Machine Intelligence is Now UNDENIABLE: Why AI is Truly Intelligent and What It Means for Humanity
by Mike Adams [2-17-2026]. Introduction: The Great AI Intelligence Debate What defines intelligence? For centuries, philosophers and scientists have grappled with this question, typically settling on a set of observable traits: reasoning, adaptation to new situations, abstract thinking, and the ability to learn from experience. By these classical definitions, the artificial intelligence systems of today…
The Abundance Doctrine: How China’s Strategic Innovation Defeats U.S. Economic Strangulation
by Mike Adams [2-17-2026]. Introduction In the high-stakes arena of global economic competition, the United States has chosen a path of protectionist strangulation, resurrecting a tariff war that functions as a self-imposed tax on its own citizens. Under the administration of President Donald Trump, who was sworn in for a second term in 2025, the…
The Ice Gap: Why the Arctic is Becoming a Zone of Russian Strategic Superiority
by From Russia with Love [2-17-2026]. Personnel decisions in the government rarely attract the attention of the general public. But when Sergey Bondarenko, Deputy CEO of the United Shipbuilding Corporation, joins the state commission for Arctic development, it sends a signal. 🧣 A seemingly routine appointment signifies a paradigm shift: the development of the high…
Larry Johnson: Listen to What the Russians are Saying About Novorossiya
by Larry Johnson [2-16-2026] Larry C. Johnson(bio). Among the many valuable things I have learned from my esteemed colleague, Ray McGovern, is the importance of listening to what the Russians are saying. One thing that both President Putin and Foreign Minster Lavrov have said, repeatedly during the past 12 years, is the importance of Novorossiya…
Larry Johnson: Russia and China Are Expanding their Cooperation to Counter US Efforts to Bully Iran and Cuba
by Larry Johnson [2-14-2026] Larry C. Johnson(bio). This will be a rather lengthy article, but you need to know what Russia and China are doing in a closely coordinated series of actions that show a serious commitment to counter US actions to punish and isolate Iran and Cuba. Let’s start with Iran… Since the June…
Pepe Escobar: How the China-Iran strategic partnership really evolves
by Pepe Escobar [2-12-2026] Pepe Escobar(bio). We’ve got a thing, and that’s a-called radar love We’ve got a wave in the air Radar love – Golden Earring, Radar Love Neo-Caligula continues to bet in what could be defined as The Strategy of the Weaponized Debtor. HONG KONG – Persia and China go back a long…
Pepe Escobar: How Chongqing Powers China Across the New Silk Roads
by Pepe Escobar [2-13-2026] Pepe Escobar(bio). Southwest China’s powerhouse in Sichuan is in a class by itself when it comes to mega-cities. At the intersection of two rivers – one of them the mighty Yangtze; surrounded by mountains and actually incrusted on them; the greater area harboring at least 32 million people – and counting;…
Why can’t western leaders accept that they have failed in Ukraine?
by Ian Proud [2-12-2026]. Western leaders refuse to admit they’ve failed in Ukraine despite the war being unwinnable for Europe and Ukraine, argues Ian Proud. The war is not about military gains but economic sustainability. Russia is in a stronger economic position than Ukraine, which is bankrupt and reliant on EU loans. Prolonged war is…
Scott Ritter, Judge Napolitano: Is Netanyahu Calling the Shots? Russia, Ukraine, Iran, Israel, Middle East, China
by Judge Napolitano, Judging Freedom [2-11-2026] Scott Ritter(bio).
Gerry Nolan – Anchorage was the Receipt: Europe is Paying the Price… and Knows it.
by Gerry Nolan [2-10-2026]. Gerry Nolan is a political analyst, writer, and strategist focused on geopolitics, security affairs, and the structural dynamics of global power. He is the founder and editor of The Islander, an independent media platform examining war, diplomacy, economic statecraft, and the accelerating shift toward a multipolar world. Sergey Lavrov didn’t hedge.…
Larry Johnson: Foreign Minister Lavrov Says Negotiations With the US Are Moving in the Wrong Direction
by Larry Johnson [2-10-2026] Larry C. Johnson(bio). Sergei Lavrov has done it again. Last week he did an extended interview with RT’s Rick Sanchez. On Monday he did a similar on-the-record interview with BRICS TV, which I discussed in my piece last night (Monday). And today – Tuesday – Sergei Lavrov gave an extensive interview…
Larry Johnson: Russia’s Trust in Trump and the US is Fading Fast
by Larry Johnson [2-9-2026] Larry C. Johnson(bio). Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s Foreign Minister, gave a remarkable assessment of the emerging new economic order, the war in Ukraine and the unreliability of the United States as a negotiating partner in an interview with TV BRICS, which was published on February 9, 2026. Overall, he expressed no optimism…
Jeffrey Sachs, Glenn Diesen: U.S. Economic Coercion & the Death of the Dollar, Iran, Venezuela, BRICS
by Glenn Diesen [2-11-2026]. (RAD: This is an excellent history lesson on how the US has used $dollar warfare against countries that the US doesn’t like for whatever reason. Ever since the end of WW2, most of the world has had to use $dollars to transact international business via the SWIFT system. This has given…
China’s factories are in another world
by Inside China Business [3-23-2025]. (RAD: The level of automation in China’s factories needs to be seen to be believed. We are long past the days where China competed on low cost labor. It now has total domination of the supply chains, of engineering, and an industrial sector that builds other machines entirely on their…
Pepe Escobar, Danny Haiphong: Iran Forces US Navy to RETREAT, Trump in SHOCK as Russia, China and BRICS Step In
by Danny Haiphong [2-9-2026] Pepe Escobar(bio). (RAD: This is a discussion you don’t want to miss. Trump is in a bad spot, no matter what he does. – RAD) Pepe Escobar joins the show to discuss reports of US Navy in retreat as Iran’s war maneuvers send Trump scrambling for a face saving move. Meanwhile,…
Welcome to Inside China Business
by Inside China Business [5-22-2024]. (RAD: It is popular in the US to bash China for all sorts of reasons, instead of looking in the mirror. It would be far more productive to learn from China on how the US could be more productive in the world. In the technology world I come from, when…