…
New US national strategy signals readiness to discuss security architecture — Medvedev
by TASS [12-7-2025]. MOSCOW, December 7. /TASS/. The updated US National Security Strategy signals a readiness to discuss security architecture, Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev said. “This is not a friendly embrace, but a fairly clear signal: the US is ready to discuss security architecture rather than impose endless and meaningless sanctions (although…
Trump has shattered the European liberal illusion
by Ladislav Zemánek [12-6-2025]. (RAD: This is a very insightful analysis of Trump’s ‘National Security Strategy’ and the implications for the US, Europe, Russia, China, and the world. Let’s hope that this analysis is correct. Notice that it is being made by a researcher outside the US power structure. – RAD) Ladislav Zemánek, PhD, is…
America’s Self Made Rare Earth Crisis
by Wave Media & KurtisG [11-30-2025]. (RAD: As is brilliantly explained in this short video, the United States ignored the importance of developing the entire rare earth mining to processing supply chain that should have been implemented here. Instead, the US ships half of its rare earth ore to China for processing & half to…
Pepe Escobar, Danny Haiphong: Putin’s Missile BOMBSHELL Blindsides Trump – BRICS War Now Unstoppable?
by Danny Haiphong [11-28-2025] Pepe Escobar(bio). Will Russia’s devastating new missile arsenal end up in the hands of key BRICS partners? From Trump’s nuclear reaction, the fear of Putin wielding the Kremlin’s growing military dominance is very real and it changes everything for the US War on BRICS currently underway. Pepe Escobar gives his take…