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title: Blooming magnolias showcase spring charm in Nanjing
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<p>Blooming magnolias are seen at the Chaotian Palace in Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province, on March 9, 2025. /VCG</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="title">Blooming magnolias are seen at the Chaotian Palace in Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province, on March 9, 2025. /VCG</p>
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<p>Blooming magnolias are seen at the Chaotian Palace in Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province, on March 9, 2025. /VCG</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="title">Blooming magnolias are seen at the Chaotian Palace in Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province, on March 9, 2025. /VCG</p>
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<p>Blooming magnolias are seen at the Chaotian Palace in Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province, on March 9, 2025. /VCG</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="title">Blooming magnolias are seen at the Chaotian Palace in Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province, on March 9, 2025. /VCG</p>
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<p>Blooming magnolias are seen at the Chaotian Palace in Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province, on March 9, 2025. /VCG</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="title">Blooming magnolias are seen at the Chaotian Palace in Nanjing City, Jiangsu Province, on March 9, 2025. /VCG</p>
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<p>Blooming magnolias have added vibrant hues and a touch of spring charm to the Chaotian Palace in the city of Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. First built in the Ming Dynasty, this ancient imperial palace is home to the largest and best-preserved traditional Chinese architectural complex in the region.</p>
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title: Xiamen and George Town: Twin port cities with shared heritage
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<div readability="6.5" data-sanitized-class="cmsImage"><img src="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-03-23/Xiamen-and-George-Town-Twin-port-cities-with-shared-heritage-1BYwPGWwYda/img/d749ec108604476c8f8246a2428bccaf/d749ec108604476c8f8246a2428bccaf.jpeg" alt="A view of Gulangyu in Xiamen, Fujian Province. /VCG" layout="responsive"><div readability="9.5" data-sanitized-class="imageCaption">
<p>A view of Gulangyu in Xiamen, Fujian Province. /VCG</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="title">A view of Gulangyu in Xiamen, Fujian Province. /VCG</p>
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<p>Xiamen in Fujian Province, China, and George Town in Penang, Malaysia, are both port cities that share many similarities, not only in their scenic coastal views but also in their rich cultural heritage.</p>
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<p>A view of George Town in Penang, Malaysia. /VCG</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="title">A view of George Town in Penang, Malaysia. /VCG</p>
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<p>A view of George Town in Penang, Malaysia. /VCG</p>
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<p>George Town is home to a large Chinese population, many of whom are descendants of Fujian immigrants. They have preserved many Fujian traditions, including the Mazu (sea goddess) belief, lion and dragon dances, and traditional Chinese temples.</p>
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<div readability="7" data-sanitized-class="cmsImage"><img src="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-03-23/Xiamen-and-George-Town-Twin-port-cities-with-shared-heritage-1BYwPGWwYda/img/e6310d38730e4fcb94c56f9b66b7cf03/e6310d38730e4fcb94c56f9b66b7cf03.jpeg" alt="One of George Town's famous attractions is the street art, with amazing murals and other art installations adorning many of the streets. /VCG" layout="responsive"><div readability="11" data-sanitized-class="imageCaption">
<p>One of George Town's famous attractions is the street art, with amazing murals and other art installations adorning many of the streets. /VCG</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="title">One of George Town's famous attractions is the street art, with amazing murals and other art installations adorning many of the streets. /VCG</p>
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<p>Shaped by centuries of trade and cultural exchange in the Straits of Malacca, George Town features a unique multicultural heritage, with a diverse architectural landscape that blends Eastern and Western styles. In 2008, it was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List together with Melaka. One of George Town's famous attractions is the street art, with amazing murals and other art installations adorning many of the streets.</p>
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<p>Visitors tour around Gulangyu in Xiamen, Fujian Province. /VCG</p>
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<p>A view of Gulangyu in Xiamen, Fujian Province. /VCG</p>
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<p>Gulangyu, a small island off the coast of Xiamen, is also an exceptional example of cultural fusion, featuring a mixture of Chinese and foreign architectural styles. The island was added to the World Heritage List in 2017.</p>
<p>Xiamen and Penang Island, where George Town is located, are sister cities.</p>
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title: De l’Europe au Moyen-Orient les ruines de la démocratie
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Tandis que se poursuivent les entretiens téléphoniques entre Trump et Poutine et les déclarations communes que la guerre doive se terminer avec une paix durable, la guerre continue en découvrant des aspects de plus en plus périlleux, notamment le fait que la société étasunienne Westinghouse est en train de construire en Ukraine de nouvelles centrales nucléaires...


title: &amp;#039;Ne Zha&amp;#039; franchise slays Chinese film record with 20b yuan earnings
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<p>Image of Ne Zha painted on a village wall by students from the Fine Arts School of Lingnan Normal University, Zhuhai City, south China's Guangdong Province, March 16, 2025. /VCG</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="title">Image of Ne Zha painted on a village wall by students from the Fine Arts School of Lingnan Normal University, Zhuhai City, south China's Guangdong Province, March 16, 2025. /VCG</p>
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<p>The "Ne Zha" animated film franchise has reached another historic milestone for the Chinese film industry, with its total box office revenue surpassing 20 billion yuan (about $2.79 billion).</p>
<p>The latest installment, "Ne Zha 2," has grossed over 15.3 billion yuan as of Sunday afternoon, while its 2019 predecessor contributed an additional 5.035 billion yuan.</p>
<p>This remarkable achievement has made director Yang Yu the first filmmaker in Chinese cinema history to helm a franchise with a combined box office exceeding 20 billion yuan.</p>
<p>The "Ne Zha 2" screening has been extended on the Chinese mainland to April 30.</p>
<p>The Chinese blockbuster has also made waves globally, currently ranking fifth on the worldwide box office chart, including pre-sales and overseas earnings.</p>
<p>Released on Jan. 29 during Chinese New Year, "Ne Zha 2" soared to the top of China's all-time box office chart within just nine days, later becoming the highest-grossing animated movie of all time globally on February 18.</p>
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title: In Movies We Understand That The Genocidal Child Murderers Who Blow Up Hospitals Are The Villains
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title: In Movies We Understand That The Genocidal Child Murderers Who Blow Up Hospitals Are The Villains
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<p><strong><em>International Peace Coalition #94 Report</em></strong></p>



<p>March 21, 2025 (EIRNS)—The 94th consecutive weekly online meeting of the International Peace Coalition (IPC) today was opened by Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of the Schiller Institute, who reported that March 18 was a “fateful day” due to two events:</p>



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<li>The phone call between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, which represents a return to diplomacy. “Any sane person should be highly happy about this event,” she said, but the Europeans are not happy.</li>



<li>The historic vote in the German Parliament to loosen the “debt brake,” not for productive purposes, but to “open the sluices” for a military buildup. They used “parliamentarian trickery” by scheduling the vote in a lame-duck session of the Bundestag, knowing that the incoming session would not vote to approve.</li>
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<p>Zepp-LaRouche went on to debunk various neocon narratives: One narrative is that “Putin” is preparing to attack Europe. But, according to military experts, Russia can only mobilize 1.5 million troops, not enough to attack Europe (if that were in fact Russia’s intention). Regarding the fiction that Russia’s entry into Ukraine was “unprovoked,” she cited eyewitness reports, including by Jack Matlock, who, as Ambassador to the Soviet Union, was one of many who called attention to the broken promise of no NATO expansion.</p>



<p>She reported that Israel has renewed its genocide campaign. This can lead to a blowback. We are “sitting on a time bomb, which is the pending financial collapse.” In a war with Iran, the U.S. would lose, not for military reasons, but because it would trigger the financial collapse.</p>



<p>Ray McGovern, former CIA analyst and co-founder of the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), reminded viewers that NATO was originally set up to “keep Russia out, America in, and Germany down.” Regarding the German plan to re-arm in order to take on Russia, Russians have “been there, done that.” The U.S. and Russia have a mutual interest in not letting this get out of hand.</p>



<p>McGovern addressed the issue of trust between nations. Putin pulled U.S. President Barack Obama’s chestnuts out of the fire after the 2013 false flag chemical-weapons attack in Ghouta, Syria. But trust plummeted after the 2014 Maidan coup and the bogus Minsk Agreements in Ukraine. McGovern displayed his “<em>Putin-Versteher</em>” button, noting that being a “Putin understander” is no longer completely pejorative.</p>



<p>Dennis Fritz, director of the Eisenhower Media Network and Command Chief Master Sergeant (ret., U.S. Air Force), responding to McGovern on the question of trust, and Zepp-LaRouche on the role of Jack Matlock, he described an <a href="https://eisenhowermedianetwork.org/russia-ukraine-war-peace/">ad</a> published by the Eisenhower Media Network. He went on that the Schiller Institute and social media have begun to counteract the devastating impact of pro-Israel propaganda in the U.S.</p>



<p><strong>Water for Peace</strong></p>



<p>Two Palestinian experts addressed the crucial issue of reconstruction for Gaza. A video was presented of H.E. Ambassador Prof. Dr. Manuel Hassassian, Palestinian Authority Ambassador to Denmark, interviewed by <em>EIR</em>’s Tim Rush. He emphasized that there is no military solution to this conflict, and we need to search for common ground in economic solutions to overcome political jingoism. He said that the reconstruction plan of the Palestinian Authority is compatible with the Egyptian plan, but strongly endorsed Lyndon LaRouche’s <a href="https://schillerinstitute.com/the-oasis-plan-the-larouche-solution-for-southwest-asia/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Oasis Plan</a> as a step further in the right direction.</p>



<p>Fernando Garzón, executive director of the Ecuadorian-Palestinian Union , a professor at Universities in Ecuador, and consultant on development and land use planning for international organizations, added to the Ambassador’s comments, saying that reconstruction cannot be done outside of regional development (as best seen in the Oasis Plan), and requires a sovereign government for Palestine, recognized by the UN.</p>



<p>Garzón reported that the UN has provided information as to the extent of the destruction in Gaza. More than 73% of structures have been destroyed, 68% of roads are impassable, 92% of all housing units are gone. This represents not only genocide, but terracide, the destruction of nature and the land itself. Some 95% of the water is not potable, and 90% is controlled by an Israeli private company. Billions of dollars in identified natural gas reserves belong to the Palestinians, and this will be essential for reconstruction. The BRICS New Development Bank should play a role, not the anti-development IMF. Trump’s “Riviera” proposal is “an offense to common sense.”</p>



<p>Marcia Merry Baker, an agriculture expert who serves on the editorial board of <em>Executive Intelligence Review</em>, gave a presentation on water development, beginning with a satellite photo of Egypt which shows the green delta of the Nile, in contrast to the great desert around it. Egypt has been studying how to transform that desert with water and agriculture. They built the largest wastewater treatment center in the world near Alexandria. She also reported on “precision agriculture” in Tunisia, successful despite lack of water, and terraforming the deserts east of the Aral Sea with canal building, which has progressed in Afghanistan despite the economic warfare against it. China has developed the concept of the Shelter Belt, made of trees and grassland, to defend against desertification. They have developed plant varieties that can tolerate desert climates. An area the size of Portugal has been reclaimed from desert, with the participation of the Chinese military.</p>



<p><strong>We Don’t Have To Kill Each Other</strong></p>



<p>Zepp-LaRouche commented that Baker’s presentation shows the possibility of a positive role for the military. She contrasted the neocons’ imperial conception of the military as a killing machine, typified by Samuel Huntington’s <em>The Soldier and the State</em>, versus the ideas of Gerhard von Scharnhorst and the Prussian Reformers. We must transform the military-industrial complex for peaceful reconstruction purposes, and establish a purely defensive role for the military, moving away from “this crazy world where people think they have to kill each other.”</p>



<p>The role of water development in building peace was explored in the discussion session. IPC co-moderator Dennis Small presented a report from Mexico, on how a large gathering of hydraulic engineering students heard a presentation on Schiller Institute water proposals for conflict zones around the world. This may be seen as a prelude to the upcoming <a href="https://schillerinstitute.com/blog/2025/03/01/conference-invitation/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Schiller Institute conference</a> in May.</p>



<p>Garzón added that planning requires taking into account national borders, but also ecosystem borders.</p>



<p>Marcia Merry Baker answered two questions which came in on this topic:</p>



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<p>IPC co-moderator Dennis Speed recalled Lyndon LaRouche’s accurate warning that unless there was an immediate move to get “shovels in the ground,” the 1993 Oslo Accords for peace between Israel and Palestine would fail.</p>



<p>New York congressional candidate Jose Vega said that he sees both sides in the conflict between Ethiopia and Egypt over how to exploit the water of the Nile. Baker intervened to say that border disputes over water are never justified; there will always be plenty with proper development. She recalled the Jonglei Canal project for the White Nile in Sudan, which was suppressed by environmentalists.</p>



<p><strong>Conclusion</strong></p>



<p>Zepp-LaRouche closed on a philosophical note: “The big challenge in front of humanity at this conjuncture is how do we use aesthetic education to get more and more people to take the side of humanity.” We must stop going through the world as if everything were self-evident, and look at things with fresh eyes. In the Stone Age, we were using a stone to kill our neighbor to get his food. Now we look at the store and see iron ore or rare earths. Artificial Intelligence, for example, could be used for evil, or to free humanity for life-long learning “instead of having to labor like a mule.” “We will not be miserable forever”; every individual discovery enriches all of humanity. </p>



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<p><em>Reflections</em></p>
<p><strong>My Time in the Reagan Administration</strong></p>
<p>PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS</p>
<p><em>Paul Craig Roberts, who played a crucial role in enacting the tax cuts of the 1980s and in forging the political emergence of supply-side economics, reflects on his experience in Washington. He emphasizes that intra-party power struggles, not economics, are the main influence on policy.  — Editor, The Independent Review</em></p>
<p><em>Paul Craig Roberts is chairman of the Institute for Political Economy. He had academic careers as senior research fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University; journalism careers as associate editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal and columnist for Business Week; government careers as a member of the U.S. congressional staff and as assistant secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration; and business careers as a director of industrial and financial companies.</em></p>
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<p>When I was an economics professor, I often wondered if what my faculty colleagues and I were teaching students about economic policy had any validity. I left Stanford University, went to Washington, D.C., and joined the congressional staff in order to experience how policy is made. In the House, I helped Rep. Jack Kemp introduce supply-side economics to his colleagues. I became chief economist of the House Budget Committee on the Republican side, and then staff associate for Senator Orrin Hatch on the Joint Economic Committee.</p>
<p>My success in explaining to Congress that there was an alternative to Keynesian demand management, which had no solution for stagflation, led to President Reagan appointing me assistant secretary of the Treasury for economic policy. Having learned how policy is made (and unmade), I now had the assignment to implement a new one.</p>
<p>The story of my experience is useful to economists. As one of my graduate professors, Ronald Coase, used to tell his class, “It would help economists to occasionally look outside the window of the box they keep themselves in.”</p>
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<p>The conflict between merit and redistribution that is characteristic of the American political system and the influence of established explanations are not the only problems confronting a policymaker, especially if he is introducing a new approach. As Niccolò Machiavelli wrote in <em>The Prince</em>, “There is nothing more difficult, more perilous or more uncertain of success than to take the lead in introducing a new order of things.”</p>
<p><em>Intra-party Power Struggles, Not Economics, Are the Main Influence on Policy</em></p>
<p>One of the many problems a policymaker faces is that policies affect different interest groups in different ways. Some benefit, some don’t, and I don’t mean just in a material or economic way. Most of the things that influence economic policy have nothing to do with economics. They have to do with power. The party establishments that control the parties intend to stay in control. The organized interest groups that control the party establishments intend to continue in control.</p>
<p>Few Americans understand that the main political fight is not between the two parties but within the administration of the party in power. Within the parties the fight is over who controls the party. When the fight is between the establishment and a populist rival like Ronald Reagan or Donald Trump, it can get very nasty.</p>
<p>During the first year of the Reagan administration, much of the battle was between President Reagan and his Treasury allies (primarily me and Secretary Don Regan) on one side and Reagan’s chief of staff, Jim Baker, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, Murray Weidenbaum, and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) director David Stockman on the other.</p>
<p>The fight within the Reagan administration had its origin in Reagan taking the Republican nomination for president away from the establishment’s candidate, George H. W. Bush, former CIA director. Reagan was considered an outsider, and he was “dangerous” because the Republican establishment could lose its grip on the party to a populist whose basis was in the people and not in the organized interest groups.</p>
<p>Reagan was advised that he must take the defeated George H. W. Bush Republican establishment into his administration or suffer the fate of Barry Goldwater, who rejected Nelson Rockefeller after he defeated him in the Republican presidential nomination. Consequently, the Republican establishment helped the Democrats defeat Goldwater, the Republican populist candidate.</p>
<p>Nancy Reagan judged by appearances, and Bush’s man, Jim Baker, a polished dresser, presented to Nancy a better image than Reagan’s laidback California crew to be standing by her husband. Baker was appointed chief of staff. So, from the start Reagan and his supporters in the administration were handicapped by an establishment operative being chief of staff of the Reagan Revolution.</p>
<p>Only Reagan had offered a solution to the problem of “stagflation.” It was called supply-side economics. Lacking a solution to offer during the campaign for the nomination, Bush termed Reagan’s policy “voodoo economics.” This, of course, played into the hands of the Democrat opposition and the liberal media determined to undermine President Reagan as a Grade B movie actor who believed in fairy tales about tax cuts paying for themselves.</p>
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<p>The aspersion Bush cast on Reagan’s policy had some traction in Republican ranks because of Republicans’ traditional fear of budget deficits. Republicans such as Bob Dole and George H. W. Bush believed that budget deficits resulting from reduction in taxes would stimulate consumer spending, raise inflation and interest rates, crowd out private investment, and worsen the stagflation that emerged from Keynesian demand management during the Carter administration. Traditional Republicans had been well indoctrinated by Keynesian economists—whom, paradoxically, the Republicans opposed—that fiscal policy such as reductions in tax rates only affected the demand side of the economy. They believed that a tax rate reduction could only add to inflationary pressures by adding to consumer demand.</p>
<p>Many on Wall Street saw it the same way as Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker. The two main Wall Street economists—Dr. Doom and Dr. Gloom (Henry Kaufman and Albert M. Wojnilower)—stayed busy at work creating hysteria over the “coming Reagan deficits.”</p>
<p>Volcker was also obsessed by the belief that the deficits resulting from the tax rate reduction would fuel the already high inflation. Volcker’s concern was apparent in Treasury’s meetings with him. The Treasury found Volcker immune to under- standing the administration’s assault on stagflation by shifting the aggregate supply schedule instead of the aggregate demand schedule. The Treasury asked Volcker to gradually reduce the growth rate of money as the tax rate reductions, delayed at Stockman and Weidenbaum’s insistence, came into effect.</p>
<p>Having attended Volcker’s meeting with his outside advisers, I advised Secretary Regan that Volcker, fearful of being blamed for the higher inflation he believed the tax rate reduction would cause, would throw on the monetary brakes and into recession we would go before the tax rate reductions would go into effect. As OMB director, David Stockman was relying on inflation to offset the effect on tax revenues of the tax rate reduction (the tax system was not indexed at the time of Stockman’s forecasts) and thus balance the budget; the deficits implicit in Stockman’s inflation assumption and in Volcker’s monetary policy would be blamed on Reagan’s supply-side policy, which economists considered a threat to their investment in Keynesian macroeconomics. Ears would be closed to the Treasury’s explanation. The Treasury, lacking a dynamic revenue model, used the static revenue forecast that a dollar of tax cut would lose a dollar of revenue and, therefore, spelled out the deficits. Stockman hid the deficits with his high inflation forecast. Volcker then collapsed the money supply, and the drop in nominal GNP exposed Stockman’s deficits. A dishonest liberal media blamed the deficits on a mythical Treasury claim, a claim which it never made, that the tax cuts would pay for themselves.</p>
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<p>Art Laffer and Jude Wanniski talked at times of tax cuts paying for themselves by expanding the revenue base. Walter Heller made the same point in behalf of the Kennedy tax rate reductions. In testimony before the Joint Economic Committee of Congress on February 7, 1977, Heller, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers in the Kennedy administration, said: “Did it [the Kennedy tax rate reduction] pay for itself in increased revenues? I think the evidence is very strong that it did.” Economists with a redistributive agenda, hostile media, and politicians attributed statements made by Laffer and Wanniski to the Treasury and to Reagan. Laffer and Wanniski were trying to calm Republican fear of budget deficits by pointing out that incentives can improve the tax base. The Laffer Curve does not say tax cuts pay for themselves. It merely illustrates that there are two tax rates that will produce the same revenues: a high tax rate on a small base and a low tax rate on a large base.</p>
<p>Walter Heller, who as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers had championed President Kennedy’s large reduction in tax rates, said that Reagan’s similar tax rate reduction would inject too much inflationary purchasing power into the economy and asked, “How can the economy absorb that big an expansionary punch without aggravating our already intolerable inflation?” (Wall Street Journal, February 10, 1981). He didn’t ask this question when he was championing the Kennedy tax rate reduction.</p>
<p>Everyone, except Reagan, the Treasury, and the Wall Street Journal editorial page, was still operating inside the Keynesian box. None had bothered, Fed chairman Paul Volcker least of all, to listen to the explanation that reductions in the marginal rate of taxation shifted the aggregate supply schedule and resulted in more production for the same money supply. The way to beat stagflation was to increase output relative to money, and inflation would decline. It is always difficult to introduce a new way of thinking. People have a vested interest in existing dogma because that is where their human capital is invested.</p>
<p>Another way of looking at the policy issue is that supply-side economics differed from the interest rate theory of the cost of capital. We were able to show that taxation substantially affects the cost of capital, whereas the cost of capital is inelastic with respect to changes in interest rates (Roberts, Robbins, and Robbins 1986). I have often wondered if economists missed the effect of taxation on the cost of capital because capital theory developed prior to the income tax.</p>
<p>Noting the rate at which liberal media was building opposition to Reagan’s supply-side policy, budget director David Stockman concluded that Reagan would not succeed and moved into the Republican establishment balanced-budget camp which had no solution to stagflation. Jim Baker thought that a small tax rate reduction—5 percent—would be sufficient for the administration to declare a victory, while not being large enough to add significantly to the budget deficit, inflation, and interest rates. Baker perceived the opportunity to use the media to portray the Bush people as modifying Reagan, which would position them for taking credit for Reagan’s successes and solidify the establishment’s hold on the Republican Party, thereby keeping Rep. Jack Kemp at bay.</p>
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<p>The problem was Reagan didn’t go for it, and neither did I. Without retelling the story in my book (Roberts 1984), Jude Wanniski summed up 1981 in his Polyconomics newsletter: “If there is anyone who deserves a supply-side medal with oak-leaf cluster it is Craig Roberts.” I lost some skirmishes, Wanniski said, but I won the war. And I did get the medal, in fact two of them—the U.S. Treasury’s silver medal for “outstanding contributions to the formulation of U.S. economic policy” and the French Legion of Honor for “the restoration of economic science and policy after a half century of state interventionism.”</p>
<p>By August 1981, Reagan’s tax bill was passed into law. With my job done, there was nothing left for me to do in the Treasury. Normally, when a president signs a bill, those responsible for its successful passage are invited to a White House signing ceremony and given one of the pens used to sign the bill into law. As his way of letting me know that I wasn’t appreciated, Jim Baker or his deputy Richard Darman “forgot” to invite me to the signing ceremony. Reagan noticed and sent me the lovely letter that is displayed on the “About” page of my website (Roberts n.d.). The letter, of course, is worth more than a signing pen, and I thanked Jim Baker for it.</p>
<p>There was talk of shifting me to the Federal Reserve Board. Reagan confidant Justin Dart, Rep. Jack Kemp, Chase Manhattan Bank chairman and CEO George Champion, and other influential confidants of Reagan’s were behind it. It would have caused Volcker a heart attack. But Don Regan and I saw that it wasn’t yet time for me to go. Jim Baker and David Stockman were already at work controlling the narrative placed in the media that Reagan would repudiate his “excessive” tax rate reduction in his January 1982 State of the Union message. This, of course, ensured that no work or investment decisions would be made on the basis of a tax reduction whose life might be short-lived. Despite media reports that the tax reduction would be repealed, Volcker was nevertheless at work strangling the money supply.</p>
<p>Stockman began secret interviews with a left-wing journalist, William Greider, aimed at discrediting Reagan’s economic policy. A victory was being turned into a defeat. Jim Baker argued that even a small tax reduction could be successfully pre- sented as a Reagan victory. For Baker the issue was political perception, not fixing the economy. The threat to Reagan’s economic policy was serious, because his other agenda— an end to the Cold War—was based on the success of his supply-side policy. The George H. W. Bush Republican establishment had Reagan’s presidency set up to go up in flames.</p>
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<p>Whereas I had managed to keep the percentage reduction in marginal tax rates from being significantly molested, I had been unable to block Stockman’s insistence that the tax rate reduction be phased in over three years, with the first reduction being limited to 2.5 percent, which was cancelled by the high rate of inflation, as the income tax was not indexed for inflation at that time. Phased in over three years, the tax reduction would be cancelled by the inflation rate. The tax rate reduction needed to hit all at once to have its impact. But Stockman and Jim Baker had Senate Republicans and Republican business leaders all in a huff about deficits. They wanted to raise taxes instead of lowering them. For Republicans, the solution to every economic problem was to balance the budget. It was this mindlessness with which I was at war.</p>
<p>Stockman’s argument was, of course, the budget deficit. Phasing in the tax rate reduction would produce a smaller deficit. Additionally, inflation by raising nominal incomes would raise nominal GDP and produce more tax revenues to cover the deficit. Stockman was relying on inflation to balance the budget by pushing taxpayers into higher tax brackets. This was not the president’s policy, as I pointed out to Stockman.</p>
<p>I told Stockman that he was hiding deficits behind his high inflation projections, but that inflation was going to collapse either as a result of the supply-side policy if we were able to secure the Fed’s cooperation, or from the Fed in fear of our policy slamming on the brakes and bringing on recession, which the Fed did. Volcker’s recession collapsed GDP and tax revenues and created budget deficits that were promptly blamed on the tax cut, which, being delayed, had yet to be implemented. The “Reagan deficits” were the Volcker deficits and the Stockman deficits covered up by Stockman’s high projected inflation rates. Over the next years, the inflation rate collapsed, instead of hitting all-time highs as Wall Street and academic economists had predicted.</p>
<p>It is a myth that the Treasury said the tax cuts would pay for themselves. The Treasury’s official position, based on its traditional static revenue model, was that every dollar of tax reduction would lose a dollar of tax revenue. But the initial deficits would fade with the expansion that followed, unless spending was left out of control. We kept reminding people that the agenda was to cure stagflation, not to balance the budget. The tax system had to be used to increase the quantity supplied at every price by increasing the cost of leisure in terms of forgone current income and increasing the cost of current consumption in terms of forgone future income.</p>
<p>During the autumn of 1981, immediately following the passage of the tax rate reductions, the battle raged inside the administration to whittle down or even totally repeal the supply-side reduction in marginal tax rates. The George H. W. Bush part of the administration had turned against the Reagan administration’s victory.</p>
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<p>It was the Treasury against Stockman at OMB, the White House chief of staff, the vice president, and the Council of Economic Advisers. As neither side would yield, three times the decision was taken to the White House. Each time Ed Meese and President Reagan’s men sided with the Treasury. As soon as the presidential delegation left the room, Jim Baker would ask Don Regan, “Don, can’t the Treasury make a better case?” And it would start all over again. After the third time, Regan asked me why Reagan didn’t fire those who didn’t hear his decisions. My answer was that Reagan was very non-confrontational and was relying on the Treasury. I think it was December when Regan told me he had had enough and was going to Florida. “It’s in your hands.”</p>
<p><em>Triumph and Departure after Reagan’s 1982 State of the Union Address</em></p>
<p>The morning of Reagan’s State of the Union address in January 1982, the lead article on the Wall Street Journal’s front page, a plant by Baker or Stockman, said that Reagan was going to back away from his irresponsible tax cut in his State of the Union speech.</p>
<p>Roger Mudd, the anchor for NBC News in those days, called me. “Craig,” he said, “it looks like you are going to be repudiated tonight and the supply-side policy cast aside.” I had just finished reading Reagan’s State of the Union address, as the speechwriters had sent it over for my approval. I advised Roger not to take that line because Reagan was not backing off his policy. Roger laughed. Convinced that supply-side economics and I were done for, he offered to set me up in a room in the Capitol with a television so I could watch my repudiation in Reagan’s State of the Union speech, and he would come in immediately after Reagan’s address and we would go live on national TV as NBC’s lead interview on the president’s speech. He was surprised when I accepted.</p>
<p>In his State of the Union address Reagan delivered a stinging rebuff to his OMB director and chief of staff. Strongly reaffirming his commitment to his economic program, Reagan declared: “The doubters would have us turn back the clock with tax increases that would offset the personal tax-rate reductions already passed by this Congress. Raise present taxes to cut future deficits, they tell us. Well, I don’t believe we should buy their argument” (Reagan 1982).</p>
<p>Having heard the opposite of what he expected, Mudd was shaken. Immediately we went live: “Craig, the president has just repudiated the advisers who tried to get him to raise taxes. They have egg all over their faces! What can they do?” I replied, “They can wipe the egg off their faces and get back on the president’s team.” Within seconds of my statement, my wife got a furious call from a Stockman aide whose voice she recognized: “We are going to get Craig and all his friends.” Being a British lady, she was upset at the barbarity of the American government in Washington. I had served the president, which was my duty, not the establishment, and the establishment was going to “get me.”</p>
<p>At the White House press conference the next morning, the first question Larry Speakes had to answer was, “Is Jim Baker still employed today? . . . He led the losing fight, and the general who gets beaten usually gets thrown out.”</p>
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<p>Reporters and columnists began telling the story of how senior aides had worked to undermine congressional and business support for the president’s program. In a front-page story in the Wall Street Journal on February 2, 1982, reporters Rich Jaroslovsky, Ken Bacon, and Robert Merry told how Baker and Stockman operated against the president by building “momentum with leaks and pressure.”</p>
<p>I knew that Reagan could not throw out his vice president’s right-hand man, who had done so much to undermine the president of the United States, and that Reagan was stuck with Baker until Reagan’s second term, when Don Regan would take over as chief of staff. I knew that Baker, Stockman, Darman, and Larry Kudlow would use their friends in the media to destroy my reputation. I had done my job. Harvard University Press wanted the story. A prestigious chair was created for me, and I had no intention of spending years in internal administration fights. I explained the situation to Secretary Regan and President Reagan, and they agreed to keep my departure a secret so that the media could not make it look like I was driven out of the administration. Reagan said he would ensure that I escaped alive. He said he had further need for me in the future. I left and eased into the new William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University. Later Reagan appointed me to a secret presidential committee to assess the CIA’s opposition to Reagan’s plan to end the Cold War. This is another story, one that brought me up against the CIA.</p>
<p><em>Thwarting Continued Assaults on Reagan’s Policies from within the Party</em></p>
<p>My second victory over the establishment was as short-lived as my first victory. I was no longer in the Treasury to beat back the third assault from within the Reagan administration on Reagan’s supply-side policy. The assault was not coming from the Democrats. It was coming from the Republican establishment.</p>
<p>Determined not to be defeated in their agenda to “moderate” Reagan, by April 1982 Baker and Stockman were marching Reagan into a tax increase by lying to him that it was a tax reform, not a tax increase. They left the reductions in the personal income tax rates alone and focused on the business tax cut added to the Kemp-Roth bill by Treasury undersecretary Norman Ture. The business tax cuts consisted of accelerated depreciation.</p>
<p>The U.S. tax code specifies the years over which various kinds of business investments can be depreciated. Some of the schedules were very long, and inflation had eroded their real values. Something needed to be done to shorten the write-off periods. It is possible that too much was done to improve the situation for business, and that the pendulum had gone too far in the other direction. Nevertheless, this was a “tax reform” Reagan could accept as it left his personal tax rate reductions alone.</p>
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<p>Cleverly, Stockman and Baker tied Reagan conservatives’ demand for spending cuts to the tax increase. They told Reagan the tax increase was a necessary part of the deal for the Democrats to accept spending cuts. The taxes rose and so did spending.</p>
<p>Stockman was not content to mislead President Reagan only about taxes. He also misled Reagan about spending bills in order to discredit Reagan with Republican senators and humiliate him with overridden vetos. Stockman chose a spending bill that funded popular programs such as jobs for the elderly to help them make ends meet, which was funded $2 billion less than Reagan had requested. Stockman told Reagan that the appropriation was a “budget-buster” in order to get Reagan to veto the bill. Senate Appropriations Committee chairman Mark Hatfield said, “By no responsible account can this be called a budget-buster.” Many saw that Reagan was being manipulated by his chief of staff and budget director. Senator Mark Andrews declared, “Frankly I’m getting sick and tired of David Stockman and his mirror acts. . . . He’s not serving the nation well, he’s not serving the president well, he’s not serving his party well” (Dewar 1982).</p>
<p>Even Democrat Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill called on Stockman to resign for failure to keep the president correctly informed about the spending bills. Jim Baker had to be aware of Stockman’s perfidy, but he protected Stockman, who remained in office doing as much damage as he could to the Reagan Revolution. It was like what Trump’s appointees did to him during his first term.</p>
<p>Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, columnists who closely watched the Washington scene, saw the tax increase as Baker’s attempt to portray supply-side economics as a failure and thus to remove Jack Kemp as a contender for the presidential succession. Others concluded that Reagan was not sufficiently involved to take control of his policy. The liberal-left columnists had a field day.</p>
<p>The administration of Reagan’s successor, President George H. W. Bush, again raised taxes, and their target this time was the personal income tax rates. As Reagan and I were absent the scene, they had a free hand. Nevertheless, although they raised the personal tax rates, they left them significantly below the rates that prevailed prior to the supply-side reduction in Reagan’s personal tax rate reductions. Even today, the tax rates are lower than they were prior to the Reagan tax rate reduction.</p>
<p>The real value of the Reagan tax cut was due to Senator William Armstrong’s amendment and to my success in bringing the administration on board with Senator Armstrong’s amendment, which had passed the Senate, to index the personal income tax for inflation. Over time even a low rate of inflation would inflate all incomes into the top bracket. In the House, the Democrats had come up with their own supply-side tax cut. White House speechwriters were looking for a way to differenti- ate Reagan’s tax cut bill from the Democrat one that cut rates more in the first two years. My principal deputy, Steve Entin, produced a graphic showing that indexing provided the dramatic comparison that the White House was seeking. Reagan was delighted. He used it in his television address just prior to the vote. Reagan quipped that the Democrat’s tax cut is larger “if you’re only planning to live two more years.” Without indexing, inflation eroded the benefit of the Democrat tax cut bill.</p>
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<p>I can take satisfaction that my efforts, together with those of my Treasury colleagues, the White House speechwriters, and White House economist Martin Anderson, forty-four years ago in behalf of a supply-side economic policy have had a positive impact for four decades. Subsequent policymakers who offshored jobs, destroyed supply chains and the tax base of manufacturing and industrial states, created monopolies, financialized the economy, and weaponized the dollar, thus setting in motion the loss of the dollar’s role as reserve currency, have a great deal to answer for. For me, I can point to an enduring success. If the top marginal tax rates were still 70 percent on investment income and 50 percent on earned income, we would hardly have an economy at all.</p>
<p><em>The Permanence of the Supply-Side Revolution</em></p>
<p>There was no significant difference between the Kennedy tax cut in 1964 and the Reagan tax cut in 1981. The only difference is in the economic interpretation of tax rate reductions.</p>
<p>In the Keynesian view, a tax rate reduction stimulates consumer demand by leaving more money in the pockets of consumers to spend. The result is a rise in aggregate demand that leads to an increase in employment and investment in order to meet the higher demand, but it can also result instead in inflation with prices instead of output and employment rising if high tax rates discourage increases in output.</p>
<p>In the supply-side view, a tax rate reduction changes two important relative prices that cause an increase in aggregate supply. One of the prices is the price of leisure in terms of forgone current income. Lowering tax rates raises the cost of leisure in terms of the income you give up by, for example, taking Friday afternoons off. If you are in a 50 percent marginal tax rate, you only get to keep 50 cents of each additional dollar you earn. If the tax rate is cut to 30 percent, you get to keep 70 cents of each additional dollar you earn. Thus a lower tax rate makes leisure more expensive and encourages more labor supply.</p>
<p>The other price is the price of current consumption in terms of forgone future income. If you deplete your income in consumption instead of saving and investing, you forgo higher future income from investments not made. If the tax rate on investment income is 70 percent, each dollar of investment income only brings you 30 cents. If the tax rate is lowered to 50 percent, the reward to saving and investing rises to 50 cents for every dollar earned. Therefore, a reduction in the tax rate on investment income makes current consumption more expensive in terms of forgone future income and encourages more investment.</p>
<p>Whereas Keynesian demand-side economists believe fiscal policy such as changes in tax rates only affects aggregate demand, supply-side economists point out that some fiscal policies, such as changes in tax rates, directly affect aggregate supply. The supply-side revolution resulted from the realization after decades of demand management that fiscal policy directly affects aggregate supply. The Keynesian policy of stimulating consumer demand with Federal Reserve money creation while restraining output with higher tax rates resulted in stagflation. The supply-side solution was to remove the disincentives to work and invest caused by high tax rates.</p>
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<p>Paul Samuelson, the top-of-the-line Keynesian economist in those days, agreed with the supply-side correction of fiscal policy. But he wondered how powerful the supply-side effect would be. Was it strong enough to have a significant effect? Paul Evans, a Stanford University economist, had already answered Samuelson’s question. I asked the Treasury staff to re-estimate Evans’s work on the impact of the Kennedy tax rate reduction on consumption and saving. Had the Kennedy tax cut caused consumption to rise or saving to rise? The empirical record was clear. Consumers spent a smaller percentage of their lower-taxed incomes. There was a marked increase in the real volume of personal saving following the Kennedy tax cut, and the saving rate, which had been declining during the early 1960s, rose sharply. It remained high for a decade, until rising marginal tax rates from a non-indexed tax system pushed it down. It was clear that the Kennedy tax rate reduction worked because of its supply-side effects.</p>
<p>The two tax rate reductions in the latter half of the twentieth century kept the American economy alive. The Kennedy tax rate reduction in 1964 slowed the erosion of America’s economic potential, and the Reagan tax rate reduction in 1981, married with the indexation of the tax rates, boosted the economy’s potential. A return to sound economic policies that focus on boosting productivity in the long run would help return the country to the strong growth path it enjoyed during the Reagan era.</p>
<p>References</p>
<p>Dewar, Helen. 1982. Senate Joins House, Overrides Reagan Veto. Washington Post, September 10.</p>
<p>Heller, Walter. 1977. Testimony before the Joint Economic Committee of Congress, February 7.</p>
<p>Reagan, Ronald. 1982. Address Before a Joint Session of Congress Reporting on the State of the Union, January 26.</p>
<p>Roberts, Paul Craig. n.d. https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/pages/about-paul-craig-roberts/.</p>
<p>_______, 1984. The Supply-Side Revolution. Harvard University Press.</p>
<p>Roberts, Paul Craig, Aldona E. Robbins, and Gary F. Robbins. 1986. The Relative Impact of Taxation and Interest Rates on the Cost of Capital. Technology and Economic Policy, edited by Ralph Landau and Dale Jorgenson. Ballinger.</p>
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From Gabriele D’Annunzio and the poetry of pre-Fascist Italy to translating the inexplicable mysteries and beauty of existence, Michael shows us why he represents a new generation of poets and independent thinkers, reminding us to <em>Fret Not</em>! </p><div data-attrs='{"url":"https://thechainedmuse.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe","language":"en"}' data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM" data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor"><div data-sanitized-class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div data-sanitized-class="preamble"><p data-sanitized-class="cta-caption"><strong>The Chained Muse is a reader-supported publication. 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guid: https://www.whitehouse.gov/?p=6731
title: SUNDAY SHOWS: Trump Administration Delivers Results
author: ;The White House
link: https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/03/sunday-shows-trump-administration-delivers-results/
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<div><img src="https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/WH47-Social-Share-Card.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>This morning, officials from the Trump Administration took to the airwaves to update the American people on <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/03/week-nine-wins-president-trump-puts-america-first/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">another week of success</a> — from reforming education to ensuring the safety and security of the American people.</p>
<p><strong>Here’s what you missed:</strong></p>
<h4 data-sanitized-id="h-secretary-of-education-linda-mcmahon-on-state-of-the-union" data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Secretary of Education Linda McMahon on State of the Union</strong></h4>
<ul data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li><a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1903803492914823331">On the Trump Administration’s goal for education</a>: “Our goal is to make sure that we are providing the best education for students in our country. We cannot be last in the world in education … It is up to us and our responsibility to make sure we are giving them the best access to education.”</li>
<li><a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1903803139913896185">On local control in education</a>: “Am I, the secretary of education sitting in Washington, going to have a view into a school room where a teacher is trying to take care of a student with special needs? Or is that going to happen better at the local level?”</li>
<li><a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1903800569304658104">On school choice</a>: “[President Trump] wants to make sure that there is equal access to quality education for every student in our country — which is why he is such a proponent of school choice … He doesn’t believe that ANY child should be trapped in a failing school.”</li>
</ul><h4 data-sanitized-id="h-attorney-general-pam-bondi-on-fox-news-sunday" data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Attorney General Pam Bondi on Fox News Sunday</strong></h4>
<ul data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li><a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1903813318189408610">On overreach by activist judges</a>: “This is an out-of-control judge … trying to control our entire foreign policy, and he cannot do it… There are 261 reasons why Americans are safer today, and that’s because those people are now in an El Salvador prison … We are going to follow the law and we are going to protect Americans.”</li>
</ul><h4 data-sanitized-id="h-national-security-advisor-mike-waltz-on-face-the-nation" data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading"><strong>National Security Advisor Mike Waltz on Face the Nation</strong></h4>
<ul data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li><a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1898768890869555342">On strikes against Houthi terrorists in Yemen</a>: “75% of our U.S.-flagged shipping now has to go around the southern coast of Africa rather than going through the Suez Canal. Keeping the sea lanes open, keeping trade and commerce open, is a fundamental aspect of our national security. The last administration was not effective. The Trump Administration and President Trump have decided to do something much harder, much tougher.”</li>
<li><a href="https://grabien.com/file/getmedia?id=2856224&amp;key=97c74d2c46994fc28a52b02c7ade2377&amp;userid=17087">On Iran’s nuclear program</a>: “Iran has to give up its program in a way that the entire world can see. As President Trump has said, this is coming to a head. All options are on the table, and it is time for Iran to walk away completely from its desire to have a nuclear weapon.”</li>
</ul><h4 data-sanitized-id="h-special-envoy-steve-witkoff-on-fox-news-sunday" data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Special Envoy Steve Witkoff on Fox News Sunday</strong></h4>
<ul data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li><a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1903820461185671587">On talks to end the war in Ukraine</a>: “I’m not sure how anyone would expect an end to a conflict when you’re not communicating … [President Trump’s] philosophy of peace through strength brings people to the table to clear up misconceptions and to get peace deals done.”</li>
</ul><h4 data-sanitized-id="h-border-czar-tom-homan-on-this-week" data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Border Czar Tom Homan on This Week</strong></h4>
<ul data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li><a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1898732852054786191">On deporting illegal immigrant Tren de Aragua gang members</a>: “We’re actually using the laws on the books to enforce immigration law and secure the border … We’re not making this up. Everything we’ve done is based on a statute that was enacted by Congress and signed by a president.”</li>
<li><a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1903817159647564164">On illegal border crossings</a>: “We’ll use these assets as long as we can until we get to the point that we have total operational control of the border and national security threats have no avenue into this country.”</li>
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guid: https://www.mondialisation.ca/?p=5697193
title: Le symbolisme guerrier de Mark Carney
author: ;Robin Philpot
link: https://www.mondialisation.ca/le-symbolisme-guerrier-de-mark-carney/5697193
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<p>Dans la semaine précédant le déclenchement des élections, Mark Carney a aligné une série de symboles visant à donner le ton. Les commentateurs politiques l’ont applaudi, y voyant un message dirigé contre l’administration américaine de Donald Trump du genre : …</p>


guid: https://raymcgovern.com/?p=8753
title: Debating the Level of Putin – Trump Trust
author: ;Ray McGovern
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<p data-sanitized-class="excerpt">TRUST? Yes, the Russian’s were speaking of trust, even the morning after the Tues tel. summit. Putin’s spokesman: “Putin &amp; Trump trust and understand each other very well; there is a solid will by both presidents to restore ties.” John Helmer and I debate:</p><p data-sanitized-class="more-link-p"><a href="https://raymcgovern.com/2025/03/23/debating-the-level-of-putin-trump-trust/" data-sanitized-class="btn btn-default">Read more</a></p>


guid: https://raymcgovern.com/?p=8755
title: End Times?
author: ;Ray McGovern
link: https://raymcgovern.com/2025/03/23/end-times/
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<p data-sanitized-class="excerpt">END TIMES?: Bob-and-Ray II, March 18</p><p data-sanitized-class="more-link-p"><a href="https://raymcgovern.com/2025/03/23/end-times/" data-sanitized-class="btn btn-default">Read more</a></p>


guid: https://raymcgovern.com/?p=8757
title: Intelligence Roundtable Focused on Ukraine
author: ;Ray McGovern
link: https://raymcgovern.com/2025/03/23/intelligence-roundtable-focused-on-ukraine/
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<p data-sanitized-class="excerpt">Larry Johnson and I focused mostly on Ukraine during yesterday’s Intelligence Roundtable with Judge Napolitano.</p><p data-sanitized-class="more-link-p"><a href="https://raymcgovern.com/2025/03/23/intelligence-roundtable-focused-on-ukraine/" data-sanitized-class="btn btn-default">Read more</a></p>


guid: https://www.mondialisation.ca/?p=5697184
title: Infolettre: Les ruines de la démocratie…
author: ;Mondialisation.ca
link: https://www.mondialisation.ca/infolettre-les-ruines-de-la-democratie/5697184
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<h2><strong>Sélection d’articles :</strong></h2>
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<div data-sanitized-class="alignleft"><a href="https://www.mondialisation.ca/de-leurope-au-moyen-orient-les-ruines-de-la-democratie/5697170"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" src="https://www.mondialisation.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Capture-decran-le-2025-03-23-a-11.19.51-51x46.png" alt="" width="51" height="46" data-sanitized-class="attachment-featured_thumbnail size-featured_thumbnail wp-post-image alignleft"></a></div>
<p><strong data-sanitized-class="title"><a href="https://www.mondialisation.ca/de-leurope-au-moyen-orient-les-ruines-de-la-democratie/5697170">De l’Europe au Moyen-Orient les ruines de la démocratie</a></strong></p>
<p><em data-sanitized-class="date">Par <span data-sanitized-class="author"><a title="Articles par Manlio Dinucci" href="https://www.mondialisation.ca/author/manlio-dinucci">Manlio Dinucci</a></span>, 23 mars 2025</em></p>
<p>Tandis que se poursuivent les entretiens téléphoniques entre Trump et Poutine<b> </b>et les déclarations communes que la guerre doive se …</p>


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title: Your so-called civilization has duped you
author: ;Middle Nation
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guid: yt:video:5Z6m63LLGRk
title: Palestinians Didn't Choose The Religion Of Their Oppressors
author: ;Caitlin Johnstone
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guid: https://medium.com/p/1ce4b4f14ba2
title: Palestinians Didn’t Choose The Religion Of Their Oppressors
author: ;Caitlin Johnstone
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<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*r0p31d6OVwtI3schLXxSIQ.png"></figure><h4><strong>Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix</strong></h4><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Z6m63LLGRk"><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%2F5Z6m63LLGRk%3Ffeature%3Doembed&amp;display_name=YouTube&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D5Z6m63LLGRk&amp;image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2F5Z6m63LLGRk%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/6499c9bc461c088330ccfb66e6c696b0/href">https://medium.com/media/6499c9bc461c088330ccfb66e6c696b0/href</a></iframe><p>❖</p><p>One of the dumbest narratives we’re asked to swallow about Palestinians is that they are guilty of anti-Jewish prejudice which makes them comparable to Nazis. Palestinians didn’t choose the religion of their oppressors; any hatred they have toward Israelis is because Israelis are the ones oppressing and murdering them, not because of their religion. Expecting Palestinians not to hate the oppressors who hate them just because those oppressors happen to be Jewish is shitbrained thinking.</p><p>Every so often you’ll see the IDF plant a copy of Mein Kampf in a building in Gaza and then wave it around as though it would somehow justify what Israel is doing to the Palestinians, and it’s just so stupid. The reason we’ve come to abhor hatred toward Jews in the west is because we know the west has an extensive history of committing atrocities against Jewish people because of their religion.</p><p>Palestinians harbor no such prejudice and are guilty of no such crimes. Any violence they’ve inflicted upon Israelis has been in an effort to keep their land and resist tyrannical oppression, not because they have some weird European Hitlerite hatred toward Jews. Anytime you hear Palestinians talk about “the Jews” they’re always talking solely and exclusively about their oppressors in the context of the occupation; they’re not talking about some Jewish guy in Canada.</p><p>Palestinians would hate their oppressors whether the oppression was being inflicted by Hindus, Buddhists or Catholics. That’s normal. That’s how people’s minds and emotions work; we hate people who hate us, and we hate people who abuse us. Any failure to understand this is a failure to put yourself in someone else’s shoes and imagine what it would be like to live in their situation. It’s a sign that you lack normal human empathy.</p><p>❖</p><p>The world needs Israel. Without Israel where would sexual predators go for safety and protection? Where would we get our surveillance technology? Who would use human targets to field test new kinds of murder robots, military explosives and AI systems used to kill entire families?</p><p>❖</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/1903250982538187176&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/89c1b380c656982b802a77dacc867544/href">https://medium.com/media/89c1b380c656982b802a77dacc867544/href</a></iframe><p>❖</p><p>Critics of Israel should familiarize themselves with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitchens%27s_razor">Hitchens’s razor</a>: “What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.”</p><p>Whether it’s beheaded babies, mass rapes, Hamas bases in hospitals, or Hamas killing the Bibas kids with their bare hands, if it’s being asserted without evidence, it can be immediately dismissed.</p><p>❖</p><p>It is a well-documented fact that Israel and its supporters use <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lSjXhMUVKE">lobbying</a>, <a href="https://x.com/mtracey/status/1837886438903357920">campaign funding</a> and <a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2024/11/05/israel-blackmail-the-presidents/">blackmail</a> to exert influence over western nations. It is also a fact that the US empire has the power to stop Israel from doing this at any time, but chooses not to. The empire managers in the official elected government don’t do anything to stop these influence operations, nor do the empire managers in the far more powerful unelected national security state. Does anyone really believe Israel would still be exerting such massive influence over the US government if the CIA determined that this was impeding their agendas of global domination?</p><p>It follows that the Zionist influence operations exist because the empire wants them to. The artificially manufactured support for Israel has been deemed a necessary evil to help ensure constant violence, division and instability in the middle east and justify endless military presence in a crucial geostrategic region which, if left to its own devices, might unite and conduct its affairs in a way that is disadvantageous to western interests.</p><p>There are many other nations in the middle east who are aligned with the US and are used to advance its interests in the region, but none of them are fully dependent on support from the US government for their continued existence. It’s a completely artificial construct that was inserted into the middle east like a glass shard into a foot, and its continued existence benefits both the settler colonialists who live there and the long-term hegemonic interests of the US-centralized empire.</p><p>I say all this to point out that the west isn’t some passive innocent victim of manipulations by the big mean tyrant Israel. It is just as guilty of Israel’s crimes as Israel itself, because those crimes are inseparable from the western empire as a whole. You see some on the right trying to argue that the west would be this wonderful virtuous place if not for the malign influence of those nasty Jews, but this narrative is refuted by the entire historical existence of the western world. The west has always been a warmongering, genocidal civilization driven by conquest and domination, and the western settler-colonialist project of Israel is just one more manifestation of the dystopia we are living in.</p><p>❖</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/1903215993645830509&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/95652b1213d9372ddbfe8cb86de39753/href">https://medium.com/media/95652b1213d9372ddbfe8cb86de39753/href</a></iframe><p>❖</p><p>Defending Trump’s warmongering in the middle east by babbling about his peacemaking efforts in Ukraine is the same as saying it’s okay for him to torch Gaza because he’s not bombing Argentina. It’s nonsensical. You don’t negate your crimes by being less criminal somewhere else.</p><p>❖</p><p>Whenever I criticize Trump’s actions in the middle east I’ll get some Democrat going “I BET YOU WISH YOU’D SUPPORTED KAMALA NOW, HUH?”</p><p>That’s not what this is, idiots. I did this exact same commentary throughout the Biden administration, because Biden is also evil. I am simply criticizing the world’s most murderous and destructive power structure and whatever empire managers happen to be sitting at the front desk while it happens. This is just what it looks like when you apply scrutiny to the empire without being a partisan hack.</p><p>❖</p><p>Bernie Sanders has been such a worthless empire simp I sometimes wonder why the Democratic Party establishment even bothered sabotaging his primary campaigns. They would have gotten another Obama, selling people false hope while advancing the interests of oligarchy and empire.</p><p>❖</p><p>Our species evolved these brains of unprecedented sophistication only to use them to destroy our biosphere, invent new ways to blow each other up, and make ourselves miserable with our own thoughts.</p><p>❖</p><p>It’s not about hostages. It’s not about Hamas. It’s not about terrorism. Those aren’t the reasons, they’re the excuses. The excuses to expel Palestinians and turn more Palestinian land into Israeli land. That’s all this has ever been about. 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<p>This is China TV Discussion Program #271 aired on 17 February 2025</p>
<p><span>I’ve previously provided several translations of this program featuring outstanding Chinese scholar Zhang Weiwei and probably ought to do more of them as they offer insights into China’s view of Western aspects, in this case technofeudalism and feudalism. The televised</span> <a href="https://www.guancha.cn/ZhangWeiWei/2025_02_23_766046_s.shtml" rel>program, “</a><span>The Feudal Nature of the Western System</span><strong>,”</strong> <span>lasts an hour that’s divided into three sections: discussion by the academics, roundtable discussion with the moderator, then some Q&amp;A from the audience. There are several other recent statements of importance made by the Chinese government that have seen no reproduction in the West I hope to translate and publish during the coming week so readers can obtain better insight into China’s system. The transcript begins with the hostess providing an introduction to the subject matter:</span></p>
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<p>"OpenAI and Nvidia hyped chips so expensive, and the United States originally wanted to monopolize it, and then we saw how DeepSeek broke the monopoly, which is very feudal."</p>
<p>"Feudalism in Western society is a systemic phenomenon, and it is by no means just the result of the development of technology and platform capital."</p>
<p><span>Not long ago, Professor Yannis Varoufakis, a left-wing scholar in Europe and former Minister of Finance of Greece, made the point that capitalism is declining and being replaced by another politically regressive form of "techno-feudalism". In Dragon TV's "This is China" program broadcast on February 17, Professor Zhang Weiwei, Dean of the Institute of China Studies at Fudan University, and Professor Fan Yongpeng, Vice Dean of the Institute of China Studies at Fudan University, discussed</span> <em><strong>the relationship between capitalism and feudalism</strong></em><span>.</span></p>
<p><strong>Fan Yongpeng:</strong></p>
<p><span>In September 2024, Prof. Zhang invited Yanis Varoufakis, a Greek economist and former Minister of Finance, to the Institute of China Studies at Fudan University as a visiting scholar. Yannis was an influential new intellectual,</span> <em><strong>whose main idea was that capitalism was dead; With the development of new technologies and industries, the West has entered the stage of "technological feudalism"</strong></em><span>.</span></p>
<p>Yannis refers to platform capital such as e-commerce and social media as "cloud capital". He believes that the relationship between platform capital and labor is no longer the free [non-slave] wage labor of the classic capitalist stage, and that platform labor is becoming more and more like a kind of "cloud serf".</p>
<p><em><strong>At the same time, those who hold these "cloud capitals" have the power to circumvent the market. They produce nothing, but they can charge producers three to four percent of the rent, which Yannis calls "cloud rent". Different platforms are isolated from each other and have strict barriers, similar to the feudal state of feudal society, which he called "cloud territory".</strong></em></p>
<p><span>And the power of the state, which used to be able to provide checks and balances on the power of capital, is becoming weaker and weaker.</span> <em><strong>Because these platforms are able to control not only people's lives, but also people's thoughts and speech, and even votes, it is also able to control political power.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>Platform capitalists like Mark Zuckerberg, the metaverse he created is to build an independent parallel world to compete with real countries.</span> <em><strong>Then in their own territory, "cloud capital" is the feudal prince who is in charge of everything.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>So Yannis thinks that capitalism is dead, but instead of being replaced by communism,</span> <em><strong>it is a return to feudalism.</strong></em> <span>As the American left-wing scholar</span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodi_Dean" rel>Jodi Dean</a> <span>put it: "Capitalism is at a crossroads: should it choose communism or neo-feudalism?" The answer of these left-wing scholars is neofeudalism.</span></p>
<p>In addition to Yanis, many left-wing intellectuals in the West have been keen to discuss this topic in recent years. For example, the Slovenian writer Zizek and the French scholar Dylan are both talking about the feudalization of capitalism.</p>
<p>There are some right-wing intellectuals who have come to the same end as them. Although they also have a nostalgic rather than critical attitude towards old-fashioned capitalism, they also see the phenomenon of capitalism being feudalized.</p>
<p><span>In fact, more than 10 years ago, many scholars were keenly aware of this problem, such as Francis Fukuyama, an American ideological apologist, and Thomas Piketty, a French economist, who saw the hereditary trend of wealth and power in Western society from different standpoints. In response to Trump's recent re-election, Paul Krugman also wrote: "</span><em><strong>Crony capitalism is sweeping the United States</strong></em><span>.”</span></p>
<p><span>It is no coincidence that these people are concerned about the problem of neo-feudalism.</span> <em><strong>When we look back at the development of capitalism in the West in the past two decades, we can indeed see that the tendency of feudalism in all aspects is far beyond the realization of these intellectuals.</strong></em></p>
<p>It is easy to spot a series of signs of capitalist degradation:</p>
<p>First, the revival of feudal theocracy. In recent years, religion has seen a rise in influence on political power, from Trump and American conservatism to the European right. Not to mention the Middle East, Turkey, India, and other countries, all of which are re-religious to some extent.</p>
<p><span>Second, the power of the</span> <a href="https://koreaexpose.com/welcome-to-a-feudal-aristocracy-of-the-orient/" rel>feudal</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaebol" rel>chaebol</a> <span>rose. In the past, we may not have been unfamiliar with the chaebols in Japan and South Korea,</span> <em><strong>but today we find that the chaebol forces in Europe and the United States have also begun to come to the fore and directly participate in politics.</strong></em></p>
<p><em><strong>Third, the feudal warlords reappeared. The phenomenon of private or group armed forces, which seems to be alien to the modern state, is re-entering our field of vision.</strong></em> <span>In recent years, there have been signs of military interference in politics in the United States, France, and Germany, and the armed forces of the right and left wings of the civilian population have also begun to appear. The "color revolutions" promoted by the West have also led to the disintegration of many relatively mature countries such as Libya and Syria, leading to the emergence of various warlords.</span></p>
<p><span>Fourth, it is difficult to return to the feudal hereditary system. From Trump's cronyism, Biden's pardon for his son and some criminal politicians, to the frequent revelations in the United States in recent years that congressmen or public officials let their relatives take over and confer public office on the country.</span> <em><strong>These cases show that political power in the United States has become seriously hereditary.</strong></em> <span>Some studies have found that at the level of Congress alone, there are already more than 700 political warlords in the United States.</span></p>
<p><span>Fifth, the feudal manor reappeared. Not only the data and platform estates pointed out by scholars such as Yannis, but also</span> <em><strong>traditional landed estates never became extinct</strong></em><span>. Whether it is the aristocratic estate of Britain or the big landlords behind these cities in the United States, these</span> <em><strong>Western cities that seem to be very modern on the surface have always had a feudal property structure behind them.</strong></em></p>
<p>In addition to these "old money," the "new money" created by the information industry has also begun to buy land in realty. Bill Gates and others were once blown into the sky as innovative entrepreneurs, but today they have all begun to become big landowners in the United States.</p>
<p><em><strong>Therefore, we can see that the feudalization of Western society is a systemic phenomenon, and it is by no means the result of the development of technology and platform capital.</strong></em></p>
<p>Although the critical consciousness of Western scholars such as Yannis is very valuable, they still have not jumped out of the prison of capitalist discourse.</p>
<p>Their critique of capitalism is mainly that the rise of platform capital has led to the failure of the market economy, the decline of free wage labor, and the challenge of new technologies to representative elections. But I think this kind of criticism is still too superficial, and there are many problems with it, so I will briefly mention a few points.</p>
<p><span>First, the demise of the market and profits, as they point out,</span> <em><strong>does not necessarily mean the demise of capitalism, but only exposes the backwardness and barbarism inherent in capitalism itself</strong></em><span>. It is true that we all know that capitalism was built in the struggle against feudalism and that the main task of the bourgeois revolution was to overthrow feudalism. [Something seldom taught in the West.]</span></p>
<p><span>In 1843, Marx proposed a series of important concepts, including political emancipation, civil society, and so on. What he meant was that</span> <em><strong>one of the characteristics of feudal society was that people's economic status and political status were linked.</strong></em> <span>For example, if you are a big landlord or a big nobleman, you will enjoy the corresponding feudal privileges; And if you don't have land, you can only go and be a serf, a vassal.</span></p>
<p><span>One of the advances of capitalism is political emancipation, the decoupling of people's economic status from their political status, turning them into modern individuals, and achieving basic political equality.</span> <em><strong>In the future, economic inequality and the real emancipation of man will be solved by the socialist revolution, according to Marx.</strong></em></p>
<p><em><strong>But the problem is that capitalism is not completely anti-feudal.</strong></em> <span>Capitalism is exploited by the market economy and free wage labour, which is an economic exploitation, but that does not mean that it is not supra-economically exploitative.</span> <em><strong>Capitalism was born out of feudalism, and it itself dragged a long feudal tail</strong></em><span>.</span></p>
<p>From the long-standing slave labor in Europe, the white indentured slavery and black slavery in North America, to the child labor and unequal pay for equal work that are still rampant in the United States today; From the genocide and brutal exploitation of other regions by Western colonialism, to the plundering of India and the Qing Dynasty, to the global bloodsucking and world war of imperialism, to the subversion, resource grabbing and oil theft by the United States in recent years.</p>
<p><em><strong>When capitalism is able to kill people and oversell goods and engage in super-economic exploitation, it will never be polite. Only if it cannot engage in supra-economic exploitation, will it patiently sit down and engage in economic exploitation.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>From this point of view,</span> <em><strong>the retrogression of capitalism today, which runs counter to the principles of market economy and profit, is not a new thing at all, but a form of capitalism itself.</strong></em></p>
<p><em><strong>The greatest significance of China's rise in the world is to make it impossible for Western capitalism to plunder and exploit the world unscrupulously, so capitalism has been beaten back to its original form.</strong></em></p>
<p>Second, these Western scholars have not really touched on the problems of the Western system itself. When we look at these intellectuals, they basically don't talk about the problems of liberal democracy in the United States or the representative system in the West.</p>
<p><em><strong>In their view, the market economy is still healthy, and the representative system is democratic. Therefore, their criticism of neo-feudalism still contains a defense of capitalism to a certain extent.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>But what they don't see or don't want to talk about is that Western representative system itself is not so modern,</span> <em><strong>it is itself a kind of feudal legacy.</strong></em> <span>In the history of the ancient West, the system that can be called democracy is not based on elections, but on voting, drawing lots, and so on.</span></p>
<p><em><strong>Election is a typical institutional form of feudal aristocratic society.</strong></em> <span>Elections in the Catholic Church, elections in the Holy Roman Empire, aristocratic democracy in the Kingdom of Poland, and parliamentary systems in England</span> <em><strong>are all forms of aristocratic control and distribution of power.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>In modern times, the suffrage has proliferated, and the representative system has also taken on a false democratic veneer, but</span> <em><strong>it is still essentially an aristocratic system, except that the feudal aristocracy has been replaced by the commercial aristocracy, then the industrial aristocracy, then the monopoly bourgeois aristocracy, and gradually replaced by the Jewish and financial bourgeoisie after World War II.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>The story that is happening in the United States today is a new wave of replacement movement launched by the upstarts of technology and platform capital, and</span> <em><strong>it is always the capitalist aristocracy that holds the power.</strong></em></p>
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<p>The rise of the new right in Silicon Valley, represented by Musk, is the embodiment of the new aristocracy of technology and platforms.</p>
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<p><span>As the British thinker Lasky put it, the so-called representative system is a system in which different types of property rights share political power in proportion.</span> <em><strong>Western representative system is essentially a tool for the direct transformation of property power into political power.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>Then, when Western capitalism begins to stagnate,</span> <em><strong>the progressive nature of the capitalists begins to disappear, and the social differentiation between the rich and the poor and the accumulation of wealth have a hereditary tendency, it will inevitably bring about the hereditary transfer of power.</strong></em> <span>From hereditary property to hereditary power,</span> <em><strong>it's no wonder that today the West looks more and more like a feudal society.</strong></em></p>
<p>How to solve these problems? Yanis: They mentioned the idea of either techno-socialism or techno-communism. But as European left-wing scholars, their thinking is very limited and they lack intuitive experience of how socialism works.</p>
<p><em><strong>For example, a big capital platform like Mark Zuckerberg can only be invited by Congress in the United States to ask him for questioning, while in China we can regulate the development of platform capital through regulation, punishment, legislation, etc.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>The Western Left cannot jump out of the ideological routine of representative government, but we have actually explored a successful path.</span> <em><strong>We have played a fundamental role by relying on the vanguard political party, the public ownership system, the people's political power, and the people's army.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>Of course,</span> <em><strong>China is also facing many new challenges today, and it also needs to be reformed,</strong></em> <span>but my view is by no means the dogmatic liberalization or the reform in the direction of opening up, as advocated by some scholars or social figures today.</span></p>
<p><span>Third, the meaning of feudalism itself is complex. From the perspective of the political system alone, one of the characteristics of feudalism is the separation of local powers.</span> <em><strong>Western culture is particularly fond of emphasizing autonomy, which is itself part of the feudal tradition.</strong></em></p>
<p>It is very difficult for human beings to combine small societies into large societies and form a unified economic and political body, and it has extremely high requirements for institutions and cultures.</p>
<p><span>It was only from the Warring States Period that China gradually got out of the feudal state of political power after the unification of the Qin Dynasty, and after more than 2,000 years of practice of great unification, we still have to find a balance between national unification and local autonomy today.</span> <em><strong>But it is important that we must not allow the particular to prevail over the unity, and not to allow the local to jeopardize the wholeness.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>On the contrary,</span> <em><strong>in the history of the West, it is very lacking in unified political experience,</strong></em> <span>so in the process of modern anti-feudalism, except for some small countries in Europe that once established a relatively unified political entity, the political construction of slightly larger countries has never been able to break through this "ceiling".</span></p>
<p><span>For example, the United Kingdom, Germany, and the United States have not been able to achieve real integration and unification, and</span> <em><strong>the so-called federalism is a typical semi-finished product with feudal characteristics.</strong></em> <span>And the EU is an institutional experiment that has fallen into crisis before it is completed.</span></p>
<p><span>Therefore, when the development of capitalist modernization in the West came to a standstill and the construction of the state came to an end, these feudal factors began to rise, dissolving the unified country and re-entering the state of separation of various local and special forces.</span> <em><strong>The technological feudal separation, cloud separation, and data manor seen by Yannis and other scholars are just a special manifestation of this feudal political structure.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>There are so many other aspects that I can't go into them all. In short, the thinking and criticism of Western scholars represented by Yannis are very enlightening, but they are limited by the limitations of European and American civilization itself.</span> <em><strong>They have failed to see the whole picture of the problem</strong></em><span>, nor have they been able to thoroughly theorize, and it is difficult for them to really come up with effective solutions.</span></p>
<p>Thus, in the end, it will either degenerate into a pessimistic wail about the historical regression of capitalism, or it will fall into an idealistic utopia about the future direction.</p>
<p>For example, their proposed plan for the new feudalism and the inheritance of wealth and power is either to collect taxes without pain or itching; but the problem is that in a country ruled by capital, you collect taxes from capital. Isn't this just to seek skin with the tiger?</p>
<p><span>Either talk about communism in vain, including the Jodi Dean just mentioned, who is also talking about the vanguard party, talking about communism.</span> <em><strong>The problem is that in the bastions of capitalism and feudalism, communism does not grow automatically</strong></em><span>.</span></p>
<p>I really hope that these thinkers will put forward better theories, more powerful words, and be more proactive in helping the people of the world to oppose the oppression of capitalism and the restoration of feudalism, so as to build a better and more progressive modern world.</p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
<p><strong>【Roundtable Discussion】</strong></p>
<p><strong>Moderator:</strong> <span>We are talking about capitalism and feudalism today, and let's start with the word feudalism. Everyone may have learned about feudalism, feudalism, etc. when they studied politics in middle school, but it may not be so easy to learn and understand, especially it is difficult to explain this concept clearly in everyday language. So when we discuss some of the drawbacks of capitalism, let's start with the concept of feudalism, Mr. Zhang.</span></p>
<p><strong>Zhang Weiwei:</strong> <span>If we talk about the feudal system, perhaps one is in a narrow sense and the other is in a broad sense.</span></p>
<p>In a narrow sense, for example, the Zhou Dynasty divided the feudal system, and the land was distributed to their relatives, to their generals, and so on, and then such a system began to form. Europe was a feudal society for a long time throughout the Middle Ages. It is characterized by the fact that people, peasants or serfs are dependent on the land and have no freedom. But in China, since the Qin and Han dynasties, this system has collapsed.</p>
<p>But there is a more general sense, maybe the land system has changed, but many traditional habits, such as hereditary and nepotism, which we talk about, are part of feudalism.</p>
<p><strong>Fan Yongpeng:</strong> <span>The concept of feudalism is actually a very interesting concept. There is a very central debate topic in China's more than 2,000-year political history, that is, is it better to be feudal or county-wise?</span></p>
<p>Feudalism is the system of the Western Zhou Dynasty mentioned by Mr. Zhang, and the counties are the system of the Qin Dynasty, and the Qin system completely overthrew feudalism. The Qin Dynasty was very unfortunate and short-lived, so later generations have been arguing: is it better to make the Qin system or the Zhou system?</p>
<p>For example, in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, it was thought that it was necessary to divide the feudals, and then Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty began to engage in integration again, and then to the Jin Dynasty, the local feudal forces began to rise again, and to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, they began to unify again, and they have been swaying repeatedly.</p>
<p>From the Song Dynasty to the Ming and Qing dynasties, there was also a certain degree of abandonment of local governance by the central government in China, called "the imperial power does not go down to the county", so there was a very deep-rooted feudal structure in the local structure, that is, the rule of the landlords over the peasants. But at the national level, it is not entirely feudal, there are unified laws and unified political systems.</p>
<p>This concept has been debated, and Chairman Mao and Guo Moruo have another debate. Liu Zongyuan in the Tang Dynasty was on the side of the county system, and Zhang Shizhao in the late Qing Dynasty wrote a book called "Liu Wen Instructions". Chairman Mao thought it was very good after reading it, and then debated with Guo Moruo, and wrote a poem called "Hundreds of generations are all practicing Qin politics and law", that is, the county system has its advantages.</p>
<p>But the word feudalism is not exactly the same as feudalism in the West, especially the feudalism proposed by Marxism. As Mr. Zhang said, from the disintegration of the Roman Empire to the time before modernization, Europe was feudal at this stage, and it was not exactly the same.</p>
<p>This word was translated by our great translator Yan Fu. Yan Fu himself talked very vividly in the book, he said that the word feudalism can be translated into feudal, he took the pen, threw the pen on the ground several times, and then circled around the room, and finally there was no way, or translated into feudal, so it brought a certain degree of confusion.</p>
<p><span>However, China's traditional feudalism and European feudalism actually have something in common, and Mr. Zhang just talked about it, and it has several characteristics: first,</span> <em><strong>it has a certain kind of large land, and then exploits it through land rent and labor</strong></em><span>, rather than through free labor and wages.</span></p>
<p><span>Second,</span> <em><strong>it exists in the relationship of human dependence</strong></em><span>. For example, I am a serf, and I am attached to a landlord; Or I am a nobleman and I am attached to my lord. To put it bluntly, this view of personal dependence means that people are not free, which is different from the concept in our society today. I go out into society, I am an independent individual, I am not attached to anyone.</span></p>
<p><em><strong>The third characteristic is the decentralization of political power, that is, the central government cannot centralize power,</strong></em> <span>and various separatist forces are formed at the local level, and the relationship between them and the central government is contractual, layer by layer, and power is divided through contracts. As soon as we unify these three characteristics, we will find that Chinese and Western feudalism actually have commonalities.</span></p>
<p><span>Since the end of the</span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qing_dynasty" rel>Qing Dynasty</a><span>, with the decline of central power, China's local feudalism has become the main contradiction in Chinese society, coupled with the entry of imperialism, so at the Second National Congress of the Communist Party of China [1922], the party clearly put forward the slogan of "</span><em><strong>anti-imperialist and anti-feudal</strong></em><span>" in the program, and this diagnosis is very accurate. Under its guidance, the Chinese revolution has succeeded and construction has also succeeded. Therefore, the Chinese Communist Party's understanding of feudalism is correct.</span></p>
<p><strong>Moderator:</strong> <span>Just now you said that feudalism has many directions, dimensions, and characteristics. To put it simply, it may be anti-dependency, which is first of all a very important core content of anti-feudalism, and from this point of view, everyone may understand it at once.</span></p>
<p><strong>Zhang Weiwei:</strong> <em><strong>When we discuss issues with Western scholars, we often say that there has been no real freedom in European society for thousands of years, and once you have freedom, you cherish it very much, and you talk about freedom every day, because you have too little freedom in history.</strong></em></p>
<p><strong>Fan Yongpeng:</strong> <span>Let me add to Mr. Zhang's opinion. There is a very famous Marxist historian in the West, named</span> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Anderson" rel>Perry Anderson</a><span>. He said why do we Westerners attach so much importance to freedom? He said that it is only when you are faced with unfreedom that you become aware of the problem of freedom.</span></p>
<p>He said that Europeans valued freedom because slavery existed throughout European history. When you're a free man, as a nobleman, like a citizen of Greece, and you look at a large number of slaves laboring for you, you think I'm free.</p>
<p>In China, after the Western Zhou Dynasty, we did not have this kind of large-scale slavery, so the Chinese did not have this very strong motivation to speak of freedom. If you look at the novels in Chinese history, the texts of the Tang Dynasty, the novels of the Ming and Qing dynasties, a Chinese scholar, a farmer, and a businessman can travel all over the world, row a small boat along the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal to Beijing, run to Nanjing, and he is free.</p>
<p><em><strong>So Chinese, on the contrary, will feel that freedom is not a big deal. The freedom we Chinese talk about is a higher level, that is, Zhuangzi, I am free, I am careless, this is called freedom.</strong></em></p>
<p><strong>Moderator:</strong> <span>Let's talk about feudalism again. Because he is talking about the feudal nature of capitalism now, specific to the level of life, if this feudal nature still exists, what is its harm to a country and this society?</span></p>
<p><strong>Fan Yongpeng:</strong> <em><strong>I think number one, it's anti-productive. Marx made it very clear that capitalism grew out of feudalism.</strong></em> <span>There is a sentence in the "Communist Manifesto" that because the superstructure of the feudal system could not accommodate the development of new productive forces, it was "blasted" and "blown up".</span></p>
<p>Marx has a wonderful saying, he said that the hand mill produced the era of feudalism, and the steam mill produced the era of capitalism.</p>
<p><em><strong>The reason why this neo-feudal tendency has emerged in the West today is precisely that their productive forces have begun to stagnate and regress. Therefore, if we are faced with the resurgence of feudal forces, then we must first think that it is an obstacle to modern civilization, to modern material production, and to the development of productive forces.</strong></em></p>
<p><strong>Moderator:</strong> <span>In other words, when feudalism returns, it will bring damage to the whole of modernization and modernity.</span></p>
<p><strong>Fan Yongpeng:</strong> <em><strong>It will bring serious shackles to productivity. The second point is that feudalism brings injustice.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>A very important proposition put forward by Marx in 1843 is that in feudal society, your economic rights and political power are linked.</span> <em><strong>What is modern society? It's that how much money I earn is not tied to my rights as a citizen, which is a huge step forward in history.</strong></em> <span>[In theory, but seldom in practice.]</span></p>
<p><span>But now this re-peg is starting to happen again in the West, so it will bring injustice. Between wealth and political power to personal status, this equivalence began to emerge again.</span> <em><strong>This phenomenon is happening in many societies.</strong></em></p>
<p><strong>Zhang Weiwei:</strong> <span>We can also give some examples, such as equal pay for men and women for equal work. None of the Western countries have done it, whether Sweden, Denmark, or Switzerland,</span> <em><strong>this is feudalism. This is especially true in Japan and South Korea, where the difference in income between men and women can be 30 to 40 percent, which is severely feudal.</strong></em></p>
<p><strong>Fan Yongpeng:</strong> <span>Including the surname of their husbands after their women get married, it is a legacy of feudalism. Feudalism also has a very important harm, because it will break the modern nation-state that has been formed with great difficulty since modernization. After the emergence of various separatist powers, the central power is deconstructed, and then it will lead to the fragmentation of the country and the fragmentation of the world, which is not conducive to globalization. In fact, if you look at the "small courtyard and high walls" of the United States today, it is hindering the further development of globalization.</span> <em><strong>Globalization has its own problems, it is the domination of the whole world by big capital. But we need to domesticate globalization from another angle, to transform it.</strong></em></p>
<p>However, after the rise of feudal power, the world will be fragmented, and a large number of wars and turmoil will be brought about, including the rise of religious extremism, and human transportation and material exchanges will begin to be blocked.</p>
<p><em><strong>Today's modernization has brought a lot of global problems, infectious diseases, global crime, climate change, and finally the world is beginning to deconstruct. Who will solve these global problems? This is a very big problem.</strong></em></p>
<p><strong>Zhang Weiwei:</strong> <span>When I was debating with Francis Fukuyama in 2011, I said that</span> <em><strong>the American political system was pre-industrial revolution, that is, feudalism.</strong></em> <span>For example, when we talk about disaster relief, the U.S. government has very little disaster relief function, and it will be fine if it sends a notice. For a modern state, this is not a no-go.</span></p>
<p><span>When Trump was saying that he wanted Canada to become the 51st state of the United States, a Canadian politician began to retort, saying that we want California to become Canada's 11th province and that everyone in this province would have universal health care.</span> <em><strong>Universal health care is also part of modernity.</strong></em></p>
<p><strong>Fan Yongpeng:</strong> <span>Washington, Oregon, and California join Canada.</span></p>
<p><strong>Zhang Weiwei:</strong> <span>She said that Canada does not have people without health insurance like the United States, and Canada does not have anyone who can own guns like the United States.</span></p>
<p><strong>Moderator:</strong> <span>So</span> <em><strong>when we talk about feudalism, we are talking about the defects of the capitalist system itself.</strong></em> <span>Just now, Mr. Fan also said in his speech that the capitalist system was originally produced in anti-feudalism. But</span> <em><strong>because it is not complete, when its own development encounters obstacles, it will turn back and look for refuge in feudalism.</strong></em></p>
<p>Turning back to China, especially the history of the founding of New China, we have been very thorough in our anti-feudalism. The system is very thorough, but we may also observe in terms of living customs, and there may be certain local customs that still reflect a certain feudal nature, but this may not be a large proportion.</p>
<p><strong>Zhang Weiwei:</strong> <em><strong>There is no doubt that there are many feudal traditions in Chinese society</strong></em><span>. Even if we talk about the "second combination" now, it is also a combination of Marxism and China's excellent traditional culture, that is to say, there is a problem of taking the essence and eliminating the dross.</span></p>
<p><em><strong>There are some things that we actually do all the time, some that we haven't done enough, and some things that are still very ingrained. Fo</strong></em><span>r example, when it comes to seniority, there are quite a lot. At that time, Gong Zizhen said, "I advise Tiangong to be vigorous", he was a figure in the late Qing Dynasty, and such an expression was revolutionary.</span></p>
<p>Now we talk about selecting meritocracy, and some things are the essence. We invented the imperial examination system, which was the most advanced civil service examination system in the world at that time. But then it did become more and more rigid, and it became a test of eight strands; And it only focuses on writing poems and writing beautiful articles, rather than how to really solve practical problems.</p>
<p>Therefore, in our current cadre selection system, a very important point is to look at your practice, your political achievements, and how well you have done.</p>
<p><span>Moderator: In Mr.</span> <strong>Fan's speech,</strong> <span>he cited the concept of "cloud rent" charged by some platforms in the West. The platform economy is also quite familiar to us. Do we need to be particularly wary of such signs in China?</span></p>
<p><strong>Fan Yongpeng:</strong> <em><strong>It is definitely needed, because the platform itself is not an enterprise in the traditional sense, but has the nature of a certain public infrastructure</strong></em><span>. Let's think: Can we make our high-speed rail system, our aviation system, a private company to control? So it has a similar nature, but it's also a private enterprise, and it follows the logic of corporate rules.</span></p>
<p><span>Therefore, we need to find a suitable angle between the two, that is,</span> <em><strong>to let it unleash its creativity as an enterprise, and at the same time to ensure that it serves everyone as a public instrument of the world, and not as its own feudal territory.</strong></em></p>
<p>What does this boil down to? It is not possible to rely on the representative system, nor can it be done by relying on multi-party competition; in the final analysis, it is only by relying on the leadership of the Communist Party of China and relying on socialist culture that we can solve the problem.</p>
<p><strong>Zhang Weiwei:</strong> <span>When we discussed with Yannis here, his observation was quite perceptive. From the point of view of payment systems and digital currencies, China and the United States have parted ways.</span> <em><strong>The United States follows the road of feudalism, while China follows the road of socialism with Chinese characteristics.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>The biggest disagreement is why we can pay so much with mobile phones, but not in the United States?</span> <em><strong>Its credit card companies, banks, and other social media are reluctant to combine when it comes to the distribution of benefits.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>China is different, China has the leadership of the party.</span> <em><strong>Since the society has this demand, we want to represent the advanced productive forces, we will give it a try</strong></em><span>, hold a personal hearing, the mayor will hold a meeting, representatives from all parties will be invited, you will let go of the profits, and I will give up a little of it, and finally try, and we will make such a big world.</span></p>
<p><strong>Moderator:</strong> <span>You just talked about the platform, I did an interview some time ago, and introduced that there is a system called escort in Shanghai, which is actually in great demand. Because many elderly people, even young people, go to the hospital to see a doctor, they may need someone to take me, accompany me to register, get medicine, especially the doctor's order to translate, to remember how to eat in a day, how many meals to eat, etc., is such a service.</span></p>
<p>The government realizes that because of the lack of escorts in the elderly care service, the government will set up a platform to encourage third-party service agencies to enter the platform, and the service fee may be paid directly by the consumer to the third party, and the government will build the platform.</p>
<p><em><strong>Going back to what you just said, we will also build some platforms, and we will also encourage the relevant operators to serve the people on them, but if you go beyond the boundary, I will come to supervise you, and I will come to adjust. If it does not go beyond the border, it is very good, because there is one more social force that can do things for the common people, which is a manifestation of the attributes of our socialist system.</strong></em></p>
<p>The issues we are discussing today sound very professional at first glance, but when we put them into practice, we will find that we have a more intuitive understanding of modernity, modernization, capitalism, feudalism, and anti-feudalism.</p>
<p><strong>【Q&amp;A】</strong></p>
<p><strong>Audience: Hello two teachers, good host. The question I would like to ask today is: What is the difference between traditional feudalism and neo-feudalism in the definition of manifestations? What is deceptive and destructive to social progress? Thank you, teacher.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Moderator:</strong> <span>You may be seated. Good question, what is the difference between the feudalism we talk about in history and the feudalism we talk about today?</span></p>
<p><strong>Fan Yongpeng:</strong> <span>Traditional feudalism is a historical phenomenon because the feudal era has passed.</span> <em><strong>But the elites of the feudal era, in the process of modernization, whether in the West, Southeast Asia, Latin America and other non-Western countries, he has been transformed, because he controls resources, so he directly transformed into the political elite of the new era, and he has left.</strong></em></p>
<p><em><strong>Therefore, in many countries, there is such a very primitive and conservative political system as crony capitalism, which is a legacy of the old feudalism today.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>The new feudalism, which I am talking about today, is proposed by scholars like Yannis and Durand, and</span> <em><strong>on the basis of the development of new technologies, a trend close to feudalism has emerged. Strictly speaking, it is a metaphor, not strictly feudal, but it does have some feudal qualities, such as bringing people to dependence.</strong></em></p>
<p>In the field of culture, Mao Jian, a teacher from East China Normal University, has a very famous saying, she said that the most feudal place in China is in film and television dramas, which are full of mother-in-law and daughter-in-law relationships, bride price, and domineering presidents, which are all typical feudal culture. This is contrary to the socialist culture advocated by our Communist Party. Therefore, we must rely on the party's propaganda and theoretical guidance to constantly overcome it.</p>
<p><span>In addition, there is a very important point, that is, what is the biggest resonance point between the traditional feudalism and the new feudalism?</span> <em><strong>This resonance point is that after having wealth, this wealth can be accumulated, and a direct relationship between wealth and power is established, which is the most dangerous problem.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>For example, I have dozens of properties at home, and I don't need to go to work anymore,</span> <em><strong>I can live on rent.</strong></em> <span>For example, my father has established a large platform capital, and I don't need to operate it anymore in the future,</span> <em><strong>just collect rent</strong></em> <span>and collect a lot of data. Data itself is an economic element, which is productivity.</span> <em><strong>Such a group of people will become a conservative feudal force in the new era.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>So you see, our party has been working hard to regulate and change this situation. Therefore, General Secretary Xi Jinping said in his speech at the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China that the Communist Party of China has "three non-represents": it does not represent any interest group, does not represent any powerful group, and does not represent the interests of any privileged class.</span> <em><strong>That is to say, it is necessary to break the inheritance, accumulation, and hereditary inheritance of power and wealth, which is a very important point in the fight against feudalism.</strong></em></p>
<p>Finally, I'll give you another example, which is how our system breaks this thing. The FBI once tried to interrogate a suspected terrorist, and his iPhone would not open, and then he went to the California Supreme Court to file a lawsuit. In the end, the California Supreme Court ruled in favor of Apple, and the state power just can't get this thing.</p>
<p><em><strong>And our People's Bank of China has issued a policy that requires that all digital transaction data must have a backup in the central bank. What is the purpose? It's creative activities that you can continue to do, but I'm going to keep a backup of the same here, and the state controls this resource through power on behalf of the people. This is an important example.</strong></em></p>
<p><strong>Zhang Weiwei:</strong> <span>On the one hand, with the digital economy, we see that China and the United States have begun to part ways, according to Yannis's words: one is "technological feudalism" and the other is socialism with Chinese characteristics. In terms of feudalism, the two sides also have something in common.</span> <em><strong>The domineering president is interesting, and if this is a feudal display, then this is also a humorous "soft power" that China exports to the United States.</strong></em></p>
<p>Short films of domineering presidents are very popular in the United States. They completely used the Chinese script, replaced it with American, changed it to English, changed people's names, and everything else remained almost unchanged, and the lines were all machine-translated. Then I filmed, and even went to China to shoot, and some of them were filmed in the United States, and it turned out to be very popular in the United States.</p>
<p><strong>Moderator:</strong> <span>Why do so many people like to watch the story of the domineering president?</span></p>
<p><strong>Fan Yongpeng:</strong> <span>People sometimes want to "lie flat". Independence and freedom are actually quite tiring. As a matter of fact, our party has said this a long time ago:</span> <em><strong>We must shape a new person of socialism and use new people and new ideas to break through this feudal trap.</strong></em></p>
<p><strong>Moderator:</strong> <em><strong>So it's not just about external feudalism, but also about your own inner feudalism.</strong></em></p>
<p><strong>Audience: Hello two teachers, good host. In contemporary society, anti-feudal movements are often closely linked to the pursuit of fairness in society. In the European bourgeois revolution, although the privileges of the feudal aristocracy were overthrown, inequality still existed within the European bourgeoisie. In the context of the new era, how should we balance different interests and avoid new social injustices after anti-feudalism? Thank you, teacher.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Zhang Weiwei:</strong> <span>I think this is also a matter of international comparison. For example, in the UK, the British themselves admit that their country is referred to as a "class society" in English, which is sometimes translated as "阶级社会" (class society) and sometimes as "阶层社会" (stratified society). Its classes and social strata are solidified.</span></p>
<p><span>Three hundred years ago, wealthy families and aristocratic families are still the richest today. There is a large body of research to prove this, and the family lineage continues to this day.</span> <em><strong>So in the UK, it's very, very difficult to get past the classes.</strong></em></p>
<p>In comparison, China is still a society with the greatest mobility. For example, the college entrance examination system, which is almost nonexistent in other countries. It is essential to take the college entrance examination, and admissions are strictly based on scores; many countries do not have this situation.</p>
<p><span>In Chinese culture, there is a saying: "Heaven helps those who help themselves." As long as you work hard, the people around you will say that this child is good, and we should lend him a hand.</span> <em><strong>Nowadays, whether in politics, society, or business, the vast majority of successful individuals have achieved their success through their own efforts.</strong></em></p>
<p><strong>Fan Yongpeng:</strong> <span>In the traditional sense, the injustice brought about by feudalism should be said to exist in China, but in the world, we are the best.</span></p>
<p><em><strong>If you look at the anti-feudal process in various countries around the world, such as Italy and Spain, the feudalism is more retained, because modern capitalism has not developed enough, so some feudal elements have been left.</strong></em></p>
<p>Some countries, such as Germany and France, developed particularly maturely in the feudal era, but because it has developed capitalism very maturely, and especially after the Great Revolution, the French aristocracy has killed several waves, and Germany has been bombed in World War I and World War II for several waves, and as a result, the aristocracy has basically been completely eliminated, so these two countries look relatively modern.</p>
<p><em><strong>So like Britain, as well as Northern Europe, Northwest Europe, and Low Countries these places, its royal power and aristocracy and feudal power are very strong. To this day, they have not yet jumped out of the era of feudal kingship.</strong></em></p>
<p><em><strong>It was mainly the Soviet Union and China that really experienced large-scale and profound social transformation, so we were relatively successful in the anti-feudal aspect</strong></em><span>.</span></p>
<p><span>But the question you asked is important.</span> <em><strong>A very big challenge we are facing today is that every time the development of new technologies in human history will inevitably bring about changes in the original structure of social interests.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>In today's era, we advocate science, so it is easy for everyone to have a romantic imagination of science and technology and think that science and technology must be good.</span> <em><strong>Historically, science and technology have not necessarily been good, and it has always been a "double-edged sword"</strong></em><span>. So</span> <em><strong>in today's era of highly developed technology, we are also facing this problem.</strong></em></p>
<p>Looking back on history, what are the special needs of all the periods of rapid development of science and technology in history? There is a special need to stress politics and the active political will that comes from society.</p>
<p><span>Whether it is through the peasant uprising, through the imperial examination, or through our communist revolution,</span> <em><strong>we must overcome the deviation in the distribution brought about by the development of science and technology by representing the will of the whole people</strong></em><span>. This is a very important challenge that we face today.</span></p>
<p><strong>Moderator:</strong> <span>Just now, Mr. Fan said that in history, science and technology have always been a "double-edged sword", but perhaps only China has clearly shouted four words, called "science and technology for good", that is, I hope that science and technology will serve the progress of mankind and the well-being of ordinary people.</span></p>
<p>So the challenges that you just talked about that you might encounter may also bring about a new phase of injustice. However, the characteristic and advantage of our system lies in ensuring the greatest fairness in the midst of all kinds of new changes.</p>
<p><strong>Zhang Weiwei:</strong> <span>I'll give you this example again, OpenAI and Nvidia hyped the chip so expensive, and then we came out with DeepSeek, which doesn't need to be so expensive to achieve the effect of the same product, and it's open source.</span></p>
<p><span>The United States originally wanted to monopolize it,</span> <em><strong>and we broke this monopoly, which itself is feudal</strong></em><span>.</span> <em><strong>The United States has created a lot of public opinion, and the whole world believes that this is the only way to go</strong></em><span>, and everyone can only buy expensive chips in the United States. Now the Chinese socialist forces,</span> <em><strong>DeepSeek represents the people's nature, which is revolutionary</strong></em><span>. That's what the world is all about.</span></p>
<p><strong>Moderator:</strong> <span>So you just said that I was thinking about this example, we all said to help everyone understand what is anti-feudal, what is feudal,</span> <em><strong>look at the role of DeepSeek, it is anti-feudal.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>I said in the program that China is actually the most modern country, and today's topic I think is a perfect footnote to this sentence.</span> <em><strong>How do we understand Chinese modernity? It lies in the thoroughness of our anti-feudal and anti-feudal nature.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>What Mr. Fan just talked about is capitalism, and there are still many remnants of its feudalism.</span> <em><strong>When it encounters obstacles to development, it will look back and magnify its feudal nature, so we must be very vigilant about this.</strong></em> <span>Finally, I would like to say that</span> <em><strong>let us oppose external feudalism, and at the same time we must oppose the feudal nature of ourselves and let us live a new self every day.</strong></em></p>
<p>Thank you all, and goodbye. [My Emphasis]</p>
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<p>The discussions we have about the Rentier Class, rents, monopolies, and the financialization of capitalism and Dr. Michael Hudson’s work is all related to the above discussion. I’d characterize it as looking at a horse form two different angles—both see the horse but provide a different perspective of it. Capitalism has a “long feudal tail” that is very present when we look and the sort of technofeudalism described is very visible in Trump 2.0. There’s a great disdain for commonfolk that more and more people are seeing and feeling. An excellent observation was the US Constitution is a feudal instrument and the government a feudal construct made for rule by the upper-class oligarchy. That China needs to be observant that the latent feudalism that remains in its society is regulated along with the feudal structures that come with new technologies. And of course, China isn’t the only nation needing to be that observant. The feudal nature of Europe is prominently displayed today with the EU/NATO construct acting as the Feudal Lord over all the vassal nations which are in differing degrees of resistance. IMO, Xi Jinping understands that the way to keep feudalism controlled is to be diligently constantly reforming and modernizing the governmental structure and its laws. Furthermore, the structures and systems of many former colonial nations mirror that of the Colonial Master, which has caused a great many problems since the aim of those structures and systems was to eliminate any type of equalitarian nature that could be interpreted as socialism or a society devoid of classes. Humanity will have a shared future, but what will be the nature of that future? What might be deemed optimal and what shall be done with the selfish class that disagrees? And what to do with people thinking themselves exceptional, which are currently a different sort than the selfish class? Above, it’s asked who will solve these global problems, religious extremism being just one? We’ve seen how those controlling platforms aid such extremism along with feudalistic empires. Is the technology the danger, the humans that discover it or the governments that control the humans?</p>
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<p>Thanks to the upgrading of the industrial chain and the rapid development of e-commerce platforms, flowers from Dounan Flower Market in southwest China's Kunming City, Yunnan Province, are now sold to more than 50 countries and regions overseas. The trading volume last year reached a staggering 11.5 billion yuan ($1.6 billion), and the total import and export volume of flowers hit a record high. It is not only Asia's largest fresh flower trading market but also a national 3A-level tourist scenic area. Follow reporter Zhang Zhenni and guest Bui Thi Tuyen, a student at Yunnan University from Vietnam, to embark on a wonderful floral journey, get to know this shining pearl of Asia's flower trade, and experience the vivid practice of Chinese-style modernization.</p>
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<p>Venezuela's government has announced that deportation flights from the U.S. resumed on Sunday, following U.S. President Donald Trump's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 that led to hundreds of Venezuelans being transferred to prison in El Salvador. Join us live in Caracas and La Guaira as flights carrying migrants deported from the U.S. arrive.</p>
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<p>The Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) Annual Conference 2025 takes place from March 25 to 28 in Boao, south China's Hainan Province. With the theme "Asia in the Changing World: Towards a Shared Future," this year's event focuses on development, fostering dialogue, exploring innovative formats and valuing tangible outcomes – all aimed at promoting international development and cooperation.</p>
<p>Hainan, known for its year-round sunshine and pristine beaches, has much to offer travelers from all over the world. Boao Lighthouse, situated on the northern side of the entrance to the harbor in Boao, is a vital navigation aid on Hainan's eastern coast. Installed with advanced navigation equipment, this iconic landmark adds maritime charm to Boao. Join us and feel the vibe of Boao.</p>
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<p>The Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) Annual Conference 2025 is taking place from March 25 to 28 in Boao, south China's Hainan Province. With the theme "Asia in the Changing World: Towards a Shared Future," this year's event focuses on development, fostering dialogue, exploring innovative formats and valuing tangible outcomes, all aimed at promoting international development and cooperation.</p>
<p>Hainan, known for its year-round sunshine and pristine beaches, has much to offer travelers from all over the world. Join us on a tour around Hainan Tropical Wildlife Park and Botanical Garden in Haikou City to meet giant pandas Gong Gong and Shun Shun. Let's see how they spend their days.</p>
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<p><strong>Beaucoup d’observateurs dénoncent régulièrement la politique absurde et dangereuse des dirigeants français, sur tous les plans, interne et externe, qui se manifeste par une déconnexion stupéfiante de la réalité, abandonnant les valeurs, s’affublant des «habits de Don Quichotte», les conduisant </strong>…</p>

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<p><em>« Regardez l’Europe : un continent au stade final de la consommation, qui siffle des slogans creux évoquant la « démocratie » et les « droits de l’homme » tandis que ses villes brûlent et que ses frontières se dissolvent. </em>…</p>

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<div>Les Archives nationales ont publié deux séries de documents du fonds d’archives sur l’assassinat du président John F. Kennedy après que le président Donald Trump a spontanément annoncé que tous les dossiers encore en leur possession seraient rendus publics.</div>
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title: Conjuring Banquo&amp;#039;s Ghost
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<p>One race managing or controlling another . . . in the interest and for the benefit of that other race. This is what our [English-speaking] peoples have . . . done, and must continue in the future in even greater degree to do, in India, Egypt, and the Philippines alike . . . [in] this period of unquestioned supremacy of the so-called white race.</p>
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<p><span>When the white man governs himself that is self-government; but when he governs himself, and also governs</span> <em>another</em> <span>man, that is</span> <em>more</em> <span>than self-government---that is despotism. If the negro is a</span> <em>man</em><span>, why then my ancient faith teaches me that "all men are created equal;" and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another . . . [No] man is good enough to govern another man,</span> <em>without that other's consent</em><span>. I say this is the leading principle---the sheet anchor of American republicanism.</span></p>
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<p>As spring arrives, canola flowers in Xiangshuijian Village, Wuhu City, east China's Anhui Province, came out in full bloom. Rivers and waterways winding through the golden sea of canola flowers and scattered villages dotted among them paint a pastoral spring landscape. This beautiful scenery has become popular, attracting many tourists to take photos and soak in the beautiful spring scenery. Join CGTN to feel the charm of the gold season! </p>
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Trump’s Attacks on Big Law, Universities, and the Media Have a Common Goal: Silence Dissent Against Authoritarian Rule

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<p>By <a href="https://wallstreetonparade.com/about-3/about/">Pam Martens and </a><a href="https://wallstreetonparade.com/about-3/about/">Russ Martens</a>: March 24, 2025 ~</p>
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<p>The New York Times’ <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/issue/todayspaper/2025/03/23/todays-new-york-times#thefrontpage">Sunday, March 23 newspaper</a> featured a lead story on how the 1,000-lawyer Big Law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton &amp; Garrison, a Wall Street favorite, had caved to threats in <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/addressing-risks-from-paul-weiss/">a Presidential Action</a> from Donald Trump, which would have banned lawyers at the firm from entering federal buildings; from reviewing classified documents for their clients by stripping them of security clearance; and effectively blacklisting the firm as a member of Donald Trump’s enemy list.</p>
<p>The Chair of Paul Weiss, Brad Karp, negotiated with Trump and got the order rescinded by agreeing to spend $40 million in pro bono work on projects amenable to Trump — along with other subservient concessions.</p>
<p>Trump’s move against Paul Weiss followed his similar actions against Big Law firms Perkins Coie and Covington &amp; Burling. Unlike Paul Weiss, Perkins Coie hired another Big Law firm, Williams &amp; Connolly to represent it, and filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration. As a bold symbol that it would not be intimidated by Trump’s revenge tour, Williams &amp; Connolly listed 14 of its lawyers <em>by name</em> on the court filing as counsel to Perkins Coie.</p>
<p>Pertinent sections <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278290/gov.uscourts.dcd.278290.1.0_3.pdf">of the lawsuit</a> read as follows:</p>
<p>“This case concerns an Executive Order issued on March 6, 2025, entitled, ‘Addressing Risks From Perkins Coie LLP’ (‘the Order’). The Order is an affront to the Constitution and our adversarial system of justice. Its plain purpose is to bully those who advocate points of view that the President perceives as adverse to the views of his Administration, whether those views are presented on behalf of paying or pro bono clients. Perkins Coie brings this case reluctantly. The firm is comprised of lawyers who advocate for clients; its attorneys and employees are not activists or partisans. But Perkins Coie’s ability to represent the interests of its clients—and its ability to operate as a legal-services business at all—are under direct and imminent threat. Perkins Coie cannot allow its clients to be bullied. The firm is committed to a resolute defense of the rule of law, without regard to party or ideology, and therefore brings this lawsuit to declare the Order unlawful and to enjoin its implementation…</p>
<p>“The Order imposes these punishments as retaliation for the firm’s association with, and representation of, clients that the President perceives as his political opponents. Many law firms represented candidates, parties, and related political committees and organizations in the 2016 and 2020 campaigns. But the Order targets only one firm—Perkins Coie—because the President views it, more than any other firm, as aligned with the Democratic Party by reason of its representation of the 2016 Clinton presidential campaign and its successful handling of challenges brought by the Trump campaign seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 election, as well as victories the firm won for its clients in a significant number of voting rights cases, including cases where Perkins Coie succeeded in upholding existing laws, in connection with the 2020 election.”</p>
<p>That Trump’s lawyers lost repeatedly to Perkins Coie lawyers in his court attempts to overturn his loss in the 2020 presidential election, would appear to be one of the prime motivators of his unprecedented attack on the firm using the imprimatur of the Oval Office.</p>
<p>Perkins Coie with Williams &amp; Connolly as its counsel decided to fight Donald Trump’s intimidation tactics to crush all perceived roadblocks to enforcing his authoritarian agenda. Paul Weiss, on the other hand, caved quickly. </p>
<p>Paul Weiss has likely done far more damage to its reputation by licking Trump’s jack boots than Trump could have inflicted on the law firm over the long-term. The firm was widely ridiculed for its capitulation by conservatives, progressives and even a senior fellow at the libertarian Cato Institute.</p>
<p>Walter Olson, a senior fellow at Cato’s Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies, <a href="https://www.cato.org/blog/paul-weiss-capitulates">wrote this on a Cato blog</a>:</p>
<p>“What is clear is that Trump himself believes that his threats have caused a prominent law firm to back down on vital principles of independence and that he has used the powers of the presidency to gratify his wish for revenge against a particular lawyer for having fought him in court. This is calculated to chill and deter vigorous courtroom advocacy against Trump and his allies. It is an abuse of presidential power that imperils the constitutional rights of all Americans. We can only hope that other litigants, if not this one, will press federal courts for rulings speedily vindicating those constitutional rights.”</p>
<p>The conservative lawyer, George Conway, <a href="https://x.com/gtconway3d/status/1902878217289208102">posted on X</a> (Twitter):</p>
<p>“This Paul Weiss capitulation is the most disgraceful action by a major law firm in my lifetime, so appalling that I couldn’t believe it at first. Any lawyers at that firm—partners or associates—who don’t promptly resign will defile their moral and professional reputations beyond repair.”</p>
<p>On Friday, Erwin Chemerinsky, a Los Angeles Times contributing writer, <a href="https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-03-21/paul-weiss-perkins-coie-columbia-university-trump-executive-order">penned this</a>:  </p>
<p>“We all learned long ago, perhaps on the playground, that giving in to a bully only makes things worse. That is why it is shocking to see capitulation on the part of those being illegally bullied by President Trump. This will only embolden him.”</p>
<p>Indeed, Trump was emboldened. After Paul Weiss was shamed widely in the media on Saturday for its capitulation, Trump doubled down on Sunday, issuing <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/preventing-abuses-of-the-legal-system-and-the-federal-court/?fbclid=IwY2xjawJL4shleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHdmzNK8Y_miox_d66_z_lJnazhe7ZMd7BvlGFi17htJIF5_7C59BgWf_zg_aem_2yLj3yhz-E7aiIP1ddCE1w">a breathtaking authoritarian memorandum</a> to his U.S. Attorney General, Pam Bondi, who has been elevated by Trump from representing him personally as one of his defense counsel in his first impeachment proceeding, to the highest law enforcement officer in the U.S., who is now tasked with carrying out Trump’s revenge against his perceived enemies. The memorandum also went to Trump’s Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, who proved she was cruel enough to serve in the Trump cabinet by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/26/trump-kristi-noem-shot-dog-and-goat-book">admitting in her 2024 book to shooting to death the family puppy</a> as an expedient means of dealing with an unruly pet.</p>
<p>Trump’s Sunday memorandum threatens retaliatory measures against lawyers and/or law firms that engage in lawsuits against the Trump administration as it shreds the U.S. Constitution.</p>
<p>As of March 15, the website <a href="https://www.justsecurity.org/107087/tracker-litigation-legal-challenges-trump-administration/">JustSecurity.org</a> listed 135 lawsuits that have been filed against the Trump administration for overstepping its legal and/or constitutional authority. Trump has lost the vast majority of the preliminary rulings by judges in these matters, thus his need to attempt to scare Big Law away from taking these cases or dropping existing cases.</p>
<p>Trump is using similar tactics against universities by threatening them with losing federal grants, which can reach into the hundreds of millions of dollars for research. Trump’s actual fear is that campus protests could accelerate exponentially from coast to coast and lead the evening news cycle, tanking his quest for authoritarian rule with little pushback. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/21/columbia-university-funding-trump-demands">Columbia University has capitulated to Trump’s demands</a> after being threatened with the loss of $400 million in federal funding.</p>
<p>Trump is also upping his threats against the media in an effort to further silence his critics. He has banned the 59-Pulitzer Prize winning Associated Press from attending press conferences in the Oval Office and elsewhere, in retaliation for its failure to follow his directive about his renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Associated Press has not caved and has <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.277682/gov.uscourts.dcd.277682.1.0_1.pdf">filed a lawsuit</a> to challenge the restraint on its freedom of speech and freedom to choose its own words.</p>
<p>On March 6, while taking questions from the press in the Oval Office, the President called out by name two MSNBC news program hosts that he said “should be forced to resign.” The journalists are Nicolle Wallace and Rachel Maddow, both of whom have doggedly connected the dots on Trump’s grifting and unsavory alignment with his largest campaign donors and with Russian President Vladimir Putin.</p>
<p>Trump’s attack on these two specific journalists followed a more general attack on the MSNBC cable network on February 18 during a Sean Hannity interview. Five days later, Joy Reid, another MSNBC program host – and one of Trump’s key critics – learned that her program had been abruptly cancelled. (See our report: <a href="https://wallstreetonparade.com/2025/02/news-host-joy-reid-raises-threat-of-trump-selling-u-s-to-putin-ten-days-later-her-show-is-cancelled/">News Host Joy Reid Raises Threat of Trump Selling U.S. to Putin; Ten Days Later Her Show Is Cancelled</a>.)</p>
<p>We have been monitoring the evening news reporting at MSNBC since our report on the cancellation of the Joy Reid program. If Trump expected his attacks to silence his on-air critics at the network, he must be furious. The program hosts have, instead, doubled down. They are now showing the thousands of Americans that are turning out for protests and anti-Trump rallies across the United States, despite it not being a national election year.</p>
<p>A <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tByGp5zf9ao">reported 34,000 people turned out Friday night in Denver</a> as Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Bernie Sanders spoke at their “Fight Oligarchy” nationwide tour. Sanders said it was the largest rally he had ever had, notwithstanding the massive crowds he attracted during his 2016 campaign bid for President.</p>
<p>The threats to their livelihoods and personal sacrifices being made by those standing up to Trump’s tyranny, makes what Paul Weiss and Columbia University did this past week all the more unconscionable. History will not be kind to the cowards. It never is.</p>

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<p><strong>Amman</strong> – La Jordanie propose un plan visant à expulser 3 000 membres du Hamas, y compris des dirigeants militaires et civils, de la bande de Gaza afin de mettre fin au génocide israélien à Gaza, a rapporté <em>Middle East </em>…</p>

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<p>Pepe Escobar Tells It Like It Is</p>
<p><a href="https://www.unz.com/pescobar/a-hard-rains-a-gonna-fall-from-the-west-down-to-the-east/">https://www.unz.com/pescobar/a-hard-rains-a-gonna-fall-from-the-west-down-to-the-east/</a></p>


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title: Mike Whitney Wonders if Trump Is Being Led by Israel into a Disastrous War
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<p>Mike Whitney Wonders if Trump Is Being Led by Israel into a Disastrous War</p>
<p><a href="https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/iran-in-the-crosshairs/">https://www.unz.com/mwhitney/iran-in-the-crosshairs/ </a></p>

link:
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/03/24/mike-whitney-wonders-if-trump-is-being-led-by-israel-into-a-disastrous-war/


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Frederick Engels says that depriving people of the necessaries of life, places them under conditions in which they cannot live and is premeditated murder.

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<p>Frederick Engels says that depriving people of the necessaries of life, places them under conditions in which they cannot live and is premeditated murder.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.globalresearch.ca/structural-genocide-friedrich-engels/5882243">https://www.globalresearch.ca/structural-genocide-friedrich-engels/5882243</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>The entire world is participating in the genocide of Palestine.</p>

link:
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/03/24/frederick-engels-says-that-depriving-people-of-the-necessaries-of-life-places-them-under-conditions-in-which-they-cannot-live-and-is-premeditated-murder/


guid: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/?p=138433
title: White Ukrainian Refugees Face Deportation from England but Not Black Immigrant-invaders
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<p>White Ukrainians Face Deportation from England but Not Black Immigrant-invaders</p>
<p><a href="https://www.rt.com/news/614651-ukrainians-losing-homes-jobs-uk/">https://www.rt.com/news/614651-ukrainians-losing-homes-jobs-uk/</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>

link:
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/03/24/white-ukrainians-face-deportation-from-england-but-not-black-immigrant-invaders/


guid: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/?p=138418
title: George Soros Finances the Violent Anti-American Left
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<p>George Soros Finances the Violent Anti-American Left</p>
<p><a href="https://sputnikglobe.com/20250322/george-soros-funneled-76-million-to-one-of-five-groups-targeting-tesla--1121665926.html">https://sputnikglobe.com/20250322/george-soros-funneled-76-million-to-one-of-five-groups-targeting-tesla–1121665926.html</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Tesla Terrorists</p>
<p>A Jewish Operation Funded by George Soros–one of America’s top enemies–Reid Hoffman and Patricia Bauman seems to be responsible for the attacks on Tesla cars, showrooms, and charging stations.</p>
<p>Israel’s history proves that Jews rely on violence to achieve their ends.</p>
<p>Will Trump side with the Jewish terrorists or with the law and Elon Musk?</p>
<p><a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/political/rogue-soros-funded-ngo-plots-multi-city-assault-tesla-domestic-terrorism-escalates">https://www.zerohedge.com/political/rogue-soros-funded-ngo-plots-multi-city-assault-tesla-domestic-terrorism-escalates</a></p>
<p> </p>
<p>Pam Bondi Announces Charges Against Individuals Participating in ‘Domestic Terrorism Against Tesla Properties’</p>
<p><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/20/pam-bondi-announces-charges-against-individuals-participating-in-domestic-terrorism-against-tesla-properties/">https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/20/pam-bondi-announces-charges-against-individuals-participating-in-domestic-terrorism-against-tesla-properties/</a></p>


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title: Highly Partisan Judge Boasberg Played Key Role in Fomenting “Russiagate” Hoax
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<p>Highly Partisan Judge Boasberg Played Key Role in Fomenting “Russiagate” Hoax<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Paul Craig Roberts</p>
<p>Obama-appointed district judge Boasberg, who tried to prevent the deportation of a dangerous criminal gang of illegal aliens allowed into the US by the Biden regime, played a key role in fomenting the “Russiagate” hoax used by the FBI in the Democrats’ effort to destroy President Trump during his first term.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>It also turns out that this highly partisan judge while presiding over the Foreign intelligence Surveillance Court renewed on false grounds the overreaching surveillance powers for us spy agencies, powers used for the purpose of trying to destroy  President Trump.</p>
<p>This partisan Democrat judge seems to be a protege of the US Supreme Court’s Chief Justice, John Roberts, who appointed Boasberg to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and who defended Boasberg against Trump’s response that Boasberg gives higher priority to illegal alien criminal gangs than to the safety of American citizens.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>The elevation of immigrant-invader “rights” over the rights of US citizens is a foundation of the Democrat Party’s domestic policy.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/law-and-order/2025/03/20/report-judge-who-blocked-trump-deportations-played-key-role-in-russia-collusion-hoax/">https://www.breitbart.com/law-and-order/2025/03/20/report-judge-who-blocked-trump-deportations-played-key-role-in-russia-collusion-hoax/</a></p>
<p>Questions are being raised over the left-wing company that Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is keeping:<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span><a href="https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/if-chief-justice-john-roberts-is-hobnobbing-most/">https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/if-chief-justice-john-roberts-is-hobnobbing-most/<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></a></p>

link:
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/03/24/highly-partisan-judge-boasberg-played-key-role-in-fomenting-russiagate-hoax/


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title: Is Negotiation the Best Way to End the Proxy War with Russia?
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<p>Is Negotiation the Best Way to End the Proxy War with Russia?</p>
<p>Paul Craig Roberts</p>
<p>Negotiations have many downsides, such as disputes over compliance, personality conflicts, arousal of anger and contempt, involvement of the egos of the negotiators, and negotiations have not served Russia well. Already Ukraine has violated the partial ceasefire agreement Putin made with Trump:</p>
<p>“A gas pipeline supplying the European Union is on fire in Russia due to an Ukraine Drone strike. A massive pillar of flames is visible near the Kursk(Russia) – Sumy (Ukraine) border. Meanwhile, Russia’s Foreign Affairs Ministry cries foul: “Kyiv has already violated the ceasefire. How will Trump deal with these mad terrorists?”</p>
<p>It was just earlier this week that President Trump and President Putin agreed to a ceasefire against “energy infrastructure.”   “Putin agreed and immediately conveyed the appropriate order to Russian Forces. So effective was President Putin’s Order that Russian Forces which had already launched Drones toward Ukraine to attack such targets, used Russia’s own air defenses to shoot down their own drones rather than cause a problem under President Putin’s order!”</p>
<p><a href="https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news-selections/world-news/ukraine-attacks-russian-gas-pipeline-energy-infrastructure">https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news-selections/world-news/ukraine-attacks-russian-gas-pipeline-energy-infrastructure</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Nadezhda Romanenko reports on the immediate violation of the ceasefire agreement:</p>
<p>“This latest incident is not occurring in a vacuum. It is part of a long and well-documented pattern of deception and provocation, especially in the face of good-faith overtures by Russia.”</p>
<p>“As if anyone expected something different,” she adds.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Well, Putin and Lavrov did.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Negotiation with the West doesn’t seem to be a Kremlin skill.  Possibly, Zelensky’s agreement to a ceasefire did not apply to a partial ceasefire, and Ukraine struck the Russian energy infrastructure prior to Trump speaking again with Zelensky.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.rt.com/russia/614599-kiev-gas-attack-trust/">https://www.rt.com/russia/614599-kiev-gas-attack-trust/</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>The British prime minister has threatened Russia with “devastating consequences” if Putin violates the ceasefire agreement.  He is considering sending British jets to provide air cover for Ukrainian soldiers.  A British admiral said that one British submarine with Trident missiles could incinerate 40 Russian cities and it should make Putin afraid.  In other words, Washington’s “British ally” and also much of NATO Europe intend to frustrate a peace agreement with air support for Ukraine and perhaps nuclear cover from Britain and France for Ukraine.  A question before us is whether a Trump-Putin peace agreement means the death of NATO.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Putin’s unwillingness to use force to win the conflict brings daily new embarrassments to Russia. On March 20 a massive drone attack was launched from Ukraine on Russia’s air base in Engels, central Russia.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>By delaying a victory in the conflict, Putin has revealed to the West all of the Russian weapon systems, thus enabling the West to make compensating adjustments to its weapon systems.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> Thus, Putin has pissed away the Russian advantage in weapon systems. </span>By not getting the war over with, Putin has also allowed the West to learn all of the vulnerabilities in the Russian air defense system.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>It does seem that Putin is as unfamiliar with how to fight a war as he is with how to negotiate.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Indeed, why is Putin negotiating at all?</p>
<p>Apparently negotiations are a trap that Putin cannot resist. Will the ceasefire be another eight year deception for Putin like the Minsk Agreement? <span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Before the ink is dry on the ceasefire limited to energy infrastructure, missiles or drones fired by someone from Ukrainian territory struck an oil depot in Russia’s Krasnodar Region the day after the agreement and blew up a gas metering station in Sudzha last Friday.</p>
<p>What did Russia do?<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Did Putin announce that the other side had violated the agreement within 24 hours, and finally, after three years of dilly-dallying use the force required to end the conflict?<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>No. A military victory would eliminate negotiations, which seem to have the highest value for Putin despite negotiations having a perfect record of being a disaster for Russia.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Determined to keep negotiations going, the Russian government “reserves the right to retaliate” perhaps, sometime, maybe.</p>
<p>It seems that Putin will delay a victory in order to continue talks. Putin appears determined that the proxy war with Washington must end in a negotiated settlement, not in a Russian military victory.</p>
<p>Putin says one of his conditions is Washington’s recognition that the areas Russia has reincorporated within herself are Russian.  Russian news sources indicate that Putin has offered not to take the Black Sea port of Odessa and the Russian city of  Kharkov in exchange for this recognition.  Otherwise, Russia has the option of reclaiming these two cities as well.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.rt.com/russia/614638-moscow-issues-warning-kiev/">https://www.rt.com/russia/614638-moscow-issues-warning-kiev/ </a></p>
<p>I have not seen Trump’s response to the attack on Sudzha, a violation of the ceasefire agreement. Perhaps after all the hype, Trump doesn’t want to admit that the agreement only lasted 24 hours before it was violated.  If Trump  sees it this way, he is not alone. Apparently, Putin doesn’t consider the violation to be a violation and is continuing with the violated agreement. It seems the two leaders are not going to regard Zelensky’s violation  as a violation.  Thus, Trump-Putin negotiations continue and hope remains.</p>
<p><a href="https://sputnikglobe.com/20250321/sudzha-strike-zelensky-slaps-trump-in-the-face-by-subverting-ceasefire-deal-1121663106.html">https://sputnikglobe.com/20250321/sudzha-strike-zelensky-slaps-trump-in-the-face-by-subverting-ceasefire-deal-1121663106.html</a></p>
<p>To reiterate, the best and quickest way to end the conflict is for Trump to abandon Washington’s proxy war against Russia, cease supplying weapons, money, and targeting information, cancel the sanctions,  and leave the resolution of the conflict with Putin and Zelensky.  Putin will require a Ukrainian election in order to  have an elected government with which to deal.  The resolution of the conflict will reflect the realities of the situation and prove that Russia has no intention of taking all of Ukraine and threatening Europe.</p>
<p>Russia would be merciful to Ukraine as Ukraine is historically part of Russia broken away by Washington after the internal political collapse of the Soviet government.  Ukraine as an independent country has existed for only 30 years.  The parts reincorporated into Russia are  former territories of Russia herself that were incorporated into the Ukraine province of the USSR by the Soviet leadership in Moscow.</p>
<p>Remember:  If Washington and NATO had complied with the Minsk Agreement, there would have been no conflict in Ukraine and the territories that are now part of Russia, excepting Crimea, would still be part of Ukraine.  The West forced the conflict on Russia and now blames Russia for the conflict.  As the French president and German chancellor said publicly, we deceived Putin with the agreement while the Americans built a Ukrainian army.  The conflict is Washington’s fault, and it can be easily ended by Washington’s withdrawal from the conflict.  Trump has no stake in the conflict.  The question is:  Does he acquire an unwanted stake by leading the negotiations?  What happens if Trump’s ego gets involved?</p>
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link:
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/03/24/is-negotiation-the-best-way-to-end-the-proxy-war-with-russia/


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title: What is real in the age of AI slop and SEO spam?
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<img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2025/03/chatgpt.png" alt="What is real in the age of AI slop and SEO spam?"><p>Generative AI chatbots and search engines are not great for finding information. A <a href="https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/we-compared-eight-ai-search-engines-theyre-all-bad-at-citing-news.php" rel="noreferrer">recent study</a> from the Tow Center for Digital Journalism pointed out that ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Perplexity, and other popular tools frequently provided inaccurate or speculative answers, and even made up sources.</p><p>The BBC found similar results in its <a href="https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2025/bbc-research-shows-issues-with-answers-from-artificial-intelligence-assistants">own research</a>, saying 51% of all AI answers to questions about news had significant issues of some form, and 13% of quotes sourced from BBC articles didn't actually exist. Also, who could forget Google rolling out AI Overviews in search results last year, which told people to <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd11gzejgz4o" rel="noreferrer">eat rocks</a> and <a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/05/googles-ai-overview-can-give-false-misleading-and-dangerous-answers/">add glue to pizza</a>?</p><p>If we shouldn't use AI tools for research and fact checking, we should just stick to traditional search engines, right? Well, those are also pretty bad. Decades of search engine optimization (SEO) spam, broken algorithm updates, and link rot have made useful links difficult to find. The rise of AI-written content, which <a href="https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-ai-content-in-search-results/478889/">Google says it treats exactly like human-written content</a>, has made this much worse. I've had more than a few searches recently where one of the first results is clearly written with AI tools. Granted, humans are perfectly capable of messing up on their own, but the AI content wasn't even written by a conscious person.</p><p>Generative AI makes up facts, and traditional web search has been broken for years and only getting worse. Many legacy media outlets that were considered authoritative and accurate are also on the decline, in part due to to <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/02/18/is-wall-street-to-blame-for-the-collapse-of-newspapers-00141920">private equity firms</a>, a rapidly-evolving media landscape, and <a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/02/26/nx-s1-5309725/jeff-bezos-washington-post-opinion-section">influence by billionaires</a>. Misinformation on social media is <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly74mpy8klo">also getting worse</a>.</p><p>So, how are we supposed to find information online now? What's real, and what's fake?</p><h2 data-sanitized-id="generative-ai-cant-understand-facts">Generative AI can't understand facts</h2><p>I fully understand the appeal to jump to ChatGPT, Gemini, or another similar AI tool when you need a simple answer to a simple question. ChatGPT doesn't ask you to subscribe to a newsletter (<a href="https://www.spacebar.news/real-information-ai-slop-seo-spam/#/portal/account" rel="noreferrer">but you should</a>), or make you scroll past five paragraphs before finding the answer, or show pop-up video ads, or do all the other annoying things common with sites near the top of web search results. ChatGPT is still in the tech startup phase, where the name of the game is burning through investor money to attract as many users as possible. ChatGPT will eventually get worse, even if it doesn't have to pay for all the training data it's stealing, but for now it's a pretty good experience.</p><p>Generative AI chatbots and tools are helpful at certain tasks. They're great at <a href="https://blog.corbin.io/post/745401939828817920/introducing-alt-text-creator">object and text recognition in images</a>. I've used Copilot and Gemini to help me with some coding work over the past year, especially with more niche libraries and tools that don't have great documentation. They're also useful for language translation, though most translation software uses neural machine translation (NMT) models rather than the general-purpose large language models (LLMs) in ChatGPT and other similar tools. Firefox's new translation feature uses <a href="https://github.com/mozilla/firefox-translations-models/">on-device CPU-optimized NMT models</a>, for example.</p><p>Information lookup and research are <em>not</em> one of the things AI tools are great at doing. They are trained on a wide variety of stolen and licensed content, with plenty of conflicting information that isn't always sorted out. Some of them provide links to sources, but usually only for information pulled from web results, and sometimes those sources aren't real. The core training data used for general knowledge is an amorphous blob of information.</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2025/03/googleai_12.png" alt="What is real in the age of AI slop and SEO spam?" loading="lazy" width="695" height="570" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"><figcaption><span>Credit: </span><a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/05/googles-ai-overview-can-give-false-misleading-and-dangerous-answers/" rel="noreferrer"><span>Kyle Orland / Ars Technica</span></a></figcaption></figure><p>There are many instances where finding correct information requires some amount of media literacy, which generative AI tools don't have, because they cannot think like a human. Google's AI Overview feature was telling people that geologists recommend eating "at least one small rock per day," because it indexed <a href="https://www.resfrac.com/blog/geologists-recommend-eating-least-one-small-rock-day">an article from ResFrac</a>, a geoengineering company. That might normally be a useful source for geology information, but that article was satire and <a href="https://theonion.com/geologists-recommend-eating-at-least-one-small-rock-per-1846655112/">reposted from <em>The Onion</em></a>. Google's glue-eating advice came from a Reddit comment that was also an obvious joke.</p><p>If these tools can't get basic media analysis correct, why should anyone trust it with complex questions? Would you trust a real-life person who responded confidently to every question, but was only correct some of the time?</p><h2 data-sanitized-id="search-engines-are-bad-too">Search engines are bad, too</h2><p>Traditional search results still have one clear advantage over AI tools: you always know where the information came from. You might not immediately know if that source is trustworthy, but at least you can make decisions on that basis. Finding accurate and useful information can still be challenging, though.</p><p>Spam results in search engines have always been a problem, but they have definitely become worse in recent years. Search engine optimization is an entire industry of people working to boost a website's position in search results, usually by <a href="https://www.theverge.com/c/23998379/google-search-seo-algorithm-webpage-optimization">changing the design and formatting to match Google's preferences</a>. I don't think SEO is inherently a bad thing, but some sites and outlets absolutely take it too far, especially when they <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/cnet-published-ai-generated-stories-then-its-staff-pushed-back/">resort to AI-written content</a> to compete with human-made content. You've probably stumbled upon a product review written by someone who has probably never used the product, or technical advice that mixes up terms, or a news article clearly written by AI.</p><p>There can be a lot of damage when SEO 'advice' goes wrong. I worked at one outlet where management deleted thousands of old articles, because the SEO person said the average quality of the remaining articles would be higher and rank higher in search results. Many other sites did this, including <em>CNET</em>, to the point where <a href="https://gizmodo.com/cnet-deletes-thousands-old-articles-google-search-seo-1850721475">a Google representative stepped in</a> and said sites should stop doing that. The articles deleted at the place I worked are still missing.</p><p>The rise of SEO blogspam eventually led to "reddit" <a href="https://dkb.blog/p/google-search-is-dying" rel="noreferrer">becoming a widely-used search term</a>, as people attempt to filter out low-effort content in favor of authentic answers from real humans. Google recognized the value in that and <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-reddit-60-million-deal-ai-training/">signed a $60 million deal with Reddit</a> for better access and AI training data. Reddit also <a href="https://searchengineland.com/microsoft-confirms-reddit-blocked-bing-search-444385">blocked every other search engine</a> from indexing its content, which it said was due to some engines being "unable or unwilling to make enforceable promises regarding their use of Reddit content, including their use for AI." Now every other search engine is worse.</p><p>Back on Google, Reddit threads about articles now <a href="https://searchengineland.com/article-complaining-about-being-outranked-on-google-being-outranked-by-reddit-437736" rel="noreferrer">frequently outrank the actual articles</a>, and spammers are now <a href="https://omr.com/en/daily/eddit-google-affiliate-spam" rel="noreferrer">directly targeting Reddit</a> as an easy SEO hack. Well done, everyone, we fixed web search! Now people <a href="https://english.elpais.com/society/2022-09-17/tiktok-is-now-generation-zs-preferred-search-engine.html">use TikTok as a search engine</a>.</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2025/03/image.png" alt="What is real in the age of AI slop and SEO spam?" loading="lazy" width="978" height="541" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"><figcaption><span>A search for </span><a href="https://www.spacebar.news/stop-using-brave-browser/" rel="noreferrer"><span>my article on Brave Browser</span></a><span> shows Reddit first.</span></figcaption></figure><p>There are some newer search engines that are trying different strategies to provide useful results. <a href="https://www.theverge.com/web/631636/kagi-review-best-search-engine">Kagi</a> is one of them, but the leadership there has <a href="https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html">questionable takes on AI and digital privacy</a>, so I haven't felt the need to try that one out. For now, I'm sticking to a mix of DuckDuckGo, Google, and Wikipedia—more on that in the next section.</p><h2 data-sanitized-id="how-to-find-actual-real-information">How to find actual real information</h2><p>There's not a simple way to determine if a news article, blog post, or guide is factually accurate, but there are some useful tactics that I've learned over the years, partially from my journalism work. They've saved me from many potentially embarassing moments.</p><h3 data-sanitized-id="look-for-sources">Look for sources.</h3><p>I have become <em>insufferable</em> about sources in the past few years, because they're one of the easiest ways to identify if news or other information is real or not. If you see a social media account sharing news, and there's no link to a credible news source, you're better off assuming it's fake until proven otherwise.</p><p>I also use this as a clue for identifying low-effort or AI-written content. For example, a long article or YouTube video about a historical topic without citations or source links is a massive red flag. Even if the sources are junk, source links are at least an indication the creator did <em>some</em> amount of research, instead of just copying and pasting text that ChatGPT wrote.</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2025/03/db7.jpg" alt="What is real in the age of AI slop and SEO spam?" loading="lazy" width="720" height="897" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"><figcaption><span>Credit: </span><a href="https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2360522-source-i-made-it-up" rel="noreferrer"><span>Know Your Meme</span></a></figcaption></figure><h3 data-sanitized-id="try-going-straight-to-wikipedia">Try going straight to Wikipedia.</h3><p>I've started going straight to Wikipedia for searches that I know will have a lot of junk results in a search engine. For example, if I want to know if Amazon's <em>Invincible</em> series is getting another season, I'll go to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invincible_(TV_series)">the show's Wikipedia page</a> and check the introduction. That's a lot better than a web search, which includes many articles written before there was confirmation available.</p><p>It's true that Wikipedia articles can be edited by anyone, but you can still check the citation links if you're not sure about something. <a href="https://www.britannica.com/" rel="noreferrer">Britannica</a> and other online encyclopedias can also be useful resources, though they aren't updated as frequently as Wikipedia.</p><h3 data-sanitized-id="consider-the-publisher-and-the-creator">Consider the publisher and the creator.</h3><p>Look at who is publishing the content, and if it's a website, check who wrote the content. Do they have a positive or negative reputation that you know about? Have you seen them share incorrect information in the past?</p><p>Admittedly, this rule is much harder when a lot of great information is coming from independent outlets that you may have never heard about. Molly White is one of the best cryptocurrency critics, and most of her writing is on her own blog and newsletter, <a href="https://www.citationneeded.news/"><em>Citation Needed</em></a>. If I had never come across her work before, and I'm trying to "consider the source," then a person and website I've never seen before might come across as suspicious. </p><p>Some outlets and creators have also taken advantage of reputation to spread low-effort content and misinformation. Forbes is a great example: it <a href="https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/02/an-incomplete-history-of-forbes-com-as-a-platform-for-scams-grift-and-bad-journalism/">allowed almost anyone to write almost anything</a> with minimal oversight for years, and only cut back when <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/17/24322485/forbes-vetted-freelance-google-search-parasite-seo">Google started penalizing the Forbes site</a>. The articles seemed more trustworthy, even in Google's eyes, just because of where they were hosted. Sports Illustrated was also <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/27/media/sports-illustrated-deletes-articles-fake-author-names-ai-profile-photos/index.html">publishing third-party content</a> with AI-generated names and profile photos.</p><h3 data-sanitized-id="listen-to-your-gut">Listen to your gut.</h3><p>If some piece of information <em>seems</em> wrong to you, and it's in a topic area you are familiar with, you could very well be right. I'll use an example that I came across earlier this year.</p><p><em>Tom's Hardware</em> published an article on January 23rd, 2025 titled "After 18 years, Sony's Blu-ray media production draws to a close — shuts its last factory in Feb." The <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250123165957/https:/www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/after-18-years-blu-ray-media-production-draws-to-a-close-sony-shuts-its-last-factory-in-feb">original version</a> said "Sony has announced it will end Blu-ray Disc media production in February, marking the end of its nearly two-decade run." The news came from <a href="https://www.sony.jp/rec-media/info2/20250123.html">a notice posted on Sony's Japanese website</a>, which states (according to Firefox's machine translation) that "production of Blu-ray disc media, mini-discs for recording, MD data for recording, and mini DV cassettes" was ending.</p><figure data-sanitized-class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://www.spacebar.news/content/images/2025/03/Picture1.png" alt="What is real in the age of AI slop and SEO spam?" loading="lazy" width="1044" height="746" data-sanitized-class="kg-image"><figcaption><span>Credit: The Internet Archive</span></figcaption></figure><p>This news article seemed weird to me for a few reasons. PlayStation and Xbox games are still sold as Blu-ray discs, Sony <a href="https://blog.playstation.com/2024/09/10/welcome-playstation-5-pro-the-most-visually-impressive-way-to-play-games-on-playstation/">just released a new PS5</a> that supports disc games, and most studios are still releasing movies and TV shows on Blu-ray discs. In the US, <em>John Wick: Chapter 4</em> and <em>The Super Mario Bros. Movie</em> by themselves <a href="https://www.the-numbers.com/home-market/bluray-sales/2023">made $32 million in 2023</a> from Blu-ray sales. Even if demand for Blu-ray discs have slumped over the past few years, as evidenced by <a href="https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/best-buy-ending-dvd-blu-ray-disc-sales-1235754919/">many retail stores ending sales of Blu-ray media</a>, it doesn't make sense for Sony to end all production right now. Also, the <em>Tom's Hardware</em> article was based on a machine translation that could have mixed up the facts, and made no mention of reaching out to Sony to ask for clarification.</p><p>It turned out Sony was only talking about "blank storage Blu-ray discs" (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc_recordable">BD-R discs</a>), and seemingly only within the borders of Japan. Most tech news outlets correctly reported the distinction with recordable discs, such as <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/24/24350993/sony-recordable-blu-ray-end-production-no-successor"><em>The Verge</em></a>, <a href="https://gizmodo.com/sony-will-stop-producing-blank-blu-ray-discs-after-18-years-2000554288"><em>Gizmodo</em></a>, <a href="https://www.extremetech.com/electronics/sony-ends-production-of-recordable-blu-ray-discs"><em>ExtremeTech</em></a>, and <a href="https://www.engadget.com/home/home-theater/sony-is-halting-production-of-recordable-blu-ray-minidiscs-and-minidv-cassettes-140030225.html"><em>Engadget</em></a>. However, many other outlets just repeated the article, such as <a href="https://www.techspot.com/news/106477-sony-cease-blu-ray-production-leaving-physical-media.html"><em>TechSpot</em></a> and <a href="https://hackaday.com/2025/01/24/sony-ends-blu-ray-md-and-minidv-media-production/">Hackaday</a>.</p><p><em>Tom's Hardware</em> quietly <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20250124220851/https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/after-18-years-blu-ray-media-production-draws-to-a-close-sony-shuts-its-last-factory-in-feb">rewrote its article the following day</a> to say, "Sony has announced it will end its recordable Blu-ray Disc media production in February, marking the end of its nearly two-decade run." The only evidence that anything was changed is an "(Updated)" label at the end of title.</p><p>This kind of thing happens a lot. I wouldn't have this level of intuition about articles discussing the politics of Egypt or new developments in plastics manufacturing, but it has been helpful in areas where I do know something.</p><h3 data-sanitized-id="ask-for-help-and-help-others-if-you-can">Ask for help, and help others if you can.</h3><p>Ever since web search engines became widely accessible, asking a question in any public setting that requires research usually gets at least one "why don't you Google it?" response. I definitely used to do that, and a few websites like <a href="https://letmegooglethat.com/">Let Me Google That For You</a> have sprung up over the years to reinforce the meme.</p><p>With search engines being less useful, asking a question in a group chat, social media post, or forum is a critical resource. You may have forgotten where to find a great article you saw a few months ago, and not know what to search to find it, but someone else might still have it in their browser history.</p><p>Don't be afraid to ask for help, and if you know the answer to someone's question, tell them! This does <em>not</em> mean you should put that question into ChatGPT or another AI tool and reply with the response—I've seen that happening a lot lately.</p>

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<p>Palestine’s Ambassador to Denmark Prof. Dr. Manuel Hassassian gave an interview here to the Schiller Institute’s Tim Rush on March 19. The Ambassador had been one of the featured speakers at the Advocacy Summit that the <a href="https://cmep.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Churches for Middle East Peace</a> held in the city.</p>



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<p>The 7-minute video interview is titled <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbMsQM0znyI">“Stop Bombing Gaza, Rebuild with Oasis Plan: Palestine Ambassador to Denmark Prof. Dr. Manuel Hassassian.”</a> The full transcript is available below.</p>



<p>Hassassian explained that the current situation in Gaza following the resumption of massive Israeli bombardments is totally unacceptable. His message to the conference was that the church leaders and their governments have to put pressure on Israel to stop the war and return to peace talks. Violence begets violence. There is no military solution.</p>



<p>The ambassador said the<a href="https://schillerinstitute.com/the-oasis-plan-the-larouche-solution-for-southwest-asia/" data-type="link" data-id="https://schillerinstitute.com/the-oasis-plan-the-larouche-solution-for-southwest-asia/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> Schiller Institute’s Oasis Plan</a> can play an imperative role in bridging the gaps through development, progress and building common ground. The Palestinian and Egyptian Gaza plan could be integrated with an Oasis Plan international dimension, as a neutral, scientific approach that would not be rejected by the Americans or Europeans. He said that he has spoken about the Oasis Plan at many Schiller Institute conferences and in Palestine and in Schiller Institute interviews with him.</p>



<p>Tim Rush explained that the Schiller Institute has lobbied for the Oasis Plan on Capitol Hill in Washington, as a means to create a future vision of economic benefits. In the 1960s, former President Eisenhower proposed a “Water for Peace” plan, which was supported by then-President Johnson. A week before the June 1967 Israeli-Arab War, the International Conference on Water for Peace took place in Washington on May 23-31, with delegates from 94 countries. But the project was derailed by the war.</p>



<p>In conclusion, H.E. Prof. Dr. Manuel Hassassian said that the war cannot be sustained. Peace must be based on mutual understanding and respect, and Palestinian independence. To promote the longevity of peace, we need to be partners in economics, in trade relationships, and in developing our natural resources for the benefit of all.</p>


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<p>Tim Rush: Hello, this is Tim Rush with the Schiller Institute, in Washington, D.C. on March 19th. It is my great honor to have with me H.E. Ambassador Prof. Dr. Manuel Hassassian, the Palestinian ambassador to Denmark, who has been one of the featured speakers today at an Advocacy Summit of the Churches for Middle East Peace [<a href="https://cmep.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://cmep.org/</a>]. I want to ask, Ambassador, thank you very much for joining me.<br><br>H.E. Ambassador Prof. Dr. Hassassian: It’s my pleasure, sir.<br><br>Tim Rush: I wanted to ask you what message you brought to the assembly today, and how the recent events, horrific events of the breakdown of the ceasefire and the renewed slaughter in Gaza, how to react to that and how to try to move forward despite this setback?<br><br>H.E. Ambassador Prof. Dr. Hassassian: Well, actually, we have to understand that the current situation in Gaza is unacceptable, and this naked aggression against our people should stop. I came here with a message for the church leaders to strengthen the words of peace and justice, and to work diligently with the respective governments, to put pressure on Israel to stop this war, and to go back, basically, to peace negotiations, to strike out our differences in a peaceful way, rather than through arms and bombs, and what have you. Violence always breeds violence. And for that simple reason, we have reached a resolution that military solution to this conflict is no solution. So, the sooner the better the dust should settle down, we should have peace, and life goes on. And in order for people to prosper, basically, we need to promote certain kind of policies that could be convenient for all parties, because that’s the way you flourish. You advance, and you overcome political jingoism.<br><br>And, of course, since you are interviewing me from the Schiller Institute, I always talk about the Oasis Plan, how it could play a very imperative role in bridging the gaps, politically, by, more or less, trying to focus on development, and through development, we can overcome this narrow ideology, perceptions that negate each other.<br><br>So, the synthesis movement in this is the fact that when we approach our conflict not only as a political conflict, or cultural or religious conflict, but if we think as if the as the glass is half full, we search for common grounds. After all, national interests, economic interests, bode well in trying to create political stability.<br><br>Tim Rush: I wanted to just add one question there. The program that’s been advanced from the Arab countries, particularly through Egypt recently, first of all, how do you evaluate that? And second, is there a way to broaden it, so that the broader focus of the Schiller Institute’s Oasis plan could be integrated and bring it into a larger context?<br><br>H.E. Ambassador Prof. Dr. Hassassian: Yes. The Palestinian Authority has its own plan for the reconstruction of Gaza, as you know, and it bodes well with that of the Egyptian plan. But we also believe that there should be an international dimension to the progress of development. And in order to have that dimension, you need people who are neutral in this conflict who just come in and shoulder the responsibility of taking off with the process of reconstruction and development on the economic level, with the mentality of a purely scientific perspective, as it is laid out in the Oasis plan. I think this could be a very plausible plan that could be integrated with the Egyptian and the Palestinian plan, when we talk about the day after in Gaza. And therefore, we could give that international dimension to it, where it becomes more legitimate, more acceptable by the international community, to see the international dimension being infused, basically, within this overall comprehensive plan of reconstruction that could be acceptable to all. And I don’t think the Americans would object to that, neither the Europeans, because the Oasis plan has been well-spread all over Europe.<br><br>And I myself have been participating in so many of your conferences and talking about this, whether in Denmark or in Palestine. I’ve done many interviews and you [the Schiller Institute] are one of those who interviewed me from Copenhagen. So yes, I do believe that the international dimension of progress and development through economics [is important], and there are testimonies about what the Oasis plan has done and achieved.<br><br>Tim Rush: Well, we thank you very much for that. I should tell you that we have been very active on Capitol Hill discussing the Oasis plan as the advance, as sort of the forward — what creates the community of future benefits that can facilitate the immediate requirements in terms of halting the killing. And, particularly, on the Senate side, we found very interesting responses, including among Republicans, because back in the 1960s, it was former President Eisenhower who adopted a Water for Peace approach with a very detailed program, got the support of President Johnson [<a href="https://larouchepub.com/other/2024/5126-when_water_for_peace_was_at_th.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://larouchepub.com/other/2024/5126-when_water_for_peace_was_at_th.html</a>]. So it was a bipartisan effort. And one week before the Six Day war in June of 1967, there was a meeting in Washington, D.C., of 6,400 delegates from [94] countries about a Water for Peace program [The International Conference for Water for Peace, May 23-31, 1967. Though the U.S. State Department writes, “94 countries were represented together with 24 international organizations; 635 official delegates, 61 participants from international organizations, and over 2,000 observers attended.”]. And it got derailed, basically, because of dynamics unleashed by the by the Six Day War. So today, we believe that we can we can pick that up.<br><br>H.E. Ambassador Prof. Dr. Hassassian: Could be doable. Inshallah [If God wants].<br><br>Tim Rush: Exactly. And we very much embrace everything that you’re doing. And thank you very much.<br></p>



<p>H.E. Ambassador Prof. Dr. Hassassian: If we believe in God’s will, and with our resilience, that the conflict cannot sustain itself, but peace can be a permanent peace. And permanent peace comes with mutual reciprocity, with mutual respect, with mutual understanding that peace and security in the Middle East cannot be achieved unless the Palestinians have their own independence. And in order to have that, and in order to promote peace, and the sustainability, and longevity of peace, we need to be partners in economics, in trade relationships, and in developing our natural resources for the benefit of all. </p>



<p>Tim Rush: Indeed, Inshallah. And thank you very much.</p>



<p>H.E. Ambassador Prof. Dr. Hassassian: You’re welcome, sir. My pleasure.</p>

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<p>On March 20, 2025, the Schiller Institute posted its new <a href="https://schillerinstitute.com/the-oasis-plan-the-larouche-solution-for-southwest-asia/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Resource Page for LaRouche’s Oasis Plan</a>,<br>presenting details of LaRouche’s Oasis Plan in order to aid in organizing for its<br>implementation, and get endorsements for it. As the introductory page states, the fifty-year<br>battle for the realization of this idea, despite agreement that LaRouche’s plan is a “good<br>idea,” has been stymied by the contention that ‘a political agreement’ must come first. “So<br>now, fifty years of lives lost, bloodshed and geopolitically motivated wars, later, proves the<br>truth of LaRouche’s point: it is once you have economic cooperation that, then and only then,<br>both sides will find a common interest to work together for peace and shared prosperity.”</p>



<p>The new landing page has three primary features: 1) a page of Oasis Plan concepts which<br>contains the details of LaRouche’s design as well as other contributors whom have put forth<br>expanded ideas for it; 2) an Endorsements and Other Voices page featuring both those who<br>have endorsed the LaRouche Oasis Plan, with a separate section of what other prominent<br>individuals are saying about its importance; and 3) a Videos, Events and Other Resources<br>page of an initial listing, with links, of videos, articles and press releases on the plan.</p>



<p>The Endorsements page leads off with a recent quote from Helga Zepp-LaRouche, “It is now,<br>in my view, the moment where we should all push the Oasis Plan, because Trump has said of<br>himself many times that he is a builder, and he does understand something about<br>construction. . . Building the Oasis Plan, providing fresh new water for all the countries in the<br>region,…” will eliminate a key source of conflict. The current list of 26 endorsers includes<br>ambassadors, professors, former elected officials, peace activists, religious leaders, from all<br>over the world from Africa to Europe to Palestine, to the United States. The remaining<br>section, “What prominent leaders are saying about LaRouche’s Oasis Plan,” includes former<br>Guyana President Donald Ramotar and South Africa’s former Minister of Foreign Relations<br>and Cooperation Dr. Naledi Pandor, among others.</p>



<p>The intent of this new resource is to educate people on the essentials of this plan, and then<br>organize for its implementation. Southwest Asia is known as the crossroads of civilization,<br>and its people must be allowed to live and prosper in peace. To overcome the cycle of<br>violence for good, we must give hope to a new generation of youth in Palestine, Israel, and<br>the Southwest Asia region as a whole, by creating a durable development. This is what the</p>



<p>Oasis Plan provides. The blood stains upon the collective soul of humanity must be and can<br>be cleansed with hope for a beautiful future—if we finally build it.</p>

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title: Col. Daniel Davis: Is America on the Brink of More Wars?
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title: Trump&amp;#039;s Targets: Gaza &amp; Iran
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<p><span>Why is Trump in such a hurry to finish business with Russia? What has transpired that’s been overlooked? What delusions fill Team Trump’s minds?</span> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXXwCyt9dHk" rel>Today’s chat</a> <span>between Judge Napolitano and Alastair Crooke and the latter’s</span> <a href="https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/03/24/trump-and-putin-begin-addressing-cumulated-geo-strategic-debris-amidst-trump-ultimatum-to-iran/" rel>SCF essay</a> <span>provide answers, none good, for those seeking peace. The most damning evidence is provided by the words spoken by Rubio and Waltz along with a memorandum signed by Trump that includes verbiage inserted by Bolton and Pompeo that Crooke discusses with the Judge. Apparently, the Team Trump Zionists—which is almost the entire Cabinet—are impressed and adopting the Zionist method of decapitation of resistance leadership as the strategy to pursue regarding Ansarallah and Iran. Escobar’s in Yemen and is supposed to chat with Judge Napolitano later today, so we will likely get an update on the claims by the Trump Zionists of killing some Ansarallah leaders. I don’t need to say this but the attacks on Yemen and the planned attack on Iran are being done unconstitutionally—no Declaration of War—but that’s become the norm as the Outlaw US Empire declines into the Feudal beginnings from which it sprang.</span></p>
<p><span>There were several other topics I thought of writing about today, one being Witkoff’s real “elephant in the room” which isn’t the territories that have joined Russia. That would be the connections between the US and UK in the facilitation of Nazism with Ukraina and the world during the latter stages of WW2 and after along with the Aggressive War waged on Ukraine and its Russian speaking population by the Outlaw US Empire that began in 2013 and fully erupted in 2014, which generated the reasons for those areas of the former Ukraine to join Russia that began with Crimea.</span> <a href="https://www.kitklarenberg.com/p/stepan-banderas-sinister-mi6-alliance/comments" rel>A recent essay</a> <span>by crack investigator Kit Klarenberg was provided in comments that merits much wider distribution as it is part of the overall chronical of the crime committed by the UK/US of saving Nazism and negating what they pledged to accomplish in the war against Hitler. And the promotion of Nazism is continued by EU/NATO as</span> <a href="https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/2004913/" rel>Lavrov noted</a> <span>again today:</span></p>
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<p>They are shouting at all corners, except for Ukraine, about their commitment to respect human rights and minority rights. But Ukraine is different. These are "fed" Nazis for another attempt to put the whole of Europe under racist Nazi banners for the war against the Russian Federation.</p>
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<p><span>It’s important to note that Trump has said nothing about the Ukronazis who are essentially trying to do the same thing as the Zionists in Occupied Palestine and doctrinally are on the same page. The disconnect can be seen in this</span> <a href="https://www.rt.com/news/614707-ukraine-trump-envoy-remarks/" rel>RT article</a><span>, “Kiev wants Trump envoy sacked: A key Ukrainian foreign affairs official has lashed out at Steve Witkoff for ‘spreading Russian propaganda.’” As for the negotiations happening in Riyadh today, they are very narrowly focused on reviving the Black Sea Initiative and not much else despite the ravings of the Americans about the rapid progress being made toward a ceasefire—that’s not even on today’s agenda. This</span> <a href="https://www.rt.com/russia/614705-black-sea-talks-riyadh/" rel>RT item</a> <span>provides some more info. And that returns us to the big gap in the phone call readouts provided by the two sides with Russia being far more explicit than the Americans. As I wrote a few days ago, the negotiations given their current format will continue into 2026 even if they’re speed is increased by new Ukrainian elections and the removal of the no negotiation edict.</span></p>
<p><span>Now to return to the issue with Iran and Crooke’s essay that first appeared at his Conflicts Forum substack on 20 March behind a partial paywall. After his chat with the Judge, Crooke has posted a new article, ‘The Collapsing Israeli Kingdom’ -- “We are in fateful times like no other,”</span> <a href="https://conflictsforum.substack.com/p/the-collapsing-israeli-kingdom-we" rel>the portion that’s free</a> <span>being alarming—alarming because a bigger war is what Netanyahu needs to quell the building insurrection with Iran as the target. I provide the SCF essay for those who still can’t access the site or have other problems viewing it:</span></p>
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<p><strong>Trump and Putin begin addressing cumulated geo-strategic debris… amidst Trump’s ultimatum to Iran</strong></p>
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<p><span>The phone call on 18 March between Presidents Trump and Putin has happened. It was a success, insofar as it allowed both sides to label the result as ‘positive’. And it did not lead to a breakdown (by virtue of the smallest of concessions from Putin–-an energy infrastructure truce)–-something easily it could have done (i.e. devolve into impasse–-with Trump excoriating Putin, as he has done to Zelensky),</span> <em><strong>given the fantastical and unrealistic expectations being woven in the West that this would be the ‘decider meeting’ for a final division of Ukraine.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>It may have been a success too, insofar as it has laid the groundwork for the absent homework, now to be handled by two teams of experts on the detailed mechanics of the ceasefire. It was always a puzzle why this had not been earlier tackled by the U.S. team in Riyadh (lack of experience?). It was,</span> <em><strong>after all, because the ceasefire was treated as a self-creating entity, by virtue of an American signature, that western expectations took flight in the belief that details did not matter</strong></em><span>; All that remained to do–-in this (flawed) estimation–-was to ‘divvy out the cake’.</span></p>
<p><span>Until the mechanics of a ceasefire–-which must be comprehensive since ceasefires almost always break down–-there was little to discuss on that topic on Tuesday. Predictably, then, discussion (reportedly) seemed to have turned to other issues: mainly economic ones and Iran, underlining again that</span> <em><strong>the negotiation process between the U.S. and Russia does not boil down to just Ukraine</strong></em><span>.</span></p>
<p>So, how to move to ceasefire implementation? Simple. Begin to unravel the ‘cats cradle’ of impedimenta blocking normalised relations. Putin, plucking out just one strand to this problem, observed that:</p>
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<p><em>“Sanctions [alone] are neither temporary nor targeted measures. They constitute [rather], a mechanism of systemic, strategic pressure against our nation. Our competitors perpetually seek to constrain Russia and diminish its economic and technological capacities … they churn out these packages incessantly”.</em></p>
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<p><em><strong>There is thus much cumulated geo-strategic debris to be addressed, and corrected, dating back many years, before a Big Picture normalisation can start in earnest.</strong></em></p>
<p><em><strong>What is apparent is that whilst Trump seems to be in a tearing hurry, Putin, by contrast, is not. And he will not be rushed.</strong></em> <span>His own constituency will not countenance a hastily fudged accord with the U.S. that later implodes amidst recriminations of deceit – and of Moscow again</span> <a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202212/1281708.shtml" rel>having been fooled</a> <span>by the West. Russian blood is invested in this strategic normalisation process. It needs to work.</span></p>
<p><em><strong>What is behind Trump’s evident hurry?</strong></em> <span>Is it the need for breakneck speed on the domestic front to push ahead, before the cumulated forces of the opposition in the U.S. (plus their brethren in Europe) have the time to re-group and to torpedo normalisation with Russia?</span></p>
<p>Or does Trump fear that a long gap before ceasefire implementation will enable opposition forces to push for the recommencement of arms supplies and intelligence sharing–-as the Russian military steamroller continues its advance? Is the fear, as Steve Bannon has warned, that by rearming Ukraine, Trump effectively will ‘own’ the war, and shoulder the blame for a massive western and NATO defeat?</p>
<p>Or, perhaps Trump anticipates that Kiev might unexpectedly cascade into a systemic collapse (as occurred to the Karzai government in Afghanistan). Trump is acutely aware of the political disaster that befell Biden from the images of Afghans clinging to the tyres of departing U.S. transport planes (à la Vietnam), as the U.S. evacuated the country.</p>
<p><em><strong>Yet again, it might be something different.</strong></em> <span>I learned from my time</span> <a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v29/n13/alastair-crooke/our-second-biggest-mistake-in-the-middle-east" rel>facilitating ceasefires in Palestine/Israel</a> <span>that it is not possible to make a ceasefire in one place (say Bethlehem), whilst Israeli forces were concurrently setting Nablus or Jenin ablaze. The emotional contagion and anger from one conflict cannot be contained to one locality; it would overflow to the other. It was tried. The one contaminated the implied sincere intentions behind the other.</span></p>
<p><em><strong>Is the reason for the Trump haste mainly that he suspects his unconstrained support for Israel eventually will lead him to embrace major war in the Middle East?</strong></em> <span>The world of today (thanks to the internet) is much smaller than before:</span> <em><strong>Is it possible to be a ‘peacemaker’ and a ‘warmaker’ simultaneously—and have the first taken seriously?</strong></em></p>
<p><span>Trump and those U.S. politicians ‘owned’ by the pro-Israeli lobby, know that Netanyahu et al. want the U.S. to help eliminate Israel’s regional rival–-Iran. Trump cannot both retrench the U.S. as a western hemisphere ‘Sphere of Influence’, yet continue to throw the U.S.’ weight around as world Hegemon, causing the U.S. government to go broke.</span> <em><strong><span>Can Trump successfully retrench the U.S. to Fortress America, or will foreign entanglements–-i.e.</span> <a href="https://conflictsforum.substack.com/p/netanyahu-and-dermer-sabotage-us" rel>an unstable Israel</a><span>–lead to war and derail Trump’s administration, as all is intertwined?</span></strong></em></p>
<p><span>What is Trump’s vision for the Middle East? Certainly, he has one–-it is one that is rooted in his unstinting allegiance to the Israeli interest.</span> <em><strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkvaukA0438" rel>The plan</a> <span>is either to destroy Iran financially, or to decapitate it and empower a Greater Israel. Trump’s</span> <a href="https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/03/24/il-regno-di-giudea-contro-lo-stato-di-israele/" rel>letter</a> <span>to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei included a two-month deadline for reaching a new nuclear deal.</span></strong></em></p>
<p><span>A day after his missive, Trump</span> <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/03/19/trump-letter-iran-nuclear-deal" rel>said</a> <span>the U.S. is “</span><em>down to the final moments</em><span>” with Iran:</span></p>
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<p><em><span>“We can’t let them have a nuclear weapon. Something is going to happen very soon. I would rather have a peace deal than the other option,</span> <strong>but the other option will solve the problem”</strong><span>.</span></em></p>
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<p><span>U.S. journalist Ken Klippenstein has</span> <a href="https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trump-is-now-at-war-with-iran" rel>noted</a> <span>that on 28 February, two B-52 bombers flying from Qatar dropped bombs on an “undisclosed location”–-Iraq. These nuclear-capable bombers were carrying a message whose recipient “</span><em>was clear as day; The Islamic Republic of Iran</em><span>”. Why B-52s and not F-35s which also can carry bombs? (Because ‘bunker-buster’ bombs are too heavy for F-35s? Israel has F-35s but does not have B-52 heavy bombers).</span></p>
<p><span>Then on 9 March, Klippenstein writes, a second demonstration was made: A B-52s flew alongside Israeli fighter jets on long-range missions, practicing aerial refuelling operations.</span> <em><strong><span>The Israeli press correctly</span> <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/in-likely-message-to-iran-israeli-and-us-air-forces-carry-out-joint-drill-with-heavy-bomber/" rel>reported</a> <span>the real purpose of the operation–-“readying the Israeli military for a potential joint strike with the U.S. on Iran”.</span></strong></em></p>
<p><span>Then, last Sunday, National Security Adviser Mike Waltz boasted that multiple Anglo-U.S. airstrikes “</span><em>took out</em><span>” top Houthi officials, making it very clear that this is all about Iran:</span></p>
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<p><em>“This was an overwhelming response that actually targeted multiple Houthi leaders and took them out. And the difference here is, one, going after the Houthi leadership, and two, holding Iran responsible”.</em></p>
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<p><span>Marco Rubio</span> <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/marco-rubio-secretary-of-state-houthi-airstrikes-face-the-nation/" rel>elaborated</a> <span>on</span> <em>CBS</em><span>: “</span><em>We’re doing the entire world a favour by getting rid of these guys”.</em></p>
<p>Trump then followed up with the same theme:</p>
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<p><em>“Every shot fired by the Houthis will be looked upon, from this point forward, as being a shot fired from the weapons and leadership of IRAN, and IRAN will be held responsible, and suffer the consequences, and those consequences will be dire!”</em></p>
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<p><span>In a further</span> <a href="https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-iran-war-plan" rel>piece</a><span>, Klippenstein writes:</span></p>
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<p><em><span>“Trump’s menu of options for dealing with Tehran now includes one he didn’t have in his first term: full-scale war–-with “nuclear</span> <a href="https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-nuclear-war-plan-for-iran?" rel>weapons</a> <span>on the table” (the Trident II low-yield option) Pentagon and company contracting documents I’ve obtained describe “a unique joint staff planning” effort underway in Washington and in the Middle East to refine the next generation of “a major regional conflict” with Iran. The plans are the result of a reassessment of Iran’s military capabilities, as well as a fundamental shift in how America conducts war”.</span></em></p>
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<p>What is new is that the “multilateral” component includes Israel working in unison with Arab Gulf partners for the first time, either indirectly or directly. The plan also includes many different contingencies and levels of war, according to the documents cited by Klippenstein, from “crisis action” (meaning response to events and attacks), to “deliberate” planning (which refers to set scenarios that flow from crises that escalate out of control). One document warns of the “distinct possibility” of the war “escalating outside of the United States Government’s intention” and impacting the rest of the region, demanding a multifaceted approach.</p>
<p>War preparations for Iran are so closely restricted, that even contracting companies involved in war planning are prohibited from even mentioning unclassified portions, notes Klippenstein:</p>
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<p><em><span>“While a range of military options are often provided to presidents in an attempt on the part of the Pentagon to steer the President to the one favoured by the Pentagon,</span> <strong>Trump already has shown his proclivity to select the most provocative option”</strong><span>.</span></em></p>
<p><em>“Equally, Trump’s green light for the Israeli air-strikes on Gaza, killing hundreds, [last] Monday, but ostensibly targetted on the Hamas leadership can be seen as consonant with the pattern of taking the belligerent option”.</em></p>
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<p><span>Following his successful assassination of Iran’s top general Qassim Suleimani in 2020,</span> <em><strong>Trump seems to have taken the lesson that aggressive action is relatively cost-free,</strong></em> <span>Klippenstein</span> <a href="https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-iran-war-plan" rel>notes</a><span>.</span></p>
<p>As Waltz noted in his press interview:</p>
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<p><em>“The difference is these [Yemen attacks] were not pinpricks, back and forth, what ultimately proved to be feckless attacks. This was an overwhelming response that actually targeted multiple Houthi leaders and took them out”.</em></p>
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<p><span>Klippenstein cautions that,</span> <em>“2024 may be behind us but its lessons aren’t. Israel’s assassination of top Hezbollah officials in Lebanon was largely perceived by Washington to be a resounding success with few downsides. Trump likely took back the same message, leading to his strike on [the] Houthi leadership this week”.</em></p>
<p><span>If western observers are seeing all of what’s going on as some repeat of Biden’s tit-for-tat or limited attacks by Israel on Iran’s early warning and air defences, they may be misunderstanding what’s going on behind the scenes.</span> <em><strong>What Trump might now do, which is right out of the Israeli playbook, would be to attack Iran’s command and control, including Iran’s leadership.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>This–-very certainly–-would have a profound effect on Trump’s relations with Russia and China. It would eviscerate any sense in Moscow and Beijing that Trump is agreement capable. What price then his ‘peacemaker’ ‘Big Picture’ reset were he, in the wake of wars in Lebanon, Syria and Yemen, to start a war with Iran?</span> <em><strong>Does Trump see Iran through some disturbed optic–-that in destroying Iran, he is bringing about peace through strength?</strong></em> <span>[Bolded Italics My Emphasis]</span></p>
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<p>As Crooke noted in his Napolitano Chat, Putin told the Congress of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs that sanctions will continue and to make future plans accordingly. The “geostrategic debris” will not be easily swept away since Trump’s goal is to reestablish Outlaw US Empire Primacy. If you haven’t yet watched the chat, you’ll see some of this repeated alongside the very Mafia-like words coming from Rubio and Waltz. Team Trump seems to be all in favor of further murder regardless the consequences with no dissenters as many anticipated, and Trump like Biden, Obama, etc., clearly doesn’t care a whit about those he kills. Of course, all this trepidation could be wrong, but I rather doubt it. Rubio was licking his chops and relishes killing Iranians. IMO, he’s far worse than Pompeo and Russia was correct to sanction him. Crooke outlined the very important interests Russia and China share with Iran which is geographically located at the core of both nations’s Eurasian commercial plans. Is the proposed settlement of Ukraine merely a ploy to make Russia less worried about the Outlaw US Empire’s potential actions? Given the no let-up by NATO/EU and drop off of the rhetoric aimed at NATO/EU by Team Trump a month ago, IMO that’s a very good possibility.</p>
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<p>Today, Hyundai <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/24/south-korea-hyundai-us-investment.html">announced</a> a $20 billion investment in the United States — including $5.8 billion for a <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1904240895488078062">new steel plant</a> in Louisiana, which will create nearly 1,500 jobs. The investment, which builds on Hyundai’s <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/hyundai-motor-q4-profit-falls-17-discounts-weigh-2025-01-23/">pledge</a> earlier this year to “further localize production in the U.S.,” is the latest success in President Donald J. Trump’s pursuit of a Made in America renaissance.</p>
<p>It’s further proof that President Trump’s economic agenda is working.</p>
<p><strong>Hyundai is far from the only automaker planning major investments as President Trump leverages tariffs to remake the U.S. into a global manufacturing powerhouse:</strong></p>
<ul data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li>Stellantis <a href="https://apnews.com/article/stellantis-uaw-union-illinois-trump-c61f162889384fc7e1337dd5613692d6" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">announced</a> a $5 billion investment in its U.S. manufacturing network — including re-opening an Illinois manufacturing plant — as it <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/stellantis-pledges-more-american-cars-thanks-trump-one-month-tariff-exemption-2025-03-06/">pledges</a> to increase domestic vehicle production.</li>
<li>Volkswagen is <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/volkswagen-considers-us-production-sites-audi-porsche-brands-handelsblatt-2025-01-29/">considering</a> shifting production of the high-end Audi and Porsche brands to the U.S.</li>
<li>Honda is <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/honda-produce-next-civic-indiana-not-mexico-due-us-tariffs-sources-say-2025-03-03/">expected</a> to produce its next-generation Civic hybrid model in Indiana.</li>
<li>Nissan is <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/top-automaker-could-move-some-production-out-mexico-amid-trump-tariff-talks-ceo-says">considering</a> moving production from Mexico to the U.S.</li>
<li>Rolls-Royce is <a href="https://archive.is/nCOIW#selection-4525.0-4529.150">expected</a> to “ramp up” production in the U.S. by hiring more American workers and expand its U.S.-based operations.</li>
<li>Volvo is <a href="https://www.autonews.com/volvo/ane-rowan-eu-tariffs-us-added-production-0305/">considering</a> expanding its U.S.-based output.</li>
</ul><figure data-sanitized-class="wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized is-style-default"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" width="640" height="360" src="https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/america-s-newsroom-1.jpg" alt data-sanitized-class="wp-image-6761"></figure><p><strong>It’s not just the auto sector; domestic and foreign companies have pledged trillions in new investments since President Trump took office:</strong></p>
<ul data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li>Project Stargate, led by Japan-based Softbank and U.S.-based OpenAI and Oracle, <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/trump-announces-major-ai-infrastructure-investment" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">announced</a> a $500 billion private investment in U.S.-based artificial intelligence infrastructure.</li>
<li>Apple <a href="https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/02/apple-will-spend-more-than-500-billion-usd-in-the-us-over-the-next-four-years/">announced</a> a $500 billion investment in U.S. manufacturing and training.</li>
<li>Nvidia <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/03/president-trump-positions-u-s-as-global-superpower-in-manufacturing/">announced</a> it will invest hundreds of billions of dollars over the next four years in U.S.-based manufacturing.</li>
<li>Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/03/another-historic-investment-secured-under-president-trump/">announced</a> a $100 billion investment in U.S.-based chips manufacturing.</li>
<li>Eli Lilly and Company <a href="https://archive.ph/PqRtn" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">announced</a> a $27 billion investment in domestic manufacturing.</li>
<li>United Arab Emirates-based DAMAC Properties <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2025/01/07/trump-announces-20-billion-investment-in-u-s-data-centers/">announced</a> a $20 billion investment in new U.S.-based data centers.</li>
<li>France-based CMA CGM, a global shipping giant, <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1897736053504565716">announced</a> a $20 billion investment in U.S. shipping and logistics, creating 10,000 new jobs.</li>
<li>Merck <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/merck-opens-vaccine-manufacturing-facility-north-carolina-2025-03-11/">announced</a> it will invest $8 billion in the U.S. over the next several years after opening a new $1 billion North Carolina manufacturing facility.</li>
<li>Clarios <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/clarios-announces-6-billion-american-energy-manufacturing-strategy-302389129.html">announced</a> a $6 billion plan to expand its domestic manufacturing operations.</li>
<li>GE Aerospace <a href="https://www.geaerospace.com/news/press-releases/ge-aerospace-invest-nearly-1b-us-manufacturing-2025">announced</a> a $1 billion investment in manufacturing across 16 states — creating 5,000 new jobs.</li>
<li>GE Vernova <a href="https://whitehouse.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dace49741569f7585670378b3&amp;id=b772da9064&amp;e=c44d992a91">announced</a> it will invest nearly $600 million in U.S. manufacturing over the next two years, which will create more than 1,500 new jobs.</li>
<li>London-based Diageo <a href="https://whitehouse.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dace49741569f7585670378b3&amp;id=ff5989d990&amp;e=c44d992a91">announced</a> a $415 million investment in a new Alabama manufacturing facility.</li>
<li>Dublin-based Eaton Corporation <a href="https://whitehouse.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dace49741569f7585670378b3&amp;id=29b2dbc09e&amp;e=c44d992a91">announced</a> a $340 million investment in a new South Carolina-based manufacturing facility for its three-phase transformers.</li>
<li>Germany-based Siemens <a href="https://whitehouse.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dace49741569f7585670378b3&amp;id=181175ac6c&amp;e=c44d992a91">announced</a> a $285 million investment in U.S. manufacturing and AI data centers, which will create more than 900 new skilled manufacturing jobs.</li>
<li>Paris Baguette <a href="https://www.manufacturingdive.com/news/paris-baguette-plans-first-us-bakery-plant-Texas-160-million-investment/740929/">announced</a> a $160 million investment to construct a manufacturing plant in Texas.</li>
<li>Switzerland-based ABB <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/Users/APfeiffer/AppData/Local/Microsoft/Windows/INetCache/Content.Outlook/M3U0SZ4L/manufacturingdive.com/news/swiss-giant-abb-invest-120-million-us-manufacturing/741971/">announced</a> a $120 million investment to expand production of its low-voltage electrification products in Tennessee and Mississippi.</li>
<li>Saica Group, a Spain-based corrugated packaging maker, <a href="https://whitehouse.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dace49741569f7585670378b3&amp;id=7cea6ebd23&amp;e=c44d992a91" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">announced</a> <a href="https://whitehouse.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dace49741569f7585670378b3&amp;id=91f4b79f59&amp;e=c44d992a91">plans</a> to build a $110 million new manufacturing facility in Anderson, Indiana.</li>
<li>Paris-based Saint-Gobain <a href="https://whitehouse.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dace49741569f7585670378b3&amp;id=0c626381ff&amp;e=c44d992a91">announced</a> a new $40 million NorPro manufacturing facility in Wheatfield, New York.</li>
<li>India-based Sygene International <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/indias-syngene-international-acquires-first-us-biologics-facility-50-mln-2025-03-10/">announced</a> a $36.5 million acquisition of a Baltimore biologics manufacturing facility.</li>
<li>Asahi Group Holdings, one of the largest Japanese beverage makers, <a href="https://whitehouse.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dace49741569f7585670378b3&amp;id=49ae1686ad&amp;e=c44d992a91">announced</a> a $35 million investment to boost production at its Wisconsin plant.</li>
<li>Samsung is <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/samsung-weighs-relocating-dryer-production-us-response-trump-tariffs">considering</a> moving its dryer production from Mexico to South Carolina.</li>
<li>LG is <a href="https://www.kedglobal.com/business-politics/newsView/ked202501210009" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">considering</a> moving its refrigerator manufacturing from Mexico to Tennessee.</li>
<li>Italian spirits group Campari is “<a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/campari-pauses-ma-focus-brand-growth-amid-us-tariffs-2025-03-05/">assessing</a> the opportunities to expand its production in the U.S.”</li>
<li>Essity, a Swedish hygiene product manufacturer, is <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/essity-could-move-more-production-into-us-if-tariffs-are-introduced-ceo-says-2025-01-23/">considering</a> shifting production to the U.S.</li>
<li>Taiwan-based Compal Electronics is <a href="https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3295596/taiwans-compal-inventec-mull-us-expansion-counter-trump-tariffs-eyes-texas">considering</a> a U.S.-based expansion.</li>
<li>Taiwan-based Inventec is <a href="https://focustaiwan.tw/business/202502080004">expected</a> to expand its manufacturing operations into Texas.</li>
<li>LVMH, a French luxury giant, is “<a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/lvmh-considers-widening-us-footprint-ceo-arnault-expresses-france-fatigue-2025-01-28/">seriously considering</a>” an expansion to its U.S.-based production capabilities.</li>
<li>Cra-Z-Art, the biggest toymaker in the U.S., <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/03/13/business/uss-biggest-toy-maker-cra-z-art-to-expand-domestic-factories/">said</a> it will move a “large percentage” of its China-based manufacturing back home.</li>
<li>Prepac, a Canadian furniture manufacturer, <a href="https://www.furnituretoday.com/tariffs/furniture-manufacturer-shuts-down-canadian-operations-moves-production-to-n-carolina/">announced</a> it will move production from Canada to the U.S.</li>
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guid: https://raymcgovern.com/?p=8759
title: Trump’s Iran Threat is Mainly Bluster
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<p data-sanitized-class="excerpt">Trump’s threat vs Iran is mainly bluster. He will back off once he aware this would end détente with Russia; put US troops &amp; sailors at risk; cause global economic collapse and a no-win war. US Intel has not been as bad on Iran as on Iraq – so far.</p><p data-sanitized-class="more-link-p"><a href="https://raymcgovern.com/2025/03/24/trumps-iran-threat-is-mainly-bluster/" data-sanitized-class="btn btn-default">Read more</a></p>


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guid: https://karlof1.substack.com/p/what-sort-of-nation-kills-innocent
title: What Sort of Nation Kills Innocent People to "Send a Message"?
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<p><span>The following as</span> <a href="https://www.rt.com/news/614723-us-yemen-war-plans-leak/" rel>reported by RT</a> <span>is the “reasoning” Team Trump is using to justify War Crimes of several varieties:</span></p>
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<p><em>“There is a real risk that the public doesn’t understand this or why it’s necessary,”</em> <span>said the account labeled JD Vance, arguing that</span> <em>“the strongest reason to do this is, as POTUS said, to send a message.”</em> <span>In response, Hegseth agreed, stating:</span> <em>“I think messaging is going to be tough no matter what — nobody knows who the Houthis are — which is why we would need to stay focused on: 1) Biden failed &amp; 2) Iran funded.”</em></p>
<p><span>Trump has claimed the Houthi attacks</span> <em>“emanate from, and are created by, Iran,”</em> <span>warning that from now on, Washington would view every shot fired by the Yemeni group as if it were fired by Tehran.</span> <em>“Iran will be held responsible, and suffer the consequences, and those consequences will be dire,”</em> <span>the president wrote on his Truth Social platform last Monday. [Italics Original]</span></p>
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<p>Just another day in the life of the Outlaw US Empire that seems to try and kill at least one innocent daily either directly or via its proxies. Trump has now earned the sobriquet Genocide Don—some peace president, huh?! He trashes Biden but is just as evil, which appears to be a prerequisite for becoming the elected king of the Outlaw US Empire. When did we last have a US president that didn’t kill anyone as policy? Not in my lifetime.</p>
<p><span>The promised release of some JFK papers kept from public view for 60+ years prompted a visit to David Ratcliffe’s website ratical.org that I’ve been using as a source since 1998 to see if he had anything to say about Piper’s</span> <em>Final Judgement</em> <span>many of</span> <span>whose points in his hypothesis were proven true by those documents. Alas, there was nothing, so I decided to visit the section on MLK’s assassination and see what was new there. The first was a</span> <a href="https://ratical.org/ratville/JFK/MLKactOstate.html" rel>book review</a> <span>by David of William Pepper’s</span> <em><a href="https://ratical.org/ratville/JFK/WFP020403.html" rel>An Act of State - The Execution of Martin Luther King</a></em> <span>that I dug into. I then went to the hyperlinked title’s page which contains the transcript of a talk given at Modern Times Bookstore, San Francisco on 4 February 2003, which is also a fascinating read. I knew of the civil court trial verdict when it was made public in 1999 but as noted it was never publicized by BigLie Media because the Establishment Narrative is to be preserved and continued until all memory fades. In closing this note of outrage, I provide an excerpt, a very small amount of the text available at the above links that lead to more:</span></p>
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<p><span>In his</span> <a href="http://ratical.org/ratville/JFK/MLKACT/MLKACTvol14.html#p2160" rel>closing remarks on the last day of the trial</a><span>, Dr. Pepper touched upon the underlying dynamics of what created the circumstances of Dr. King's execution:</span></p>
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<p><span>Martin King, as you know, for many years was a Baptist preacher in the southern part of this country, and he was thrust into leadership of the civil rights movement at a historic moment in the civil rights movement and social change movement in this part of the country. That's where he was. That's where he has been locked in time, locked in a media image, locked as an icon in the brains of the people of this country.</span><br><span>But Martin King had moved well beyond that. When he was awarded the Noble Peace Prize,</span> <em><strong>he became in the mid-1960's an international figure, a person of serious stature whose voice, his opinions, on other issues than just the plight of black people in the South became very significant world-wide.</strong></em> <em><strong>He commanded world-wide attention as few had before him. As a successor, if you will, to Mahatmas Gandhi in terms of the movement for social change through civil disobedience. So that's where he was moving.</strong></em> <span>Then in 1967, April 4, 1967, one year to the day before he was killed,</span> <a href="https://ratical.org/ratville/JFK/MLKapr67.html" rel>he delivered the momentous speech at Riverside Church</a> <span>in New York where he opposed the war.</span><br><span>Now, he thought carefully about this war. . . . I remember vividly, I was a journalist in Vietnam, when I came back, he asked to meet with me, and when I opened my files to him, which were devastating in terms of the effects upon the civilian population of that country, he unashamedly wept.</span><br><span>I knew at that point really that the die was cast. This was in February of 1967. He was definitely going to oppose that war with every strength, every fiber in his body. And he did so. He opposed it. And from the date of the Riverside speech to the date he was killed, he never wavered in that opposition.</span> <em><strong>Now, what does that mean? Is he an enemy of the State? The State regarded him as an enemy because he opposed it. But what does it really mean, his opposition?</strong></em> <span>I put it to you that his opposition to that war had little to do with ideology, with capitalism, with democracy.</span> <em><strong>It had to do with money. It had to do with huge amounts of money that that war was generating to large multinational corporations that were based in the United States</strong></em> <span>. . .</span><br><span>When Martin King opposed the war, when he rallied people to oppose the war, he was threatening the bottom lines of some of the largest defense contractors in this country. This was about money. When he threatened to bring that war to a close through massive popular opposition, he was threatening the bottom lines of some of the largest construction companies, one of which was in the State of Texas, that patronized the Presidency of Lyndon Johnson and had the major construction contracts at Cam Ran Bay in Vietnam. This is what Martin King was challenging.</span> <em><strong>He was challenging the weapons industry, the hardware, the armament industries, that all would lose as a result of the end of the war</strong></em><span>. . . .</span><br><span>Now, he began to talk about a redistribution of wealth, in this the wealthiest country in the world that had such a large group of poor people, of people living then and now, by the way, in poverty. That problem had to be addressed. And it wasn't a black-and-white problem. This was a problem that dealt with Hispanics, and it dealt with poor whites as well.</span> <em><strong>That is what he was taking on. That's what he was challenging.</strong></em><br><span>The powers in this land believed he would not be successful. Why did they believe that?</span> <em><strong>They believed that because they knew that the decision-making processes in the United States had</strong></em> <span>by that point in time, and today it is much worse in my view, but</span> <em><strong>by that point in time had so consolidated power that they were the representatives, the foot soldiers, of the . . . very economic interests who were going to suffer as a result of these times of changes</strong></em><span>. So the very powerful lobbying forces that put their people in the halls of Congress and indeed in the White House itself and controlled them, paid and bought them and controlled them,</span> <em><strong>were certainly not going to agree to the type of social legislation that Martin King and his mass of humanity were going to require.</strong></em> <span>[My Emphasis]</span></p>
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<p>Killing MLK was clearly sending a message to all who sought the ends he sought, and riots erupted in major cities coast-to-coast. And since 1968 there’s been zero progress on stopping the Outlaw US Empire or its Merchants of Death and those who own them and the federal government. How should the Humanistic portion of the world access such messages? What sort of reply must really be sent by those able to stand up like Ansarallah? What to do with a society so densely filled with criminals in positions of leadership? A friend now gone named his publication “Voices in the Wilderness.” I now understand why he ended his life. His message was to continue resisting. I will.</p>
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<p>In southwest China's Yunnan Province, the Dai ethnic group's bamboo houses, also known as "ganlan" in Chinese, embody a unique architectural tradition. Built on stilts about two meters above the ground, these "ganlan" structures protect against dampness, pests, and flooding, adapting to the tropical rainforest climate. The upper level serves as living quarters, while the lower space is used for storage or livestock. Thatched roofs with steep slopes ensure efficient drainage, reflecting the Dai people's deep connection with nature.</p>
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<p>A file photo shows the bamboo houses of the Dai ethnic group in Yunnan Province. /IC</p>
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<p>A file photo shows the bamboo houses of the Dai ethnic group in Yunnan Province. /IC</p>
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<p>Similarly, Cambodia's rural stilt houses, made primarily of wood, follow a design similar to the ganlan houses, which provide protection from floods and pests. Elevated on sturdy columns, they provide ventilation and thermal insulation. The main living areas, including the bedrooms and kitchens, occupy the upper level, and often feature a front veranda for daily activities.</p>
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<p>A file photo shows houses on stilts in a village in Cambodia. /IC</p>
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<p>A file photo shows houses on stilts in a village in Cambodia. /IC</p>
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<p>Although from different cultural backgrounds, both the Dai bamboo houses and the Cambodian stilt houses demonstrate the ingenuity of traditional Asian architecture in adapting to the local environment.</p>
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<p>Peach blossoms bloom against the backdrop of Kunming Lake at the Summer Palace in Beijing on March 16, 2025. /CGTN</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="title">Peach blossoms bloom against the backdrop of Kunming Lake at the Summer Palace in Beijing on March 16, 2025. /CGTN</p>
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<p>Visitors admire the peach blossoms along the West Causeway of Kunming Lake at the Summer Palace in Beijing on March 16, 2025. /CGTN</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="title">Visitors admire the peach blossoms along the West Causeway of Kunming Lake at the Summer Palace in Beijing on March 16, 2025. /CGTN</p>
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<p>Peach blossoms bloom against the backdrop of Kunming Lake at the Summer Palace in Beijing on March 16, 2025. /CGTN</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="title">Peach blossoms bloom against the backdrop of Kunming Lake at the Summer Palace in Beijing on March 16, 2025. /CGTN</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="title">Peach blossoms, together with Kunming Lake and the historic architecture, create a captivating spring landscape at the Summer Palace in Beijing on March 16, 2025. /CGTN</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="title">Visitors admire the peach blossoms along the West Causeway of Kunming Lake at the Summer Palace in Beijing on March 16, 2025. /CGTN</p>
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<p>Peach blossoms bloom against the backdrop of Kunming Lake at the Summer Palace in Beijing on March 16, 2025. /CGTN</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="title">Peach blossoms bloom against the backdrop of Kunming Lake at the Summer Palace in Beijing on March 16, 2025. /CGTN</p>
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<p>The peach blossoms along the West Causeway of Kunming Lake brought a vibrant spring atmosphere to the Summer Palace in Beijing. The delicate flowers, together with the lake and the historic architecture of this former imperial garden, created a captivating spring landscape that drew crowds of visitors to enjoy the view and capture the beauty in photos.</p>
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<p>People visit the Three Lanes and Seven Alleys, a century-old block in Fuzhou, Fujian Province, February 25, 2025. /VCG</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="title">People visit the Three Lanes and Seven Alleys, a century-old block in Fuzhou, Fujian Province, February 25, 2025. /VCG</p>
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<p>People visit the Three Lanes and Seven Alleys, a century-old block in Fuzhou, Fujian Province, February 25, 2025. /VCG</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="title">People visit the Three Lanes and Seven Alleys, a century-old block in Fuzhou, Fujian Province, February 25, 2025. /VCG</p>
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<p>A visitor takes photo of the blossoming flame vines at the Three Lanes and Seven Alleys, a century-old block in Fuzhou, Fujian Province, February 25, 2025. /VCG</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="title">A visitor takes photo of the blossoming flame vines at the Three Lanes and Seven Alleys, a century-old block in Fuzhou, Fujian Province, February 25, 2025. /VCG</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="title">People visit the Three Lanes and Seven Alleys, a century-old block in Fuzhou, Fujian Province, February 25, 2025. /VCG</p>
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<p>By early spring, the flame vines have climbed the walls of the Three Lanes and Seven Alleys, a century-old block in Fuzhou, Fujian Province. Amid the white walls and black tiles, the blossoming bright orange tubular flowers added a touch of life and vitality to the ancient buildings, drawing visitors to take pictures.</p>
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<p>Villagers pick cudweed to make Qingming Cake in Yinjiang Tujia and Miao Autonomous County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, on March 19, 2025. /Photo provided to CGTN</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="title">Villagers pick cudweed to make Qingming Cake in Yinjiang Tujia and Miao Autonomous County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, on March 19, 2025. /Photo provided to CGTN</p>
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<p>People pound glutinous rice and cudweed together to make Qingming Cake in Yinjiang Tujia and Miao Autonomous County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, on March 19, 2025. /Photo provided to CGTN</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="title">People pound glutinous rice and cudweed together to make Qingming Cake in Yinjiang Tujia and Miao Autonomous County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, on March 19, 2025. /Photo provided to CGTN</p>
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<p>Qingming Cake is a traditional delicacy that the Tujia people of Yinjiang Tujia and Miao Autonomous County in southwest China's Guizhou Province cannot live without around the Qingming Festival, or Tomb-Sweeping Day, which falls on April 4 this year. From picking the cudweed to steaming, it takes more than 10 procedures to make. Its main ingredients are fresh and tender cudweed, glutinous rice flour and rice flour, while the filling is made of diced tofu, wild onions and chili peppers.</p>
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<p>People knead dough to make Qingming Cake in Yinjiang Tujia and Miao Autonomous County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, on March 19, 2025. /Photo provided to CGTN</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="title">People knead dough to make Qingming Cake in Yinjiang Tujia and Miao Autonomous County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, on March 19, 2025. /Photo provided to CGTN</p>
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<p>People wrap deep-fried tofu cubes, wild onions, and chili peppers into dough balls to make Qingming Cake in Yinjiang Tujia and Miao Autonomous County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, on March 19, 2025. /Photo provided to CGTN</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="title">People wrap deep-fried tofu cubes, wild onions, and chili peppers into dough balls to make Qingming Cake in Yinjiang Tujia and Miao Autonomous County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, on March 19, 2025. /Photo provided to CGTN</p>
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<p>Qingming Cakes, taken fresh from the pot, are seen in Yinjiang Tujia and Miao Autonomous County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, on March 19, 2025. /Photo provided to CGTN</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="title">Qingming Cakes, taken fresh from the pot, are seen in Yinjiang Tujia and Miao Autonomous County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, on March 19, 2025. /Photo provided to CGTN</p>
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<p>First of all, pick the newly sprouted tender leaves of the cudweed. Once picked, the cudweed should be washed immediately with clean water while it's still fresh. At the same time, soak the glutinous rice in advance. Subsequently, pound the glutinous rice and the cudweed together. The beaten glutinous rice is then filtered through a sieve, making it more delicate, which is the key to ensuring that the Qingming Cake is soft and glutinous when eaten. Next, cook the cudweed until it's fully fried. Then, pour the glutinous rice flour and rice flour into a basin and stir them evenly. Add the chopped cudweed and slowly pour it in an appropriate amount of warm water. Then knead the mixture into a smooth dough that doesn't stick to the hands and has a moderate texture and consistency. Divide the kneaded dough into appropriately sized dough balls. Wrap the deep-fried tofu cubes, wild onions, and chili peppers into the dough balls. Roll the cakes into a round shape, which symbolizes family reunion, happiness, and good health. Finally, steam them.</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="title">Elderly people sample Qingming Cakes fresh from the pot in Yinjiang Tujia and Miao Autonomous County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, on March 19, 2025. /Photo provided to CGTN</p>
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<p>Passed down from generation to generation, the technique of making Qingming Cake transforms the tender shoots from the mountains into the taste of spring that lingers on the tip of the tongue, allowing the gifts of nature and the legacy of culture to blend perfectly at the dexterous fingertips of the Tujia people. This touch of green is not only a nod to the people's ancestors, but also a symbol of anticipation for a family reunion.</p>
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title: The JFK Released CIA Assassination Files
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<p>The JFK Released CIA Assassination Files<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>PCR interviewed <i>On Target</i> by Larry Sparano</p>
<p>This interview began with the information available about President Kennedy’s assassination.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>I made the point that there is more conclusive evidence that JFK’s assassination was the result of a Joint Chiefs-CIA-Secret Service plot in James W. Douglass’ book, <i>JFK and the Unspeakable,</i> than there is in the released CIA files.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>The CIA is not going to keep a dossier of its own crimes.</p>
<p>The discussion moved on to alternative explanations, such as President Kennedy was assassinated by Israel, because he was putting pressure to prevent Israel from producing nuclear weapons. The morning of my interview by Larry, Ron Unz blamed Israel in his interview by Mike Whitney.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>I noted that Israel had no ability or cause to alter an official autopsy or ability to send Jack Ruby into a Dallas jail to shoot Oswald before he could talk.</p>
<p>(Note to the Israel Lobby:<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>If I were the anti-semite you say I am, would I absolve Israel of murdering a loved and respected American President? The Israel Lobby is so incompetent that it creates anti-semites by calling honest people who tell the truth anti-semites. The crazy way the Israel Lobby works is that you have to be a liar for Israel to avoid the designation of “anti-semite.”)</p>
<p>From Israel as the culprit we moved on to CIA cover stories, how it always has one ready to plant in the media the minute a CIA operation occurs, and a half dozen or more cover stories to be implanted when the original wears out.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>As the CIA’s Director of Counterintelligence told me, as soon as the original story is worn out by contrary evidence, the CIA releases two or more other cover stories, and commentators argue about which of the other cover stories is the correct one, and the distance from the real event widens. Angleton said that as time passes, not even the CIA knows what really happened.</p>
<p>Those of us on the secret presidential committee were asked to keep it quiet, but we didn’t have to do so forever.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>As decades passed, people involved died, and the world changed, I decided it was a disservice to my country to let information die with me.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Perhaps the few knowledgable Americans who remain will make use of it.</p>
<p>Here is the interview:</p>
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title: It's An Awkward Time To Be A Liberal Israel Supporter
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title: British Admiral Threatens to &quot;Incinerate 40 Russian Cities&quot;!
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<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*HNTV2_4SvIy7_a8Oo8OkQg.png"></figure><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6mFWp0Kjo8"><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%2Fp6mFWp0Kjo8%3Ffeature%3Doembed&amp;display_name=YouTube&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dp6mFWp0Kjo8&amp;image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2Fp6mFWp0Kjo8%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/23a76aa3faac9b536d0ce21411834fe1/href">https://medium.com/media/23a76aa3faac9b536d0ce21411834fe1/href</a></iframe><p>Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer <a href="https://archive.is/1n2Zg">said in a recent interview</a> that his job “is to keep the left pro-Israel,” which is just sad. Being a liberal Israel supporter these days probably feels like being a defense attorney for an accused murderer who won’t shut up about how much he loves murdering.</p><p>A Palestinian co-director of the Oscar-winning film No Other Land was <a href="https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-25/oscar-winner-hamdan-ballal-beaten-by-israeli-settlers/105092422">assaulted and injured</a> by a gang of Israeli settlers in the West Bank village of Susya before being abducted by Israeli soldiers on Monday. Hamdan Ballal and two other Palestinians were reportedly transferred from the Israeli military to the police for questioning, and as of this writing are still detained.</p><p>No Other Land is a documentary about Israeli abuses toward Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, which makes the lynch mob assault by the settlers not only ironic but completely vindicating of Ballal’s work. These freaks are so consumed by hatred and Zionist brain rot that they actually thought they’d advance their cause by attacking Palestinians in the West Bank in response to a documentary about the mistreatment of Palestinians in the West Bank.</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/AssalRad/status/1904280663773401102&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/f9b406dd52579763c6bdb5a954829b00/href">https://medium.com/media/f9b406dd52579763c6bdb5a954829b00/href</a></iframe><p>This happens as Israel adds two more bodies to the mountain of Palestinian journalists it has deliberately killed in Gaza. Al Jazeera reporter Hossam Shabat and Palestine Today TV correspondent Mohammad Mansour were both killed in separate airstrikes in different parts of the Gaza Strip on Monday, bringing the total number of Palestinian journalists killed in the Gaza holocaust to 208.</p><p>Israel is murdering journalists and persecuting documentary filmmakers because <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israel-hates-truth">Israel hates truth</a>. It kills press workers in Gaza for the same reason it blocks western reporters from entering the scorched Palestinian territory: because Israel doesn’t want people to see the full picture of its atrocities.</p><p>This comes after Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz made amazingly explicit <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israel-makes-its-most-explicit-statement">statements of genocidal intent</a> last week, telling the entire population of Gaza that they will face “total devastation” if they do not find some way to overthrow Hamas themselves and return all the hostages.</p><p>They’re just getting more and more brazen with this stuff. More and more often, to a further and further extent, Israel is showing its true face to the world.</p><p>The other day Israel <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/22/israel-blows-up-gazas-only-specialised-cancer-hospital-in-massive-strike">demolished</a> Gaza’s only specialized cancer treatment hospital and an adjacent medical school in its <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/israels-savage-destruction-of-gazas">ongoing systematic destruction</a> of the enclave’s entire healthcare system with <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-idf-didnt-just-target-hospitals">the goal of making it unlivable</a>.</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/AssalRad/status/1904040116881907758&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/5eaaf2fe063c6444ee04e9f92ecdd8d1/href">https://medium.com/media/5eaaf2fe063c6444ee04e9f92ecdd8d1/href</a></iframe><p>Shortly thereafter, Israel <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-bombs-gazas-nasser-hospital-again-killing-patients">bombed another hospital</a> in Khan Younis, killing a member of Hamas’s political bureau as well as a <a href="https://news.antiwar.com/2025/03/24/american-surgeon-says-israeli-strike-on-gaza-hospital-could-have-killed-him/">16 year-old boy</a>. The imperial media fell all over themselves to <a href="https://x.com/AssalRad/status/1904040116881907758">churn out headlines</a> announcing that Israel had targeted a Hamas leader in a strike on a hospital — as though bombing hospitals is this perfectly acceptable thing we should all view as normal now — but we all know these same media outlets would be shrieking their lungs out if any of the empire’s enemies did this exact same thing.</p><p>As Jonathan Cook <a href="https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/would-it-be-okay-for-hamas-to-strike">points out in a recent essay</a>, this is the same as if Hamas had bombed the hospital Benjamin Netanyahu stayed at earlier this year in retaliation for his crimes. And we can all imagine the reaction of the western political-media class if that had happened.</p><p>Speaking of Netanyahu, a new <a href="https://www.ynet.co.il/yedioth/article/yokra14303894">report</a> from the Israeli outlet Ynet says that after the October 7 attacks the prime minister angrily ordered the IDF to massively expand its bombing campaign without intelligence on who they were hitting, demanding that they just bomb as many buildings as possible entirely for the sake of bombing them.</p><p>According to the report, on October 9, 2023 the IDF told Netanyahu that they were bombing 1,500 targets per day because that’s what they had the intel to justify, and Netanyahu angrily demanded to know why they weren’t launching 5,000 airstrikes instead, telling them “I’m not interested in targets. Take down houses, bomb with everything you have.”</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/muhammadshehad2/status/1903195891520970895&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/184a372a7aaaf75a11c4450e6c995332/href">https://medium.com/media/184a372a7aaaf75a11c4450e6c995332/href</a></iframe><p>So that’s what Israel has been up to lately. It’s just getting uglier and uglier, and people who purport to stand for equality and justice are having a harder and harder time squaring their ideological positions with their steadfast support for the genocidal apartheid state.</p><p>Liberal Zionists like Bernie Sanders have tried to reconcile their support for Israel by pinning the blame entirely on Netanyahu. A recent <a href="https://x.com/SenSanders/status/1904184005190169078">tweet</a> by Sanders reads, “Netanyahu has not allowed any aid into Gaza in 22 days. He broke the ceasefire, resuming a bombing campaign that has killed more than 50,000 people. Now he is threatening a long-term occupation of Gaza. NO MORE MILITARY AID TO NETANYAHU’S WAR MACHINE.”</p><p>One of the biggest scams being peddled by Democrats today is this frantic campaign to spin Netanyahu as meaningfully separate and distinct from everything Israel is — instead of the perfect embodiment of it — to protect Israel’s image while it commits genocide and ethnic cleansing.</p><p>They’re working overtime to hang this whole mess on the prime minister, so that when it’s all over and the final solution to the Palestinian question has been carried out, he can take the sins of the Zionist state and the entire US-centralized empire with him when he leaves office without anything ever needing to change about status quo US foreign policy. They’re repeating the George W Bush playbook.</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/SenSanders/status/1904184005190169078&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/4ad5dd8f0c608b7180583195ae994772/href">https://medium.com/media/4ad5dd8f0c608b7180583195ae994772/href</a></iframe><p>Netanyahu didn’t create the genocidal racism in Israel, the genocidal racism in Israel created Netanyahu. He rode already-existing sentiments within Israel to power, and has relied on them to stay in power ever since. You could not ask for a better representative of everything Israel is than Benjamin Netanyahu — nor indeed a better representative of everything the US empire stands for.</p><p>Liberal Zionists are having a hard time reconciling their positions of antiracism and social justice with their support for Israel because at the end of the day western liberalism is just as fraudulent and deceitful as Zionism is. We all watched them passively allow the Democratic president to turn Gaza into a pile of steaming blood-soaked wreckage and then demand everyone vote for his vice president. Democrats hold their worldview in place by psychologically compartmentalizing away from the atrocities their government commits in the here and now, while singing fondly about innocuous whitewashed historical revisionist versions of their civil rights heroes who died decades ago.</p><p>Democrats are an inseparable part of the US empire and its abuses, just as the US empire is an inseparable part of Israel and its abuses. It’s all one big mess of depravity, with liberals tasked with the increasingly difficult assignment of placing a warm progressive face on one of the darkest chapters in human history.</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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Un des réalisateurs de l’oscarisé “No other land” arrêté par l’armée israélienne après avoir été lynché par des colons

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<div><strong>L’armée israélienne a arrêté Hamdan Ballal, l’un des coréalisateurs palestiniens du <a href="https://www.lorientlejour.com/article/1450071/-no-other-land-sur-la-colonisation-en-cisjordanie-oscarise-malgre-une-campagne-virulente.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">film documentaire oscarisé </a><i>No other land</i><a href="https://www.lorientlejour.com/article/1450071/-no-other-land-sur-la-colonisation-en-cisjordanie-oscarise-malgre-une-campagne-virulente.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">, après qu’il a été violemment agressé par des colons israéliens, rapporte le </a><i><a href="https://www.lorientlejour.com/article/1450071/-no-other-land-sur-la-colonisation-en-cisjordanie-oscarise-malgre-une-campagne-virulente.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Haaretz.</a></i></strong></div>
<p>Selon le quotidien israélien, des dizaines de colons en …</p>

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title: Col. Jacques Baud: What the West Gets Dead Wrong About the Middle East
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title: Forces de « maintien de la paix » en Ukraine : les mensonges des Impuissances européennes
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En parlant d’une coalition et d’un grand déploiement militaire des forces de l’alliance du Traité de l'Atlantique Nord, ce n’est guère une action d’une durée de 30 jours couvrant le cessez-le-feu proposé par les Etats-Unis d’Amérique qui est en discussion, mais une opération stratégique à long terme. 

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title: The Narrative: The Multipolar Pincer (f. Matt and Burning Bright)
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<p><img src="https://thumbs.odycdn.com/04a443f902b9ad8ff346a0c109c942a6.webp" width="480" alt="thumbnail" title="The Narrative: The Multipolar Pincer (f. Matt and Burning Bright)"></p>March 24, 2025<br><br>Burning Bright and I reunite for a mind-bending deep dive into the real history and high-stakes future of U.S.–Russia relations. From secret railways under the Bering Strait to Putin’s unspoken alliance with Trump, the duo unpacks the long-hidden conspiracies, economic warfare, and spiritual battles shaping the multipolar world. They trace the roots of globalist power from the Hellfire Club to the CIA and cartels, exposing a satanic death cult embedded in geopolitics. This episode is a narrative cipher...part history lesson, part reality check, part wake-up call. If you think this is just about oil and money, think again. The true war is for your soul.<br><br>**********************************************<br>Follow Burning Bright’s work at: <br>Episode Archive: https://rumble.com/playlists/OISY0yOYI5M<br>Substack: https://badlands.substack.com/<br>witter: https://twitter.com/BadlandsMedia_<br>Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/BadlandsMedia<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>Find links to our films here:  <br>https://canadianpatriot.org/cp-videos/<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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title: Annex Canada = Destroy London's Globalists?
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<p>On this episode of Tim Kirby Russia Reloaded, I was asked to deliver my thoughts about Canada, Trump, Carney and whether or not Canada should join the USA. And what would happen if the USA were to join the UK as proposed this week by King Charles III? 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