Putin ‘most popular leader in the world’ – Tucker Carlson

by RT [10-27-2025]. The primary reason is that the Russian president puts his country’s interests first, according to the US journalist. Russian President Vladimir Putin is the most popular leader in the world, American journalist Tucker Carlson has claimed, in an interview with RTVI US. Outside of Western Europe, Canada, and the “Anglo-sphere,” it is…

Zheng Yongnian, Yang Lijun: Without understanding the modernity of the Chinese Communist Party, it is difficult to understand the modernity of China

by Jung Yong-nien, Lijun Yang [10-24-2025]. Jung Yong-nien: Dean, Institute for Advanced Study in Global and Contemporary China, Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen). Lijun Yang: Assistant Director, Institute of Public Policy, South China University of Technology. From October 20 to 23, the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party…

Pepe Escobar: And the Chinese Five-Year caravan strolls on

by Pepe Escobar [10-25-2025] Pepe Escobar(bio). In the global chessboard, Beijing will keep stressing the power of the “multilateral trading system.” As in the absolute opposite of Trump 2.0. Four days in Beijing. The fourth plenum of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China was really something to behold. Methodology matters. What…

Russian Philosopher Alexander Dugin on the Need to Reprogram Trump

by Alexander Dugin [10-27-2025]. (RAD: I have a lot of respect for Professor Dugin. His analysis here seems about right, so let’s see what happens. – RAD) “Under the influence of his inner circle, Trump has formed a mistaken view of Russia’s position in the Ukrainian conflict – of Russia’s capabilities, of our interests and…

Beijing has quietly launched a global revolution and begun the yuanization of the entire planet

by Intel Republic [10-27-2025]. (RAD: This is just one of the repercussions that has happened when the US used the SWIFT system to block Russia & other countries from using the $dollar to ‘punish’ them. Now the $dollar is quickly losing its status as the world’s reserve currency. Over time, this will have profound negative…

Kai-Fu Lee’s brutal assessment: America is already losing the AI hardware war to China

by Michael Nuñez [10-22-2025]. Michael Nuñez is the Editorial Director of VentureBeat, where he leads the coverage of artificial intelligence and enterprise data. He has been an editor at Forbes, Popular Science, Gizmodo, and Mashable, and has written extensively about the social and ethical implications of technology. (RAD: With regards to AI, it is important…

Kai-Fu Lee: China Is Winning the AI War, and Silicon Valley Knows It

by Kai-Fu Lee [10-26-2025]. Kai-Fu Lee is a Taiwanese computer scientist, IT venture capitalist, micro-blogger and executive. His most well-known title is “Information Technology Venture Capitalist.” Lee is considered one of the most prominent and influential individuals in the Chinese internet sector, despite the fact that he is Taiwanese. Lee has worked for and with…

Revolutionary catapult gives Chinese navy huge edge in carrier operations

by Inside China Business [10-25-2025]. (RAD: I haven’t done any research as to why the US designed an electromagnetic catapult system where everything was in series, instead of parallel. The above video explains why this has been a fatal error. On the other hand, with my technical background, I certainly don’t understand why the US…

Pepe Escobar: Pamir Highway, the road on the roof of the world

by Pepe Escobar [12-12-2019] Pepe Escobar(bio). These are the ancient Silk Roads the Taliban will never be able to reach. This is arguably the ultimate road trip on earth. Marco Polo did it. All the legendary Silk Road explorers did it. Traveling the Pamir Highway back to back, as a harsh winter approaches, able to…

Pepe Escobar: All the world is a stage across the Ancient Silk Road

  by Pepe Escobar [10-22-2025] Pepe Escobar(bio). (RAD: Pepe helps us better understand this part of the world. Be sure to read the section after the last “Playing the Uyghur blues” photo at the end. Notice how the British MI6 & the US CIA radicalized a minority of Uyghurs in an attempt to split China…

BRICS Payment System Supports Transactions Across 185 Countries

by The Islander [10-25-2025]. 185 countries can now trade using China’s BRICS-backed payment system -bypassing SWIFT, dodging sanctions, and draining the dollar’s blood supply. If that doesn’t feel like the funeral drums of Western financial hegemony… you’re not paying attention. The BRICS-led global payments revolution has quietly outflanked the Western financial order and it didn’t…

Philosopher Alexander Dugin – Bridge through Budapest for Trump & Putin & Ukraine

by Alexander Dugin [10-24-2025]. (RAD: It takes a world class philosopher, like Alexander Dugin, to help us understand the complex dynamics playing out in the world today. Dugin helps us understand what is going on between the US, Russia, Ukraine, and Europe. This is definitely worth reading. – RAD) Trump, Putin, and Orbán at Budapest’s…