China pours money into Africa to further diversify from American farms
by Inside China Business [11-23-2025]. China is aggressively sourcing new supply chains for food, to diversify away from North America, Europe, and Australia. This is a boon to farmers in Vietnam, and now in Africa as food exports to China are rocketing higher, across even niche agricultural markets. In another blow to American soybean farmers,…
Top China execs forecast more deflation and falling profits ahead. And that’s the plan.
by Inside China Business [11-12-2025]. C-suite executives across Chinese industry anticipate falling input prices as lower costs for raw materials and logistics drive efficiencies. The Cheung Kong School of Business publishes proprietary surveys of hundreds of top business managers across China, and companies report chronic falls in prices for raw and intermediate goods. But they…
Pepe Escobar, Judge Napolitano: US Imperialism Masquerades as Peace; Russia; Ukraine; Middle East; Venezuela; China; Iran
by Judge Napolitano, Judging Freedom [11-20-2025] Pepe Escobar(bio). (RAD: Pepe is reporting from Russia where he has been getting significant updates from all levels. The Russians are fully aware of what is going on and discuss these issues in depth. – RAD)
Zelensky is sending a very important signal about Trump’s 28-point peace plan
by Tarik Cyril Amar [11-22-2025]. Tarik Cyril Amar is a historian and expert on international politics. He has a BA in Modern History from Oxford University, an MSc in International History from the LSE, and a PhD in History from Princeton University. He has held scholarships at the Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Harvard Ukrainian…
Putin’s Meeting with Permanent Members of the Security Council: Trump’s 28-Point Ukrainian Peace Plan
by President of Russia [11-21-2025]. The President held, via videoconference, a briefing session with permanent members of the Security Council in the Kremlin. Taking part in the meeting were Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko, State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev, Chief of Staff of…
‘We have written, we are writing and we will write’ – RT’s editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan
by RT [11-22-2025]. Western governments continue to try and suppress the broadcaster for telling the truth about Ukraine, Margarita Simonyan has said. RT will continue its work despite attempts by the West to silence it, Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan has said. Posting on her Telegram channel on Friday, she said the European Union is continuing to…
Scott Ritter, Danny Haiphong: Russia’s BRUTAL Offensive Forces Trump U-Turn, Ukraine MELTS DOWN
by Danny Haiphong [11-21-2025] Scott Ritter(bio). (RAD: Scott Ritter is in Moscow talking with important people & official about Ukraine and what it means for NATO, Europe & the US. He sheds a lot of light on the leaked document about a ‘peace plan’ for Ukraine. Russia is winning dramatically. Although the Russian people, the…
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.…