Putin peels off the masks of the ceasefire kabuki
by Pepe Escobar [3-14-2025 published]. Putin will never sacrifice Russia’s “indivisibility of security” demands posed to Washington in December 2021 – and met with a no-response response. The “ceasefire” announced with trademark bombast by Team Trump 2.0 should be seen as a tawdry kabuki inside a cheap matryoshka. As we peel off the successive masks,…
Pepe Escobar & Judge Napolitano: The Ukraine/US Ceasefire Kabuki, Russia, China
by Judge Napolitano, Judging Freedom [3-13-2025 published] Pepe Escobar(bio). (Judge Napolitano was recently in Moscow and shared some of his wonderful experiences. Pepe discussed the contrast between the experienced diplomat Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and the inexperienced Marco Rubio & his team. Rubio & Trump don’t seem to understand that Putin & Russia hold all…
China unveils Zuchongzhi-3 quantum processor a million times faster than Google’s Sycamore processor
by RT [3-14-2025 published]. (I’ve included this article & 4 additional articles about quantum computing for several reasons. First, a lot of people in the US outside of the quantum computing field still don’t understand how advanced China has become in many of the high technology fields. As you can see here, China has demonstrated…
Pepe Escobar: Made in China 2025 – Revisited
by Tyler Durden, authored by Pepe Escobar [3-13-2025 published] Pepe Escobar(bio). The Two Sessions, part of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, held last week at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, were a pretty serious deal. Not only because the sessions set the framework for Beijing to confront serious economic challenges ahead.…
Pepe Escobar & Nima Alkhorshid: Putin’s Bold Reply to the US Ukrainian Ceasefire Kabuki
by Dialogue Works [3-13-2025 published] Pepe Escobar(bio). (Pepe & Nima help us understand what is really happening with the ‘ceasefire’ proposed by the US & Ukraine that was presented to Russia. Pepe never fails to describe reality in terms that we can all understand. He even points out the huge significance of Putin dressed in…
Moscow banned Trump’s Ukraine envoy Keith Kellogg from peace talks – NBC
by RT [3-14-2025 posted]. (I was glad to see Keith Kellogg sidelined. I remember seeing a number of articles & videos with him where he didn’t come across as really understanding the Russian position & history, which is going to be required to resolve the Ukraine situation and build a reasonable working relationship with Russia.…
Four or Five More Regions for Peace in Ukraine
by Alexander Dugin [3-13-2025 published]. Alexander Dugin sees Putin’s appearance in Kursk as a symbol of Russia’s unwavering resolve to advance into Sumy, dictate terms to the U.S., and pursue regime change in Ukraine alongside the liberation of more regions. Putin’s appearance in Kursk in military uniform and his meeting with General Gerasimov, the Chief…
Geopolitics, Peace and Chaos with Jeffrey Sachs, Alex Christoforou, Alexander Mercouris
by The Duran [3-11-2025 published]. (During the initial part of this discussion, Professor Sachs was asked to summarize his presentation to the European Parliament on 2-19-2025. He was brutally honest about the definitely planned destructive policies of the US & NATO towards the Soviet Union, Russia & Ukraine. We also learn that WW2 in Europe…
Douglas Macgregor & Tucker Carlson React to Proposed Ceasefire Detail Between Ukraine & Russia
by Tucker Carlson [3-11-2025 published]. (This is a very sobering discussion about the state of US policies & conflicts in the geopolitical world. – RAD) The Mexican drug cartels are a far greater threat to the United States than China, Russia or Iran, says Doug Macgregor. They’ve got Javelin missile systems on our border, and…
Paralyzed by acute dementia, Europe declares war on Russia all over again
by Pepe Escobar [3-12-2025 published]. (Pepe Escobar uses some humor to make some well deserved points. – RAD) The Special Military Operation (SMO) will keep rollin’ on. And as the Europeans want it, to the last Ukrainian. Let’s start with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s Road to Damascus moment: “Frankly, it’s a proxy war…
Global Times Voice: Why Can’t United States Contain China’s Mature Chip Manufacturing?
by Global Times [3-12-2025 published]. (Notice that the restrictions that the US keeps putting on China’s semiconductor manufacturing is actually forcing the Chinese technologists to enhance their own capabilities. This is backfiring on the US. It is similar to what has happened in Russia with all of the sanctions the US placed on Russia. That…
The Future of Innovation and Invention after China’s DeepSeek AI Program
by Peter Baofu [3-7-2025 published]. The shocking wake-up call to Western tech giants by DeepSeek from China in early 2025, together with other Chinese mind-blowing technological breakthroughs in recent years (like EVs, wind power, solar power, nuclear fission, nuclear fusion, quantum computing, bio-tech, chip manufacturing, high-speed trains, commercial aerospace, spacecrafts, 6G telecommunication, 6th-generation fighter jets,…