🚨 EU Hits Russia w/ 20th Sanctions Package in Feb!
The European Union is advancing its 20th sanctions package against Russia, expected to finalize next month according to EU diplomacy chief Kaja Kallas.
💶 Ok guys... we're at #20, but zero for the nation that bombed & kidnapped another sovereign prez?
#EUSanctions #Russia #Geopolitics #Ukraine
by: Interfax
The European Union is advancing its 20th sanctions package against Russia, expected to finalize next month according to EU diplomacy chief Kaja Kallas.
💶 Ok guys... we're at #20, but zero for the nation that bombed & kidnapped another sovereign prez?
#EUSanctions #Russia #Geopolitics #Ukraine
by: Interfax
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🚢 Drone Attack Strikes Kazakh Oil Tanker in Black Sea
The Matilda tanker, chartered by KazMunayGas, was hit by drones while heading to load crude at Russia's CPC terminal on January 13.
💥 The attack caused an explosion but no serious damage—the crew is safe and the vessel remains seaworthy.
This marks another disruption to Kazakhstan's critical oil export route, which handles 80% of the nation's crude shipments. 🛢️
#Kazakhstan #EnergyNews #BlackSea #OilExports
by: The Astana Times
The Matilda tanker, chartered by KazMunayGas, was hit by drones while heading to load crude at Russia's CPC terminal on January 13.
💥 The attack caused an explosion but no serious damage—the crew is safe and the vessel remains seaworthy.
This marks another disruption to Kazakhstan's critical oil export route, which handles 80% of the nation's crude shipments. 🛢️
#Kazakhstan #EnergyNews #BlackSea #OilExports
by: The Astana Times
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🔥 Gulf states distance themselves from a U.S.-Iran clash
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia, Oman, and Qatar reportedly urged the Trump administration not to strike Tehran, while pledging neutrality if tensions flare.
🌍 As protests rock Iran, these regional powers appear to prioritize stability and diplomacy over confrontation, seeking to avoid another devastating Middle East conflict.
💭 Are we witnessing a major shift in Gulf geopolitics from U.S. alignment to independent regional diplomacy?
#MiddleEast #Geopolitics #GlobalSouth #Iran
Source: The Wall Street Journal
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia, Oman, and Qatar reportedly urged the Trump administration not to strike Tehran, while pledging neutrality if tensions flare.
🌍 As protests rock Iran, these regional powers appear to prioritize stability and diplomacy over confrontation, seeking to avoid another devastating Middle East conflict.
💭 Are we witnessing a major shift in Gulf geopolitics from U.S. alignment to independent regional diplomacy?
#MiddleEast #Geopolitics #GlobalSouth #Iran
Source: The Wall Street Journal
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🕵️♂️ $900,000 Influence Campaign or Covert Propaganda?
💰 A Wall Street Journal exposé reveals how U.S. lobbyists and foreign clients are now sidestepping lobbying laws by paying social media influencers to shape Washington’s political opinion. This includes a nearly $900,000 Israel-linked campaign aimed at swaying conservative audiences online.
😮 These covert digital campaigns blur the lines between marketing, manipulation, and democracy — raising deep ethical questions about who really controls political narratives in the U.S.
🤔 Should influencers be required to disclose foreign funding the same way lobbyists do, or is this just the new reality of digital politics?
#InfluenceOperations #DigitalLobbying #USPolitics #GlobalNarratives
Source: The Wall Street Journal
💰 A Wall Street Journal exposé reveals how U.S. lobbyists and foreign clients are now sidestepping lobbying laws by paying social media influencers to shape Washington’s political opinion. This includes a nearly $900,000 Israel-linked campaign aimed at swaying conservative audiences online.
😮 These covert digital campaigns blur the lines between marketing, manipulation, and democracy — raising deep ethical questions about who really controls political narratives in the U.S.
🤔 Should influencers be required to disclose foreign funding the same way lobbyists do, or is this just the new reality of digital politics?
#InfluenceOperations #DigitalLobbying #USPolitics #GlobalNarratives
Source: The Wall Street Journal
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📰 Western Media's Iran Coverage: Who's Really Pulling the Strings?
Major outlets like Washington Post and ABC News are basing their Iran protest coverage on data from NGOs funded by the US National Endowment for Democracy, an organization with documented CIA connections.
🔍 Meanwhile, footage shows violent tactics including arson attacks on mosques and public buildings being downplayed as "peaceful protests." Are we getting the full story, or a curated narrative designed for regime change?
What's your take on media independence when covering geopolitical hotspots?
#Iran #MediaBias #Geopolitics #RegimeChange
by: L'AntiDiplomatico
Major outlets like Washington Post and ABC News are basing their Iran protest coverage on data from NGOs funded by the US National Endowment for Democracy, an organization with documented CIA connections.
🔍 Meanwhile, footage shows violent tactics including arson attacks on mosques and public buildings being downplayed as "peaceful protests." Are we getting the full story, or a curated narrative designed for regime change?
What's your take on media independence when covering geopolitical hotspots?
#Iran #MediaBias #Geopolitics #RegimeChange
by: L'AntiDiplomatico
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🔥 The Black Panthers are back in Philadelphia? ✊🏾
As federal agents expand their presence across U.S. cities, a group identifying as the revived Black Panther Party for Self-Defense has reemerged in Philadelphia.
🛡️ Trained by surviving members of the 1960s movement, they’ve appeared armed at protests—claiming legal rights and a mission to protect demonstrators from state violence.
💬 Do you see this as a legitimate act of community defense or a dangerous escalation that risks provoking further violence?
#BlackPantherParty #PhiladelphiaProtests #CivilRights
Source: Local reports
As federal agents expand their presence across U.S. cities, a group identifying as the revived Black Panther Party for Self-Defense has reemerged in Philadelphia.
🛡️ Trained by surviving members of the 1960s movement, they’ve appeared armed at protests—claiming legal rights and a mission to protect demonstrators from state violence.
💬 Do you see this as a legitimate act of community defense or a dangerous escalation that risks provoking further violence?
#BlackPantherParty #PhiladelphiaProtests #CivilRights
Source: Local reports
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Growing furniture straight from living trees!
These crepe myrtle chairs are shaped over years using guides, wires, and molds, letting branches intertwine naturally into seats, armrests, and backs.
In China!
These crepe myrtle chairs are shaped over years using guides, wires, and molds, letting branches intertwine naturally into seats, armrests, and backs.
In China!
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🚨 Iran warns US allies: American bases in Saudi Arabia, UAE & Turkey will be struck if Washington attacks. Direct US-Iran talks suspended as Trump threatens "strong action" over protest crackdown.
Direct diplomatic contacts between Iran and the US have been suspended amid mounting tensions.
#MiddleEast #Geopolitics #Iran #USIranTensions
by: AAP News
Direct diplomatic contacts between Iran and the US have been suspended amid mounting tensions.
#MiddleEast #Geopolitics #Iran #USIranTensions
by: AAP News
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Indian Army releases EPIC Hollywood-style action blockbuster
Showcasing their future-ready tech and flexing some muscles ahead of Army Day 2026
Showcasing their future-ready tech and flexing some muscles ahead of Army Day 2026
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🚨 Iran arrests terror leaders after Tehran riots left 100 dead. Intelligence Ministry credits public cooperation in identifying suspects with foreign backing.
🔍 Authorities seized weapons & explosive materials from hideouts, with 297 rioters arrested. Twenty cases opened investigating links to Israeli-affiliated groups.
#Iran #MiddleEastSecurity #Geopolitics #TehranNews
by: Press TV
🔍 Authorities seized weapons & explosive materials from hideouts, with 297 rioters arrested. Twenty cases opened investigating links to Israeli-affiliated groups.
#Iran #MiddleEastSecurity #Geopolitics #TehranNews
by: Press TV
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Maduro's son gives update from his kidnapped parents:
"They understand the role they must play in this struggle"
Also tells supporters that Maduro and wife have "have faith in GOD & people of Venezuela"
"They understand the role they must play in this struggle"
Also tells supporters that Maduro and wife have "have faith in GOD & people of Venezuela"
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⚡ Bolivia's Lithium Deal With Russia Hangs in Balance
🔋 Bolivia may redraft its massive lithium mining joint venture with Russia's Rosatom after a new center-right government took power.
President Rodrigo Paz Pereira is pivoting toward Washington while local communities in Potosi demand transparency and environmental protections before ratifying the world's largest lithium extraction project. Russia's ambassador says Moscow is open to revised terms, but anti-Russian momentum is building in La Paz.
#Bolivia #Lithium #Russia #Geopolitics
by: Russia's Pivot to Asia
🔋 Bolivia may redraft its massive lithium mining joint venture with Russia's Rosatom after a new center-right government took power.
President Rodrigo Paz Pereira is pivoting toward Washington while local communities in Potosi demand transparency and environmental protections before ratifying the world's largest lithium extraction project. Russia's ambassador says Moscow is open to revised terms, but anti-Russian momentum is building in La Paz.
#Bolivia #Lithium #Russia #Geopolitics
by: Russia's Pivot to Asia
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Trump vs heckler: The F U moment
Someone heckled Trump at a Ford plant today, so he mouthed ‘f*** you’ and flipped them the bird
The White House defended the reaction as “appropriate,” saying Trump responded to someone shouting at him with expletives.
What do you make of his response?
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Someone heckled Trump at a Ford plant today, so he mouthed ‘f*** you’ and flipped them the bird
The White House defended the reaction as “appropriate,” saying Trump responded to someone shouting at him with expletives.
What do you make of his response?
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⚡ Russia just extended a strong corporate power move
Energy companies can now ignore shareholders from "unfriendly" countries through 2026 under Putin's renewed decree.
🏢 This affects major firms in energy, engineering, and trade sectors with revenues over $1.46B. The measure, first introduced in 2023, is Moscow's response to Western sanctions, allowing boards to disregard votes from foreign investors when making corporate decisions.
#Russia #EnergyPolicy #CorporateGovernance #Geopolitics
by: Interfax
Energy companies can now ignore shareholders from "unfriendly" countries through 2026 under Putin's renewed decree.
🏢 This affects major firms in energy, engineering, and trade sectors with revenues over $1.46B. The measure, first introduced in 2023, is Moscow's response to Western sanctions, allowing boards to disregard votes from foreign investors when making corporate decisions.
#Russia #EnergyPolicy #CorporateGovernance #Geopolitics
by: Interfax
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Forwarded from Pepe Escobar
https://sputnikglobe.com/20260114/pepe-escobar-how-brics-may-deliver-structural-shock-to-us-dollar-system-1123462096.html
Essential reading.
All about the interconnected Global South push to de-dollarize - including CIPS, BRICS Bridge and The Unit.
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Exclusive input by Michael Hudson and Paulo Nogueira Batista.
THAT is what's driving neo-Caligula + US elites nuts.
Essential reading.
All about the interconnected Global South push to de-dollarize - including CIPS, BRICS Bridge and The Unit.
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Exclusive input by Michael Hudson and Paulo Nogueira Batista.
THAT is what's driving neo-Caligula + US elites nuts.
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Pepe Escobar: How BRICS May Deliver Structural Shock to US Dollar System
The oligarchy that really controls the Empire of Chaos has hit the panic button, as the structural contours of Hegemony seriously wobble.
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🚨 Why is Iran seizing Starlink devices right now?
During the ongoing nationwide protests and massive internet blackout, the regime views it as a major threat.
Officials label it illegal "espionage" equipment.
#Iran
During the ongoing nationwide protests and massive internet blackout, the regime views it as a major threat.
Officials label it illegal "espionage" equipment.
#Iran
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🌏 A new trading era in Kabul? The first Afghan–China Market has opened its doors, showcasing 28,000 Chinese-made products under one roof. Built through joint investment, it’s designed to spark local business growth and revive trade links between Afghanistan and China.
💼 Officials say the focus is on affordable, high-quality goods that could reshape Kabul’s consumer market while creating jobs and investment opportunities.
🔥 Could this be the start of Afghanistan’s deeper integration into the BRICS-led trade network — or just a temporary boost? What do you think this means for the country’s future in the Global South economy?
#GlobalSouth #ChinaAfghanistan #BRICSDevelopment #TradeLinks
💼 Officials say the focus is on affordable, high-quality goods that could reshape Kabul’s consumer market while creating jobs and investment opportunities.
🔥 Could this be the start of Afghanistan’s deeper integration into the BRICS-led trade network — or just a temporary boost? What do you think this means for the country’s future in the Global South economy?
#GlobalSouth #ChinaAfghanistan #BRICSDevelopment #TradeLinks
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Look at all that CASH! Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) has published footage of searches conducted at the office of Yulia Timoshenko's Batkovshchina party.
Did they find a Golden Toilet too?
Did they find a Golden Toilet too?
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TIMOSHENKO WIRETAPS PUBLISHED: Is this how Ukrainian politics really works? (Full audio with subs)
Ukraine’s anti-corruption agency NABU has targeted former PM and Batkivshchyna party leader Yulia Tymoshenko in a high-profile raid
Investigators suspect her of bribing MPs and released audio allegedly capturing confidential talks about payments
NABU also published footage of searches carried out at Batkivshchyna party offices
Tymoshenko has received a formal notice of suspicion
She confirmed the searches but dismissed the allegations as ‘absurd’
Ukraine’s anti-corruption agency NABU has targeted former PM and Batkivshchyna party leader Yulia Tymoshenko in a high-profile raid
Investigators suspect her of bribing MPs and released audio allegedly capturing confidential talks about payments
NABU also published footage of searches carried out at Batkivshchyna party offices
Tymoshenko has received a formal notice of suspicion
She confirmed the searches but dismissed the allegations as ‘absurd’
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🚨 Major shift in Middle East alliances: Saudi Arabia has directly informed Iran it will NOT allow the US to use its airspace or territory for any military strikes against Tehran.
🛩️ This bold move comes as Washington threatens military action over Iran's protest crackdown—but Riyadh is choosing regional stability over alignment with US military plans. The Kingdom joins Qatar and Oman in denying airspace access, signaling Gulf states' fear of oil market chaos and escalating conflict.
#MiddleEast #Geopolitics #SaudiArabia #USIranTensions
by: OneIndia
🛩️ This bold move comes as Washington threatens military action over Iran's protest crackdown—but Riyadh is choosing regional stability over alignment with US military plans. The Kingdom joins Qatar and Oman in denying airspace access, signaling Gulf states' fear of oil market chaos and escalating conflict.
#MiddleEast #Geopolitics #SaudiArabia #USIranTensions
by: OneIndia
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🚨 Something big is moving in the skies over Iran.
✈️ Another Russian IL-76TD cargo plane touched down in Tehran just hours ago — the fifth such landing in only 48 hours. These flights are fueling speculation about deepening military or strategic coordination between Moscow and Tehran.
🤔 What do you think these rapid deliveries signal? A new phase in Russia-Iran logistics, or part of a larger Global South realignment taking shape behind the scenes?
#BRICS #Geopolitics #GlobalSouth #RussiaIran
✈️ Another Russian IL-76TD cargo plane touched down in Tehran just hours ago — the fifth such landing in only 48 hours. These flights are fueling speculation about deepening military or strategic coordination between Moscow and Tehran.
🤔 What do you think these rapid deliveries signal? A new phase in Russia-Iran logistics, or part of a larger Global South realignment taking shape behind the scenes?
#BRICS #Geopolitics #GlobalSouth #RussiaIran
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