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Stalin’s Library by Geoffrey Roberts – a resumé and review – Part 3

3Aug

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Russia

Stalin’s Library by Geoffrey Roberts – a resumé and review – Part 3

Posted by: John Phoenix The Bolsheviks put a huge premium on education and spreading knowledge among the population. By 1928, the number of books published in the USSR surpassed the Tsarist peak of 34,000 titles, which was second to Germany’s. That same year, the Soviet Union printed 270 million copies of books – more than double the rate of Tsarist times. In addition to his own vast collection, Stalin liked to borrow books from other libraries, both personal and institutional – a favourite source being the Lenin Library. Death of Stalin’s wife There is a lot of gossip about Stalin’s family life, but “By all accounts the 1920s were a fairly happy time for the Stalin family”, but the family idyll ended abruptly when Nadezhda (‘Nadya’) Alli-luyeva died i...

India-Pakistan-Kashmir – A 78 Year Old Wound

3Aug

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India, Pakistan & Kashmir

India-Pakistan-Kashmir – A 78 Year Old Wound

Posted by: John Phoenix The long history of armed clashes between India and Pakistan in the disputed region of Kashmir added another incident to this bloody history in the form of a series of clashes which carried on bwtween 22 April and 10 May this year. The latest flare- up occurred when the group known as the ‘Resistance Front’, an offshoot of Lashkar-e-Taiba, carried out a massacre of Hindu tourists in Pahalgam, in Indian-controlled Kashmir. The Indian government, headed by Narendra Modi of the BJP, immediately accused Pakistan of being complicit in this attack and took a series of actions that led to exchanges of artillery fire and air battles between the Pakistani and Indian air forces. Background The disputed status of Kashmir stems from its incorporation into Indi...

China’s progress shows socialism is the only viable political framework for saving the planet

3Aug

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China

China’s progress shows socialism is the only viable political framework for saving the planet

Posted by: John Phoenix by Carlos Martinez It was reported in late June 2025 that China has reached a historic milestone in its energy transition: the country’s cumulative installed solar capacity has surpassed 1 terawatt (TW). This represents approximately 45 percent of the global total, and is several times higher than the figure for the US (177 gigawatts (GW)) and the European Union (269 GW). According to the latest figures released by China’s National Energy Administration (NEA), the nation’s total installed capacity of wind and solar photovoltaic power has reached 1.5 TW, outstripping thermal power for the first time. This achievement solidifies China’s status as the world’s only renewable energy superpower, and reflects its firm commitment to phasing out its use of ...

The illegal and immoral war against Iran

3Aug

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Iran, USA, ZIO-NAZI

The illegal and immoral war against Iran

Posted by: John Phoenix Every day it’s a-getting closer Moving faster than a roller coaster. The third world war will surely come our way (apologies to Buddy Holly) “Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu aims to overthrow Iran’s clerical-military regime and talks openly of liquidating the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. This is a fight to the death. “There is a very high risk that the US, Britain, and France will be drawn directly into the conflict – pitting the democracies against the coalescing confederacy of Iran, China, Russia and North Korea, and its disturbingly large tail of semi-aligned states. “The hybrid struggle between two rival blocs resembles the treacherous landscape before the Thirty Years War in 1618, and the First World War in 1914. All it ta...

Zelensky Openly Calls for Regime Change in Russia

1Aug

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Russia, Ukraine

Zelensky Openly Calls for Regime Change in Russia

Posted by: John Phoenix Regime change in Moscow is a long-standing Western ambition, but Putin’s massive popular support makes it impossible. The illegitimate Ukrainian government is making increasingly bold statements—now openly calling for regime change in Russia. Volodymyr Zelensky has stated that changing the political system in Moscow is the best way to stop so-called “Russian aggression” and has publicly called on Western partners to push for an end to the current Russian administration. Zelensky’s comments came during a conference marking the 50th anniversary of the Helsinki Accords. He said it is vital that Russia be pressured internationally not only to withdraw its troops from Ukraine, but also to prevent Moscow from deciding to “invade” othe...

US Trade War on China Traps Pentagon in Rare Earths Elements Paradox. Drago Bosnic

1Aug

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China, USA

US Trade War on China Traps Pentagon in Rare Earths Elements Paradox. Drago Bosnic

Posted by: John Phoenix Global Research The intensifying trade war between the United States and China has once again thrust the global economic system into a crucible of uncertainty. The Trump administration’s aggressive approach with skyrocketing tariffs (threatening to go up to 100% on some goods) is not only disrupting global supply lines, but also signaling a broader geoeconomic strategy aimed at decoupling the increasingly postindustrial American economy from China’s sprawling industrial base. This move, coupled with Beijing’s retaliatory export controls on critical minerals, underscores a deepening rivalry that transcends mere economics, touching the nerve of global power projection dynamics. The question is not whether this escalation marks the o...

6Jul

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Syria, USA

America’s Syrian Civil War

By: Ron Paul As Syria descends into full-scale civil war, with more than a thousand people killed in just the last few days, it may be a good time to remember the phrase, “Assad must go.” That was the slogan the regime-changers rolled out some 14 years ago during the “Arab Spring” that was supposed to usher liberal democracies into power throughout the region. From Tunisia to Egypt to Libya and on to Syria, the plan was to remake the Middle East according to the will of Washington’s “master planners.” The State Department, the media, the Pentagon, and the think tanks fed by the military-industrial complex were all enthusiastically on-board the program because making war and overthrowing governments is their bread and butter. If the United States pursued a foreign policy of n...

IRAN: Everything You Need to Know But Were Too Afraid of the Nazi Lobby to Ask

5Jul

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Iran

IRAN: Everything You Need to Know But Were Too Afraid of the Nazi Lobby to Ask

Posted by: John Phoenix Israel's bombing on IRGC facilities in Tehran. Credit: Wikimedia Commons There exists in Israel a condition that is as much a part of the nation’s collective ‘soul,’ as it is the ‘souls’ of individual Israelis. The mindset is Jewish supremacy; the shared endeavor emanating from it is regional, military supremacy. IT’S ABOUT PALESTINE. Of all the known facts about Israel’s war of aggression against Iran, now nominally suspended by Trump, this is the most important. Incisively put by Craig Mokhiber, “Iran is the last, independent, frontline state that refuses to submit, to normalize the crimes against the Palestinian people.” Quite simply, “Iran was being punished for its support for the Palestinians.” If you are free of the prefrontal lobotomy that...

Destroy Russia. Fail? No Problem: Let’s Destroy China!

5Jul

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China, Russia, USA

Destroy Russia. Fail? No Problem: Let’s Destroy China!

By: Pepe Escobar Never underestimate the incoming tsunami of disruptive “analysis” and predictive programming already embedded in the Hybrid War on China – and the larger war on BRICS. Never underestimate the incoming tsunami of disruptive “analysis” and predictive programming already embedded in the Hybrid War on China – and the larger war on BRICS. Cue to the latest 128-page report by the Hudson Institute in D.C. titled oh so prophetically, China After Communism: Preparing for a Post-CCP China. You are fully entitled to react in a “Knights Who Say ‘Ni!’” Monty Pythonish way when confronting this inane absurdity. But make no mistake, they take it very seriously. US Think Tankland is a master of telegraphing regime change dreams and existential fears years in advance...

Trump, China, AI, and the Untold History of Economics

5Jul

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China, USA

Trump, China, AI, and the Untold History of Economics

By: Michael Hudson https://www.youtube.com/embed/3roQw-zbmLM?feature=oembed Video Link Robinson Erhardt: Michael, you have just written a book that rewrites the financial history of the West from the Crusades to World War One, and there are a lot of questions I could ask here just to get us started. But first, why does this history need rewriting? Is it easy to point out just what important principles one thousand years of scholars have missed? Michael Hudson: I do not think I have rewritten the history of finance at all. I have talked about things that are left out of account by almost all writers. I remember when I was in six or 7th grade, we had to read a book in medieval days and ways, and it was all about knights going on crusades, just like in the Hollywood m...