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title: Entropy: Scientific Fact or Political Hoax? (Lecture 07)
author: ;Canadian Patriot Press
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Garland Nixon and Helga Zepp-LaRouche discuss, Feb. 19: The Collapse of Geopolitics &amp; the Emergence of the New Paradigm

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<p>Garland Nixon is a journalist and talk show host/podcaster, and a dedicated anti-war activist and will discuss with Helga Zepp-LaRouche the emergence of the New Paradigm, replacing the collapsing imperial/geopolitical order with a new strategic and development architecture; the fast-breaking developments, including the effort by Presidents Trump and Putin to end the NATO war in Ukraine; what can be done to end the genocide campaign against Palestinians; and more!</p>



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guid: https://raymcgovern.com/?p=8672
title: Wider War Threat Removed by Trump and Putin
author: ;Ray McGovern
link: https://raymcgovern.com/2025/02/18/wider-war-threat-removed-by-trump-and-putin/
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<p data-sanitized-class="excerpt">BREATHE EASIER: PEACE IS AT HAND. Trump and Putin have removed the threatening shadow of wider – even nuclear – war stemming from Ukraine. Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov just termed today’s talks in Saudi Arabia “very useful”; so did the US troika. See:</p><p data-sanitized-class="more-link-p"><a href="https://raymcgovern.com/2025/02/18/wider-war-threat-removed-by-trump-and-putin/" data-sanitized-class="btn btn-default">Read more</a></p>


title: Tish Talks with Matt Ehret : US-Canada Geopolitical Update
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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/152459ec99a70886c77e26f3350b4ece.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Tish Talks with Matt Ehret : US-Canada Geopolitical Update"></p>February 18, 2025<br><br>In this podcast, I speak with Tish Conlin about the massive action taken by Trump since his inauguration. We discuss Executive Orders, foreign policy changes and declassification of JRK, 911 and Epstein files. We go over some of the historical influences that have kept Canada in the clutches of Oligarchy and some of the propaganda being used today to distract Canadians from the criminal corruption in our own government.<br><br>**********************************************<br>You can find more about Tish’s work at:<br>Thrive With Tish:  https://www.tishconlin.com/<br>Bitchute:  https://www.bitchute.com/channel/GkrHrvSpkU11/<br>Rumble:  https://rumble.com/user/ThriveWithTish<br><br>**********************************************<br>Get Science Unshackled here<br>https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/my-new-book-has-now-hit-the-press<br><br>Matt and Cynthia's books:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>Watch The Hidden Hand Behind UFOs series here:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/2023/11/01/the-hidden-hand-behind-ufos-episode-1-lifting-the-esoteric-veil/<br><br>Support the Canadian Patriot Review in the following ways:<br><br>1) Make a donation to the Canadian Patriot<br>https://www.patreon.com/canadianpatriot<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/support-us/<br><br>2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substack<br>https://matthewehret.substack.com/<br>https://cynthiachung.substack.com/<br><br>3) Buy some books!<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>4) Subscribe to our Telegram Channels<br>https://t.me/CanadianPatriotPress<br><br><br>Since it is likely just a matter of time before this Youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@canadianpatriotpress3573) gets suspended again or taken down entirely, check out our alternative platforms:<br><br>On Rumble<br>https://rumble.com/user/MattEhret<br><br>On Bitchute:<br>https://www.bitchute.com/channel/FPD8fbk6o541/<br><br>On Odysee<br>https://odysee.com/@canadianpatriotpress3573:4<br><br>On Soundcloud:<br>https://soundcloud.com/mattehret

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guid: yt:video:h3v2JlxexOw
title: Tish Talks with Matt Ehret : US-Canada Geopolitical Update
author: ;Canadian Patriot Press
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title: U.S.-Russia Talks Open the Door: It's Time To Move In with a New Paradigm
author: ;The LaRouche Organization
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This is exactly what Dr.  Naledi  Pandor demanded at the recent  International Peace Coalition meeting (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnAIm2h6u80&amp;t=959s): Where are the adults in the room? That table  in Riyadh  was full of adults. That they came up with a pathway to solve all problems, taking care of the interests of all others afflicted by the conflict, is very promising.&quot;\n\nThe readouts from both sides of the meeting were very positive, affirming the importance of the U.S.-Russia relationship and outlining measures that were agreed upon by the participants. 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We can tell it also from what was said the other day by European participants of the Munich Security Conference—their statements were reckless, hawkish and divorced from reality.&quot;\n\nRussian officials have also made very clear that they will not drop the issue of what they see as major root causes of the conflict: the intention to pull Ukraine into NATO, the lack of security guarantees for Russia, and Western support for Nazi elements inside the Ukrainian regimes.\n\nThe developments in Riyadh have opened a wide gulf between the direction the world can take with cooperation between sovereign nations for peace, and the troglodyte system of war and empire that has dominated up until now.\n\nAs Helga Zepp-LaRouche has emphasized many times, to really win the peace, we must overcome geopolitics and enter into a new paradigm of win-win cooperation among sovereign nations which work together to promote the interests of humankind as a whole. 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title: Joe Rogan Experience #2274 - Mike Baker
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guid: https://antonchaitkin.substack.com/p/the-post-kennedy-era-ends-how-can
title: The Post-Kennedy Era Ends; How Can America Now Be Rebuilt?
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<h4>The Post-Kennedy Era Ends; How Can America Now Be Rebuilt?</h4><p>By Anton Chaitkin; Copyright Anton Chaitkin</p><p>The usurpers who ruled after the 1960s assassinations took American industry down. They dictated wars, austerity and censorship. That era is now ending, though they will try to sabotage and regroup.</p><p>How can we shape a <strong>development agenda</strong> to return America to progress and self-government? Why is international cooperation vital? What reckoning is needed with crimes against humanity, and crimes against our nation?</p><p>Anton Chaitkin will address these topics in a presentation to the Rising Tide Foundation on Sunday, February 23, 2025, from 2 PM to 3:30 PM Eastern Time. Participation in this event will be for paid subscribers only.</p><p data-attrs='{"url":"https://antonchaitkin.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe now","action":null,"class":null}' data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton" data-sanitized-class="button-wrapper"><a href="https://antonchaitkin.substack.com/subscribe?" data-sanitized-class="button primary"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p>
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guid: https://raymcgovern.com/?p=8674
title: Elites Weep End of War
author: ;Ray McGovern
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<p data-sanitized-class="excerpt">European elites gobsmacked, meet, and weep. Trump &amp; Putin deal. Russia’s Lavrov says today’s talks in Saudi Arabia with Secretary of State Rubio were “very useful”. Rubio concurs. As for Zelensky, see Garland Nixon’s suggestion re the “Samsonite Option.”</p><p data-sanitized-class="more-link-p"><a href="https://raymcgovern.com/2025/02/19/elites-weep-end-of-war/" data-sanitized-class="btn btn-default">Read more</a></p>


guid: yt:video:9dkio7fqEV0
title: Anyone Who Wants The Ukraine War To Continue Is A Monster
author: ;Caitlin Johnstone
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guid: yt:video:KMMlrbWsjCU
title: Meditations On The Notion That Obama Never Had Any Scandals
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guid: yt:video:mU_8iLPl9t8
title: The Collapse of Geopolitics &amp; The Emergence of the New Paradigm
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Breaking History Ep 84:  World in Crisis, Breakthroughs &amp; Darby's Perversion of Christianity Exposed

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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/ec26497c98e0c775c3f2290b27894c53.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="Breaking History Ep 84:  World in Crisis, Breakthroughs &amp; Darby's Perversion of Christianity Exposed"></p>February 19, 2025<br><br>In this episode of Breaking History Matt &amp; Gordon focus on the World in Crisis, Positive Breakthroughs &amp; Darby's Perversion of Christianity Exposed.<br>**********************************************<br>Gordon’s Twitter (X) handle is: <br>https://twitter.com/GhostofBPH<br>https://substack.com/@ghostofbasedpatrickhenry<br><br>**********************************************<br><br>Get Science Unshackled here<br>https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/my-new-book-has-now-hit-the-press<br><br>Matt and Cynthia's books:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>Watch The Hidden Hand Behind UFOs episodes here:<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/2023/11/01/the-hidden-hand-behind-ufos-episode-1-lifting-the-esoteric-veil/<br><br>**********************************************<br><br>1) Make a donation to the Canadian Patriot<br>https://www.patreon.com/canadianpatriot<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/support-us/<br><br>2) Subscribe to Matt and Cynthia's Substack<br>https://matthewehret.substack.com/<br>https://cynthiachung.substack.com/<br><br>3) Buy some books!<br>https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/<br><br>4) Subscribe to our Telegram Channels<br>https://t.me/CanadianPatriotPress<br><br>Since it is likely just a matter of time before this Youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@canadianpatriotpress3573) gets suspended again or taken down entirely, check out our alternative platforms:<br><br>On Rumble<br>https://rumble.com/user/MattEhret<br><br>On Bitchute:<br>https://www.bitchute.com/channel/FPD8fbk6o541/<br><br>On Odysee:<br>https://odysee.com/@canadianpatriotpress3573:4<br><br>On Soundcloud:<br>https://soundcloud.com/mattehret<br>

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Breaking History Ep 84:  World in Crisis, Breakthroughs &amp; Darby's Perversion of Christianity Exposed

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Harmony Over Geopolitics — The &quot;Adults in the Room&quot; Organzie Breakthroughs from Riyadh to D.C.

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title: World in Crisis, Positive Breakthroughs and Darby's Perversion of Christianity Exposed
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<p>In this week’s episode of Breaking History, Gordon and I shared our sense of schadenfreude over the whiney crybabies of the European Union watching their  liberal rainbow melting away, while sovereign nation states exercise the authority to make deals designed to end wars and build economic opportunities. An update on the events surrounding the Munich security conference and recent US-Russian meeting in Saudi Arabia is dissected along with a broader assessment of Canada’s failure to recognize the restoration of tariffs as an opportunity for nation building.</p><p>We also spent a good deal of time discussing the fraud of Darbyist Christian zionism, German gnosticism, Crowley’s devotion to Darby’s eschatology, the folly of rapturism, and the occult roots of Israel.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://rumble.com/v6mzo89-breaking-history-ep-84-world-in-crisis-breakthroughs-and-darbys-perversion-.html" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img 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He has written the four volume<a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/"> Untold History of Canada series</a>, four volume C<a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/">lash of the Two Americas</a> series and<a href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/my-new-book-has-now-hit-the-press"> Science Unshackled: Restoring Causality to a World in Chaos</a>. He is also co-host of The Multipolar Reality on Rogue News and Breaking History on Badlands Media</strong></p><p></p>

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title: TASS Interviews Schiller Institute Founder Zepp-LaRouche on U.S.-Russian Relations
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<p>Feb. 19, 2025 (EIRNS)—Russia’s leading news agency TASS interviewed Helga Zepp- LaRouche, the founder of the Schiller Institute, today on her evaluation of the significance of the just-concluded discussions in Riyadh between high-level diplomats from the U.S. and Russia. <a href="https://tass.com/world/1915485">TASS published their report</a> under the headline “U.S.-Russia Negotiations To Help Create Inclusive Security Architecture—Expert,” with the subhead: “The pathway laid out how to approach all problems on the table by taking into account the interest of all sides is very hopeful,” Helga Zepp-LaRouche said. The TASS article included the following quotes:</p>



<p>WASHINGTON, February 19. /TASS/. The Russian-U.S. discussions in Riyadh are a historic turning point that will help create an inclusive security framework in the world, said Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of the International Schiller Institute.</p>



<p>“The outcome of this long awaited meeting between the high ranking delegations from Russia and the U.S. represents a relief for the entire world. The pathway laid out how to approach all problems on the table by taking into account the interest of all sides is very hopeful,” she told TASS.</p>



<p>“This was a game changer moment in history and hopefully a first step towards an all inclusive security and development architecture, which overcomes the disease of geopolitics forever.”</p>



<p>“There was no reason to invite the participation of the Europeans at this stage of the discussion, given the fact that they had at no point since the beginning of the war, which according to Jens Stoltenberg started in 2014, tried to find a diplomatic solution to the conflict,” she said.</p>



<p>“Even after it was clear that their aim to ‘ruin Russia’ had failed, there was no moment of reflection or change of mind. Even at the recent Munich Security Conference, the unrelenting Russophobia prevailed, led as usual by the British.”</p>



<p>“If this Russophobia is kept up, it will lead to a split-up of the EU, where the countries who want peaceful relations with Russia, will possibly disassociate themselves,” the expert said. “Given the fact that the Ukraine conflict is the result of a proxy war between NATO and Russia, it makes total sense, that it would be the U.S. as the dominant force in NATO and Russia would sit down at the negotiating table, and that the proxy forces come in at a later point.”</p>

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https://schillerinstitute.com/blog/2025/02/20/tass-interviews-schiller-institute-founder-zepp-larouche-on-u-s-russian-relations/


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title: (2019) Imprisoned Without Trial: Journalist Kirill Vyshinsky Recounts Time in a Ukrainian Prison
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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/54184ca16c20f9d48842a2d4e0acff0a.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="(2019) Imprisoned Without Trial: Journalist Kirill Vyshinsky Recounts Time in a Ukrainian Prison"></p>In November 2018, I became aware of the case of Kirill Vyshinsky, a Ukrainian-Russian journalist and editor imprisoned in Ukraine without trial since May 2018, accused of high treason.<br><br>Soon after, I interviewed Vyshinsky via email. He described his arrest and the accusations against him as politically-motivated, “an attempt by the Ukrainian authorities to bolster the declining popularity of [then] President [Petro] Poroshenko in this election year.”<br><br>Vyshinsky noted that his arrest was advancing the incessant anti-Russian hysteria now prevalent among Ukrainian authorities, as he holds dual Ukrainian and Russian citizenship. He noted that the charges against him, which pertain to a number of articles he published in 2014 (none of them authored by Vyshinsky), became of interest to Ukrainian authorities and intelligence services four years after they were published. To Vyshinsky, this supports the notion that neither the articles nor their editor were a security threat to Ukraine, instead, he says, they were a political card to be played.<br><br>In early 2019, I traveled to Kiev to interview Vyshinsky’s defense lawyer Andriy Domansky about the logistic obstacles of his client’s case. Domansky viewed the Vyshinsky case as politically motivated and expressed concern that he could himself become a target of Ukraine’s secret service for his role in defending his client, an innocent man.<br><br>Domansky told me at the time,<br><br>The Vyshinsky case is key in demonstrating the presence of political persecution of journalists in Ukraine. As a legal expert, I believe justice is still possible in Ukraine and I will do everything possible to prove Kirill Vyshinsky’s innocence.”<br><br>To the surprise of those following the case against Vyshinsky, in late August 2019 he was released with little fanfare after serving more than 400 days in a Ukrainian prison but still faces all of the charges brought against him by the Ukrainian government and is “obliged to appear in court or give testimony to investigators if they deemed it necessary.”<br><br>By early September, Kirill Vyshinsky was on a plane to Moscow. Despite never being tried or officially convicted, he found himself the subject of a prisoner exchange between the Russian and Ukrainian governments.<br><br>I interviewed Vyshinsky in Moscow in late September. He told me about his harrowing ordeal, the Ukrainian detention system, other persecuted journalists, and what lies ahead for him.<br><br>He also touched on the inhumane conditions he experienced in Ukrainian prisons. He noted that a pretrial detention center as we know it in Western nations is a very different entity in Ukraine and that Ukrainian prisons were so over-crowded that it was common for inmates to sleep in three shifts in order to allow enough standing room for inmates crammed into a cell.<br><br>Aleksey Zhuravko, a Ukrainian deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of V and VI convocations recently published photos taken inside of an Odessa pretrial detention center showing utterly unsanitary and appalling conditions. Zhuravko noted, “I am shocked at what was seen. It is a concentration camp. It is a hotbed of diseases.”<br><br>Another Ukrainian journalist, Pavel Volkov, was subjected to the same types of accusations lobbed against Vyshinsky. Volkov spent over a year in the same pretrial detention center as Vyshinsky. 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author: ;Dialogue Works
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Richard D. Wolff &amp; Michael Hudson: America’s Fall?! Trump PANICS as BRICS Destroys U.S. Dominance!

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guid: yt:video:axO3H4Lsyak
title: Making the Matrix Screensaver in C on a PDP-11
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guid: https://raymcgovern.com/?p=8676
title: Cautious Optimism for Russia and US
author: ;Ray McGovern
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guid: https://raymcgovern.com/?p=8678
title: Bob and Ray Talk Russia-US Relations
author: ;Ray McGovern
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guid: yt:video:Z9V5JXSwfjY
title: You Don't Actually Need To Pick A Team
author: ;Caitlin Johnstone
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title: You Don’t Actually Need To Pick A Team
author: ;Caitlin Johnstone
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<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*bwEn7bE9MRqx4rBqeMlW-A.png"></figure><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9V5JXSwfjY"><em>Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley)</em></a>:</p><iframe src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FZ9V5JXSwfjY%3Ffeature%3Doembed&amp;display_name=YouTube&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DZ9V5JXSwfjY&amp;image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FZ9V5JXSwfjY%2Fhqdefault.jpg&amp;type=text%2Fhtml&amp;schema=youtube" width="854" height="480" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"><a href="https://medium.com/media/df409d9d905ad1af2cb2d1a6f5470c4e/href">https://medium.com/media/df409d9d905ad1af2cb2d1a6f5470c4e/href</a></iframe><p>You don’t have to pick a team.</p><p>You don’t have to side with Democrats because Trump is bad.</p><p>You don’t have to side with Trump because Democrats are bad.</p><p>You don’t have to give Trump “credit” for anything.</p><p>You don’t have to give Trump the benefit of the doubt.</p><p>You don’t have to buy into narratives that Trump presents some dangerous new threat that other US presidents did not.</p><p>You don’t have to trust right wing media just because the liberal mainstream media are liars.</p><p>You don’t have to like Trump just because bad people don’t like him.</p><p>There’s this weird assumption that Americans are under some kind of moral obligation to take a side side either with Trump or with his pretend opposition in the Democratic Party, and it’s just silly nonsense. You don’t have to, and you should not.</p><p>The US empire is the single most murderous and corrupt power structure on this planet, by an extremely massive margin. Everyone at the upper echelon of empire management is the sort of person who is willing to facilitate the incomprehensible atrocities and abuses that are necessary for the continuation of that empire. Thinking you need to choose a favorite empire manager is like thinking you need to choose a favorite Nazi.</p><p>A lucid mind does not look at the turmoil of corruption and psychopathy of the Washington swamp and start calculating which of the vampiric slime beasts are their friend. A lucid mind looks at all the managers of the US-centralized power structure as part of the same enemy.</p><p>Sure the swamp monsters bicker and contend with one another along various fronts; you’ll see that under any power structure. That doesn’t mean they’re not all devoted to advancing the interests of an empire that feeds on human blood, and it certainly doesn’t mean they are your friend.</p><p>No US president will ever be your friend. No Washington politician, empire manager or oligarch will ever be your friend. Donald Trump is not your friend. Chuck Schumer is not your friend. Elon Musk is not your friend. Hakeem Jeffries is not your friend. Marco Rubio is not your friend. Bernie Sanders is not your friend. JD Vance is not your friend. AOC is not your friend. RFK Jr is not your friend. Elizabeth Warren is not your friend. Tulsi Gabbard is not your friend. Joe Biden is not your friend.</p><p>These people have some differences, but what they all have in common is that they have all knowingly made careers out of serving the interests of a globe-spanning empire that can only be maintained by nonstop tyranny, abuse, and murder. That one quality rules them out as anyone you should side with, sympathize with, or support. The only reason this isn’t immediately obvious to everyone is that the entire western world is marinating in a highly controlled information ecosystem where such obvious facts are hidden from our perception.</p><p>Whenever I talk about how everyone in Washington is a corrupt monster I get called negative or “blackpilled”, but nothing could be further from the truth. I have plenty of hope for positive outcomes for our world, I’m just not delusional enough to believe those outcomes will ever come from the heart of the power structure most responsible for our world’s problems.</p><p>I have plenty of hope in humanity as a collective. Plenty of hope in the real revolutionary movements of the global south. Plenty of hope in the possibilities that could potentially open up with the rise of a multipolar world. I just have no hope in the one power structure on earth nobody should ever place any hope in, in the same way nobody should look to a rapist currently committing rape for solutions on how to curb sexual assault. They are the problem. They are what needs to be fought.</p><p>Real solutions will begin emerging as soon as there is sufficiently widespread understanding of our problem. Our task — and it is a difficult one — is to punch through the propaganda matrix of imperial narrative control by circulating as much true information as we can about our world, our rulers, their abuses, and their lies. In this way we can start opening eyes to the reality of our situation and begin organizing together to effect real change using the power of our numbers.</p><p>Is that easy? No. Is it harder than casting a vote for your preferred presidential candidate? Yes. But unlike voting and cheerleading for your favorite swamp monster, it stands a chance of actually bringing positive change to our world.</p><p>____________________</p><p><em>My work is </em><a href="https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2021/05/24/my-experiments-with-hacking-capitalism/"><em>entirely reader-supported</em></a><em>, so if you enjoyed this piece </em><a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/about"><em>here are some options</em></a><em> where you can toss some money into my tip jar if you want to. </em><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU8Yu4WZJ11Il3TZmNiMUFQ?sub_confirmation=1"><em>Go here</em></a><em> to find video versions of my articles. 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The best way to make sure you see the stuff I publish is to subscribe to the mailing list </em><a href="https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/"><em>on Substack</em></a><em>, which will get you an email notification for everything I publish. All works co-authored with my husband Tim Foley.</em></p><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/417/0*1I3HRuHWicwwLRO2.jpeg"></figure><p>Bitcoin donations: 1Ac7PCQXoQoLA9Sh8fhAgiU3PHA2EX5Zm2</p><p>Featured image via Adobe Stock.</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&amp;referrerSource=full_rss&amp;postId=dbad39c121b8" width="1" height="1" alt="">

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guid: https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/rtf-invitation-the-post-kennedy-era
author: ;Matthew Ehret
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RTF invitation: The Post-Kennedy Era Ends; How Can America Now Be Rebuilt? (featuring Anton Chaitkin- Feb. 23 at 2pm ET)

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guid: yt:video:TNTlRm17zRI
title: Who's Telling Lies? Who Fact-checks the Fact-Checkers?
author: ;The LaRouche Organization
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guid: yt:video:vVTVmRBl48k
title: Senator (Col.) Richard Black: EU LOSES IT?! Desperate Moves as US Turns Its Back!
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guid: yt:video:kAD0H48eV2o
title: Larry C. Johnson: Trump DESTROYS Zelensky in RUTHLESS Attack
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guid: yt:video:bYFJN50o9LM
title: Joe Rogan Experience #2276 - Felipe Esparza
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guid: yt:video:s1eLg68ZpyM
title: Amb. Chas Freeman: EU FUMING! Zelensky PANICS as Trump ABANDONS Ukraine!
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guid: yt:video:gFRjBfp01AI
title: Israel Pushes New Atrocity Narrative Just As Ceasefire Deadline Approaches
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<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*_ZiNZB_WEBXirfymNA09Xw.png"></figure><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFRjBfp01AI"><em>Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley)</em></a>:</p><iframe src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FgFRjBfp01AI%3Ffeature%3Doembed&amp;display_name=YouTube&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DgFRjBfp01AI&amp;image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FgFRjBfp01AI%2Fhqdefault.jpg&amp;type=text%2Fhtml&amp;schema=youtube" width="854" height="480" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"><a href="https://medium.com/media/9456bb3bb4f7f2b8bf2d96da4ed25548/href">https://medium.com/media/9456bb3bb4f7f2b8bf2d96da4ed25548/href</a></iframe><p>A new narrative is being aggressively pushed by Israel and its apologists to justify resuming the Gaza genocide, conveniently just as an important deadline for ceasefire negotiations draws near.</p><p>The IDF is now <a href="https://www.idf.il/en/mini-sites/israel-at-war/briefings-by-idf-spokesperson-rear-admiral-daniel-hagari/february-24-press-briefings-1/press-briefing-by-idf-spokesperson-radm-daniel-hagari-february-21-2025-1/">claiming</a> that the Israeli children Kfir and Ariel Bibas “were both brutally murdered by terrorists while being held hostage in Gaza, no later than November 2023.”</p><p>IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWlyj00C1_s">told the press</a> on Friday that, “Contrary to Hamas’ lies, Ariel and Kfir were not killed in an airstrike. Ariel and Kfir Bibas were murdered by terrorists in cold blood. The terrorists did not shoot the two young boys, they killed them with their bare hands. Afterward, they committed horrific acts to cover up these atrocities.”</p><p>Anyone who has been following the events in Gaza over the last year and a half will be unsurprised to learn that Israel provided no evidence to support these incendiary claims.</p><iframe src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FpWlyj00C1_s%3Ffeature%3Doembed&amp;display_name=YouTube&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DpWlyj00C1_s&amp;image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FpWlyj00C1_s%2Fhqdefault.jpg&amp;type=text%2Fhtml&amp;schema=youtube" width="854" height="480" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"><a href="https://medium.com/media/86b61e0a0152fbda5aacb859cbb3d016/href">https://medium.com/media/86b61e0a0152fbda5aacb859cbb3d016/href</a></iframe><p>Benjamin Netanyahu <a href="https://x.com/IsraeliPM/status/1892904911375126852">released a video statement</a> in his signature American English waving around an enlarged photograph of the children and talking about what savage monsters the Palestinians are.</p><p>“Hamas murdered them in cold blood,” Netanyahu says, while the camera zooms in on the adorable little redheads. “As the prime minister of Israel, I vow that I will not rest until the savages who executed our hostages are brought to justice. They do not deserve to walk this earth. Nothing will stop me. Nothing.”</p><p>This happens just as Netanyahu has been working to sabotage ceasefire negotiations by <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2025/02/20/report-netanyahu-adds-new-demands-in-talks-on-second-phase-of-gaza-deal/">adding new non-starter demands</a> that were not in the original agreement, just as sources in Israeli media <a href="https://archive.is/79y8U">predicted he would do</a> upon his return from Washington earlier this month. The six-week-long first stage of the ceasefire deal with Hamas is <a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-02-20/israel-hamas-ceasefire-where-it-stands-and-where-its-headed">set to expire</a> at the beginning of March.</p><p>This is obvious babies-on-bayonets <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrocity_propaganda">atrocity propaganda</a>, being released at the most convenient of times. After Israel <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFEurGy05ps&amp;rco=1">has been caught lying</a> about beheaded babies and mass rapes and so much more, only an idiot would take any of these claims on faith.</p><iframe src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?type=text%2Fhtml&amp;key=a19fcc184b9711e1b4764040d3dc5c07&amp;schema=twitter&amp;url=https%3A//x.com/IsraeliPM/status/1892904911375126852&amp;image=" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"><a href="https://medium.com/media/81c1bf05955a50474393170e21a4e01d/href">https://medium.com/media/81c1bf05955a50474393170e21a4e01d/href</a></iframe><p>But it’s doing the job. Now everywhere you look you’ll see Israel supporters calling to end the ceasefire and reignite the Gaza holocaust to avenge these innocent children. I just saw an article from Tablet Magazine titled “<a href="https://archive.is/21h3F">Their Time Is Up</a>,” subtitled “The murder of the Bibas children caps off an 18-month catalog of horrors that has told us exactly who our Palestinian neighbors are. Backed by a friend in the White House, Israel must secure its future through strong unilateral action.”</p><p>All this despite the fact that we know the most likely cause of the children’s death was the fact that their own government was raining military explosives on places where hostages were being held during that time. Hamas <a href="https://archive.is/LnV6t">reported</a> back in November 2023 that the Bibas children had been killed in an Israeli airstrike along with their mother. In December 2023 it was <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20231201-hamas-says-offered-to-hand-over-remains-of-hostage-baby-family">reported in the mainstream press</a> that Hamas had offered to return their bodies to Israel but Israel refused, telling the press that “Israel will not address propaganda-based reports coming from Hamas”.</p><p>You don’t need to trust Hamas or anyone else to deduce that a woman and two children being killed by Israeli airstrikes in an area where <a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/08/1153216">many women and children</a> were being killed by Israeli airstrikes every day is a much more likely scenario than Palestinian resistance fighters spontaneously deciding to murder children with their bare hands instead of using them as negotiating leverage as planned.</p><iframe src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?type=text%2Fhtml&amp;key=a19fcc184b9711e1b4764040d3dc5c07&amp;schema=twitter&amp;url=https%3A//x.com/SanaSaeed/status/1892860670074671305&amp;image=" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"><a href="https://medium.com/media/dace50c923402300dbcf4b67f44d475b/href">https://medium.com/media/dace50c923402300dbcf4b67f44d475b/href</a></iframe><p>As journalist Muhammad Shehada recently <a href="https://x.com/muhammadshehad2/status/1893015031303823557">noted on Twitter</a>, Israel already has an established track record of lying about Hamas killing hostages who were actually killed in Israeli airstrikes. In December 2023, Israel informed the families of three hostages that they had been murdered by Hamas. The mother of one of the hostages kept digging and eventually discovered that they had died of asphyxiation when IDF troops “gassed” the tunnel they were hiding in. Last September the IDF admitted that they killed the hostages in an airstrike and lied about it.</p><p>Three weeks ago Shehada correctly predicted in an <a href="https://zeteo.com/p/is-israel-weaponizing-bibas-children-deaths">article with Zeteo</a> that Israel was preparing to use the Bibas deaths as an excuse to terminate the ceasefire, long before any of this started. Shehada noticed the way pro-Israel narrative managers had been pushing the line that great vengeance must be exacted upon Gaza if it turns out the Bibas children have been harmed, despite Hamas having announced their deaths more than a year ago. They knew those children were dead, so after the ceasefire was announced in late January they began circulating the narrative that discovery of their demise would be a valid reason to end it.</p><iframe src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?type=text%2Fhtml&amp;key=a19fcc184b9711e1b4764040d3dc5c07&amp;schema=twitter&amp;url=https%3A//x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1893042058249805894&amp;image=" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"><a href="https://medium.com/media/3d1c112a20f239bacd1dd195051c1620/href">https://medium.com/media/3d1c112a20f239bacd1dd195051c1620/href</a></iframe><p>Israeli forces <a href="https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1893042058249805894">shot and killed two Palestinian children</a> in the West Bank just today — both of them shot in the back. You could be forgiven for not knowing that this happened, because the western political/media class has been too focused on the deaths of two little white kids to pay attention to such trivialities.</p><p>Israel needs to keep “discovering” new Hamas atrocities from 2023 because otherwise it just looks like one-sided atrocities being committed by Israel this whole time. First it was beheaded babies, then later it was “We’ve discovered Hamas did mass rapes!”, and now it’s the Bibas kids.</p><p>They need to do this because the Hamas attack was the last time anything happened where Israel could frame itself as the victim, so they’ve been milking it and milking it and milking it for as long as possible while committing orders of magnitude worse abuse in Gaza. It’s all designed to drum up outrage, and to draw sympathy toward Israel and away from the obvious victims who Israel has been abusing, displacing and mass murdering for a year and a half.</p><p>As calls to rain vengeance upon Gaza grow louder, remember this: the Bibas kids aren’t the reason, they’re the excuse. The excuse to advance pre-planned agendas against the Palestinians that have been in place since long before those children were born.</p><p>__________________</p><p><em>My work is </em><a href="https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2021/05/24/my-experiments-with-hacking-capitalism/"><em>entirely reader-supported</em></a><em>, so if you enjoyed this piece </em><a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/about"><em>here are some options</em></a><em> where you can toss some money into my tip jar if you want to. </em><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU8Yu4WZJ11Il3TZmNiMUFQ?sub_confirmation=1"><em>Go here</em></a><em> to find video versions of my articles. 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<p> <a href="https://youtube.com/live/teeophpZV4M?feature=share"><strong>Watch Here</strong></a></p>



<p>The dizzying pace of developments on the world stage over the last 30 days has left most of the world—including many of the principal actors in these events—at a loss to explain what is happening, and why things are moving so rapidly.</p>



<p>In the last week alone, the entire post-war geopolitical order has begun to crumble. The U.S. and Russia have resumed the path of rational discussion among equals, bringing the prospect of an end to the Ukraine-Russia into focus as well as sharply reducing the danger of imminent thermonuclear war. The European establishment was shocked to the point of tears by Vice President J.D. Vance’s honest characterization of their anti-democratic policies and irrelevance to solve the current crisis. A desperate and dissociated Volodymyr Zelenskyy chose to attack President Trump publicly for not inviting him to the U.S.-Russia meeting in Riyadh, charging that Trump “lives in this disinformation space” created by Russia. Trump replied that Zelenskyy is “a Dictator without Elections,” whereas his administration is “successfully negotiating an end to the War with Russia.”</p>



<p>Vice President J.D. Vance also responded: “Zelenskyy is getting really bad advice, and I don’t know from whom.” He added pointedly: “This is not a good way to deal with President Trump.”</p>



<p>Vance may well know the answer to his own rhetorical question. The provocative policy response demanding a continuation of the war—and of the entire geopolitical Old Order—is coming from Imperial London, as it has throughout the Ukraine war. President Trump and his advisers should take the opportunity to sever the entire Churchillian “special relationship” between the U.K. and the U.S.—emphatically including the “Five Eyes” intelligence cohabitation which was behind the efforts to jail, or kill, Trump—while they still have them on the back foot.</p>



<p>But how to create a New Paradigm as the old order comes crashing down? What about the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the broader crisis in Southwest Asia? How to reorganize the global financial system, with its $2 quadrillion of speculative cancer? As with all such phase-changes, the solutions aren’t arbitrary.Join the International Peace Coalition this Friday at 11am ET to discuss with peace leaders around the world.</p>

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title: Live Event: Historical Insights into the Possibility of Progress Under Trump
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<p>This is a reminder of the presentation by Anton Chaitkin on Sunday, February 23, 2025.</p><p>The usurpers who ruled after the 1960s assassinations took American industry down. They dictated wars, austerity and censorship. That era is now ending, though they will try to sabotage and regroup.</p><p>How can we shape a <strong>development agenda</strong> to return America to progress and self-government? Why is international cooperation vital? What reckoning is needed with crimes against humanity, and crimes against our nation?</p><p>Anton Chaitkin will address these topics in a presentation to the Rising Tide Foundation on Sunday, February 23, 2025, from 2 PM to 3:30 PM Eastern Time. Participation in this event will be for paid subscribers only.</p><p></p>
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title: The Collapse of Geopolitics and Creating a New Paradigm
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<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*Qoghm2HE1ZG_-1XpG-IJyA.png"></figure><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btzml9kQZ6g"><em>Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley)</em></a>:</p><iframe src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2Fbtzml9kQZ6g%3Ffeature%3Doembed&amp;display_name=YouTube&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dbtzml9kQZ6g&amp;image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2Fbtzml9kQZ6g%2Fhqdefault.jpg&amp;type=text%2Fhtml&amp;schema=youtube" width="854" height="480" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"><a href="https://medium.com/media/7f2382104c37993fde775ef965128401/href">https://medium.com/media/7f2382104c37993fde775ef965128401/href</a></iframe><p>Activist and author Yves Engler has been <a href="https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/02/canada-dispatch-montreal-activist-jailed-after-series-of-charges-over-israel-gaza-social-media-posts/">jailed by Montreal police</a> for criticizing media figure Dahlia Kurtz and her support for Israeli atrocities in Gaza, after Kurtz <a href="https://x.com/DahliaKurtz/status/1809339723480985960">said</a> Engler’s comments made her feel “afraid for my safety”.</p><p>After Engler wrote about the charges against him, he <a href="https://x.com/EnglerYves/status/1892383517251662182">reported</a> that he was subsequently charged for “harassing the police” by drawing public attention to his case.</p><p>It’s fascinating how everyone who supports Israel always collapses into playing the victim at the earliest opportunity—even western police forces tasked with persecuting Israel’s critics. Israel models this victim-LARPing behavior, and its entire goon squad follows its example.</p><iframe src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?type=text%2Fhtml&amp;key=a19fcc184b9711e1b4764040d3dc5c07&amp;schema=twitter&amp;url=https%3A//x.com/EnglerYves/status/1892383517251662182&amp;image=" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"><a href="https://medium.com/media/28c61d2afb8f2e3f1f295959feec33af/href">https://medium.com/media/28c61d2afb8f2e3f1f295959feec33af/href</a></iframe><p>But what’s interesting is that being perceived as the victim has no value in and of itself — what has value is sympathy. It is sympathy that Israel’s supporters are after. Playing the victim is just a means toward that end.</p><p>If you’ve ever known anybody with a personality disorder that inclines them toward manipulative behavior, you may have noticed that one of the main things they manipulate in people is their sympathy. They do everything they can to draw as much sympathy toward themselves while working to kill off any sympathy that people might have toward their perceived enemies. They’ll sacrifice almost any piece on their psychosocial chessboard in order to control a bit more of the sympathy among the people in their life.</p><p>They do this because sympathy is a fundamental primer for narrative control. If you sympathize with someone, you are much more likely believe the things they say and trust their narratives about what’s going on. If you lack sympathy for someone, then anything they say is going to be viewed with much more skepticism.</p><p>This is just how humans are wired as a social animal. We’re evolutionarily conditioned to place more trust in people we perceive as belonging to our own tribe than we place in those outside it — those within our group are the ones with whom we sympathize. That’s why for example you’ll see Trump supporters start voicing opinions they’d never held before as soon as Trump and his MAGA pundits take a certain position on a given issue; they sympathize with the source, so they espouse its position on that issue.</p><iframe src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?type=text%2Fhtml&amp;key=a19fcc184b9711e1b4764040d3dc5c07&amp;schema=twitter&amp;url=https%3A//x.com/DahliaKurtz/status/1809339723480985960&amp;image=" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"><a href="https://medium.com/media/fec22d98c3070a140cc7a255de327159/href">https://medium.com/media/fec22d98c3070a140cc7a255de327159/href</a></iframe><p>A good manipulator understands this, so they do everything they can to make sure everyone is sympathetic toward them and unsympathetic toward anyone whose interests conflict with theirs. That’s why we’re still talking about October 7 even after 16 months of genocidal atrocities and ethnic cleansing plans. Israel and its apologists throughout western governments and media have been working diligently to draw sympathy toward Israel for those killed and abducted on October 7, and to stomp out all sympathy for the orders of magnitude more Palestinians who’ve been killed and abducted by Israel. This has allowed narratives which serve the interests of Israel to dominate the mainstream western consensus on this issue, thereby bringing in concrete material benefits like weapons, bulldozers, the weakening of Israel’s enemies, and the eventual replacement of Palestinians with Israeli Jews on what used to be Palestinian territory.</p><p>So you can see how victim-LARPing leads to sympathy, sympathy leads to believed narratives, and believed narratives lead to concrete material benefits. All skillful manipulators understand this dynamic and use it in their own lives; the only thing that differs is the specific narratives they use and the material benefits they’re trying to extract. One manipulator might use sympathy to extract sexual favors from women and deference from men. Another might use it to extract money or resources. Another might use it for status in their social circle. It’s on a different scale and has different objectives, but the dynamic is the same.</p><p>Normal people don’t typically understand this, so we’re highly susceptible to these kinds of manipulations because they tend to fly under our radar. Normal people place a lot more value on telling the truth and doing what’s right than highly manipulative people do, because normal people prioritize human connection much more highly than manipulators. Normal people use language to communicate and understand and connect with each other, while manipulators use it to extract material benefits. These are two drastically different ways of relating to one’s social environment, and normal people are often completely unaware that the other way of relating is even a feature for some of the people in their lives. This makes them ideal targets for manipulation.</p><p>That’s what you’re seeing when Israel cries victim about October 7 or Israeli hostages held by Hamas. It’s what you see when Israel supporters shriek about an <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/there-is-no-antisemitism-crisis-in">entirely made-up crisis</a> of “antisemitism” in our society. It’s what you see when the propaganda machine for the western empire frames its enemies as the evil perpetrators of “unprovoked” aggressions to which the empire is just an innocent passive witness, or when they try to generate sympathy for the poor oppressed people living under this or that evil dictatorship that happens to be sitting on top of a lot of oil. They’re manipulating public sympathy so they can control the narrative, so that by controlling the narrative they can advance their material agendas.</p><p>There’s a legendary <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AwLbwZh_Dw">video of Norman Finkelstein</a> shouting down a sobbing young Israel apologist on a college campus for trying to play the Holocaust card to silence his criticisms of Israel. One of the reasons this video is so widely shared and resonates with so many people is because Finkelstein happens to be the Jewish son of Holocaust survivors and could therefore speak with great authority, but another reason is because it’s such a skillful shutting down of an attempt to manipulate sympathy for the benefit of the Israeli state. By taking sympathy off the table, he took away the Israel apologist’s primary weapon.</p><iframe src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2F9AwLbwZh_Dw%3Ffeature%3Doembed&amp;display_name=YouTube&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D9AwLbwZh_Dw&amp;image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2F9AwLbwZh_Dw%2Fhqdefault.jpg&amp;type=text%2Fhtml&amp;schema=youtube" width="854" height="480" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"><a href="https://medium.com/media/c19c0aedca46f0e02c0e482d06576c64/href">https://medium.com/media/c19c0aedca46f0e02c0e482d06576c64/href</a></iframe><p>Israel and its supporters understand the power of narrative control better than most. That’s why they have a carefully cultivated discipline dedicated to narrative control with its own special name: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_diplomacy_of_Israel">hasbara</a>. Hasbara is all about manipulating the narrative about Israel in mainstream public discourse.</p><p>The real currency of our world is not money or resources, nor gold, nor even weapons. The real currency of our world is narrative and the ability to control it, because if you can control the narrative, you can control everyone.</p><p>The average human life is dominated by mental stories, so if you can control the stories that humans are telling each other about their world, you can control the humans.</p><p>If you’ve ever tried to meditate, then you know how pervasively dominated human consciousness is by mental chatter. Our minds are constantly babbling about how things are, how we are, how the people around us are, and what’s going on. If you can exert control over how this powerful deluge of mental narrative is occurring for large numbers of people regarding an issue you’ve got a vested interest in, then you have a much better chance of advancing your interests than someone who does not. You have a lot of real power.</p><p>Mountains of abuses exist in our world because manipulators understand this dynamic while normal people do not. The strings of our sympathy are continually jerked around without our awareness, by which we are herded into belief systems which advance the interests of the powerful.</p><p>That’s why it’s very important to withhold sympathy wherever it’s being weaponized. If someone is using a weapon to hurt people, your first order of business is to take their weapon away from them. You really can’t cede any ground to Israel apologists when they try to tug at your heartstrings about the victims of October 7 or fake “antisemitism” emergencies in western society, because any sympathy you extend in that direction will be used as a weapon to murder and abuse people in the middle east who’ve never done anything to you.</p><p>This is something to keep in mind as Israel and its apologists<a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israel-pushes-new-atrocity-narrative"> work to whip up public sympathy</a> using dead Israeli children in order to reignite the genocide in Gaza.</p><p>Whoever controls the narrative controls the world, and whoever controls sympathy controls the narrative. Never give manipulators that power over people.</p><p>________________</p><p><em>My work is </em><a href="https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2021/05/24/my-experiments-with-hacking-capitalism/"><em>entirely reader-supported</em></a><em>, so if you enjoyed this piece </em><a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/about"><em>here are some options</em></a><em> where you can toss some money into my tip jar if you want to. </em><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU8Yu4WZJ11Il3TZmNiMUFQ?sub_confirmation=1"><em>Go here</em></a><em> to find video versions of my articles. 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guid: https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/open-vs-closed-systems-course-lecture-c48
title: Open vs Closed Systems Course: Lecture 3 (On Universal History and Canada as Synthetic Construct)
author: ;Matthew Ehret
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<p>In this third lecture of a new course on Open vs Closed Systems for Russia's Nasha Zavtra publishing and the Academy for International Cooperation, I introduce the first part of my discovery of the truth of Canada’s synthetic ‘nationalism’ within a global great game, and the subject of Universal History as a legitimate branch of science more broadly. </p><p>For previous lectures in this series click below:</p><div data-attrs='{"videoId":"u5xNxpoozQk","startTime":null,"endTime":null}' data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM" data-sanitized-id="youtube2-u5xNxpoozQk" data-sanitized-class="youtube-wrap"><div data-sanitized-class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/u5xNxpoozQk?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe></div></div><p>Watch lecture 2 here:</p><div data-attrs='{"videoId":"EOujJE3BS48","startTime":null,"endTime":null}' data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM" data-sanitized-id="youtube2-EOujJE3BS48" data-sanitized-class="youtube-wrap"><div data-sanitized-class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/EOujJE3BS48?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe></div></div><p></p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://canadianpatriot.org/2024/12/16/now-available-revenge-of-the-mystery-cults-a-trilogy/" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2"><div 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target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CN5843HJ/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1699807052&amp;sr=1-2" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff10f5b8e-156e-4130-9a07-98c6e3c1dc55_750x391.png" width="750" height="391" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f10f5b8e-156e-4130-9a07-98c6e3c1dc55_750x391.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":391,"width":750,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":"","type":null,"href":"https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CN5843HJ/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1699807052&amp;sr=1-2","belowTheFold":true,"topImage":true,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" fetchpriority="high" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div></div></div></a><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption"></figcaption></figure></div><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://canadianpatriot.org/cp-videos/" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8dc2d370-9836-4e31-9128-8eb30f8a51e8_750x238.jpeg" width="750" height="238" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8dc2d370-9836-4e31-9128-8eb30f8a51e8_750x238.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":238,"width":750,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":"","type":null,"href":"https://canadianpatriot.org/cp-videos/","belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div></div></div></a><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption"></figcaption></figure></div><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F22382007-fd7d-426e-9f56-94b060c5b59b_750x240.jpeg" width="750" height="240" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/22382007-fd7d-426e-9f56-94b060c5b59b_750x240.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":240,"width":750,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":"","type":null,"href":"https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/","belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div></div></div></a><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption"></figcaption></figure></div><h2>Follow my work on Telegram at: T.me/CanadianPatriotPress</h2><div><hr></div><p><strong>Matthew Ehret is the editor-in-chief of <a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/">The Canadian Patriot Review</a>, Senior Fellow of the American University in Moscow and Director of <a href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/">the Rising Tide Foundation</a>. He has written the four volume<a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/"> Untold History of Canada series</a>, four volume C<a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/">lash of the Two Americas</a> series and<a href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/my-new-book-has-now-hit-the-press"> Science Unshackled: Restoring Causality to a World in Chaos</a>. He is also co-host of The Multipolar Reality on Rogue News and Breaking History on Badlands Media</strong></p>

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title: Know Your Enemies, But Also Know Your True Friends and Allies
author: ;Promethean In-Depth
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guid: https://raymcgovern.com/?p=8681
title: Understanding that No Means No on NATO
author: ;Ray McGovern
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<p data-sanitized-class="excerpt">Trump has better intel advisers than the clowns who told Biden in mid-2023 “Putin has already lost.” Acknowledging that Putin’s NYET on Ukraine-in-NATO is “written in stone”, Trump says he “understands Russians’ feelings on this “right on their doorstep”</p><p data-sanitized-class="more-link-p"><a href="https://raymcgovern.com/2025/02/23/understanding-that-no-means-no-on-nato/" data-sanitized-class="btn btn-default">Read more</a></p>


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title: When There's No Money In The Pursuit Of The Good And No Goodness In The Pursuit Of Money
author: ;Caitlin Johnstone
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guid: https://medium.com/p/f3cfbdd80e55
title: When There’s No Money In The Pursuit Of The Good And No Goodness In The Pursuit Of Money
author: ;Caitlin Johnstone
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<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*5biT1q3531Gh_ViomV8WKg.png"></figure><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFlU7iEVtaU"><em>Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley)</em></a>:</p><iframe src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FGFlU7iEVtaU%3Ffeature%3Doembed&amp;display_name=YouTube&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DGFlU7iEVtaU&amp;image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FGFlU7iEVtaU%2Fhqdefault.jpg&amp;type=text%2Fhtml&amp;schema=youtube" width="854" height="480" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"><a href="https://medium.com/media/08270827e1fa747f4f79c00fd7b9e402/href">https://medium.com/media/08270827e1fa747f4f79c00fd7b9e402/href</a></iframe><p>The trouble is that there’s no money in the pursuit of the good, and there’s no goodness in the pursuit of money.</p><p>If you want to devote your life to doing good, then you will likely need to consign yourself to a life of far less material comfort than if you had not. Teaching. Nursing. Social work. Environmental work. The vocations which are typically sought out by people who feel called to dedicate their lives to helping are also notoriously low-paying for how stressful they can be and how much education is required to get into them. Many important callings like peace activism, environmental activism and community volunteer work don’t pay anything at all.</p><p>People who devote themselves to the pursuit of money wind up looking in the exact opposite direction. Think of all the surest ways to get extremely wealthy and you will find exploitation, ecocide and abuse at every turn. Extracting profits from the toil of the working class. Investing in surefire sources of profit like defense contractors and fossil fuels. Offloading the costs of industry onto the ecosystem and the developing world. War profiteering. Scams (both the legal and illegal varieties). Monopolistic practices which crush smaller businesses and lay waste to entire communities. The countless depraved manipulations that go into selling medicine for profit.</p><p>The Sackler family <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/30/the-family-that-built-an-empire-of-pain">amassed a fortune</a> by creating an epidemic of opiate addiction. The Walton family got rich by deliberately <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf-Sr3SjBzk">destroying the local economies</a> of small towns so that everyone would work and shop at the local Walmart. Elon Musk <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/elon-musk-not-renegade-outsider-cia-pentagon-contractor/280972/">is a Pentagon contractor</a> who’s helping US intelligence construct a <a href="https://booty.substack.com/p/elon-musk-is-helping-us-intelligence">planetary surveillance network</a>. Jeff Bezos got rich with the help of contracts with <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/washington-post-bezos-must-disclose-relationship-cia-media-watchdogs/175558/">the CIA</a> and <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/07/google-oracle-amazon-and-microsoft-awarded-9-billion-pentagon-cloud-deals.html">Pentagon</a>, and Amazon’s aggressive campaign to <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/amazons-is-trying-to-control-the-underlying-infrastructure-of-our-economy/">control the underlying infrastructure of the economy</a> is <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/13-billion-hack-how-amazon-destroying-whole-joshua-mathias-kdf1f/">destroying whole industries</a> and creating <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2021/10/25/a-hard-hitting-investigative-report-into-amazon-shows-that-workers-needs-were-neglected-in-favor-of-getting-goods-delivered-quickly/">immense suffering</a> for workers. Larry Ellison’s Oracle <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/oracle-shadowy-tech-giant-league-cia-israel-alan-macleod/284301/">is intertwined</a> with the US intelligence cartel and the Israeli genocide machine, as is <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/peter-thiel-gaza-ai-war-white-house/288372/">Peter Theil’s Palantir</a>.</p><p>These are just a few examples of how depraved you have to be to amass immense amounts of wealth; beyond that there are all the ugly manipulations people engage in to protect the status quo upon which their wealth is premised. The extremely wealthy <a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2023/06/05/caitlin-johnstone-15-reasons-why-media-dont-do-journalism/">buy up narrative control</a> in the form of media, think tanks and Silicon Valley platforms in order to influence public political opinion to their benefit. They <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tu32CCA_Ig">influence the government</a> through legalized bribery in the form of campaign contributions and lobbying. Sometimes they even <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/donald-trump-is-the-empire-unmasked">hop right in to the actual government itself</a> like Donald Trump and Elon Musk. All to ensure the continuation of the unjust systems which allow them to amass wealth while destroying the biosphere and making everyone else poorer, busier, sicker, more exhausted, and more propagandized.</p><p>These are the kinds of people who rise to the top in our current system: the absolute worst among us. The more ruthless and underhanded you are willing to be, the easier it is for you to become obscenely wealthy and powerful. Our systems reward and elevate sociopathy, which is why we now find ourselves ruled by sociopaths.</p><p>And meanwhile the best among us toil in obscurity, swimming against the current of this sociopathic dystopia their entire lives before dying with nothing to their names but the love that they shared. These should be the people running the world and charting the course for our species, and instead they live and die unknown and unrecognized, because our system does not elevate such beings. Instead it elevates narcissistic plutocrats, vapid celebrity artists, and groveling pundits and politicians.</p><p>This is what you get when you have a system in place where mass-scale human behavior is determined by what is profitable instead of by what is right. This is what that looks like.</p><p>Is it working?</p><p>________________</p><p><em>My work is </em><a href="https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2021/05/24/my-experiments-with-hacking-capitalism/"><em>entirely reader-supported</em></a><em>, so if you enjoyed this piece </em><a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/about"><em>here are some options</em></a><em> where you can toss some money into my tip jar if you want to. </em><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU8Yu4WZJ11Il3TZmNiMUFQ?sub_confirmation=1"><em>Go here</em></a><em> to find video versions of my articles. 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The best way to make sure you see the stuff I publish is to subscribe to the mailing list </em><a href="https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/"><em>on Substack</em></a><em>, which will get you an email notification for everything I publish. All works co-authored with my husband Tim Foley.</em></p><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/417/0*6DxWp3rmGOmxpRFO.jpeg"></figure><p>Bitcoin donations: 1Ac7PCQXoQoLA9Sh8fhAgiU3PHA2EX5Zm2</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&amp;referrerSource=full_rss&amp;postId=f3cfbdd80e55" width="1" height="1" alt="">

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guid: yt:video:x98E0phiImo
title: The Dirty Side of the U.S. Department of Justice: The LaRouche Case
author: ;The LaRouche Organization
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guid: https://antonchaitkin.substack.com/p/chaitkin-seminar-on-the-historic
title: Chaitkin Seminar on the Historic Reality Confronting Trump - Video Available Soon
author: ;Anton Chaitkin
link: https://antonchaitkin.substack.com/p/chaitkin-seminar-on-the-historic
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<p>My remarks lasted about 45 minutes, followed by a lively question and answer session. The video of the event should be available later today (Monday). </p><p>This was my introduction to the session:</p><p>I know some things others don’t know, knowledge that I believe is vital for intelligent participation in today’s world events. I am putting this knowledge into a series of books. giving the inner history of the fight for progress for the people of the United States. The second volume, on the Lincoln era 1830s to 1890s, will be published soon. Here is the cover [see picture, below]. The 3<sup>rd</sup> volume will take the story up through the assassinations of the 1960s, after which the transatlantic oligarchy took near absolute power.</p><p>This presentation deals with how the USA might be seriously improved to serve its people, might be self-governing, and might help make the world better instead of promoting mass murder and chaos. I hope you will not tune out now, because you idolize Trump or hate Trump. To do your part, you need to know the economic and strategic reality our country faces.</p><p>The two sides in our history are the Americans who want to improve society and serve Man in God’s image, vs the British empire and its American partners. The former are nation-builders, favoring national sovereignty and cooperation. The latter are globalists, favoring subjugation to authority and degradation of labor.</p><p><em><strong>Now President Trump promises to rebuild our manufacturing. He and his team blame liberals and China for taking down our factories. The deeper truth has to be faced, or Trump cannot succeed. We have to get to real Economic development, and the people will have to be rallied to fight for their rights against the real enemy oligarchism.</strong></em></p><p>                                   ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++</p><h5>                             The cover for the forthcoming Volume 2 of <em>Who We Are</em></h5><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0ab2a17f-6272-440a-ae40-93df4814f446_1977x2679.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0ab2a17f-6272-440a-ae40-93df4814f446_1977x2679.jpeg" width="1456" height="1973" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0ab2a17f-6272-440a-ae40-93df4814f446_1977x2679.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":1973,"width":1456,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":814370,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/jpeg","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":true,"internalRedirect":"https://antonchaitkin.substack.com/i/157779973?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0ab2a17f-6272-440a-ae40-93df4814f446_1977x2679.jpeg","isProcessing":false}' alt="" fetchpriority="high" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div>

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guid: yt:video:TkBbvl4CNwk
title: Col. Jacques Baud: New Peace Deal Could END the War in Ukraine SOON?
author: ;Dialogue Works
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guid: yt:video:ToEiMrjvxEE
author: ;The LaRouche Organization
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title:
Chaos Deepens in Europe: European Commission President Calls for &quot;Permanent State of Emergency&quot;

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guid: https://keithschacht.com/2025/Feb/24/dynamic-routing-to-a-controllers-action/#atom-everything
title: Dynamic routing to a controller's action
author: ;Keith Schacht
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<p><strong><a href="https://x.com/bradgessler/status/1887187002459877425">Dynamic routing to a controller's action</a></strong></p>
If you have a rails form which has multiple submit buttons such as <code>Publish</code> and <code>Unpublish</code>, you can easily route those to corresponding actions within the controller with this clever hack.


    <p>Tags: <a href="https://keithschacht.com/tags/Rails">Rails</a></p>


guid: https://keithschacht.com/2025/Feb/24/a-programmable-wireless-eink-display/#atom-everything
title: A programmable wireless eink display
author: ;Keith Schacht
link: https://keithschacht.com/2025/Feb/24/a-programmable-wireless-eink-display/#atom-everything
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<p><strong><a href="https://usetrmnl.com/">A programmable wireless eink display</a></strong></p>
This is a clever little product: it’s an eink display that is fully programmable and you can wirelessly update. I’m sure I could use this for a future project.


    <p>Tags: <a href="https://keithschacht.com/tags/gadgets">gadgets</a></p>


guid: https://keithschacht.com/2025/Feb/24/elegant-solution-to-versioning-an-api/#atom-everything
title: Elegant solution to versioning an API
author: ;Keith Schacht
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<p>
The couple times I've done API versioning it was with /v1/ or v1.domain.com. Both of these are the generally recommended pattern within rails. This article outlines a querystring based approach to API versioning and a much more flexible implementation strategy that avoids a lot of duplication and code maintenance.
</p>
<p>
<a href="https://petr.codes/blog/rails/flexible-api-versioning-with-rails">via</a>
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        <p>Tags: <a href="https://keithschacht.com/tags/Rails">Rails</a></p>


guid: https://keithschacht.com/2025/Feb/24/regex-within-string-square-brackets/#atom-everything
title: Regex within string square brackets
author: ;Keith Schacht
link: https://keithschacht.com/2025/Feb/24/regex-within-string-square-brackets/#atom-everything
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<p>
I've always known that Ruby supports ranges within a string's square brackets. So in addition to the simple `name[4]` I can do `name[2..4]` and `name[2...]` and `name[-1]`. But I just learned you can put regex in the square brackets for more dynamic substring selectors: `"me+abc123@email.com"[/.+\+(.+)@(.+)/, 2]` will give you the subdomain of the email address. It even works with named capture groups! `"123.45"[/(?&lt;dollars&gt;\d+)\.(?&lt;centers&gt;\d+)/, :dollars]` will give you the dollars. The article has a few other notable examples.
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<a href="https://github.com/jbranchaud/til/blob/master/ruby/extract-capture-group-matches-with-string-slices.md">via</a>
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guid: https://keithschacht.com/2025/Feb/24/rubys-clamp-method-reduces-conditionals/#atom-everything
title: Ruby's clamp method reduces conditionals
author: ;Keith Schacht
link: https://keithschacht.com/2025/Feb/24/rubys-clamp-method-reduces-conditionals/#atom-everything
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<p>
You can constrain a variable to be within a range using clamp:

</p><pre>
5.clamp(1, 10)  # =&gt; 5
-3.clamp(1, 10) # =&gt; 1
15.clamp(1, 10) # =&gt; 10
</pre>

    
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guid: yt:video:jTODrUrJF9M
title: Larry C. Johnson: Trump’s GAME-CHANGING Plan to End War—Will It Actually Work?
author: ;Dialogue Works
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guid: https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/the-canada-files-how-could-canada
title: The Canada Files: How could Canada pursue economic cooperation with Russia and China W/Matt Ehret
author: ;Matthew Ehret
link: https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/the-canada-files-how-could-canada
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<p>In this episode, I spoke to host Aidan Jonah (Editor-in-Chief of The Canada Files) about how Canada could pursue economic cooperation with Russia and China based on the content of my new policy-booklet ‘Canada’s Potential Eurasian Future: A Vision for the 21st Century and Beyond’.</p><p>Within this show, I provided insight into why the Arctic should be a zone for cooperation with Russia and China, internationally-minded projects which are possible, historical political figures with visions for serious economic development in Canada, and we raise some important information about why Canada was founded as a country.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://rumble.com/v6k4gg4-the-canada-files-how-could-canada-pursue-economic-cooperation-with-russia-a.html?e9s=src_v1_upp" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img 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title: View the Chaitkin Seminar: Historic Realities Must be Faced to Restore U.S. Industry.
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title: United States Breaks with British Narrative at UN
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guid: https://schillerinstitute.com/?p=107226
title: Time to Shut Down U.S.-U.K. “Special Relationship”, Live Feb. 26, 11.00 am Eastern
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<p>Feb. 24, 2025 (EIRNS)—Why is it in Americans’ national security interest, that President Donald Trump act to curtail the “special relationship” that presently exists between the British Imperial and Commonwealth intelligence services, and the United States military and military-intelligence? This week’s visit by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer to Washington, D.C., undertaken in the vain hope of re-enlisting America as the financial and logistical “backstop” for further fruitless European posturing in an already-lost war in Ukraine, is the proper time to pose to the American people this question: What exact benefit does the United States gain from its so-called “special relationship” with Great Britain? Should a swift and solemn end be brought to the British-U.S. “special relationship,” in preparation for the upcoming celebration of the 250th anniversary of the United States’ Declaration of Independence?<br><br>It is time—past time—to re-commit the United States to the original purpose of the 1776-1783 American Revolution. That was, as was clearly re-stated by President Franklin Roosevelt during World War Two to an apoplectic Winston Churchill, to remove the foot of Portuguese, Dutch, Belgian, French and British imperialism from the throat of people all over the world. Instead, the United States, founded to be the opposite of the British Empire, has, especially in the “unipolar era” from 1990 until now, been acting against the interests of the American people, and the American Revolution itself, engaging in no-win wars and overthrowing governments always in the name of democracy, but waged in reality on behalf of an international financial elite, a trans-Atlantic “War Party,” operating under the codename “NATO.” Britain’s Keir Starmer visits Washington this week on behalf of that mission, and nothing else. … <br></p>



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guid: https://raymcgovern.com/?p=8683
title: Doing the Right Thing… Finally
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<p data-sanitized-class="excerpt">Churchill supposedly said “Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing after they’ve exhausted all the alternatives.” An apt way to look at Trump’s outreach to Russia &amp; Ukraine? Visiting European leaders are still choosing doltish alternatives</p><p data-sanitized-class="more-link-p"><a href="https://raymcgovern.com/2025/02/25/doing-the-right-thing-finally/" data-sanitized-class="btn btn-default">Read more</a></p>


guid: https://raymcgovern.com/?p=8685
title: Taking on the MICIMATT – There May Be Hope
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title: All These Israeli Agendas Were Planned Long In Advance
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<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*iBY6RPN96vCiodQtImFvxA.png"></figure><h4><strong>Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix</strong></h4><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-JAQUMlfnk"><em>Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley)</em></a>:</p><iframe src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2F4-JAQUMlfnk%3Ffeature%3Doembed&amp;display_name=YouTube&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D4-JAQUMlfnk&amp;image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2F4-JAQUMlfnk%2Fhqdefault.jpg&amp;type=text%2Fhtml&amp;schema=youtube" width="854" height="480" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"><a href="https://medium.com/media/cf10973406c716469883b30a49f756ff/href">https://medium.com/media/cf10973406c716469883b30a49f756ff/href</a></iframe><p>❖</p><p><a href="https://www.ynetnews.com/article/b1vqfey5yg">Israel has announced</a> that it will continue to occupy parts of Syria and Lebanon indefinitely, and that the new Syrian government is forbidden to have a military presence south of Damascus. Israel has also <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/23/israel-west-bank-jenin-tanks">sent tanks into the West Bank</a> for the first time in decades, saying they will remain for at least a year. A week earlier, Netanyahu vowed to <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/16/middleeast/heavy-bombs-israel-rubio-visit-intl/index.html">“finish the job” against Iran</a> with the help of the Trump administration.</p><p>The middle east is being dramatically restructured in alignment with longstanding Israeli objectives. Gaza has been destroyed and Trump is pushing a plan for permanently removing all Palestinians from the enclave, and they’re already working on doing the same to the West Bank. Syria has been wholly regime changed allowing Israel to grab up large swathes of land and strategic control. Hezbollah has been significantly weakened and Israel effectively controls southern Lebanon. Who knows what awful things they’re working on with Iran.</p><p>And I guess it’s worth mentioning as all this unfolds that there are <a href="https://x.com/caitoz/status/1893791050591875224">mountains</a> upon <a href="https://booty.substack.com/p/october-7">mountains</a> of <a href="https://booty.substack.com/p/before-107-idfs-gaza-border-spotters">evidence</a> that Israel knew the October 7 attack was coming and intentionally allowed it to happen, thereby manufacturing support for the advancement of all these agendas. Just the other day a new <a href="https://www-ynet-co-il.translate.goog/news/article/yokra14264734?_x_tr_sl=auto&amp;_x_tr_tl=en&amp;_x_tr_hl=en-US&amp;_x_tr_hist=true">Hebrew Ynet report</a> alleged that Mohammed Deif almost called off Operation Al-Aqsa Flood at the last second because Hamas noticed Israel wasn’t mobilizing against the coming attack despite their immense surveillance capabilities, suspecting it could be a trap. Well it looks like it was a trap — just maybe not the kind Hamas officials suspected.</p><p>❖</p><p>The deputy speaker for the Israeli Knesset <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2025/02/24/deputy-speaker-of-israeli-knesset-says-all-adult-men-in-gaza-should-be-killed/">recently said</a> during a radio interview that all adult men in Gaza should be exterminated and called Palestinians “subhumans”, saying “Who is innocent in Gaza?”</p><p>It’s almost a cliché to say “Imagine if this was said about Jews” at this point, but seriously: imagine if this was said about Jews. Imagine how hard the earth would shake if a parliamentary leader in your nation said this about Jews in Israel. It’d be the only story in the news.</p><p>❖</p><p>Giving Israel sympathy is giving it a weapon to murder innocent people. Giving Israel’s supporters sympathy is giving Israel a weapon to murder innocent people. When someone weaponizes sympathy to advance deadly agendas, to give them sympathy is to give them a deadly weapon.</p><p>Some Zionist victim-LARPer asked me “Why do you hate Israel?” as though that would be a barbaric position to hold. I told him I hate Israel because I’m not a fucking psychopath. It’s a genocidal apartheid state that exists in a constant state of war and has never at any time existed without extreme tyranny and abuse. If you support Israel you’re a garbage human being. Israel is not a victim.</p><p>❖</p><p>The US was always going to end its support for Ukraine. If it wasn’t Trump doing it it’d be someone else. This only looks like a shocking betrayal to people who thought the US really was backing Ukraine to protect democracy. It’s not okay for grown adults to believe such things.</p><p>❖</p><p>Everyone thinks of Elon Musk as the Tesla guy, the Twitter guy, the Mars guy, but he’s not: he’s the satellite guy. Musk <a href="https://archive.is/878Dl">owns most of the operational satellites</a> in Earth’s orbit, and they’re <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUem8oyyR6M">being used</a> to help the US military-intelligence machine <a href="https://booty.substack.com/p/elon-musk-is-helping-us-intelligence">rule the planet</a>.</p><p>And this is the guy who MAGA pundits insist is <a href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1894225040687993296">fighting the Deep State</a>. The unelected <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/elon-musk-not-renegade-outsider-cia-pentagon-contractor/280972/">military-industrial complex plutocrat</a> is fighting the Deep State you guys.</p><iframe src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?type=text%2Fhtml&amp;key=a19fcc184b9711e1b4764040d3dc5c07&amp;schema=twitter&amp;url=https%3A//x.com/elonmusk/status/1894225040687993296&amp;image=" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"><a href="https://medium.com/media/4b9f658829d5d9623ad4a538fe0d6789/href">https://medium.com/media/4b9f658829d5d9623ad4a538fe0d6789/href</a></iframe><p>Trumpism is history’s dumbest cult. The oligarchic Pentagon contractors are fighting the deep state. The plutocrat-owned president is leading a populist revolution. The conspiracy theories just so happen to benefit the Republican Party. Analysis of government agency malfeasance just so happens to begin and end solely with things that can be framed to make Democrats look bad.</p><p>The cult’s adherents believe they’re part of some exciting new movement which fights the power and defends the interests of the little guy, when underneath all the narratives they’re just garden variety Republicans defending a standard shitty GOP president who wants to cut taxes and regulations and give Israel everything it wants and militarize against China while inflaming diversionary partisan culture war tensions.</p><p>They’re power-worshipping bootlickers posturing as brave revolutionaries. Everything about their whole thing is fake and stupid. Anyone still buying into this scam should feel embarrassed.</p><p>❖</p><p>I’ve been watching the show Shrinking, which features a main character who was severely traumatized by his time in Afghanistan. About halfway through the second season, completely out of nowhere, that same character starts recommending that another character enlist in the US military and the other characters start talking about what a great life choice military service can be. It happens in a way that makes no sense for any of the characters, especially for the veteran who’s been struggling with his psychological trauma from the army the entire time.</p><p>It was like the Pentagon bought a recruitment ad right in the middle of the show I was watching. I can’t prove that that’s what happened, but I find it extremely suspicious that a show which made military recruitment look very unappealing in its first season suddenly shifted gears in its second season to convey the exact opposite message in a way that contradicts everything the show had told us about the characters and their motives up to that point.</p><p>And what sucks is I had been really enjoying the show; it was a very funny and emotionally intelligent exploration of trauma and growth. Now it’s gross and I can’t watch it anymore.</p><p>❖</p><p>Iraq was what permanently radicalized me. It should have permanently radicalized everyone. 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title: Open vs Closed Systems Course: Lecture 4 (The International Dynamics of 1776 and 1865)
author: ;Matthew Ehret
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<p>In this fourth lecture of a new course on Open vs Closed Systems for Russia's Nasha Zavtra publishing and the Academy for International Cooperation, I continued the lesson into the science of universal history shaped by the dynamic interplay of the British Empire, the USA, Canada and Russia (with a focus on the events of 1776-1783 and 1862-1869 with a focus on the ironic fact of Russia's saving the USA in both moments of crisis. </p><p>Watch lecture 1 here:</p><div data-attrs='{"videoId":"u5xNxpoozQk","startTime":null,"endTime":null}' data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM" data-sanitized-id="youtube2-u5xNxpoozQk" data-sanitized-class="youtube-wrap"><div data-sanitized-class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/u5xNxpoozQk?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowautoplay="true" 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src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff10f5b8e-156e-4130-9a07-98c6e3c1dc55_750x391.png" width="750" height="391" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f10f5b8e-156e-4130-9a07-98c6e3c1dc55_750x391.png","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":391,"width":750,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":"","type":null,"href":"https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CN5843HJ/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1699807052&amp;sr=1-2","belowTheFold":true,"topImage":true,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" fetchpriority="high" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div></div></div></a><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption"></figcaption></figure></div><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" 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data-sanitized-class="image-caption"></figcaption></figure></div><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F22382007-fd7d-426e-9f56-94b060c5b59b_750x240.jpeg" width="750" height="240" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/22382007-fd7d-426e-9f56-94b060c5b59b_750x240.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":240,"width":750,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"","title":"","type":null,"href":"https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/","belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="" title="" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div></div></div></a><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption"></figcaption></figure></div><h2>Follow my work on Telegram at: T.me/CanadianPatriotPress</h2><div><hr></div><p><strong>Matthew Ehret is the editor-in-chief of <a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/">The Canadian Patriot Review</a>, Senior Fellow of the American University in Moscow and Director of <a href="https://risingtidefoundation.net/">the Rising Tide Foundation</a>. He has written the four volume<a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/"> Untold History of Canada series</a>, four volume C<a href="https://canadianpatriot.org/untold-history-of-canada-books/">lash of the Two Americas</a> series and<a href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/my-new-book-has-now-hit-the-press"> Science Unshackled: Restoring Causality to a World in Chaos</a>. He is also co-host of The Multipolar Reality on Rogue News and Breaking History on Badlands Media</strong></p>

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title: Alex Krainer: How Far Has Europe Deceived Itself?
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title: Where to live during global geopolitical crisis?
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title: All the King's Horses and Men Can't Put Ukraine Together Again
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<p>Feb. 19, 2025 (EIRNS)—<em>EIR</em>’s Mike Billington conducted an extensive interview today with Graham Fuller, which we transcribe in full below.</p>



<p>Billington: Greetings. This is Mike Billington with the Executive Intelligence Review and the Schiller Institute. I have the pleasure of interviewing today Mr. Graham Fuller, former long-time CIA official, including being the vice chairman at the National Intelligence Council at the CIA, responsible for long-term strategic forecasting. He’s also very much an expert on Arab issues, which we will mention during our discussion here.</p>



<p>Fuller: I just might mention Mike. I’ve also, from early days in my life, been very focused on Russia. I majored in Russian history and literature and language at Harvard. So I’m yes, a lot of Arab world stuff, but a lot in Türkiye, and in Hong Kong, in China for many years. It’s been a bit of a trip around the world.</p>



<p>Billington: Okay. So you’re a good person to have on because the whole world is changing very, very rapidly. So, I watched the joint interview that you did with Ray McGovern and Larry Wilkerson. In that interview, you said that the Arabs have been rather reserved in their support for the Palestinians, partially because the radical position taken by the Palestinians would tend to upset the kings and the emirs in the Arab world. But you also then said that the genocide of this last year has broken through some of that hesitancy and that the Arabs are coming together to support the Palestinians. Do you want to explain that process?</p>



<p>Fuller: Well, Mike, the ruling circles in the Arab world, and they’re all kings and emirs for the most part, have feared the revolutionary character of the Palestinian nationalist movement, which is essentially a national liberation movement and a movement seeking to free themselves and be more independent and under democratic rule. Furthermore, it’s a public movement. It’s a nationalist, emotional movement that Arab rulers fear because they don’t want people in the streets demonstrating on any issue, because it suggests people power in the streets, that one day could be the root of turning against the ruling circles themselves. So any kind of public agitation of that sort is not welcome. The Palestinians are the preeminent symbol of revolutionary change in the Middle East as are the Iranians, who are the other very feared state. It’s not that Arabs hate Persians, necessarily, but because the Iranians had a genuine revolution, a street revolution that we don’t see much of in the world anymore. They’re usually coups in the Arab world. But the Iranians, the Persians had a real revolution. And that scares the hell out of dictators and various authoritarians across the region. They may feel sorry for the Palestinians, but they don’t want mass agitation.</p>



<p>Billington: What did you mean when you said they’re starting to come together now, the Arab world?</p>



<p>Fuller: The outrage is that we’re all perceiving, in this genocide, this laying waste to the Gaza Strip, with Israel moving again, as they want to do, into Lebanon, into parts of Syria, annexing the Golan Heights—the real borders of Israel are known only to God because it’s all in the Bible. It all depends on how you interpret it. There are those Israelis and interpreters of the Holy Scripture that see signs that Israel, Greater Israel, has a place in parts of Saudi Arabia, going back to ancient days. Of course, Jordan is functionally, in many ways, a Palestinian state. It’s got a slight majority, a Palestinian majority in Jordan. Parts of Egypt have figured very prominently in Jewish history going way back. Nobody knows where Israel will stop when it’s in its expansionist mood, which is where it is now, and where its right wing certainly locates itself.</p>



<p>Billington: You have endorsed The LaRouche Oasis Plan which Lyndon LaRouche first devised back in the 1970s for a massive water and power development program for Palestine, but going beyond Palestine into the broader region. You’ve suggested in particular that such a plan should extend through Iraq and Iran and on into Afghanistan and Central Asia. What do you think about the Oasis Plan, and, in particular, what do you think would be the impact on the international discussion about the Mideast crisis if it were introduced as part of a peace plan for the region?</p>



<p>Fuller: I think you’re correct that it needs to be introduced as part of a broader peace plan. One of the reasons that, however fine an idea it has been, the fact is that the local rivalries and particularly rivalries projected by the United States in a Cold War mode has made regional cooperation all but impossible. I mean, Syria, for example, would need to figure quite seriously, or Iraq for that matter, the Tigris and Euphrates. All of these states would need to figure very seriously in any kind of regional water plan. But that’s been impossible when the United States has been at war with Iraq for a long time. In the past, Iraq was seen as the enemy. We can’t deal with Iran because they’re the enemy. Syria was seen as hostile to the U.S., so we couldn’t deal with Syria. In other words, the wherewithal of bringing these particular states together has not been there up to now. I think it’s only as you begin to see a motion, a movement towards broader regional cooperation that the water aspect, the engineering aspects, the power aspects, the social aspects, the political aspects really begin to come into play. The first very positive move in that direction, as you’re well aware, was that the so-called intractable hostility between Persians and Arabs, was essentially solved or mollified by Chinese intervention. A couple of years back, when they brought about a rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Iran, that was a remarkable event that many regional specialists would have said could never happen. So you can see the power of where serious political geopolitical thinking opens the door to the more practical aspects of broader regional water, agricultural, and hydrological projects. So I think maybe the day is getting closer when this project could be seen as feasible and manageable.</p>



<p>Billington: You brought up Iran. You suggested in that same interview I watched, you suggested that Trump, despite having been very critical of Iran, and ended the nuclear deal with Iran during his first term, but that nonetheless you say that if you compare this to his reaching out to North Korea’s Kim Jong Un during his first term, that Trump may be willing to make such a reconciliation with Iran. What makes you think that would be possible? And what do you think would be the result?</p>



<p>Fuller: Part of this involves Trump watching, which I think there’s no recognized expert of what Trump watching involves today. The whole world is watching with fascination. I mean, some people accuse Trump of having no principles, that it’s all me, me, me. That’s not altogether all bad, if Trump can see that.</p>



<p>If Trump finds gratification in having his name in lights, blazing lights, as the person who managed to bring North Korea and the rest of the world, or Iran and the rest of the world, into a more comfortable position, I think that’s great. Having him driven by ego to do those things would be superb. I was very impressed, as I think many people were, by what Trump tried to accomplish three times with Kim Jong Un, probably the most intractable problem and leader in the world. I think he might, well, he’s indicated a possible interest in taking on Iran. I think you and I and many people listening to this are well aware of the problems surrounding this, not least of all, is Israel. Israel treasures its hostility of Iran. It’s one of the reasons why Israel feels that it’s got to maintain a huge power, including nuclear power, and block any other power’s move towards nuclear, or even traditional military power on the part of Iran. So I think Trump is well aware that he would need to take that on. But hopefully, his desire for, adulation and for playing the role of a statesman could maybe overcome some elements of, Zionist and Israeli pressure, against any kind of rapprochement with Iran. But it’s key. Iran is key to the future of any kind of regional cooperation. And the Chinese, as I said, have opened the door by making a rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Tehran possible.</p>



<p>Billington: Right. The problem, of course, is that Trump just invited Bibi Netanyahu to Washington. He treated him with glory. He came up with this idea of taking over Gaza and clearing out all the Palestinians, an idea which is clearly impossible and a bit nuts. What do you think can get Trump to generally break from this extreme right-wing Israeli leadership? Even the open genocide of the last year, which you said has begun to bring the Arab countries together, appears not to have fazed Trump and his open glorification of this government in Israel.</p>



<p>Fuller: Israel is a very tough nut to crack, if you will, in the sense of trying to limit its extraordinary power over American foreign policy in all areas. Some have described the American Congress as “Israeli occupied territory.” Whatever we think about that. I think it was interesting that when Netanyahu came to Washington very recently, it was clear that he was taken off guard by Trump’s suggestion that the U.S. would take over Gaza and had its own plan for the development of a beautiful new “Riviera” in the area. Netanyahu looked like he was quite surprised by that. And in fact, Trump was really saying, “No, Israel, Gaza would no longer be yours. It wouldn’t be yours to develop. It would be ours to develop.” I’m sure that this kind of encounter with Trump on the part of Bibi suggests that Trump is not to be taken for granted, that he can come up with some bold, even crazy or startling or original concepts that Israel cannot bank on with any certainty. Secondly, if you think about the power of the Israeli lobby, it might be interested to consider whether Trump, being in his second term, that the Israel lobby is no longer able to exercise the same power as it can in the first term, simply because he can’t run for office again and maybe doesn’t have to depend on that kind of politics. When people like, Miriam Adelson had donated $100 million to Trump for running again and winning this time around. Trump can really in many ways pocket it and say, “Okay, but what have you done for me lately?” He’s not running for office again as a lame duck, then he may be a little less dependent upon Zionist money to win the next election, including Miriam Adelson’s willingness to buy Trump. Maybe it’s harder to buy Trump these days. I’m just throwing out some thoughts here, uh, as to what might possibly weaken the Zionist death grip on American foreign policy in the Middle East?</p>



<p>By the way, I don’t want to let this idea get lost. But it’s not just in the Middle East. I would suggest that the Ukraine issue is quite fundamentally tied in with this. The neocons, who are, of course, to a man and a woman totally supportive of Israel, are also very hostile to Russia, deeply and ideologically. If Trump is able to bring about, as it looks now possible, to bring about some kind of settlement of the Ukrainian issue, this removes a major ideological issue from the hands of the neocons in Washington. I do not think they would welcome that kind of improvement of relations between Moscow and Washington. So you can see, if there is a settlement of the Ukrainian issue, I think it would have a direct impact on the power of the neocons in Washington, which would have an obvious effect in Gaza and the broader issue of Israel and the Middle East. It’s just a thought.</p>



<p>Billington: As you know, the Russian and American core leadership had a meeting today in Riyadh in Saudi Arabia. Do you want to comment on what you saw in that meeting?</p>



<p>Fuller: I’m not privy to what really took place there, except the vibe seemed to be very good. The meeting went on reportedly for four hours, which is remarkable for any kind of initial diplomatic meeting of that sort. Really quite difficult issues. So there’s that, and the fact that both sides expressed deep satisfaction with the progress made so far. So I’m just very encouraged at that taking place, I don’t think anybody in any of the readouts following the meeting talked about the impact on the Middle East, but it’s certain they they’re bound to have talked about it, because Russia is quite involved in the Middle East, and Washington is deeply involved in the Middle East. The issue of Russia’s role in all of that is bound to have been part of the discussion between the American and Russian parties. So yes, there may be a trickle down, important trickle down effect from a willingness to talk. It’s pretty shocking, Mike, that Biden over three years was more willing to go to war and kill, you know, tens of thousands of Ukrainians rather than talk once to Putin about the conflict, on how peace could be arrived at. That’s because all they wanted to do—they didn’t care about Ukraine itself. The goal was to weaken Russia, bring Russia down, humble Russia. That’s why Biden wasn’t even willing to talk to them. Well, we have a very different world now when we see these senior representatives of both states willing to talk to each other on a broad range of issues, which should have taken place starting three years ago, but for the reasons we talked about, did not take place.</p>



<p>Billington: Right. So we also have this extraordinary development of Tulsi Gabbard becoming the Director of National Intelligence, somebody who has been very forthright and open, attacking the crimes of the FBI and the so-called deep state. She will be the person briefing Donald Trump every day as the Director of National Intelligence. As a former leader of the intelligence agencies, as you were, how do you expect this to function?</p>



<p>Fuller: A couple of points, Mike. First of all, there’s the serious question, an eternal question, that existed when I was running the long term estimates for the CIA. Who reads these things? Does the president read them? Which president reads them? Supposedly Obama had a deep interest in reading this kind of intelligence analysis and reporting. But I think Biden was less inclined to do so. Trump apparently doesn’t like really reading at all. George W Bush, apparently, according to the people who were sent to brief him, had limited interest in what the intelligence community had to say. George W Bush knew what he wanted to know, or believed. He knew what he knew, and so that was that. So I hope that Tulsi Gabbard might well have this president’s ear, because he played such a role in bringing her into her present position, but we just don’t know how much Trump is going to read into it, if he gets intelligence that is not what he wants to hear. Other presidents have this problem. They don’t want to get the bad news from the intelligence communities, from their reporting. Secondly, I don’t know how much influence Tulsi Gabbard personally—it’s part of the same issue—but, how much influence she’ll really have over Trump in this regard.</p>



<p>And she’s coming up against some other major big players. That’s all along been an issue. The Pentagon has its own intelligence organization and it has its own agenda. It has its own views of Russia. If you come in with a report that “peace is breaking out all over”—I’m not saying that that’s going to happen. But in the event that you have very positive vibes coming out of American and Russian encounters, the Pentagon might feel that some issues for them, maybe their own ox is being gored, or what is the voice of the huge mass of the American military industrial complex. That’s who feeds off hostility between Russia and the United States, or for that matter, Iran and the United States, or China and the United States. That’s grist for their mill. So they will be wanting to push back against voices that are maybe encouraging rapprochement and finding opportunities for closer cooperation between the United States and Russia.</p>



<p>So, yes, I’m very delighted that Tulsi Gabbard is there. I think she’s a very intelligent woman, strong morals and strong principled views on what’s going on in the world that hopefully will have a positive impact on the situation.</p>



<p>Billington: You might know that we published the pamphlet called “The Liars Bureau,” whose purpose was to encourage the members of the U.S. Senate to confirm Tulsi Gabbard, as well as Kash Patel as the FBI chief, by pointing out that the people we know well from the intelligence community over the last decade or more have tended to be massive liars. We pointed out the work of Dick Cheney, James Clapper, Mike Pompeo and others who promoted these illegal wars in Iraq and Syria and Libya and so forth, who manufactured the whole. “Russia, Russia, Russia,” Russia-gate hoax to drive Trump out of office, and more. How do you explain the sorry state of the U.S. intelligence agencies that we’re now facing we have to clear up?</p>



<p>Fuller: I was relieved, Mike, to see that I was not included among the members of the Liars Club, despite my many years in the CIA, both as an operations officer overseas and in terms of long range forecasting. I think, um, the real question again comes down to what kind of access and influence that the chief of intelligence will have over the president and his followers. Also, we have to remember that it’s not just a question of what the President believes, but the congressional opinions and views matter very heavily in this as well. We know that Congress is heavily bought and paid for. I mean, we all know the famous remark by Mark Twain that “America has the finest Congress that money can buy.” It’s hard to know how much congressmen who are bought and paid for by the military industrial complex or the Israeli lobby, how much they will be influenced by what a supposedly objective intelligence community is saying and how much money will speak to them. That’s, I think, one of the really key considerations.</p>



<p>And secondly, I would have to say over time, and I’ve had, you know, over 30 years or so, had a lot to do with the intelligence community. My sense is that it has become increasingly politicized over time, since when I first went in. Most of us junior CIA officers, most of us felt somehow that if we could just get the word back to Washington as to “what the real situation was,” that politicians would move and act appropriately in adjusting their policies. The real coming of age for young CIA officers is when you begin to find out that maybe what you thought was a great report from a great agent source in the Middle East or Russia or China or wherever else, maybe will reach the table of some important person, but will he or she really read it? Or more to the point, will they believe it? Or do they want to believe it? Or will they act on it? Those are all great unknowns. So these issues I think, have become more politicized. The appointments to top positions in the CIA have become more politicized over time. And that, I think, has greatly weakened and damaged the reputation of the CIA. And frankly, I’ve been quite shocked at many of the statements of CIA in recent years, especially in Ukraine, where seemingly not only the New York Times assured us every day that Russia was losing the war in Ukraine, that Ukraine had virtually won the war. But apparently CIA reports were telling the president the same thing. And Biden wanted to believe and wanted to hear it. So there we are.</p>



<p>Billington: Much of your career was focused on the Arab world. There’s now great discord in the Arab world over how to deal with the crisis in Palestine. Um, how are they responding to Trump’s call for the U.S. to come in and take it over and build Gaza?</p>



<p>Fuller: Well, I think I think first of all, the Arab world has been angry for some long time about the treatment of Palestinians and the expansion of Israeli power and influence in the region, and the assassination of leaders, one after another after another. Regional leaders, both Arab and Iranian. As I said earlier, the Israeli destruction, horrifying destruction, turning Gaza into something that looks like Berlin after World War Two, the tragic scenes of the human losses, of men, women and children in Gaza, has horrified the Arab world as it has horrified so much else of the world.</p>



<p>Secondly, I think now that much of Arab leadership—they may not love the Palestinians and may be afraid of political agitation on the part of Palestinians. But they can’t push back against that anymore. They’ve got to ride with it and support it. So I would say, they are far more willing to speak out now. Thirdly, I think there’s a sense among Arabs and especially Arab leaders to be really angry at the idea that Washington—and I’ll use a vulgarism here because it’s really accurate—that Washington is putting all its shit on top of the Arab leaders. Uh, you know, “We fucked up here, but you guys are going to have to take care of it. You’re going to have to take the Palestinians. You’re going to have to pay for it. We don’t want to have to get involved in that.” That really enrages the Arab world and the Arab leadership, the Muslim world and the regional leadership that sees America and Israel as fundamentally the source, the cause behind this, this tragic genocide in Gaza, which has been preceded by decades and decades of Israeli dominance, geopolitical dominance and military dominance over all Arab states. So I think we’ve seen—as Marx said, who used the term “quantitative into qualitative change”—the anger, I think, now has begun to turn into something quite different. I would not want to predict where it’s going to go, but I fear it’s going to result in far more violence. I happen to think that war between Israel and Iran now is more likely than ever before. One, because Bibi Netanyahu knows that his ability to stay in power depends on the perpetuation of war. And it’s part of the Israeli myth that Iran is our greatest enemy and that if we don’t crush it and destroy its nuclear capabilities, then we’re forever at risk. This is the mantra of Israel today, and a mantra that they’ve tried to impose on Washington thinking.</p>



<p>So I, I’m very, very nervous about the possibility of a war in which Bibi himself is working to try to draw the U.S. into such a war, to back it both militarily and diplomatically, across the board. I don’t think any Arab state really wants to go to war with Israel. I think they would know they their armies are not up to it, that they would suffer considerably, but they’ve got to show that they’ve got some cojones, let’s say, to demonstrate to their people that they’re not going to take infinite insults and injuries and disrespect from Israeli policies. I don’t see this going in any good direction, unless there’s a dramatic change in Palestine, in Gaza. For all Trump’s efforts, I don’t really see that happening now, and especially with the power of the Israeli lobby that still seems to be singing from the same hymn book. So I’m quite positive about Ukraine, but I’m not very positive about Palestine and Gaza, except for the fact that maybe an American-Russian rapprochement could begin to deliver some kind of regional settlement. But. Bibi will be dragged kicking and screaming every inch of the way against it. So that does not bode well.</p>



<p>Billington: Have you had the opportunity to see what the Egyptian plan is, which I don’t think has been made public yet, but are you aware of what they’re preparing, their plan for the reconstruction of Gaza?</p>



<p>Fuller: No. For one thing, Egypt is dirt poor at this point, barely surviving on many international handouts. I would expect that Egypt would make nominal efforts to contribute to some kind of Palestinian reconstruction, but it will really be nominal. They can’t afford it, but they can’t afford not to do anything. Trump indeed will tell the Arabs that they have got to come together and contribute to a rebuilding of Gaza. So I wouldn’t expect a lot of Arab states except the rich Gulf states that can afford it.</p>



<p>Billington: Right. You are well known as an expert on Türkiye in particular. I believe you’re also familiar with the Turkish language and that you’ve written a great deal about Türkiye and so forth. They are playing an increasingly important role in the region. What do you think about their role and how is it changing, and where is it heading?</p>



<p>Fuller: You’re quite right, Mike, that Türkiye’s role has been increasing in the Middle East, in the entire region. I would argue, at least 30 years now, since Erdoğan has been in power, Türkiye has said, “We’re not the old loyal NATO American ally, as you thought we were for a long time. We are the inheritors of the great Ottoman Empire, which spread out across huge areas, geographic areas of the world.” And so the Turks say: “We are not just a Mediterranean power. We’re a middle eastern power. We are a Muslim power. We are a Caucasian power. We are a Central Asian power. We are a Red sea power. We’re a North African power.” Türkiye is really playing at a very high level. Now, that would have been astonishing to think of some 30 years ago. I think the West and Washington in particular is quite uncomfortable with that, because it means that Türkiye now has become an independent actor. That must be taken into consideration independently of Washington’s own desires and plans. It’s not NATO. Türkiye as a NATO player is really almost irrelevant today. There’s some talk in NATO that Türkiye has become so contrary to NATO’s own wishes, that maybe they should throw Türkiye out. But I have commented that I think that NATO needs Türkiye more than Türkiye needs NATO.</p>



<p>I don’t think Türkiye is going to be expelled from NATO unless something truly egregious happens, like a Turkish attack on Israel. I would not put that, by the way, entirely out of the picture, because Türkiye came nearly to some sort of naval blows some years ago in the first conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, when Türkiye sent a flotilla of arms and food and other produce to the Palestinians across the high seas in what was called the the MV Mavi Marmara, the blue Marmara, operation, and the Israelis essentially shot it out of the water, refusing to allow them to deliver any of these goods to the Palestinians. I think there’s going to be increasing tension as Türkiye wants to up its ante, play a more and more important role. It’s quite striking that the two powers in the region that are really speaking out very strongly on the Palestinian Gaza issue Are not even Arab states, they are Türkiye and Iran. Neither of them are Arab. But they have more powerful arguments, more vehement arguments against, and speaking out more boldly against Israel than any of the Arab leaders, except for poor Yemen, which is really a dirt poor country. They are wonderful, generous, hospitable people, gutsy people. They are shooting. They’re playing way above, they’re punching way above their weight, by blocking Red sea shipping that are destined for Israel. But in any case, all I’m pointing out is, this is an extraordinary anomaly, that it’s not the Arab leaders, it’s the Persian and Turkish leaders that are moving this, driving this. And I think it is bringing many of these Arab leaders to shame in what they are not doing. So I again, I feel, have a very uncomfortable feeling that Arabs are going to feel they have to do something of a bolder nature than simply speaking out, mildly, as it has been. I think the speech has now gotten bolder. I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s some kind of bolder military or semi-military or quasi military action, on the part of some Arab states, Egypt, perhaps even Saudi Arabia, who are the only two states with real military power among the Arabs. Otherwise, no Arab states in the region have that kind of military power, and none of it, certainly not Egyptian power, is not up to taking on the Israelis at this point.</p>



<p>Billington: All right. Graham . Well, thank you very much. Is there any sort of closing statement you’d like to make or a message to our readership around the world?</p>



<p>Fuller: Yes, I might want to say, Mike. And I know that you and the Schiller Institute are very much on board with this message. I think we are in deeply consequential times. I have never seen such a dramatic geopolitical shift in my life, in my adult professional life, other than the collapse of the Berlin Wall, which changed the world in remarkable ways, and then the collapse of the Soviet Union, which changed it further. Both of which led to the emergence of the United States as the sole hegemon, global hegemon in the world. And the U.S. took that role accordingly aboard, and has been acting like the world’s sole global superpower that can do anything it wants, anywhere it wants, and expect other powers and countries to act accordingly according to American wishes. Those days are really on the way out. I’m hardly the only one saying that, but I think Washington as a country, as a government, is in denial. I think the United States is in denial, believing that it’s still the world’s sole superpower, the indispensable player and the most powerful nation in the world. All of these things are growing Increasingly unreal and increasingly dangerous to believe, to actually believe it, to act on on that basis. I’m heartened, frankly, that the emergence of other powers in the world that do not necessarily have to be enemies, can perhaps balance us in constant desire to be the sole superpower in the world that can call the shots all over the world. We are not able to do that. We have in numbers of states, like the BRICs nations, the grouping of Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, now joined by Saudi Arabia and Iran and many other candidate states that want to join this. This is a formidable new movement that I see as a latent or nascent, if you will, a nascent new UN organization. The UN has fundamentally, ever since its formulation, has been a gathering of formerly colonial powers that did run the world for the last hundred years, perhaps, and thereby was able to take the dominant position in the UN. Those days, I think, are disappearing. We have new voices, who have new interests, who do not want to be pushed around by Washington or Western Europeans economically or militarily or socially or politically or in any other term. We see now, I think, the recent move by Trump and by Peter Hegseth to tell the Europeans that essentially the game in Ukraine is over. What he is saying, basically, is the NATO game is over. And above all else, I think it is maybe starting to call for a rethinking of the source of global conflict in general.</p>



<p>Why do we have to have conflict? Is conflict inevitable among states? I’m going to make a criticism of John Mearsheimer here. I think John Mearsheimer is a wonderful observer and theoretician on global issues. His reading of Ukraine and his reading of Gaza is some of the best in the world. But John Mearsheimer also has this theory: the theoretical view of international relations that I cannot buy, and that I don’t even think is consistent with his own geopolitical views. He really understands Ukraine and Gaza, but not because of his own geopolitical ideas. I think he feels that if you’ve got two major powers that they have to conflict.</p>



<p>I just find this a very mechanical, and rather crude, frankly, view of the world. States, over the history of the world—Germany and France were at each other’s throats. France and England were at each other’s throats for hundreds of years. Russia and China were at each other’s throats. Russia and Germany and the U.S. were at each other’s throats. But the world changes. Time changes. Situations change. Other countries have agency. There’s no reason why the United States has to be at war, or find Russia to be our chief opponent or that we have to find China as our chief opponent.</p>



<p>This is a choice. We have choice, folks. We have decided that we want Russia to be our enemy, and our government feeds off that. Mike, you and I have talked about this. The military industrial complex loves war, the Pentagon loves it. But there is no reason why there has to be that kind of conflict. And essentially Hegseth, I think, was beginning to hint at that fact, that, “Look, we can sit down. We don’t necessarily have to go to war.” But when the United States spends most of its time in its foreign policy blocking people that it fears are enemies—of course, you’re creating enemies. You’re telling people “you are our enemy. You are a peer competitor.” That’s a threat to these countries, to tell them that kind of thing. What do you think? If I tell you, Mike, that, you know, you’re a nice guy, but you’re my enemy. You draw certain conclusions, you act accordingly. I think we need to rethink this, as to why we automatically have to be at war with other powerful countries in the world. And that goes for Russia. It goes even more for China.</p>



<p>I’m heartened that somebody like Trump or others—Jeffrey Sachs at Harvard often raises similar kinds of questions. These are eternal questions. Why do we have to have to go to war? The U.S. foreign policy essentially over the last decade has been nothing but “block Russia,”block China.” This is a world of suffering from all kinds of problems, of health and food and regional local conflicts. Et cetera, et cetera, that the United States should be spending most of its money and treasure and time and energy on identifying enemies to which we have to build the world’s biggest budget, uh, military budget in the world, more than all the other countries of the world put together, more or less. This is not a very constructive or imaginative American foreign policy.</p>



<p>So I don’t want to go on about this further. I think the point is clear, but I’m heartened that, for whatever Trump’s strange or disturbing views on many American domestic issues, we’re three weeks into this guy’s policies. We have a long way to go, but I am heartened to see that some questions that nobody has bothered to ask for years are now being raised by this administration. You can call the questions crazy or maybe long overdue. They’re both. But it’s time to have a real shift of paradigm. And I see glimmerings of that now. And I’m heartened by that.</p>



<p>Billington: Right. Not only stop blocking them, but join them. I mean, why don’t we join the BRICS and start doing what we thought we should have been doing all along, which is helping to build countries around the world industrially, turning them into modern industrial nations. This is exactly what the LaRouche movement has always been committed to, which is that we have to really think in terms of using the history of America as a nation-building power instead of a nation-destroying power. So thanks very much, Graham. We’ll definitely get this report out everywhere through the Schiller Institute and EIR.</p>



<p>Fuller: Good. Well thank you, Mike. I really have immense respect for you, for Schiller, for you and asking these questions, promoting these issues tirelessly at a time when they hadn’t really been front and center of at least the last administration’s thinking. I think you may be getting some traction now, which is long overdue and welcome.</p>



<p>Billington: Yes, it’s good to see. Okay. Thank you very much.</p>


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title: Amb. Chas Freeman: Has the US ABANDONED Real Diplomacy for Good?
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title: Elon Musk at Cabinet Meeting
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WB Talks: US downsizing, free Canada, Trump, Soros &amp; Witches w/ Matt Ehret &amp;  Xoaquin Flores

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title: Washington Today (2-26-25): Elon Musk gives DOGE spending cut update at President's cabinet meeting
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title: The Empire At Its Most Honest
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title: The Empire At Its Most Honest
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<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*anaCkEhX30RpwFJIujrIgg.png"></figure><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrQfNB7g-cc"><em>Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley)</em></a>:</p><iframe src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FCrQfNB7g-cc%3Ffeature%3Doembed&amp;display_name=YouTube&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DCrQfNB7g-cc&amp;image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FCrQfNB7g-cc%2Fhqdefault.jpg&amp;type=text%2Fhtml&amp;schema=youtube" width="854" height="480" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"><a href="https://medium.com/media/8a73dfd3a9158603b96f515a4254fb5c/href">https://medium.com/media/8a73dfd3a9158603b96f515a4254fb5c/href</a></iframe><p>President Donald Trump has <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114068387897265338">shared</a> a shockingly awful <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_uTs0ukLik">AI-generated music video</a> envisioning a future Gaza that has been turned into an ostentatious resort town where everyone parties amid showers of cash while Trump and Netanyahu sip drinks by the pool.</p><p>The video is intended to reflect <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2025/02/10/trump-says-no-right-of-return-for-palestinians-in-gaza-under-his-plan/">Trump’s plans</a> for a Gaza Strip that has been permanently ethnically cleansed of Palestinians.</p><p>If you haven’t watched it yet you definitely should, because words can’t do justice to just how terrible it is.</p><iframe src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2Fe_uTs0ukLik%3Ffeature%3Doembed&amp;display_name=YouTube&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3De_uTs0ukLik&amp;image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2Fe_uTs0ukLik%2Fhqdefault.jpg&amp;type=text%2Fhtml&amp;schema=youtube" width="854" height="480" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"><a href="https://medium.com/media/b7ea308a346448194046d3de27c9fbd2/href">https://medium.com/media/b7ea308a346448194046d3de27c9fbd2/href</a></iframe><p>This video is simultaneously the most American thing that has ever happened and the most Israeli thing that has ever happened. Fake. Gaudy. Sociopathic. Genocidal. Emblematic of all the ugliest values that both dystopian civilizations have come to embody.</p><p>They used the most artless art medium in existence to digitally dance on the graves of mountains of dead civilians. The most powerful government on earth celebrated the idea of Trump and Netanyahu presiding over orgiastic parties for the obscenely wealthy on a land that has been purged of its indigenous inhabitants following a year and a half of brutal slaughter. Twerking to shitty AI-generated techno music surrounded by golden Trump statues and hundred dollar bills, because you are so happy that you finally found a Final Solution to the Palestinian Problem.</p><p>It doesn’t get any more American than this, and it doesn’t get any more Israeli. This soulless, artless, conscienceless expression of egotistic masturbation lubricated with the blood of dead children is the empire at its most honest. This is the very best this globe-dominating power structure has to offer our world.</p><p>This entire civilization is diseased. Not just the United States and Israel but every nation on earth that is subject to the metastases of their cancerous influence. They’re making us all dumber, sicker, nastier, crueler. Less creative. Less artful. Less caring. Less insightful. They are poisoning our minds and turning our hearts into shit.</p><iframe src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?type=text%2Fhtml&amp;key=a19fcc184b9711e1b4764040d3dc5c07&amp;schema=twitter&amp;url=https%3A//x.com/caitoz/status/1894635862849380748&amp;image=" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"><a href="https://medium.com/media/6f5d57929df16cd5e4685018f1253cfb/href">https://medium.com/media/6f5d57929df16cd5e4685018f1253cfb/href</a></iframe><p>I’ve always said that the only thing I like about Trump is that he <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/donald-trump-is-the-empire-unmasked">puts an honest face on the empire</a>. In terms of actual policy and actions he’s not much different from any other Republican president, but he has this compulsive inclination to constantly yank off the plastic smileyface mask of the empire and reveal the snarling blood-spattered face beneath. This is a perfect example of what I’m talking about.</p><p>That one video, all by itself, tells you more about what the US empire really is than every movie its PR agents in Hollywood have ever produced. This is the real America. This is the real Israel. This is the real empire.</p><p>And this is why we must defeat them.</p><p>______________</p><p><em>My work is </em><a href="https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2021/05/24/my-experiments-with-hacking-capitalism/"><em>entirely reader-supported</em></a><em>, so if you enjoyed this piece </em><a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/about"><em>here are some options</em></a><em> where you can toss some money into my tip jar if you want to. </em><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU8Yu4WZJ11Il3TZmNiMUFQ?sub_confirmation=1"><em>Go here</em></a><em> to find video versions of my articles. 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title: The Weekly Podcast: SNL’S Chris Farley as Speaker Newt Gingrich: An Oral History
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&quot;The British Are Coming, The British Are Coming!&quot; Crazed European War Hawks are coming to Washington

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<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*1WhAO1bQ7WF6SsuqVr9CyA.png"></figure><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uUvz5BgMdk"><em>Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley)</em></a>:</p><iframe src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2F6uUvz5BgMdk%3Ffeature%3Doembed&amp;display_name=YouTube&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D6uUvz5BgMdk&amp;image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2F6uUvz5BgMdk%2Fhqdefault.jpg&amp;type=text%2Fhtml&amp;schema=youtube" width="854" height="480" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"><a href="https://medium.com/media/23d6745f82b2f709dd75f694a757f931/href">https://medium.com/media/23d6745f82b2f709dd75f694a757f931/href</a></iframe><p>The aggressive fetishization of the red hair of Ariel and Kfir Bibas is part of an absolutely disgusting war propaganda campaign aimed at white westerners, and we need to talk about it.</p><p>For those who don’t know, Ariel and Kfir Bibas were two Israeli child hostages who were killed in Gaza along with their mother in the early weeks of Israel’s genocidal onslaught upon the enclave. Israel <a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2025/02/there-is-no-evidence-hamas-killed-members-of-the-bibas-family-israel-is-using-their-death-to-manufacture-consent-for-genocide/">claims without evidence</a> that Hamas murdered them with their bare hands, while common sense says it’s much more likely that they died from Israel’s scorched-earth bombing campaign along with the <a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/08/1153216">many other women and children</a> who were being bombed to death every day in the same area during that time. Israel has <a href="https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1893400129723334981">enlisted the help of Chen Kugel</a> — the forensic pathologist who helped promote the <a href="https://www.declassifieduk.org/beheaded-babies-how-uk-media-reported-israels-fake-news-as-fact/">bogus atrocity propaganda</a> about “beheaded babies” on October 7 — to market its version of events regarding the Bibas family.</p><p>Israel and its supporters have been forcefully <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israel-pushes-new-atrocity-narrative">hammering on this narrative</a> that Hamas murdered these two little children with their bare hands in order to manufacture support for ending the ceasefire and resuming Israel’s daily massacres across the Gaza Strip, and lately it’s been taking an even creepier turn. In Israel and throughout the western world, the fact that these children had red hair is being aggressively pushed into public attention at every opportunity.</p><iframe src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FW7WAu1Tq2wg%3Ffeature%3Doembed&amp;display_name=YouTube&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DW7WAu1Tq2wg&amp;image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FW7WAu1Tq2wg%2Fhqdefault.jpg&amp;type=text%2Fhtml&amp;schema=youtube" width="854" height="480" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"><a href="https://medium.com/media/ae6b866b718c21af2146f091aae92d4e/href">https://medium.com/media/ae6b866b718c21af2146f091aae92d4e/href</a></iframe><p>Israel’s foreign ministry has released a <a href="https://x.com/IsraelMFA/status/1894483553456378307">brazenly propagandistic video</a> featuring an AI image of a redheaded child while a narrator says Hamas murdered the Bibas children, asserting that “from today, every redhead will remind us: Hamas murdered them, and Hamas will do it again — unless it’s wiped out.”</p><p>This is pretty standard babies-on-bayonets <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrocity_propaganda">atrocity propaganda</a>, but it’s done with a twist — a highly racialized one.</p><p>Throughout the Israel-aligned world, <a href="https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/404576">the color orange is being used</a> by government leaders to mourn the deaths of these children in the most public forums possible. Landmarks like the <a href="https://x.com/EmpireStateBldg/status/1894852703798358486">Empire State Building</a>, the <a href="https://x.com/Jeab1030599/status/1895046315836612643">Eiffel Tower</a>, and <a href="https://x.com/YakiLopez/status/1894815556416496007">the Brandenburg Gate</a> have all been illuminated in orange lights explicitly to commemorate the ginger Bibas children, and <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/orange-balloons-released-around-the-world-in-memory-of-bibas-family/ar-AA1zLdGb">orange balloons</a> have been released throughout Israel and the west in their honor.</p><iframe src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?type=text%2Fhtml&amp;key=a19fcc184b9711e1b4764040d3dc5c07&amp;schema=twitter&amp;url=https%3A//x.com/EliAfriatISR/status/1894875093110493453&amp;image=" width="500" height="281" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"><a href="https://medium.com/media/0657f0c3c672ad99ee340fddc484dbcd/href">https://medium.com/media/0657f0c3c672ad99ee340fddc484dbcd/href</a></iframe><p>Why all this emphasis on the redheadedness of these children? Why make such a big deal about a seemingly trivial detail in their lives?</p><p>Well the answer is simple but ugly: it reminds westerners that these children were not like the dark children whose deaths we’ve been told to ignore for the last year and a half. It reminds us that these children were white.</p><p>Look at any <a href="https://www.israelhayom.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/481016233_1209629970521522_1271371855640549846-e1740039189171-960x640-1.png">photo of the Bibas kids</a> and you will see children who look just like the white children you’ll see in any western nation. Westerners will look at them and see their own children, or children in their own community. The propagandists noticed the potential in this long ago, which was why they began <a href="https://zeteo.com/p/is-israel-weaponizing-bibas-children-deaths">ramping up the outrage machine</a> as soon as a ceasefire was announced, <a href="https://x.com/muhammadshehad2/status/1882845249325953414">pretending they didn’t know</a> the children were already dead and promising vengeance and hellfire if they weren’t returned alive.</p><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*SPSzSqEasOBN3xpwiUz27g.png"></figure><p>This is why when Benjamin Netanyahu <a href="https://x.com/IsraeliPM/status/1892904911375126852">released a video statement</a> in English the other day, he produced an enlarged photo of the children and spent some time pointing at them as he spoke. He wanted westerners to see that these were not the kind of children we were told to be indifferent toward as they were butchered by the thousands in Gaza. He wanted to make sure we could all see that they were white.</p><p>The idea, as with <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israel-and-its-apologists-weaponize">so much Israel apologia</a>, is to generate sympathy. If you sympathize with the children, you are more susceptible to narratives saying that Hamas must be destroyed and the ceasefire must end in order to avenge their deaths. If you sympathize with Israel, you are more likely to trust its narratives about what happened and what should happen in response. The western propaganda machine has spent generations killing off all sympathy for its brown-skinned victims in the global south, but our sympathy for white children has been left intact.</p><p>Propagandists are fetishizing the red hair of two dead white kids to market the reignition of the Gaza holocaust to white westerners. Israel apologists will deny this, but that’s plainly what’s happening. 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Col. Larry Wilkerson: EU Shaken, Middle East on Edge – Russia &amp; China Brace for America’s Next Move!

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<p><strong>Washington has begun to demonstrate pragmatism and a determination to resolve the accumulated problems, the Russian president has said</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>The renewed contacts between Moscow and the administration of US President Donald Trump have sparked <em>“hope”</em> that relations between the two countries could move in a positive direction, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said.</p>
<p>Communication between Russia and the US effectively broke down under former US President Joe Biden. Trump has sought to revise Washington’s approach towards foreign policy and held an extensive phone call with Putin on February 12. After that, Russian and US delegations held a high-level meeting in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia to discuss reestablishing dialogue.</p>
<p>Speaking at a meeting of the board of Russia’s Federal Security Service on Thursday, Putin said that <em>“the first contacts with the new American administration inspire certain hopes.”</em> The American side has demonstrated a <em>“reciprocal determination to work on restoring interstate relations, on gradually resolving the colossal volume of accumulated systemic and strategic problems in the world architecture.”</em> He noted that these issues, which had accumulated in recent years, ultimately provoked the Ukraine conflict and other regional crises.</p>

            
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<p>On Thursday, Russian and US diplomats held a closed-door meeting in Istanbul to discuss normalizing embassy operations following years of strained relations and diplomatic expulsions.</p>
<p>According to Putin, not everyone in the West appears to be happy with the restoration of US-Russia ties. In his words, <em>“part of the Western elites are still determined to maintain instability in the world”</em> and will likely try to disrupt or compromise the dialogue that has begun between Moscow and Washington.</p>
<p>At the same time, the president noted that the current US leadership appears to be showing a certain <em>“pragmatism”</em> and a <em>“realistic view on things”</em> by rejecting many stereotypes and <em>“messianic ideological cliches of their predecessors,”</em> which had contributed to the collapse of relations.</p>

             
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            <span>READ MORE: </span>US abstains from WTO statement condemning Russia – Reuters
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<p>Earlier this week, Putin said that Russia and the US are discussing <em>“major”</em> joint economic projects, noting that Moscow is ready to cooperate with American private companies and government entities to develop Russia’s rare-earth minerals.</p>
<p>US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has stated that Moscow and Washington could restore economic ties after the Ukraine conflict is resolved. Trump has also suggested that sanctions on Moscow could be lifted <em>“at some point”</em> as part of a negotiated settlement on Ukraine.</p>

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<p><strong>Moscow could even end up facing tougher restrictions, Sber CEO Herman Gref believes</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>Western sanctions against Russia might not be lifted and could even be tightened, Herman Gref, CEO of the country’s largest bank, Sber, suggested on Thursday, according to RBK.</p>
<p>The West has imposed an unprecedented number of sanctions on Russia over the Ukraine conflict, targeting a broad range of industries – particularly the financial sector – in an effort to destabilize the country’s economy. Additionally, an estimated $300 billion belonging to Russia’s central bank remains frozen in foreign depositories, primarily in the US and EU.</p>
<p>Speaking during an investor call, Gref emphasized Sber’s cautious approach, stating that <em>“we proceed with the scenario that no sanctions will be lifted.”</em> <br><em></em></p>
<p><em>“Moreover, we assume that sanctions will be tightened,”</em> he said, adding that the easing would be considered a <em>“happy bonus.”</em> </p>
<p>Despite this stance, Gref noted that Sber is also evaluating a scenario in which Western sanctions are lifted.</p>
<p>He acknowledged that if sanctions are removed, it could have positive effects, including changes in oil price discounts, improved stock market performance, increased foreign capital inflow, reduced transaction costs, and simplified settlements.</p>
<p>Facing Western sanctions over the Ukraine conflict, Sber divested from the EU banking market in mid-2023. The lender had previously operated in the region through Sberbank Europe AG, with branches in eight EU countries, serving approximately 715,000 customers. Since then, the lender has largely focused on domestic operations while also expanding into Asia.</p>

            
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<p>Talk about the sanctions being lifted and the potential return of Western companies to Russia has gained traction following the recent negotiations between Moscow and Washington in Saudi Arabia. The discussions were initiated after a phone call between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump on February 12.</p>
<p>US Secretary of State Marco Rubio later suggested that Western nations might need to consider lifting sanctions on Russia to achieve an <em>“enduring, sustainable”</em> resolution to the Ukraine conflict.</p>
<p>Trump said on Tuesday that Washington could lift the sanctions <em>“at some point”</em> during peace negotiations.</p>
<p>According to Rubio, the EU would also need to be <em>“at the table”</em> to discuss sanctions relief, as it has imposed its own restrictive measures against Russia. Brussels has responded it intends to maintain an independent sanctions policy regardless of Washington’s position.</p>
<p>This week, the EU adopted its 16th sanctions package. On Thursday, Trump also signed an executive order extending sanctions against Russia.</p>
<p>The Kremlin has repeatedly condemned the Western restrictions as illegal. Last week, Putin said that sanctions have, in fact, had the effect of strengthening Russia’s economic and technological sectors, fostering closer collaboration among domestic businesses and scientific institutions. He also emphasized that any potential return of Western companies to Russia would need to be carefully regulated to protect domestic industries.</p>

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title: Putin warns of attempts to sabotage talks with US
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<p><strong>Moscow should stay vigilant about efforts to meddle in its relations with Washington, the Russian president has said</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>Western elites are <em>“not happy”</em> about a potential rapprochement between Moscow and Washington and will seek to <em>“compromise”</em> the recently resumed dialogue between the two powers, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said.</p>
<p>Under US President Donald Trump’s administration, Russia and the US have started to gradually restore contacts that were virtually non-existent for approximately three years under his predecessor, Joe Biden.</p>
<p>High-ranking Russian and American delegations met in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia earlier this month. Following the talks, both nations agreed to work toward ending the Ukraine conflict and improving diplomatic and economic relations.</p>
<p>Speaking at the meeting of the board of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) on Thursday, Putin said that contacts with the Trump administration <em>“inspire hope.”</em> The two sides are willing to work on restoring bilateral relations, as well as resolving <em>“systemic”</em> issues in the global security architecture that led to the Ukraine conflict and other crises. Yet, some forces want to prevent that from happening, the president warned.</p>

            
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<p><em>“We realize that not everyone is happy to see Russia-US contacts resume. A portion of Western elites are still committed to maintaining instability in the world, and these forces will try to disrupt or to compromise the newly resumed dialogue,”</em> he said. <em>“We need to keep this in mind and leverage every possibility offered by diplomacy and special services to thwart such attempts,”</em> he told the gathered FSB officials.</p>

            
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<p>According to Putin, the new US administration is demonstrating <em>“pragmatism and a realistic vision of things.”</em> Moscow’s <em>“partners”</em> in Washington <em>“have abandoned numerous stereotypes, the so-called rules, and messianic, ideological clichés of their predecessors, which, in fact, caused the crisis of the entire system of international relations,”</em> he said.</p>
<p>Putin has indicated Moscow’s readiness to resolve the Ukraine conflict through peaceful means. He emphasized Russia’s aim of establishing an international system that ensures a balanced and mutual consideration of interests, creating a long-term, indivisible European and global security framework. This system would prevent the security of certain countries from being guaranteed at the expense of others, including Russia.</p>
<p>Since the Riyadh talks, Washington has said it was open to economic cooperation with Russia. On Thursday, diplomats from two nations held closed-door talks in Istanbul focused on restoring the work of their diplomatic missions. According to a Bloomberg report this week, Moscow and Washington have also been discussing cooperation in the Arctic.</p>

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<p><strong>The White House reportedly plans to halt $60 billion in foreign assistance</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>The administration of US President Donald Trump plans to cut more than 90% of US Agency for International Development (USAID) contracts and a total of $60 billion in overall foreign aid worldwide, AP reported on Thursday. The outlet cited an internal White House memo and filings in one of the federal lawsuits challenging the administration's plan.</p>
<p>Immediately upon assuming office, Trump suspended most US foreign assistance pending a three-month review to determine whether to continue or cease programs depending on their alignment with the new administration’s <em>“America first”</em> goals. USAID, Washington’s primary mechanism for funding political projects abroad, has found tens of billions dollars’ worth of approved grants frozen as a result.</p>
<p>NGOs and nonprofits formerly receiving grants and contracts from the agency have lodged multiple lawsuits against Trump and his administration, demanding the disbursement of already allocated funds.</p>
<p>Late on Wednesday, the US Supreme Court intervened in one of the cases, and temporarily blocked a <a href="https://www.rt.com/news/613350-judge-orders-trump-unfreeze-aid/">ruling</a> that demanded that the government release billions of dollars in grants and contracts by midnight, according to AP.</p>

            
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<p>The administration plans to eliminate 90% of USAID contracts to the tune of $54 billion, AP reported, citing the memo and court filings. Nearly half of the State Department’s foreign aid grants also face the axe, to the tune of another $4.4 billion, according to the outlet.</p>
<p>The officials were <em>“clearing significant waste stemming from decades of institutional drift,”</em> the memo reportedly states. A further shakeup in how USAID and the State Department disbursed foreign aid was forthcoming <em>“to use taxpayer dollars wisely to advance American interests,”</em> it reportedly adds. </p>
<p>Trump and his newly appointed government efficiency czar Elon Musk have repeatedly accused USAID of misappropriating taxpayer money and rampant corruption.</p>
<p>The cuts are part of broader measures by the administration, and Musk’s recently formed Department of Government Efficiency, to cut down on ballooning government spending.</p>

             
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<p>On Wednesday, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) confirmed that it also had its government funding frozen. Officially a US State Department-funded nonprofit for distributing grants to pro-democracy causes abroad, the NED has faced numerous allegations over the years of acting as a CIA cut-out for toppling foreign governments.</p>

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<p><strong>The proposal aims to commemorate the president’s economic policies with a new currency denomination</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>US Republican Congressman Joe Wilson has announced plans to introduce legislation to create a $250 bill featuring President Donald Trump’s image.</p>
<p>The initiative is part of a broader effort by some Republican lawmakers to honor Trump for his economic policies. Wilson shared an edited image of the proposed bill on social media on Wednesday.</p>
<p><em>“Grateful to announce that I am drafting legislation to direct the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to design a $250 bill featuring Donald J. Trump,”</em> the congressman declared in a post on X.</p>
<p>The lawmaker cited economic challenges as a motivation for the proposal, asserting that inflation had increased the need for higher-denomination currency.</p>
<p><em>“Bidenflation has destroyed the economy forcing American families to carry more cash. Most valuable bill for most valuable President!”</em> he remarked.</p>

            
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<p>Current US law prohibits depicting living individuals on currency, which would necessitate legal amendments for this proposal to proceed.</p>
<p>In a similar initiative to honor the president, Representative Anna Paulina Luna of Florida introduced a measure last month to add Trump’s likeness to Mount Rushmore. The proposal calls for the secretary of the interior to arrange for the carving of Trump’s face on the national monument, which currently includes George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln.</p>
<p>Other congressional Republicans have suggested various other tributes, including establishing a public holiday on Trump’s birthday and allowing him to seek a third presidential term.</p>
<p>The Treasury Department, which is responsible for the design of the currency, traditionally chooses for depiction historical figures whose contributions are widely recognized. Implementing Wilson’s proposal would require not only legislative changes but also a departure from longstanding practices regarding US currency design.</p>

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<p><strong>The Soviet grandmaster renowned for his Match of the Century against Bobby Fischer has passed away at 88</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>Boris Spassky, the 10th world chess champion, has died at the age of 88, the Russian Chess Federation announced on Thursday.</p>
<p>He was best known for his Cold War-era <em>“Match of the Century”</em> against American Bobby Fischer in 1972. <br><em></em></p>
<p><em>“A great personality has passed away; generations of chess players have learned and continue to learn from his games and work. It’s a great loss for the country. Condolences to family and friends. Eternal memory,”</em> the body’s president, Andrey Filatov, told TASS on Thursday.</p>
<p>Born on January 30, 1937, in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), Spassky began playing chess at the age of five, showing prodigious talent early on. During World War II, he and his elder brother were evacuated from Leningrad to Kirov Region. It was during this period that Spassky’s passion for chess deepened.</p>
<p>In 1969, Spassky achieved the pinnacle of his career by defeating Soviet-Armenian grandmaster Tigran Petrosian to become world champion. The match, held in Moscow, concluded with a score of 12.5 to 10.5 in Spassky’s favor.</p>

            
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<p>However, it was the 1972 World Chess Championship that cemented Spassky’s legacy in popular culture. Facing American challenger Bobby Fischer in Reykjavik, Iceland, the match transcended the chessboard, becoming a symbolic confrontation amid Cold War tensions. In what was dubbed the Match of the Century, Fischer emerged victorious with a score of 12.5 to 8.5, marking the first time an American had claimed the world chess title.</p>
<p>Despite the intense rivalry, Spassky and Fischer maintained a mutual respect. Their relationship extended beyond the 1972 match, leading to a rematch in 1992, which Fischer also won.</p>
<p>Throughout his career, Spassky was known for his adaptable playing style, capable of both aggressive attacks and deep positional understanding. He represented the Soviet Union in numerous Chess Olympiads and later emigrated to France in 1976, continuing his chess career and representing his new country in international competitions.</p>
<p>In 2010, Spassky suffered a stroke and subsequently returned to Russia in 2012. The statement from the Chess Federation did not say when exactly he died or from what cause.</p>

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<p><strong>The US president should intervene to stop an assault on democracy, Calin Georgescu has said</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>Calin Georgescu, the winner of the first round of last year’s annulled presidential election in Romania, has asked US President Donald Trump for help against what he has called a political persecution campaign against him.</p>
<p>A NATO-skeptic and nationalist, Georgescu's surprise victory in the presidential election first round last year triggered accusations of foreign interference, prompting the Romanian Supreme Court to controversially annul the vote. On Wednesday, Georgescu was arrested as he was about to file to run for the presidency again. He was released later the same day.</p>
<p><em>“I definitely ask President Trump to take care about the situation,”</em> he told an American blogger, Mario Nawfal, in an interview published on X on Thursday. </p>
<p>According to the Romanian authorities, Georgescu faces a total of six charges, including <em>“anti-constitutional acts”</em> and misreporting his finances. He was barred by a court order from leaving the country, appearing on TV, or posting anything on social media.</p>
<p>The politician denounced the criminal case against him as an assault on democracy that runs counter to the will of the Romanian people. <strong></strong> Delete</p>

            
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<p>According to Georgescu, the persecution campaign against him had <em>“exposed”</em> the Romanian <em>“deep state”</em> and its <em>“corruption.”</em> The politician claimed that Romania had been thrown back to the 1950s when it was ruled by a Communist regime.</p>
<p><em>“The deep state is so strong in this particular [kind] of activity,”</em> Georgescu said, referring to his arrest on Wednesday. He also vowed to <em>“fight for our freedom and for our democracy”</em> and called on the US to support him in this fight.</p>

            
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<p>According to Georgescu, the US should support him in order to preserve its own image as a beacon of democracy. If democracy is defeated <em>“in one country”</em> in a <em>“coup d’etat”</em> that would mean a failure for the US as well, the politician stated.</p>
<p>Washington has so far not commented on Georgescu’s appeal.</p>
<p>US officials have previously criticized the actions of Bucharest for annulling the results of the November election. Speaking at the Munich Security Conference earlier this month, Vice President J.D. Vance suggested that some <em>“old entrenched interests”</em> in Romania were using <em>“ugly, Soviet-era words like misinformation and disinformation”</em> to secure their own interests and prevent a politician with <em>“an alternative viewpoint”</em> from coming to power.</p>
<p>Elon Musk slammed the politician’s arrest on Wednesday by calling the move <em>“messed up.”</em></p>
<p>Georgescu is known for his skepticism towards Western influence over the country’s policies and criticizing both NATO and the EU. During his campaign, he also vowed to halt Romania’s military aid to Kiev if elected.</p>

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<p><strong>The restrictions over the Ukraine conflict are a response to an “extraordinary threat” to US national security, the executive order states</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order extending for another year certain sanctions against Russia over the Ukraine conflict, according to documents released by the White House on Thursday.</p>
<p>Initially imposed in 2014 following Crimea’s reunification with Russia, the measures have been expanded through multiple executive orders and are now extended for another year through March 6, 2026. <br><em></em></p>
<p><em>“The actions and policies addressed in these Executive Orders continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States,”</em> the document published in the Federal Register states. <br><em></em></p>
<p><em>“Therefore … I am continuing for 1 year the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13660,”</em> Trump stated.</p>
<p>The document also references a 2022 order signed by then-President Joe Biden, which prolonged sanctions in response to the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics joining Russia. That order claimed the development <em>“threatens the peace, stability, sovereignty, and territorial integrity of Ukraine, and thereby constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.”</em> </p>
<p>Four formerly Ukrainian regions – the Donetsk People’s Republic, Lugansk People’s Republic, Kherson Region, and Zaporozhye Region – joined Russia following a series of referendums in 2022. Crimea had previously voted to join Russia in 2014. Ukraine continues to claim its sovereignty over the regions.</p>
<p>Trump recently suggested that Kiev might reclaim some of the lost territory, but added that a return to pre-2014 borders is <em>“unlikely.”</em> He also signaled that Washington could lift sanctions against Russia <em>“at some point”</em> as part of Ukraine peace negotiations.</p>

            
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<p>On Wednesday, the US president said he wanted Ukraine to regain as much territory <em>“as possible”</em> under a potential peace deal with Russia. He claimed that Moscow would have to make concessions, but emphasized that any agreement should ultimately represent the best possible outcome for both parties.</p>
<p>Moscow and Washington are currently engaged in negotiations following a phone call between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier this month and subsequent high-level talks between Russian and US delegations in Saudi Arabia.</p>
<p>In June, Putin outlined his conditions for peace negotiations with Kiev, which involves the complete removal of Ukrainian troops from all Russian territories, including the four former Ukrainian regions that joined Russia in 2022. He also demanded that Ukraine legally commit to never joining NATO or any other Western military blocs.</p>
<p>Russia has repeatedly argued that the Ukraine conflict was provoked by NATO’s expansion toward its borders.</p>

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<p><strong>Eight months of house arrest is too lenient for an attempted terror attack, according to the Russian embassy</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>A French court has sentenced two pro-Ukraine activists who threw makeshift bombs at the Russian consulate in Marseilles on Monday to eight months of house arrest, multiple media outlets have reported. The Russian embassy in France has slammed the punishment as far too lenient for an attempted terrorist attack.</p>
<p>The two French nationals, referred to as Vasile H., 48, and Georges S., 59, were charged with <em>“unauthorized manufacture of an explosive or incendiary device,”</em> as well as <em>“attempted property damage by means dangerous to people,”</em> Le Figaro wrote on Thursday. Both were sentenced to eight months of house arrest, to be served with mandatory ankle monitoring bracelets, the newspaper added.</p>
<p>The Russian embassy in France protested the pair’s soft punishment in a statement on Thursday.</p>
<p><em>“The very lenient sentence handed down is absolutely inconsistent with the gravity of the crime – essentially, an attempt to commit a terrorist act,”</em> the consulate stressed, adding that it was sheer luck that no one was hurt.</p>
<p>The suspects, both employees of the French National Center for Scientific Research, had admitted their guilt in the arson attack, Reuters wrote on Thursday. Prosecutors had been seeking a year of monitoring for the pair, according to the outlet.</p>

            <blockquote data-sanitized-class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">The terrorists 
who attacked the Consulate General of Russia in Marseille were sentenced to 8 months, they will serve them at home and wear electronic 
bracelets.<br><br>8 month at home for terrorism. This is Macron’s France. <a href="https://t.co/3MtgLGkJkO">https://t.co/3MtgLGkJkO</a> <a href="https://t.co/EKthWBOZZ6">pic.twitter.com/EKthWBOZZ6</a></p>— Mikhail Rogov 🇷🇺 🇵🇸 🇱🇧 (@MishaRogov) <a href="https://twitter.com/MishaRogov/status/1895151305938685983?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 27, 2025</a></blockquote>

    

<p>The attackers procured liquid nitrogen from their workplace and used it to fashion explosive devices. The super-cooled liquid gas is usually stored at below -196 degrees Celsius (-321 Fahrenheit) and rapidly turns into a gas once placed into a closed container, increasing the pressure, Le Figaro wrote, citing Vasile H. The two accomplices brought a thermos flask with the chemical, fashioned their makeshift explosives from plastic soda bottles and threw them onto the Russian consulate grounds, he reportedly explained.</p>

            
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<p><em>“I threw a bottle but it fell next to the neighbor’s house. I ran away and I didn’t hear anything. I told myself that I had done it for nothing,”</em> he reportedly said.</p>
<p>Georges S. admitted that had one of their explosive devices landed on a person, it would have caused injuries, according to Le Figaro.</p>
<p>The suspects were reportedly detained at a rally in support of Ukraine later the same day.</p>
<p>The <em>“incompetence”</em> of the perpetrators <em>“does not relieve them of responsibility for what they did and cannot serve as a mitigating circumstance”</em> in determining their punishment, the Russian embassy statement insisted. </p>

             
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<p>The Russian Foreign Intelligence Agency warned last week that with diplomatic talks between Washington and Moscow taking place, Kiev may attempt to derail the ceasefire negotiations with terrorist attacks.</p>

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<p><strong>The UK is “ready to put boots on the ground and planes in the air” in Ukraine, PM Keir Starmer has said</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p data-start="241" data-end="305">US President Donald Trump has said British troops <em>“can take care of themselves”</em> when asked whether the US military would support them if the UK deploys forces to Ukraine as part of a potential peace agreement with Russia.</p>
<p data-start="653" data-end="808">British Prime Minister Keir Starmer met with Trump at the White House on Thursday, where they discussed a plan to reach what he called a <em>“peace that is tough and fair.”</em></p>
<p data-start="810" data-end="1100"><em>“I’m working closely with other European leaders on this, and I’m clear that the UK is ready to put boots on the ground and planes in the air to support a deal, working together with our allies, because that is the only way that peace will last,”</em> Starmer told reporters after the meeting.</p>
<p data-start="1102" data-end="1321">Trump, however, sidestepped a question about whether the US would provide backup if the deployment led to clashes with Russian forces, telling journalists that the British <em>“don’t need much help.”</em></p>
<p data-start="1323" data-end="1656"><em>“They can take care of themselves very well… It sounds like it’s evasive, but it’s not evasive. You know, the British have been incredible soldiers, incredible military, and they can take care of themselves,”</em> Trump said at a photo op before the meeting. <em>“If they need help, I’ll always be with the British, OK? I’ll always be with them – but they don’t need help.”</em></p>

            <blockquote data-media-max-width="560" data-sanitized-class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Trump: "The British have been incredible soldiers, incredible military, and they can take care of themselves. But if they need help, I'll always be with the British." <a href="https://t.co/8emiiJDnu0">pic.twitter.com/8emiiJDnu0</a></p>— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) <a href="https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1895189096340783357?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 27, 2025</a></blockquote> 
    

<p data-start="1658" data-end="1836">Starmer then hailed the US-UK relationship as the world’s <em>“greatest alliance for prosperity and security,”</em> adding that <em>“whenever necessary, we’ve absolutely backed each other up.”</em></p>

            
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<p data-start="1838" data-end="1933"><em>“Could you take on Russia by yourselves?”</em> Trump interrupted, turning to Starmer with a smile.</p>
<p data-start="1935" data-end="2053"><em>“Well…”</em> the prime minister responded to a burst of laughter from the audience before Trump moved on to other questions.</p>
<p data-start="2055" data-end="2249">The meeting came just days after French President Emmanuel Macron also reportedly failed to secure concrete US security guarantees for Ukraine during talks with Trump in Washington.</p>
<p>Trump previously said he discussed <em>“some form of peacekeeping”</em> with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, and claimed that Putin had <em>“no problem”</em> with the idea. However, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated that Moscow had not been consulted on the matter.</p>

            
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<p data-start="2484" data-end="2723">Lavrov said the idea of deploying foreign troops to Ukraine is being pushed by <em>“the Europeans, primarily France and also the British,”</em> suggesting that this is meant to <em>“further heat up the conflict and stop any attempts to calm it down.”</em></p>
<p data-start="2725" data-end="3161">Moscow has opposed the deployment of unauthorized peacekeepers to Ukraine, warning that without a UN mandate, they would be considered legitimate targets. Lavrov has said that any discussions about a peacekeeping force in Ukraine are <em>“empty”</em> and that the priority should be resolving the conflict’s underlying issues <em>– </em>including efforts to bring Kiev into NATO and the potential deployment of Western military infrastructure near Russia’s borders.</p>

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<p><strong>The first batch of declassified files reportedly contains little new information</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p data-start="66" data-end="138"><strong data-start="66" data-end="73"></strong>US Attorney General Pam Bondi has accused the Federal Bureau of Investigation of withholding <em>“thousands of pages”</em> of documents related to the investigation of convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. In a letter addressed to the newly appointed FBI director, Kash Patel, Bondi demanded the immediate release of all pertinent files.</p>
<p>Earlier that day, the Department of Justice released a set of documents titled ‘The Epstein Files: Phase 1’ to a select group of conservative influencers. Notable figures such as Libs of TikTok’s Chaya Raichik, journalist Jack Posobiec, pundit Liz Wheeler, and conservative commentator Mike Cernovich were seen exiting the White House with binders labeled with the project’s title.</p>

             
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<p data-start="917" data-end="1019">However, these documents were heavily redacted and contained mostly previously reported information. <em>“We got the binder at noon… AG Bondi wanted to get out what they had, which wasn’t anything material,”</em> Cernovich wrote in a post on X, adding that the FBI <em>“held back the real information and AG Bondi directed Kash Patel to start kicking ass.”</em></p>

            <blockquote data-sanitized-class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Yes. I can confirm this. AG Pam Bondi released what she had in her possession for the sake of transparency.<br><br>Unfortunately some bad actors within SDNY and the FBI NYC field office with held documents.<br><br>AG Bondi is working on this tirelessly. <a href="https://t.co/ZsiIe0QrEW">https://t.co/ZsiIe0QrEW</a></p>— Cernovich (@Cernovich) <a href="https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1895197058635833492?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 27, 2025</a></blockquote> 
    

<p data-start="1292" data-end="1737">Bondi’s letter to Patel on Thursday alleges that despite assurances by his predecessors at the FBI that her office had received the complete set of Epstein-related documents, a tip from an insider revealed the existence of additional undisclosed files. The initial batch provided to Bondi’s office reportedly comprised approximately 200 pages, including flight logs, contact information, and victim identities, which according to the AG was already enough to <em><em>“</em>make you sick.”</em> </p>

            
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<p data-start="1739" data-end="2123"><em>“By 8:00am tomorrow, February 28, the FBI will deliver the full and complete Epstein files to my office, including all records, documents, audio and video recordings, and materials related to Jeffrey Epstein and his clients, regardless of how such information was obtained,”</em> Bondi wrote in her letter to Patel. <em>“There will be no withholdings or limitations to my or your access.”</em></p>
<p data-start="2609" data-end="2803">The limited release of the Epstein files has drawn criticism from Florida Representative Anna Paulina Luna, who leads President Donald Trump’s newly established declassification task force. <em>“This is not what we or the American people asked for. Get us the information we asked for instead of leaking old info to press,”</em> Luna wrote on X in all caps.</p>

            <blockquote data-sanitized-class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">This is the story:<br><br>President Trump &amp; AG Pam Bondi committed to releasing the Epstein files.<br><br>The FBI was told to deliver the files to Bondi.<br><br>They did, about 200 pages.<br><br>Bondi smelled a rat, because there was nothing juicy in the 200 pages, just flight logs &amp; a Rolodex of phone…</p>— Liz Wheeler (@Liz_Wheeler) <a href="https://twitter.com/Liz_Wheeler/status/1895223016365400449?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 27, 2025</a></blockquote> 
    

<p data-start="3084" data-end="3627">Trump signed an executive order shortly after taking office, mandating the release of the Epstein files along with classified documents related to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr.</p>

            
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<p data-start="3629" data-end="4157">The Epstein case has drawn significant attention due to his extensive network of high-profile associates, including former US President Bill Clinton, Britain’s Prince Andrew, billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, and numerous other celebrities and business leaders. Trump also personally knew Epstein but has denied ever visiting his private island, maintaining that he cut ties with him in the 1990s – years before the financier’s first arrest for soliciting prostitution in 2006 – and has vowed to declassify all files.</p>
<p data-start="3629" data-end="4157">Raising concerns about the potential destruction of these sensitive documents, Tennessee Representative Andy Ogles has proposed legislation aimed at preserving all non-public records related to Epstein. In a letter to Bondi on Wednesday, Ogles announced his intent to introduce the Preventing Epstein Documentation Obliteration Act, or PEDO Act, following <em>“reports that certain FBI agents are allegedly attempting to destroy critical records.”</em></p>

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<p><strong>Attorney General Pam Bondi has demanded a probe into the FBI for allegedly withholding the remaining files</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p data-start="145" data-end="208"><strong data-start="145" data-end="152"></strong>The Department of Justice (DOJ) has released the first phase of declassified documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, which includes mostly previously known flight logs, phone records, and other materials linked to the convicted sex trafficker’s network of associates.</p>
<p data-start="145" data-end="208">Labeled ‘The Epstein Files: Phase 1’<em>,</em> the documents were first made available to a select group of conservative influencers before being broadly <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/attorney-general-pamela-bondi-releases-first-phase-declassified-epstein-files" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">released to the public</a> on Thursday evening. The DOJ has not yet confirmed whether additional phases will follow or provided a timeline for further disclosures.</p>
<p data-start="145" data-end="208"><em>“The first phase of files released today sheds light on Epstein’s extensive network and begins to provide the public with long-overdue accountability,”</em> said Attorney General Pam Bondi. <em>“This Department of Justice is following through on President Trump’s commitment to transparency and lifting the veil on the disgusting actions of Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirators.”</em></p>

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<p data-start="1293" data-end="1727">According to the DOJ statement, the release is part of a broader initiative to increase transparency regarding Epstein’s criminal activities and the people connected to him. However, some critics have expressed disappointment. Representative Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.), who leads President Donald Trump’s declassification task force, stated that the release did not contain the substantive information the public had been expecting.</p>

            
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<p data-start="1729" data-end="2021">The DOJ has yet to comment on whether more names of high-profile individuals linked to Epstein will be revealed in future releases. The FBI, which has been accused of withholding documents, is also under pressure to release additional materials following Bondi’s demand for full disclosure.</p>
<p data-start="2023" data-end="2223">Bondi has requested that the FBI hand over the remaining documents by 8:00am Friday and has <em>“tasked FBI Director Kash Patel with investigating why the request for all documents was not followed.”</em></p>
<p data-start="2225" data-end="2637"><em>“There will be no cover-ups, no missing documents, and no stone left unturned</em> – <em>and anyone from the prior or current Bureau who undermines this will be swiftly pursued,”</em> said Patel after Bondi wrote him a letter earlier in the day demanding the immediate release of all pertinent files. <em>“The FBI is entering a new era – one that will be defined by integrity, accountability, and the unwavering pursuit of justice.”</em></p>

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<p><strong>The agreement is final and is only awaiting the Ukrainian leader’s signature, according to Scott Bessent</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p data-start="134" data-end="235"><strong data-start="134" data-end="233"></strong>The US and Ukraine have finalized their agreement on rare earths and other natural resources, and Vladimir Zelensky is expected to sign the document without further negotiations during his meeting with President Donald Trump on Friday, according to US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.</p>
<p data-start="134" data-end="235">Trump has repeatedly stated in recent weeks that the US wants to <em>“get back”</em> the money it has spent on military and financial aid to Kiev through a minerals deal with Ukraine. However, Zelensky had previously refused to sign an agreement without concrete US security guarantees for Kiev.</p>
<p data-start="964" data-end="1141"><em>“The deal is done. President Zelensky is coming here to sign the deal tomorrow, so there is no more negotiation, there is nothing else,”</em> Bessent told Fox Business on Thursday.</p>
<p data-start="964" data-end="1141">Bessent traveled to Kiev earlier this month but returned empty-handed after Zelensky allegedly lashed out at him over a US demand that Ukraine hand over 50% of its critical minerals as compensation for past aid. According to Financial Times sources, Zelensky’s frustration boiled over during their closed-door meeting as Bessent pushed for an immediate signature on the deal.</p>

            
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<p data-start="1143" data-end="1520">Bessent reiterated that the deal has since been finalized and is only awaiting Zelensky’s signature. The Ukrainian leader reportedly arrived in Washington on Thursday night and is set to meet with Trump on Friday.</p>
<p data-start="1728" data-end="1997"><em>“I’m sure President Zelensky and President Trump will have a wide-ranging discussion. But as far as the deal, it is complete. It is on paper, and the Ukrainian government has approved it. It is just awaiting the signature of the two heads of state tomorrow,”</em> Bessent said.</p>
<p data-start="1083" data-end="1283">The deal would encompass not only <em>“strategic”</em> rare earth minerals but also <em>“oil and gas and infrastructure assets,”</em> according to Bessent, who called it a <em>“win-win”</em> for Americans and Ukrainians.</p>
<p data-start="1285" data-end="1603"><em>“It shows the American people that there is upside here for them, that we have not squandered the money, because the American people are always concerned about overseas interventions, there’s a lot of corruption,”</em> he added. <em>“So this deal takes out the possibility of any corruption, using Americans’ best practices.”</em></p>

            
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<p data-start="1999" data-end="2259">The exact terms of the agreement have not been disclosed, but according to media reports, Washington will not offer any tangible security guarantees despite Kiev’s requests. Instead, it will only <em>“support its efforts”</em> to secure such assurances in the future.</p>
<p data-start="2261" data-end="2372">Trump noted on Thursday that the minerals deal itself should serve as a sufficient guarantee for Ukraine.</p>
<p data-start="2374" data-end="2882"><em>“It’s really going to get us into that country. We’ll be working there. We’ll have a lot of people working there. And so, in that sense, it’s very good. It’s a backstop, you could say,”</em> Trump told journalists while hosting UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the White House. <em>“I don’t think anybody’s going to play around if we’re there with a lot of workers.”</em></p>
<p data-start="2374" data-end="2882"><em>“It’s really very good for Ukraine, and very good for us,”</em> Trump added.<em> “The American taxpayers will now effectively be reimbursed for the money and hundreds of billions of dollars poured into helping Ukraine.”</em></p>

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<p><strong>US and Russian diplomats have shared few details of their closed-door discussions in Istanbul, but have agreed to hold “follow-up” meetings</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p data-start="143" data-end="216"><strong data-start="143" data-end="214"></strong>Russian and US officials held a lengthy expert-level meeting in Türkiye on Thursday to discuss resolving ongoing diplomatic disputes, according to Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.</p>
<p data-start="555" data-end="842">The meeting, which follows a series of high-level bilateral contacts, was reportedly aimed at addressing obstacles hindering the operations of the Russian Embassy in Washington and the US Embassy in Moscow, including banking access and staffing levels.</p>
<p data-start="844" data-end="1098">Zakharova emphasized the significance of the meeting, stating that it sought to <em>“explore pathways for resolving <a href="https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/2000494/?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">numerous irritants</a> that persist in bilateral dialogue due to the groundwork laid by the destructive actions of previous US administrations.”</em></p>

            
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<p data-start="1100" data-end="1362">The delegations wrapped up their talks without making any public statements, although Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said details about the outcome would be provided <em>“one way or another.” </em>The sides did unveil the composition of their delegations, but according to the State Department, the US group was led by Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Russia and Central Europe Sonata Coulter, while Russian side was represented by Ambassador Aleksandr Darchiev, the chief of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s North Atlantic Department.</p>
<p data-start="1364" data-end="1732"><em>“The United States raised concerns regarding access to banking and contracted services as well as the need to ensure stable and sustainable staffing levels at the US Embassy in Moscow,”</em> the State Department said in a <a href="https://www.state.gov/february-27-meeting-in-istanbul/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">brief statement</a>. <em>“Through constructive discussions, both sides identified concrete initial steps to stabilize bilateral mission operations in these areas.”</em></p>

            
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<p data-start="1734" data-end="1995">Zakharova said the deterioration of relations was not Russia’s choice and that Moscow’s actions have been proportionate responses to Washington’s moves. Both delegations acknowledged the need to stabilize diplomatic operations and improve communication.</p>
<p data-start="1997" data-end="2327">The discussions, which lasted over six hours, are expected to be the first in a series of expert consultations designed to resolve differences and build confidence between the two countries. Both delegations agreed to hold a follow-up meeting in the near future, with the date, location, and representation yet to be determined.</p>
<p data-start="2329" data-end="2664">Under the administration of President Donald Trump, the US and Russia have begun gradually restoring contacts that were virtually non-existent for approximately three years under his predecessor, Joe Biden. A phone call between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on February 12 was followed by a high-level Russia-US meeting in the Saudi capital, Riyadh.</p>
<p data-start="2666" data-end="3055">Putin characterized the discussions as <em>“a first step”</em> toward normalization of ties, a sentiment later echoed by Trump. While neither head of state attended the talks – the first in three years – they were conducted by high-level officials, including Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Neither Ukrainian nor EU diplomats were invited to the meeting.</p>
<p data-start="3057" data-end="3379">The latest talks in Istanbul, according to Zakharova, were the first in a planned series of expert consultations aimed at fostering confidence-building measures. She noted that both sides recognize the necessity of preventing further deterioration in diplomatic relations and working toward a more constructive dialogue.</p>

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<p><strong>Two men recruited by Kiev planned an attack on Metropolitan Tikhon in Moscow, the agency has said</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has thwarted a Ukrainian attempt to assassinate a senior figure in the Russian Orthodox Church in Crimea, an agency statement has claimed.</p>
<p>The Ukrainian military intelligence plot allegedly involved threatening an aide of Crimean Metropolitan Tikhon, the head of the Simferopol and Crimean diocese and reported to be a spiritual adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin.</p>
<p>In a statement on Friday, the FSB said it had arrested a Russian and Ukrainian citizen respectively, who confessed to being recruited in mid-2024 and receiving the explosive device in December 2024 through a dead drop.</p>
<p>They allegedly planned to carry out an attack at Metropolitan Tikhon's residential quarters in Sretensky Monastery, one of Moscow’s most historically and religiously significant Orthodox sites, after which they would flee Russia using forged documents provided by Ukrainian intelligence.</p>
<p>The agency also reported that it seized a homemade explosive device and two fake Ukrainian passports from the detainees.</p>
<p>Several Russian outlets also released a video of the Ukrainian suspect, who identified himself as Denis Popovich, saying that had been working as an aide to Tikhon while secretly gathering intelligence on him.</p>

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<p>He claimed he was tasked by Kiev with recruiting a co-conspirator for an assassination, adding that he was told that his family would be killed if he refused to cooperate.</p>
<p>Tikhon has been described as a close spiritual adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin. He has never confirmed this, insisting that it is up to the Russian leader to reveal who provides him with spiritual guidance. The cleric’s 2011 book ‘Everyday Saints and Other Stories’ is a bestseller in Russia, with over 2 million copies sold.</p>

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<p><strong>Concerned citizens can contact the Advice Compass on Conspiracy Thinking , the Interior Ministry has said</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>Germans who suspect that their relatives or friends have fallen for conspiracy theories can now seek official guidance, the Interior Ministry has announced. The government has launched a nationwide consultation center to combat <em>“lies and disinformation.”</em></p>
<p>Known as the Advice Compass on Conspiracy Thinking, the service was launched on Thursday and is accessible online or by phone. According to the ministry, it aims to provide <em>“the most tailored help and advice possible”</em> for those seeking guidance.</p>
<p>The center offers consultations and can refer individuals to specialized agencies if necessary, according to Minister for Family Affairs Lisa Paus, without specifying which agencies will be involved.</p>
<p>Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said that an <em>“open dialogue on equal terms”</em> is often difficult with individuals deeply immersed in conspiracy beliefs. She hailed the initiative as <em>“an important building block in the holistic fight against extremism and disinformation.”</em></p>
<p>Paus described conspiracy theories as <em>“poison for our democracy”</em> and a burden on families and colleagues. The Interior Ministry claimed that these beliefs can lead to extremist ideologies and incite violence, highlighting anti-Semitic conspiracies as a major concern.</p>

             
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<p>The German authorities have been raising the alarm over the supposed rise of conspiracy theories. This trend is often linked to the Querdenker (lateral thinking) movement, which emerged during the Covid-19 pandemic to oppose lockdown measures and other government policies. Since then, Querdenker groups have organized protests against Germany’s foreign policy and weapons supplies to Kiev, which began in 2022 following the escalation of the conflict between Ukraine and Russia.</p>

            
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<p>Some factions have also called for <em>“regionality, direct democracy, and limiting the power”</em> of the federal government. Officials and media outlets often associate Querdenker groups with conspiracy theories and far-right organizations.</p>
<p>In 2021, the German domestic security agency (BfV) announced it would closely monitor some Querdenker groups, claiming that they could try to <em>“delegitimize”</em> the state and use legitimate protest to <em>“provoke escalation.”</em></p>
<p>The announcement of the Advice Compass came just days after the right-wing Alternative for Germany party (AfD) secured second place in snap parliamentary elections, receiving 20.8% of the vote – a significant rise from the 10.4% they received in 2021. Despite the gains, the party remains ostracized by the other major political parties and is frequently labeled ‘far-right’ by officials and media.</p>
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<p><strong>The company claims it is owed royalties for extended screenings of several Hollywood blockbusters in the country in 2022</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>A former Sony Pictures vendor in Russia has sued the country’s largest cinemas, seeking payment for extended screenings of several Hollywood blockbusters in 2022.</p>
<p>Arbitration case records show that Content Club, formerly known as Sony Pictures Productions and Releasing (SPPR), which operated as Sony Pictures’ representative office in Russia until 2022, earlier this month filed lawsuits against roughly two-dozen cinema chains, demanding a total of 1 billion rubles ($11 million).</p>
<p>After the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in early 2022, Hollywood’s five largest film studios – Disney, Warner Bros., Sony Pictures, Paramount, and Universal – exited the Russian market and halted new movie releases in the country. In the absence of new Western releases, which accounted for more than 70% of all box office revenue in Russia in 2021, cinema chains extended the run of previously released titles beyond the typical three-to-six-week screening period. According to data from RBK, Hollywood blockbusters such as ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’ and ‘Uncharted’ remained in Russian theaters for nearly four months. Both are Sony Pictures’ releases.</p>

            
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<p>The claims filed by Content Club relate to outstanding payments for screenings of these and other Sony Pictures’ films prior to its exit from the country.</p>
<p>The lawsuits were filed at the Arbitration Court in Moscow, with all leading Russian cinema chains listed among the defendants, including Formula Kino, Cinema Park, Karo, Kinomax, Cinema Star, and others. The claims seek repayment of principal debt and interest under contracts signed in 2019 and 2020, which predated Sony Pictures’ exit from Russia.</p>
<p>Most of the cases have been recently registered, with several left <em>“without movement”</em> due to flaws in the submitted documents. Neither Content Club, nor representatives of the cinema chains, have responded to media requests for comment.</p>
<p>Legal experts cited by RBK say Content Club has a strong chance of winning the lawsuits. While the company is foreign-owned, which could bring the cases under Russia’s sanctions regulations, the court is likely to handle them as standard contract disputes, as they involve two Russian legal entities and agreements made and executed within Russia. Experts also pointed out that the timing of the lawsuits is tied to the approaching expiration of the three-year statute of limitations on debt collection. They noted that while many Russian branches of foreign companies suspended operations in 2022, including debt recovery efforts, some may now be resuming legal action to avoid financial losses.</p>

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title: Deadly explosions hit rebel rally in DR Congo (VIDEO)
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<p><strong>A coalition of militant groups claims the African state’s president is responsible for the “massacre”</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>At least 11 people have been killed and 65 others wounded in explosions at an M23 rebel <a href="https://x.com/LawrenceKanyuka/status/1895046387194073210" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">rally</a> in Bukavu, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, the leader of the rebel alliance has reported. A spokesman accused the country’s president of carrying out the <em>“terrorist attack.”</em></p>
<p>Videos shared on social media showed hundreds of people who had gathered at the Independence Square rally fleeing after the blasts, with some carrying those injured. A witness who spoke with Reuters reported hearing at least two explosions. A medical source told the outlet that 68 people were being treated at the city’s general hospital.<br><em></em></p>
<p><em>“The order to massacre the people of Bukavu was given by [President] Tshisekedi Tshilombo after a meeting with his last governor who was chased out of Bukavu,”</em> AFC spokesperson Lawrence Kanyuka said in a statement.</p>
<p>In a statement on X, President Felix Tshisekedi Tshilombo announced the deaths of <em>“several compatriots”</em> following an explosion that took place during a <em>“forced meeting”</em> in the South Kivu capital, Bukavu.<br><em></em></p>
<p><em>“President Tshisekedi strongly condemns this heinous terrorist act which was perpetrated by a foreign army illegally present on Congolese soil,”</em> his office stated.</p>

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<p>M23 rebels <a href="https://www.rt.com/africa/612855-rebels-seize-second-dr-congo-city/">seized</a> Bukavu on February 16 in their renewed offensive against the DR Congo government since the beginning of the year. The group claimed Congolese forces and their allies had abandoned the city of approximately 1.3 million people, prompting its fighters to take control and address security concerns.</p>
<p>The militants earlier seized Goma, the capital of North Kivu, where the UN says they have appointed de facto authorities, including a governor and mayor.</p>

             
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<p>About 7,000 people have been killed in the fighting, Congolese Prime Minister Judith Suminwa told a high-level meeting of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday.</p>
<p>The incident on Thursday risks further escalating the conflict in the resource-rich eastern DR Congo, where the M23 and dozens of armed groups have been fighting the local authorities for power and minerals such as gold and diamonds for decades.</p>

            
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<p>The former Belgian colony’s authorities have repeatedly accused Rwanda of providing support to the M23 – a claim backed by a UN expert’s report and Western countries, including the US, Belgium, and the UK. Kigali has consistently denied the allegations.</p>
<p>On Tuesday, the British government announced that it will suspend some aid to Rwanda and impose diplomatic sanctions on the East African country over its alleged involvement in the DR Congo conflict.<br><br>The landlocked country has condemned the <em>“punitive measure,”</em> calling it <em>“regrettable.”</em> Last week, Rwanda suspended a five-year cooperation agreement with Belgium, accusing it of taking sides in the conflict and politicizing development.</p>

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<p><strong>President Emmanuel Macron intervened to secure an invitation for the Ukrainian leader to the White House, a diplomatic source has claimed</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>US President Donald Trump was reportedly reluctant to host Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky this Friday. A French diplomatic source, cited by BFMTV on Thursday, suggested that while the White House had planned to cancel the meeting, the decision was reversed after Zelensky called French President Emmanuel Macron and asked him to intervene.</p>
<p>Zelensky is visiting the US for a signing ceremony regarding an agreement on rare earths and other natural resources – which Trump has described as repayment for American aid to Ukraine. According to a draft text published by Ukrainian media, cabinet-level officials will finalize the document with their signatures.</p>
<p>Asked about Zelensky’s potential visit earlier this week, Trump said, <em>“I hear that he is coming on Friday. Certainly, it’s OK with me, if he’d like to.”</em></p>
<p>Macron visited the US on Wednesday, reportedly aiming to dissuade Trump from distancing the US from the Ukraine conflict. The Trump administration has stressed that American troops and NATO will not be involved in post-truce security arrangements. Insiders, as reported by Politico, dismissed the Macron-Trump meeting as <em>“a waste of time.”</em></p>

            
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<p>The minerals deal emerged from Zelensky’s proposal for the US to benefit from Ukraine’s resources, which led to tensions after he refused to sign an initial offer from US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. Zelensky publicly challenged Trump, a tactic criticized as counterproductive by associates of the US president. Trump blasted Zelensky, calling him a <em>“dictator without election”</em> with low public support.</p>
<p>The document set to be signed on Friday outlines a framework agreement at the government level, declaring both nations’ intentions to establish a special fund for investments in Ukraine. Many crucial details were omitted, pending a separate document that is reportedly incomplete.</p>
<p>Zelensky has said the terms have improved significantly. <em>“Though it does not include all the security guarantees that Ukraine would like to see, I wanted it to include at least one sentence about them, and it does,”</em> he told reporters. The draft text states that the US supports Kiev’s pursuit of security guarantees.</p>

             
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<p>The minerals deal serves as a sufficient guarantee for Ukraine, Trump stated on Thursday. Hosting UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, he told journalists, <em>“It’s a backstop… I don’t think anybody’s going to play around if we’re there [in Ukraine] with a lot of workers.”</em></p>
<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin has said the potential US-Ukraine deal on rare-earth minerals <em>“doesn’t concern”</em> Moscow, adding that Russia has <em>“significantly more resources of this kind than Ukraine”</em> and is ready to work with the US in developing rare-earth mineral deposits, including in <em>“our new historical territories.”</em></p>

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title: Trump planning sweeping cuts to State Department – Politico
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<p><strong>The US president is moving away from the “soft power” approach while attempting to trim costs, the outlet reports</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>US President Donald Trump is planning an overhaul of the State Department, aiming to reduce the number of diplomats and embassies while focusing on Washington’s immediate interests, Politico reported on Thursday, citing sources and internal documents.</p>
<p>According to the outlet, the Trump administration is aiming to prioritize transactional government agreements safeguarding US security and investment interests. This approach, however, involves scaling back on traditional <em>“soft power”</em> tools, including initiatives purportedly advancing democracy across the globe.</p>
<p>The new strategy would reportedly involve staff cuts and embassy closures. While the exact number of missions to be shut down remains undetermined, Politico sources claimed that Secretary of State Marco Rubio is on board with the policy, with discussions suggesting at least a 20% cut in State Department staffing.</p>
<p>An unnamed official told Politico that the State Department’s Executive Secretariat had reached out to several key US agencies, including the Pentagon and the CIA, with a request to rank US embassies based on their importance to their operations.</p>

            
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<p>Politico also obtained a list of potential consulates slated for closure, including facilities in France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, and Brazil. In some cases, the closure of diplomatic missions would mean the remaining facilities would cover a wider geographic area.</p>
<p>Several State Department bureaus focusing on education, environment, and scientific affairs could also face major cuts or closure. The Economic Affairs Bureau is expected to remain, aligning with Trump’s focus on transactional diplomacy. The Consular Affairs Division, responsible for visas and assisting Americans abroad, is also expected to remain one of the pillars of the department, but could experience some staffing cuts.</p>
<p>Trump has already issued an order on reforming recruitment for the State Department, with Politico suggesting this would help create a more <em>“pliable”</em> and easier-to-fire staff. A former senior State Department official cited by the outlet cautioned that this could deter diplomats from expressing dissenting opinions, potentially undermining the decision-making process.</p>
<p>Tom Shannon, an ex-State Department official, argued that the Trump administration’s approach would <em>“dramatically shrink the ambit of American diplomacy… [and] the purpose and the practice of our diplomacy and return it, if not to the 19th century, at least pre-World War II.”</em> </p>
<p>Politico also cited critics of the overhaul, who warned that the reforms could have long-term detrimental effects on US foreign policy, particularly in the face of the rivalry with China.</p>
<p>The Trump administration has said it seeks to reduce government spending, combat bureaucracy, and fight corruption within the country’s agencies, citing high national debt, with the campaign being spearheaded by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).</p>
<p>The US leader has already cracked down on the US Agency for International Development (USAID), portraying it as the epitome of a wasteful agency run by <em>“radical left lunatics.”</em></p>

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<p><strong>The Brazilian president has said the group is committed to developing secure payment platforms as tariff threats from the US grow</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>The BRICS nations remain committed to developing new <em>“transparent and secure”</em> payment platforms to boost their economic integration and reduce <em>“vulnerabilities”</em> in the global market, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has said. <br><br>The Brazilian leader made the statement at a meeting of the group’s sherpas on Thursday, as BRICS continues to seek options to boost trade in national currencies and move trade away from the dollar. <br><br>Lula said that Brazil’s BRICS chairmanship this year will strengthen the group’s push for a multipolar world and will contribute to the <em>“development of complementary, voluntary, accessible, transparent and secure payment platforms.”</em> <br><br>BRICS – which recently expanded and now comprises Brazil, Russia, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Iran, United Arab Emirates – has been boosting the use of national currencies in mutual trade. <br><br><em>“The current protectionist escalation in the area of trade and investment reinforces the importance of measures that seek to overcome obstacles to our economic integration. Increasing payment options means reducing vulnerabilities and costs,”</em> Lula said. <br><br>He was referring to numerous threats issued by US President Donald Trump to BRICS since his reelection last November. <br><br>Trump has acknowledged that the group’s push to minimize dependence on the dollar in bilateral trade and promote national currencies undermines the dominance of the greenback, a tendency he seeks to resist. <br><br>The US president has threatened to cut trade with members of the group if they try <em>“to destroy”</em> the dollar. Earlier this month, he once again pledged massive tariffs on all imports from BRICS countries if they proceed with plans to establish a common currency. <br><br>Trump warned last week that <em>“any BRICS state that even mentions the destruction of the dollar will be charged a 150% tariff.”</em> <br><br></p>

            
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<p>There has been speculation about a potential BRICS single currency in recent years. In 2023, Lula expressed support for the idea of a trading currency within the economic grouping, drawing parallels to the euro. <br><br>Although BRICS members have denied plans to establish a single currency, they have ramped up efforts to reduce reliance on Western currencies in bilateral trade in recent years. <br><br>The trend gained significant momentum after Russia was cut off from the Western financial system and had its foreign reserves frozen in 2022 as part of Ukraine-related sanctions. BRICS states, including Russia, have claimed that the US is weakening the dollar itself by politicizing it with sanctions.</p>

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title: Trump a ‘difficult partner’ – EU nation’s PM
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<p><strong>For the US president, Europe “is not the center of the world,” Poland’s Donald Tusk has remarked</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>European allies of the US must navigate a new reality in which President Donald Trump does not consider them a priority, according to Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk. In an interview with the TVN24 news channel on Thursday, he characterized Trump as the most challenging American leader Warsaw has faced.</p>
<p>Trump's ‘America First’ agenda diverts US attention from foreign issues that his predecessor, President Joe Biden, deemed critical, notably the Ukraine conflict. The Trump administration is pushing for a swift resolution and expects European nations to manage any subsequent security arrangements concerning Russia.</p>
<p><em>”He is a much more difficult partner than any US president before,”</em> Tusk said, emphasizing that for Trump <em>“Europe is not the center of the world, Ukraine is not the main problem.”</em></p>
<p>A fervent advocate for the EU, Tusk said the bloc should actively seek opportunities to gain Trump’s favor.</p>
<p><em>”Everyone without exception should strive to persuade President Trump of our arguments,”</em> Tusk said, asserting that Poland may be better positioned to do so than some other EU countries. He confirmed that the bloc is <em>“definitely”</em> working to present a united front to the US.</p>

            
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<p>Tusk acknowledged Trump's penchant for unpredictability, stating that supporters and adversaries alike must contend with his rapid shifts in attitude.</p>
<p>French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer have both visited the US this week to urge Trump for increased involvement in European matters and the Ukraine crisis, although their appeals were apparently unconvincing. Starmer reiterated his commitment to deploying British troops to Ukraine as part of a proposed European peacekeeping mission, to which Trump responded that British forces <em>“can take care of themselves very well”</em> without US backing.</p>
<p>Earlier this month, US Vice President J.D. Vance criticized European nations for allegedly drifting away from the US by abandoning shared values, including commitments to free speech and democracy. He cautioned that if this trend continues, Washington may cease to recognize them as worthy allies.</p>

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title: Mystery illness in DR Congo could be malaria – media
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<p><strong>The outbreak has killed at least 50 people, Reuters has reported</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>A disease outbreak in northwestern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) has killed at least 50 people and affected around 1,000, Reuters reported on Thursday, citing a local official. Health officials suspect malaria or food poisoning as the cause of the illness, which has been reported in Equateur province.</p>
<p>Dieudonne Mwamba, the director general of the National Institute of Public Health, told the news agency that 52 deaths and 943 infections have been recorded in Equateur so far.</p>
<p>The World Health Organization (WHO), in a separate statement, reported 1,096 suspected cases and 60 deaths. Patients have shown symptoms including fever, vomiting, weight loss, and fatigue.</p>
<p><em>“For now, our diagnosis is malaria, and we also suspect food poisoning,”</em> Mwamba stated. He explained that affected children had consumed bushmeat, which could be linked to the outbreak.</p>

            
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<p>Doctors have ruled out known viruses such as Ebola, Marburg, yellow fever, and dengue after testing more than a dozen samples. The WHO said additional tests are being conducted to determine if other diseases, including typhoid fever, meningitis, or viral hemorrhagic fevers, could be responsible.</p>
<p>Medical director Serge Ngalebato of Bikoro Hospital, a key monitoring center in the region, told AP that the most alarming aspect of the outbreak is the rapid progression of symptoms. The interval between the onset of symptoms and death has been 48 hours in most cases, and <em>“that’s what’s really worrying,”</em> he said.</p>
<p>The DR Congo has been identified as the epicenter of a severe outbreak of the Mpox virus, formerly known as monkeypox, with over 2,000 new suspected cases weekly, according to the WHO.</p>

             
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<p>In December, the former Belgian colony’s Health Ministry identified a previously unknown disease that had spread in the southwestern Kwango province as a severe form of malaria. The illness, which causes fever, headache, coughing, runny nose, and body ache, claimed 143 lives in November.</p>

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title: Trump’s rare-earths deal will make Ukraine ‘US colony’ – jailed MP
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<p><strong>Vladimir Zelensky will effectively strip the country of its sovereignty by signing the agreement, Aleksandr Dubinsky has claimed</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>Ukraine will become a US colony if Vladimir Zelensky signs a proposed rare-earths deal with Washington, jailed Ukrainian MP Aleksandr Dubinsky has claimed. The opposition lawmaker, who was detained by Kiev in November 2023 on charges including high treason, warned that the agreement will strip Ukraine of its independence.</p>
<p>US President Donald Trump recently suggested that America should <em>“get back”</em> the money it has spent on military and financial aid to Ukraine through a mineral resource deal. Earlier this month, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent presented a draft agreement to Zelensky, but the Ukrainian leader reportedly refused to sign it, citing the absence of firm security guarantees. According to the preliminary document published by European Pravda, the deal would grant the US rights to 50% of Ukraine’s income from natural resource extraction.</p>
<p>In a Telegram post on Thursday, Dubinsky described the agreement as an assault on Ukraine’s sovereignty.</p>
<p><em>“The agreement on the transfer of mineral resources, which according to the Constitution belong to the people of Ukraine, to the US is a robbery,”</em> the lawmaker wrote. He added that if the deal is signed, Ukraine will effectively become a <em>“province, colony, overseas territory”</em> of the US.</p>

            
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<p><em>“Forget the term sovereign state. Zelensky destroyed it,”</em> he added. Dubinsky argued that since the deal makes Washington a technical owner of half of Ukraine’s mineral wealth, future Ukrainian leaders will not be able to change the terms, as US influence over the country’s political system will ensure only corrupt politicians take power.</p>
<p><em>“An honest politician can try to cancel this robbery. Therefore, only dishonest ones will govern… there will be no president either… a colony does not have a president,”</em> the lawmaker said.</p>
<p>Zelensky is currently in the US for a state visit and is expected to meet with Trump later on Friday. According to Bessent, the rare-earths deal has already been finalized and is only awaiting Zelensky’s signature.</p>
<p><em>“It will no longer be necessary to call Ukraine an independent state after Zelensky’s trip to the US,”</em> Dubinsky wrote.</p>
<p><em>“Zelensky is ready to sign anything, as long as they leave him his life and money… Zelensky does it with only one purpose in mind – to save his ass,”</em> the lawmaker stated.</p>

             
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<p>While Forbes estimated Ukraine’s total mineral wealth at $15 trillion in 2023, nearly half of these resources are located in the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, which joined Russia following referendums in 2022. Russian President Vladimir Putin said earlier this week that the potential US-Ukraine rare-earths deal <em>“doesn’t concern”</em> Moscow, noting that the actual value of Ukraine’s mineral deposits remains uncertain. He indicated, however, that he is open to working together on Russia’s mineral deposits and rare-earths with international partners, including the US.</p>

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title: From Monte Verità to Esalen: The Revenge of the Mystery Cults
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<div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F383c29b2-620d-4744-9efe-3ed47162f410_1338x736.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F383c29b2-620d-4744-9efe-3ed47162f410_1338x736.jpeg" width="1338" height="736" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/383c29b2-620d-4744-9efe-3ed47162f410_1338x736.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":736,"width":1338,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":1072535,"alt":null,"title":null,"type":"image/jpeg","href":null,"belowTheFold":false,"topImage":true,"internalRedirect":"https://matthewehret.substack.com/i/157951754?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F383c29b2-620d-4744-9efe-3ed47162f410_1338x736.jpeg","isProcessing":false}' alt="" fetchpriority="high" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p><p><em>The following essay was co-authored by Cynthia Chung and myself and is found in<a href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/now-available-revenge-of-the-mystery"> Revenge of the Mystery Cults volume 1</a>. The important link of the Eranos Conferences which tied the Black Mass revivalism at Monte Verita to the emergence of the Esalen Institute (which shaped the social engineering project of the 1960s sex-drug-rock’n’roll counterculture) is featured here in some fairly grim detail. Half of this essay is available in this location for free. To access the full story, consider becoming a paid subscriber to this Substack (which comes with access to all live events and PDFs) or <a href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/now-available-revenge-of-the-mystery">just pick up a copy of Revenge of the Mystery Cults volume 1.</a></em></p><h3>The Rise of Monte Verità</h3><p>In 1900, artists Henri Oedenkoven and Ida Hofmann founded an anarchist, bohemian, nudist, sun-worshipping, vegetarian artists’ colony within the small village of Ascona, Switzerland, and named it Monte Verità, meaning “mountain of truth.”</p><p>The concept for Monte Verità began with the arrival of Mikhail Bakunin, the recognized leader of international anarchism, in 1870, when he moved to Locarno, Switzerland (less than 2 km away from Ascona) and lived there for several years, attracting expressionist writers, artists, anarchists and radicals who took up residence in the surrounding region. Bakunin’s influence in the area would be the inspiration for the formation of a commune years later, Monte Verità.</p><p>Monte Verità became the international meeting place for all those who rebelled against science, technology, and the rise of the modern industrial nation-state. On the surface it was and is popularly regarded as a nature cure resort, offering treatments that include a vegetarian diet, health foods, fasting, earth cures, water cures, nude sun baths, nude air baths, and nature hikes.</p><p>The region of Ascona attracted an eclectic array of guests, from anarchists, theosophists, communists, psychoanalysts, vegetarians, rhythmic dancers, nudists, and bohemians alike. Among the notable regulars at Ascona were Herman Hesse, Carl Jung, Prince Peter Kropotkin (who became an anarchist, after joining the watchmakers of Jura in Switzerland, who were the disciples of Bakunin), Anthroposophy founder Rudolf Steiner, D.H. Lawrence (a mentor of Aldous Huxley), and the list goes on.</p><p>It had developed such a strong reputation as a Utopia, that even H.G. Wells was smitten, placing his utopia in Ticino, the Italian region of Ascona in his “Modern Utopia” (1905), and “In A World Set Free,” (1914) setting the rebirth of society in Lago Maggiore near Ascona.</p><p>In 1905, Otto Gross (an early disciple of Sigmund Freud) moved to Ascona and quickly became a sort of ruler amongst the diverse membership. Otto Gross was considered a major force in the burgeoning field of psychoanalysis, and also became a key figure in the anarchist, psychoanalytic and spiritual circles. He would conduct psychoanalysis sessions, where he would advise his “subjects” to act out their sexual fantasies, often with himself and/or his wife. Gross wanted to revive pagan mysticism, with the freedom to engage in heavy doses of sex orgies.</p><div data-sanitized-class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F51d2d467-b8fb-416d-bb32-b5018c6f918b_384x250.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM" data-sanitized-class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"><div data-sanitized-class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F51d2d467-b8fb-416d-bb32-b5018c6f918b_384x250.jpeg" width="384" height="250" data-attrs='{"src":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/51d2d467-b8fb-416d-bb32-b5018c6f918b_384x250.jpeg","srcNoWatermark":null,"fullscreen":null,"imageSize":null,"height":250,"width":384,"resizeWidth":null,"bytes":null,"alt":"Otto Gross, baiseur en série ? – Libération","title":null,"type":null,"href":null,"belowTheFold":true,"topImage":false,"internalRedirect":null,"isProcessing":false}' alt="Otto Gross, baiseur en série ? – Libération" title="Otto Gross, baiseur en série ? – Libération" loading="lazy" data-sanitized-class="sizing-normal"></picture><div data-sanitized-class="image-link-expand"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container restack-image"><path d="M3 12a9 9 0 0 1 9-9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1 6.74 2.74L21 8"></path><path d="M21 3v5h-5"></path><path d="M21 12a9 9 0 0 1-9 9 9.75 9.75 0 0 1-6.74-2.74L3 16"></path><path d="M8 16H3v5"></path></div><div data-sanitized-class="pencraft pc-reset icon-container view-image"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></div></div></div></div></a><figcaption data-sanitized-class="image-caption">Otto Gross</figcaption></figure></div><p>In 1908, Gross’ addiction to morphine and cocaine (to which his mentor Freud shared<a href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/from-monte-verita-to-esalen-the-revenge#_ftn1">[1]</a>), would lead him to commit himself to the Burghölzli Mental Hospital in Zurich, where he was put under the care of Carl Jung.</p><p>At Burghölzli, Carl Jung diagnosed Gross as a schizophrenic.</p><p>Over the course of the therapy, however, Carl Jung claimed his entire worldview had changed when he attempted to analyse Gross and partially had the tables turned on him.<a href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/from-monte-verita-to-esalen-the-revenge#_ftn2">[2]</a> This led Jung to visit Ascona for himself, whereupon he adopted the ideas of Gross, turning to pagan sun worship and sun mythology.</p><p>Herman Hesse and Carl Jung are described as among the many who had found themselves under Otto Gross’ spell<a href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/from-monte-verita-to-esalen-the-revenge#_ftn3">[3]</a>. Historian Arthur Mitzman writes in his “Anarchism, Expressionism and Psychoanalysis,” that:</p><blockquote><p>“Otto Gross, as Jung’s guru throughout most of this evolution and a man capable of exerting a remarkable charisma among the Bohemian artists and outcasts in Munich, Berlin, Ascona and Vienna, must be considered the principal source of the ideas inspiring Jung and his friends in the decade before 1920.”</p></blockquote><p>What was Otto Gross’ philosophy?</p><p>Gross believed that in order to achieve freedom, one must never repress any desire. Nothing was forbidden no matter how seemingly irrational, even the encouragement of suicide if his patient so desired. Gross believed that Western civilization lay at the centre of this oppression of the individual’s freedom. Those who were coming to Monte Verità were ultimately all sick, and they were made sick by the repressive ideals and values of Western civilization.</p><p>At Monte Verità, Gross promised to cure them by arousing the animal desire from within, promising to free them from their inhibitions, fears, and self-imprisonment. It was uncommon for Gross <em>not</em> to have sexual intercourse with his treating patient as part of the prescribed therapy.</p><p>Gross became increasingly political, particularly in Ascona, where Jung himself writes, Gross had planned “to found a free college from which he thought to attack Western civilization, the obsessions of inner as well as outer authority, the social bonds which these imposed, the distortions of a parasitic form of society, in which everyone was forced to live from everyone else to survive.”<a href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/from-monte-verita-to-esalen-the-revenge#_ftn4">[4]</a></p><p>One particular individual named Max Weber found himself devoting his passion to Otto Gross in the construction of this free college<a href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/from-monte-verita-to-esalen-the-revenge#_ftn5">[5]</a>. Although this project didn’t become reality as these reformers hoped (Otto Gross became too unstable to lead anything), it is interesting to note that among the goals of the new school was the merging of Freudian Psychoanalysis with Marxist theories of sociology in order to engage in an international cultural war that would create the conditions for an ultimate global revolution<a href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/from-monte-verita-to-esalen-the-revenge#_ftn6">[6]</a>.</p><div data-attrs='{"videoId":"6cmKOLhKHSg","startTime":null,"endTime":null}' data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM" data-sanitized-id="youtube2-6cmKOLhKHSg" data-sanitized-class="youtube-wrap"><div data-sanitized-class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/6cmKOLhKHSg?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"></iframe></div></div><p>Otto Gross’ biographer noted that the degenerate psychologist "is said to have adopted Babylon as his civilization, in opposition to that of Judeo-Christian Europe.... if Jezebel had not been defeated by Elijah, world history would have been different and better. Jezebel was Babylon, love religion, Astarte, Ashtoreth; by killing her, Jewish monotheistic moralism drove pleasure from the world." <a href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/from-monte-verita-to-esalen-the-revenge#_ftn7">[7]</a></p><p>In <em>‘The Frankfurt School and Political Correctness’</em>, historian Michael Minnicino writes:</p><blockquote><p>“Gross's solution was to recreate the cult of Astarte in order to start a sexual revolution and destroy the bourgeois, patriarchal family. Among the members of his cult were: Frieda and D.H. Lawrence; Franz Kafka; Franz Werfel, the novelist who later came to Hollywood and wrote The Song of Bernadette; philosopher Martin Buber; Alma Mahler, the wife of composer Gustave Mahler, and later the liaison of Walter Gropius, Oskar Kokoschka, and Franz Werfel; among others. The Ordo Templis Orientalis (OTO), the occult fraternity set up by Satanist Aleister Crowley, had its only female lodge at Ascona. It is sobering to realize the number of intellectuals now worshipped as cultural heroes who were influenced by the New Age madness in Ascona—including almost all the authors who enjoyed a major revival in America in the 1960's and 1970's.”<a href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/from-monte-verita-to-esalen-the-revenge#_ftn8">[8]</a></p></blockquote><p>Gross would encourage the suicides of Lotte Hattemer (in 1906) and Sophie Benz (in 1911) as the only way to liberate themselves. They had also been among his many, many lovers<a href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/from-monte-verita-to-esalen-the-revenge#_ftn9">[9]</a>.</p><p>He had diagnosed the two women as having suffered from incurable mental illness (dementia praecox). He had left the poison with which Lotte Hattemer killed herself lying within her reach.<a href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/from-monte-verita-to-esalen-the-revenge#_ftn10">[10]</a> He informed psychiatrists in 1913 (during one of his many visitations to the asylum between 1912 and 1920), “<em>When I could no longer intervene analytically, I had a duty to poison her</em>,” in reference to Sophie Benz.<a href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/from-monte-verita-to-esalen-the-revenge#_ftn11">[11]</a></p><p>Gross is also quoted commenting “<em>A beautiful death is better than a low probability of cure</em>.”<a href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/from-monte-verita-to-esalen-the-revenge#_ftn12">[12]</a></p><p>Before Carl Jung rose to prominence, it had been the expectation of Freud that Otto Gross would be his heir in the psychoanalytic field, however, Gross was becoming increasingly unstable.</p><p>By 1912, Gross was forcibly interned in a psychiatric institution in order to avoid being tried for murder and assisting suicide. Otto’s father, Professor Hans Gross who is considered the founder of criminology, was behind this intervention.</p><p>In 1913, at the lunatic asylum in Tulln, Gross is recorded saying:</p><blockquote><p>“My whole life was focused on overthrowing authority, for example that of the father. In my view there is only the maternal right, the right of the horde…So when I’ve finished my work, let come what may. Actually, I would like to live to the age of forty-five, and then go under…preferably participating in an anarchist assassination…That would be the most beautiful way.”<a href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/from-monte-verita-to-esalen-the-revenge#_ftn13">[13]</a></p></blockquote><p>Some have credited Otto Gross as the founding grandfather of the 20th century counterculture, a pioneer as the first rock n roller, hard punk lifestyle so to speak. And he did not disappoint. Gross died in 1920, at the age of forty-three, a few days after being found in the street, near-starved and freezing after eight years of going in and out of asylums, largely revolving around drug addiction. Not even Sid Vicious could ask for a more apt role model.</p><p>The same year that Gross was forcibly interned in a psychiatric institute, the start of his downward spiral of “individual freedom” to do whatever one wishes, Jung published “The Psychology of the Unconsciousness,” where he began to spiritualize the psychoanalysis movement and wrote of sun worship and sun mythology as the original natural religion of the Aryan people.<a href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/from-monte-verita-to-esalen-the-revenge#_ftn14">[14]</a></p><p>It gave an academic respectability to Ascona’s Aryan sun religion, and he began to receive followers from all over the world, who wanted to experience the mythos of their own unconsciousness.</p><p>With the publishing of “The Psychology of the Unconsciousness,” a split began to develop between Jung and Freud.</p><p>In the years that followed, it became fashionable among banking and intelligence circles, to go under analysis with Jung.</p><p>In 1913, Edith Rockefeller traveled to Zurich to be treated for depression by Carl Jung and contributed generously to the Zurich Analytical Psychology Club. She would later become a Jungian analyst with a full-time practice in the States attracting many socialite patients. She also paid for Jung’s writings to be translated into English in order to help disseminate his ideas.<a href="https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/from-monte-verita-to-esalen-the-revenge#_ftn15">[15]</a></p><p>Paul (son of Andrew Mellon, co-founder to the Mellon National Bank) and Mary Mellon financed the Bollingen Foundation dedicated to disseminating Jung’s work.</p><p>In 1957, Fortune magazine estimated that Paul Mellon, his sister Ailsa, and his cousins Sara and Richard Mellon were all among the richest eight people in the United States with fortunes between $400-700 million each (around $3.7-6.5 billion in today’s dollars).</p><p>Through these initiatives, there was a spill over of the ideas of Ascona into the circles of the rich and powerful. British central banker Montagu Norman and members of the Dulles family also went under Jungian analysis.</p><p>Allen Dulles would be at the center of the formation of a vicious CIA program named MKULTRA during the Cold War. The relevance of this will be made clear in chapter 8.</p><h3><strong>Ordo Templi Orientis: The Secret Doctrine of “Sex Magic”</strong></h3><p>“<em>Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law</em>”</p><p>– The core tenet of the Ordo Templi Orientis</p><p>Ascona was considered sacred ground for occultists going back hundreds even thousands of years, the area containing ruins of ancient ritual sites and artifacts.</p>
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