A Made-in-China Plan for World Economic Conquering
by New Rules [9-24-2025]. (RAD: It should be obvious that trying to constrain China won’t work, although politicians are slow to learn. Maybe it is time to take a page from their playbook? Identify niches where we can excel and provide products & services that others want to purchase. – RAD) China now drives over…
Scott Ritter – The Death of a Nation: Ukraine
by Scott Ritter [9-23-2025] Scott Ritter(bio). (RAD: I’m not sure what to make of Trump’s recent statements. On the surface it looks like he now thinks Ukraine can win against Russia, which is impossible if you really understand what is happening. His statements about the Russian economy are totally false. His statements about the number…
Fyodor Lukyanov, Glenn Diesen: Europe in Crises & a New World Order
by Glenn Diesen [9-23-2025]. Fyodor Lukyanov is Chairman of the Council on Foreign and Defence Policy, a Research Professor at the Higher School of Economics, Editor in Chief of the Russia in Global Affairs Journal, and the Research Director at the Valdai Discussion Club. Prof. Lukyanov outlines the numerous crises facing Europe and the challenges…
BRICS+: Advancing Independent AI Innovation
by Dr Iqbal Survé & Sesona Mdlokovana [7-18-2025]. In terms of AI capability, China continues to be the leading nation within BRICS. Stanford’s 2024 AI Index indicates that China is responsible for 47.2% of the world’s most frequently cited AI papers and holds the global lead in AI patent applications. BRICS as an Emerging AI…
China Road Trip of VCs from Western Firms Exposes List of Uninvestable Assets in the West
by Alastair Marsh [9-21-2025]. (RAD: Most people just roll their eyes when I’ve tried to explain similar manufacturing advantages that China excels at today. Many have this false idea that if Trump just raises tariffs enough, manufacturing technologies like this can come back to the US. There are many reasons why this won’t happen. As…
The era of the global majority: How non-Western powers are redefining global diplomacy
by Willow Tohi [9-21-2025]. The traditional “golden billion” Western powers are losing their dominance, while the “global majority” is emerging as a more influential force in global politics. New multilateral institutions like BRICS and the SCO are consolidating power and reversing the Pareto principle. Western economies are faltering, while Eastern and Southern nations are experiencing…
Douglas Macgregor: The End of U.S. Dominance
by The Edge of Conflict [9-21-2025]. (Excellent observations. – RAD) Douglas Macgregor explains why the rise of a multipolar world is not the end of the West, but the end of American dominance. He lays out how new trade routes, economic cooperation, and comparative advantages could shape the future of global power. Instead of endless…
How Strong is China – Pepe Escobar, Judge Napolitano
by Judge Napolitano [9-17-2025] Pepe Escobar(bio). (RAD: The relationship between China & Russia is stronger than it has ever been. Both Russia & China are the primary movers behind BRICS & SCO. Rapid progress is being made to implement trade among BRICS & SCO members in their national currencies so that the West has no…
Alex Krainer, Larry Johnson – Economic Turmoil; $dollar Collapse; Trump’s Plan; Central Banker Problems
by Counter Currents [9-19-2025] Larry C. Johnson(bio). (RAD: This is an amazing discussion between Larry & Alex that is worth every minute to carefully study. They dig into what is behind the economic turmoil in the West that is not well understood by most, yet affects all of us. Alex points out the importance of…
Alastair Crooke: Can Trump re-adjust in the post-Tianjin SCO moment? Was the timing of China ‘throwing down the SCO gauntlet’ entirely fortuitous?
by Alastair Crooke [9-19-2025] Alastair Crooke(bio). Does Trump even enjoy the leeway from his unseen bonds to seize on nuclear détente as his Nobel Prize story, should he so choose? The gloves are off. The SCO Summit was a clear demonstration of the reality of power starkly coalescing, on the one hand, and one of…
Larry Johnson: Most Americans Do Not Understand that Palestine is Not a Mythical Creation
by Larry Johnson [9-20-2025] Larry C. Johnson(bio). I am writing this to inform some friends who believe, wrongly, that there is no such thing as Palestinians and that the people being genocided by the Zionists are nothing more than interlopers. Prior to 1947, the territory now occupied by Israel and the Gaza Strip was commonly…
Pepe Escobar: The Choice is Stark – Global Governance or Barbarism
by Pepe Escobar [9-21-2025] Pepe Escobar(bio). There is something ineffably eternal about the “drum beating and bell chiming from sundown to daybreak” when it comes to the Bell Tower and the Drum Tower standing in the north end of ancient Beijing. There can hardly be equal structures around the world when it comes to architecture…