Paulo Nogueira Batista, Glenn Diesen – Decline of the IMF & Rise of the BRICS New Development Bank

by Glenn Diesen [11-20-2025]. (RAD: This is definitely the best discussion with transcript that I’ve seen on this topic. It also illustrates how complex it is for the BRICS nations to come up with a parallel international financial system that doesn’t depend upon the $dollar, SWIFT, IMF and other international financial organizations that have been…

Alastair Crooke, Judge Napolitano: Russians Believe Europe Wants War; Gaza Peace Plan; Trump’s unpredictability

by Judge Napolitano, Judging Freedom [11-18-2025] Alastair Crooke(bio). (RAD: Alastair is in Moscow talking with many important leaders. Europe would have to borrow money to rebuild their military and prepare for war, which would make their economy even more fragile. The Russians are clearly winning on the battlefield in Ukraine. For a variety of reasons,…

Long before China starved the Pentagon of raw materials, Wall Street was looting it

by Inside China Business [11-14-2025]. China’s export bans on rare earth metals and magnets are crippling Western arms makers. But while the Pentagon is racing to find new supplies and jump-start the decades-long process of replacing China in their supply chains, their biggest contractors have been sending most of their profits and cash to Wall…

Larry Johnson, Nima Alkorshid: Ukraine’s Days are Numbered

by Larry Johnson [11-18-2025] Larry C. Johnson(bio), Nima R. Alkhorshid(bio). Like a bad Italian opera, the fat lady is singing from a balcony overlooking a city that is ablaze. Zaporhyzhia, Dneipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kherson, Kharkiv, Sumy… The Russian ground forces are attacking in all of these locations, which represents about 1,000 miles of territory stretching from…

Article by Vladimir Putin ”On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians“

by Vladimir Putin, President of Russia [7-12-2021]. (RAD: Notice that Putin wrote this article in July 2021, before the need to start the Special Military Operation (SMO) in February 2022. I noticed this as a reference in another article & decided to take a closer look. There is a lot of history to digest here.…

Eurasia and the Last World War

by Luigi D’Angelo Tosoni [11-18-2025]. (RAD: This article takes some serious study to understand how it applies to shifts in the balances of power happening in the world today. Quite some time ago I realized that the influence of Russia & China was fundamental to the successful evolution of BRICS & SCO. The analysis in…

Larry Johnson interviewed by a Russian Professor in Moscow

by Henry Show [11-16-2025] Larry C. Johnson(bio). (RAD: This discussion is definitely worth listening to. The Russian Professor really wants to better understand what is happening in the US, especially since Trump flip flops so much & his staff & congress frequently say the opposite. Larry has interviewed & been interviewed by many different people…

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview for the Nuremberg Trial documentary

by Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs [11-16-2025]. (RAD: As you can see here, without the initiatives of the Soviet Union, there would never have been a Nuremberg Trial. Also, notice that both US Franklin D. Roosevelt & UK Winston Churchill both proposed publicly executing large numbers of German officers without trial! “What makes the Nuremberg…

How Britain replaced the US as Russia’s villain of choice

by Eurasia & Multipolarity [11-17-2025]. The Guardian finally admits what Moscow has known for years: London isn’t feared, it’s loathed. Not the British people, but the British establishment, a clique so addicted to escalation and imperial cosplay that Russia now sees it as the “main global warmonger” and the saboteur of every diplomatic off-ramp since…

NATO is NOT ready for a war with Russia because:

by New Rules [11-17-2025]. 🔸THE BATTLEFIELD IS TRANSPARENT A Russian Lancet drone loiters over Kramatorsk like a “heron over a fish pond.” The age of surprise is over. Drones provide 24/7 surveillance. NATO’s doctrine of “combined arms manoeuvre” is OBSOLETE. Concentrating forces is a death sentence. 🔸THE NATURE OF COMBAT HAS CHANGED “Forget linear assaults,”…

Pepe Escobar: Why the trade/tech cards are Made in China

by Pepe Escobar [11-14-2025] Pepe Escobar(bio). Targeting allies and manufacturing foes is the last card available to the Empire of Chaos. China is right in the middle of a true tech onslaught – which in several ways works as a sort of wrap-up of Made in China 2025, conceived and launched 10 years ago, and…

Oh No! Not Again.

by Andrei Martyanov [11-16-2025]. (RAD: Yes, I’ve seen many references from different sources where the West has constantly tried to find ways to defeat Russia/USSR since the end of WW2. Even today, the EU openly admits that they must defeat Russia via Ukraine, which won’t happen. The West has always wanted to split it up…