Donald Trump’s Looney Tunes Trade Policy. Ron Unz

By Ron Unz, April 15, 2025

Overly arrogant individuals sometimes find it difficult to recognize that they are not the center of the universe, and that instead they might actually be considerably less large and powerful than those they intend to overawe, cut off, or isolate.

Spain’s Prime Minister Leads the EU’s Rapprochement with China Despite Pressure from Washington

By Ahmed Adel, April 15, 2025

Brussels is seeking to diversify relations with other powers due to the threat of economic recession. For this reason, Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez is leading the European Union’s rapprochement with China in an effort to expand markets and reduce the trade deficit.

Video: China Cuts Off Boeing: Crippling US Manufacturing

By Breaking Points, April 16, 2025

China accounts for 20-25% of Boeing’s global aircraft deliveries. And now, the Airbus stock is soaring, which means that Airbus, the major European competitor and frankly much better safety record in the last decade or so, is one that is going to be the major beneficiary.

Trump’s Fading Nobel Peace Prize

By Renee Parsons, April 15, 2025

Days before the US Presidential election on November 5th, front-runner and GOP candidate Donald Trump told a Michigan rally that “I am the candidate of peace.” The first President in two generations to not start a war, Trump had already made his commitment, if re-elected, to end the Ukraine war during his first 24 hours in office.    

Ukraine Neo-Nazi Junta Uses Civilians as Human Shield in Sumy

By Drago Bosnic, April 15, 2025

The Kremlin launched hundreds of long-range strikes so far, targeting high-priority assets, particularly command centers, foreign troop gatherings, NATO-sourced weapon shipments, etc. One of the more recent such precision strikes was on Krivoy Rog, a city in central Ukraine, when the “Park House” hotel was hit after Russian military intelligence found out it was being used as a joint command post.

How They Drive Us Crazy … Or Try to

By Dr. Emanuel Garcia, April 15, 2025

If I learned nothing else during my medical training, it was that direct causal connections in medicine are very hard to establish definitively. There are so many additional factor and co-factors and complexities to be teased out, and these can only be teased out by large studies and epidemiological input generally.

The Anatomy of the Greek-Israeli Greek-Cypriot Alliance in the Eastern Mediterranean and Türkiye

By Ret Admiral Cem Gürdeniz, April 15, 2025

During the Ottoman period, Jews who lived under Turkish rule in different regions for roughly 400 years and Greek/Greek Christian Orthodox could not get along. There was a 1500 year-old blood feud between them because of Jesus and Judas.

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