Pepe Escobar – Two foreign guys walk into a barber shop in Xinjiang China
by Pepe Excobar [10-16-2025] Pepe Escobar(bio). The future of the former “Western Regions”: an energy-rich, multi-cultural, multi-religious, geostrategic New Silk Road hub of “moderately prosperous” China. YUTIAN, ON THE SOUTHERN SILK ROAD – We are on the road in southern Xinjiang, after a harrowing back-and-forth in the Taklamakan, across the sand dunes, to visit the…
Vladimir Putin delivered an address at 20th anniversary of RT
by Kremlin President of Russia [10-17-2025]. (RAD: Putin praises the work RT has done over the past 20 years. You definitely want to also listen to Margarita Simonyan’s response that starts around 16:00. RT demonstrates every day what true journalism really is. – RAD) Vladimir Putin delivered an address at a gala evening held at…
RT a ‘voice of truth’ despite West’s attempts to silence it – Russian FM Sergey Lavrov
by RT [10-17-2025]. The Russian foreign minister has congratulated the network on two decades of broadcasting success. RT continues to carry out its journalistic mission with dignity despite constant attempts by foreign governments to silence the “voice of truth,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said, as he extended his congratulations on the network’s 20th…
RT ‘only getting stronger’ – editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan
by RT [10-17-2025]. Margarita Simonyan said the broadcaster will not bow to foreign pressure. RT has achieved tremendous success and is only getting stronger despite Western sanctions, Editor-in-Chief Margarita Simonyan said, marking the broadcaster’s 20th anniversary. “It is a privilege to work in service of our convictions,” Simonyan said onstage during a reception in Moscow’s…
Putin reveals RT’s ‘secret weapon’
by RT [10-17-2025]. The Russian president has congratulated the broadcaster on its 20th anniversary during a reception at the Bolshoi Theatre. Russian President Vladimir Putin has thanked RT staff for “standing up for the truth,” which he described as the network’s “secret strategic and high-precision… weapon.” In an address to some 1,000 of the network’s…
RT shapes Russia’s international image – Russian PM Mikhail Mishustin
by PM Mikhail Mishustin [10-17-2025]. Mikhail Mishustin has praised the network for two decades of challenging “one-sided interpretations” of news and “distortion of historical truth”. RT has successfully shaped Russia’s international image during two decades of operation, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said, as he congratulated the network on its 20th anniversary. Launched as Russia…
Why China Played the Rare Earth Card NOW
by New Rules [10-17-2025]. (RAD: Pay close attention to what China did before it clamped down on exporting rare earth products. It recognized that it was importing 95% of the helium gas that it needed from the US that was critical to China. This was leverage that the US had over China. Instead of shooting…
Scott Ritter – Russian RT Turns 20
by Scott Ritter [10-17-2025] Scott Ritter(bio). I’m in Moscow to help celebrate RT’s 20th Anniversary. There’s no place I’d rather be. Let me explain why. On June 7, 2005, Margarita Simonyan, an intelligent, articulate Russian journalist who had previously worked in the Kremlin press pool reporting for Rossiya, a leading Russian state television network, announced…
RT flourishing despite tremendous pressure – Putin
by RT [10-17-2025]. (RAD: Over the last few years I’ve found RT to be an invaluable source of balanced news & insights from around the world. It even covers important issues within the USA. Because of the anti-Russian attitude of our government & media, it took me a while after comparing how RT covered the…
Pepe Escobar – Art, Trade and State power at the Heart of China’s Silk Road
by Pepe Escobar [10-14-2025] Pepe Escobar(bio). Part II of the celestial Travelogue through the western regions of China. DUNHUANG – Across History, the Silk Road – actually a network of roads – is the supreme Highway Star: the most important connectivity corridor ever, rolling across Ancient Eurasia, linking what Chinese scholars consensually define as the…
Pepe Escobar, Danny Haiphong: Trump is DONE, China’s BOMBSHELL Blows Up Trade War as Putin Arms Iran
by Danny Haiphong [10-16-2025] Pepe Escobar(bio). (RAD: You definitely want to listen to this entire 27min discussion where Pepe Escobar analyzes the global impact of China’s new controls on who can get their rare earth elements. Why should China allow the US military-industrial-complex to buy critical rare earth elements, just to build military equipment to…
Sanctioned to Prosperity: How the Bear Turned Blockades into Billions
by The Islander [10-16-2025]. Remember when Western economists swore Russia’s economy would collapse “within weeks”? Two years later, Moscow just hit a record $729.5 billion in reserves – up $7 billion in a single week. While Washington burns trillions on vanity but useless military tech and failed wars, Russia quietly stacks gold, gas, and yuan.…