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AP: White House proposes drastic cuts to State Department and funding for UN, NATO and other groups

11:32 16.04.2025

AP: White House proposes drastic cuts to State Department and funding for UN, NATO and other groups

The White House’s Office of Management and Budget has proposed gutting the State Department’s budget by almost 50%, closing a number of overseas diplomatic missions, slashing the number of diplomatic staff, and eliminating funding for nearly all international organizations, including the United Nations, many of its agencies and for NATO …

Trump, Putin and Xi could meet at a “New Yalta”

11:29 16.04.2025

Trump, Putin and Xi could meet at a “New Yalta”

‘Newsweek’ shows the outlines of the global agreement “New Yalta”. In 1945 in Yalta, in Crimea, the leaders of the USSR, USA and Britain – Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill - agreed on the post-war world order. Now the magazine writes about a possible new reorganization of the world order after …

USAID falls, exposing a giant network of US-funded “independent” media

12:00 15.04.2025

USAID falls, exposing a giant network of US-funded “independent” media

Cash flow crisis hits hard “independent” media; USAID has also created a number of covert apps aimed at regime change, reveals Alan MacLeod is senior staff writer for MintPress News. The Trump administration’s decision to pause USAID funding has plunged hundreds of so-called “independent media” outlets into crisis, thereby exposing …

Two views on the US-China trade war

11:57 15.04.2025

Two views on the US-China trade war

What Trump wants above all is to display dominance and extract submission. A better explanation is that Trump is motivated mainly by a desire to accumulate and exercise power, and tariffs are the best instrument of that power, stresses ‘The Financial Times’. Trump climbed down from his most extreme reciprocal …

Europe talks about rearmament, but it seems that European leaders just want more money

11:55 15.04.2025

Europe talks about rearmament, but it seems that European leaders just want more money

It’s hard to imagine that a rearming would be politically palatable given that many European governments are highly in debt, but they just want more money, notes ‘The Responsible Statecraft’. Amid calls for Europe to rearm, competing ideas are circulating around how to ensure European nations can take on Russia …

Netherlands in Panic – “Russia Intends to Attack the Baltics!” Soldiers Take to the Streets

11:54 15.04.2025

Netherlands in Panic – “Russia Intends to Attack the Baltics!” Soldiers Take to the Streets

After a recent meeting of military leaders from Britain, the Netherlands, the Baltics, Poland and Scandinavia, the Dutch were the first to get excited. London's latest anti-Russian provocation had its effect on the Dutch, who have never been particularly belligerent. The Dutch military is accelerating efforts to ensure readiness for …

View from Delhi: possible settlement of the Iranian nuclear issue takes on mutually agreeable contours as the talks proceed

11:38 14.04.2025

View from Delhi: possible settlement of the Iranian nuclear issue takes on mutually agreeable contours as the talks proceed

The US President Donald Trump sought direct talks and claimed that Iranians conveyed through back channel that they had no objection to it. Furthermore, Trump disclosed that indirect talks already started. While maintaining publicly that the talks will be ‘indirect’, Iranians didn’t call out Trump, notes M.K. Bhadrakumar, Indian Ambassador …

Emmanuel Todd: “It is absolutely obvious that the Collective West has suffered a defeat and is now disintegrating, but it is completely unclear in what form this disintegration will occur”

11:36 14.04.2025

Emmanuel Todd: “It is absolutely obvious that the Collective West has suffered a defeat and is now disintegrating, but it is completely unclear in what form this disintegration will occur”

The prominent French philosopher and analyst, author of the sensational book "The Defeat of the West" ("l'Occident. La défaite") Emmanuel Todd recently spoke at a conference at CES – Institut Catholique de Vendée, France, expressing his views on the developing world situation. He paid special attention to the relations between …

‘The Times’: The untold story of British military chiefs’ crucial role in Ukraine

11:33 14.04.2025

‘The Times’: The untold story of British military chiefs’ crucial role in Ukraine

Almost simultaneously, journalistic investigations appeared in the US and Britain covering the involment of these countries into the war in Ukraine. First, there was a publication in the ‘New York Times’, and then there was a publication in London’s ‘The Times’. Both newspapers admitted that for their countries, the war …

Israel: IDF 8200 intelligence soldiers call on gov't to stop fighting, bring back hostages

11:31 14.04.2025

Israel: IDF 8200 intelligence soldiers call on gov't to stop fighting, bring back hostages

Soldiers in the IDF’s Intelligence unit 8200 wrote a joint letter calling on the government to release the hostages, even if it means stopping the fighting in Gaza, ‘The Jerusalem Post’ reported. Hundreds of reservist officers, active-duty soldiers, and retired officers signed the letter and, according to KAN, the organizers …

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