By Karen Kwiatkowski
April 21, 2026
Scenes like these are shocking Americans back home, many of whom have not been paying close attention to Donald Trump's trade wars, hot wars, trash-talking wars, and money wars. One of Donald's wars is, strangely enough, a direct war on the US military. Equally strangely, it may be the only one he will win.
Not feeding your deployed soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen is the ultimate career ender.
Nothing about this dystopia feels natural. We all sense it deep in our marrow. We all know something has gone terribly wrong.
By Caitlin Johnstone
CaitlinJohnstone.com
April 21, 2026
Nothing about this dystopia feels natural. We all sense it deep in our marrow. We all know something has gone terribly wrong.
If you lived in an alternate reality without wars or poverty, where everyone had enough and governments did what's in the interests of the people and the ecosystem, it would never occur to you that there was anything odd about it.
The enormity of the files is only emphasized by their lack of emphasis, and it is the duty of Catholics to drill in on the truth as opposed to the news.
By Sean Fitzpatrick
Crisis Magazine
April 21, 2026
Happy Easter. Christ is risen from the dead (indeed, He is risen!) and the Epstein Files have been consigned to the tomb to never rise again. Rest in peace. Was there ever anything to be so concerned about in the end ? If anything can be judged by their staying power, the Epstein thing couldn't have been terribly important.
By Eric Zuesse
Eric's Substack
April 21, 2026
On Sunday, April 19th, Trump twice repeated his threat to destroy Iran: "We're offering a very fair and reasonable DEAL, and I hope they take it because, if they don't, the United States is going to knock out every single Power Plant, and every single Bridge, in Iran. NO MORE MR. NICE GUY!" and "If they don't sign this deal, the whole country is going to get blown up".
By Andrew Korybko
Andrew Korybko's Newsletter
April 21, 2026
This might be the US' final warning before it takes drastic action to punish those who continue to reject Trump's demands.
Under Secretary of War for Policy Elbridge Colby gave an important speech at mid-April's Ukraine Defense Contact Group in which he urged the Europeans to step up their transition to something that he described earlier this year as "NATO 3.0".
Giulio Chinappi
La visita del ministro degli Esteri russo Sergej Lavrov in Cina e il suo incontro con Xi Jinping confermano l'approfondimento del partenariato strategico tra Mosca e Pechino, in un contesto internazionale segnato da guerra, pressioni occidentali e ridefinizione degli equilibri globali.
La visita di Sergej Lavrov a Pechino del 14 e 15 aprile ha rappresentato un nuovo appuntamento protocollare tra due capitali ormai abituate a consultarsi con regolarità, ma anche la manifestazione concentrata di una tendenza più profonda: nel pieno di una fase internazionale caratterizzata da guerra in Medio Oriente, crisi protratta in Ucraina, crescente pressione strategica occidentale e riassetto degli equilibri economici globali, Cina e Russia continuano a rafforzare un rapporto che entrambe definiscono di "partenariato globale e cooperazione strategica, entrato in una nuova era".
Par Yoann pour Le Média en 4-4-2, le 20 avril 2026
Dans un post cinglant publié ce lundi 20 avril 2026 sur X, Pavel Durov, fondateur de Telegram, a fustigé la dérive autoritaire de la France sous Emmanuel Macron. Son accusation ? Une justice instrumentalisée pour étouffer la liberté d'expression et la vie privée, sous prétexte de lutte contre les dérives numériques.
"La France de Macron perd toute crédibilité en transformant les enquêtes pénales en armes de répression",
Bloc-Notes
• Des attaques en Russie de drones fabriqués pour l'Ukraine par certains pays européens, essentiellement les 'usual suspects' (les pays baltes) ? le ministère russe de la défense a mal pris la chose. • On parle d'une attaque russe, notamment Zelenski, contre certaines usines (dans les pays baltes) qui fabriquent ces drones. • Mais les Baltes démentent d'une façon inhabituelle. • Donc, toujours cette brume autour de Poutine et du reste tandis que la folie secouant la Maison-Blanche ne cesse de s'étendre, notamment grâce au ministre Hegseth.
Par René Naba
"Il ne faut pas faire supporter au sport plus qu'il n'en peut !", nous indique René Naba, ancien responsable du monde arabo-musulman au service diplomatique de l'AFP, ancien correspondant tournant du bureau régional de l'AFP Beyrouth.
Directeur du site madaniya.info, René Naba a bien voulu répondre à nos questions
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LEGISPORT : Y a-t-il des ressemblances ou des dissensions entre le sport et les relations internationales ?
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Abdulkhaleq Abdulla, académicien émirati
L'académicien émirati Abdulkhaleq Abdulla, ancien conseiller du prince héritier, estime que les Émirats arabes unis n'ont plus besoin de la protection des États-Unis. Après avoir repoussé seuls les frappes de représailles iraniennes, le pays doit,
Anvar Azimov,
Le cessez-le-feu entre l'Iran et les États-Unis expire le 21 avril. On ignore encore s'il sera prolongé ou si le Moyen-Orient redeviendra le théâtre d'opérations militaires.
En quête d'une paix durable, Islamabad poursuit activement ses efforts de médiation en vue d'une seconde rencontre américano-iranienne. Cependant, des désaccords fondamentaux entre les parties et les exigences excessives des États-Unis, dictées par leur position de force, ont perturbé le dernier cycle de négociations et compliqué sérieusement la situation.
April 1, 2026
Nima Alkhorshid: Hi everybody. Today is Wednesday, April 1, 2026, and our friend Richard Wolf from San Francisco and Michael Hudson from New York are back with us. Welcome back, Richard and Michael.
Michael Hudson: Thank you.
Richard Wolff: Glad to be here.
Nima Alkhorshid: And let's start, Richard, with you, because we were talking about it before the start of, you know, before going live.
Eduardo Vasco
Caso a oposição vença as eleições, a aproximação com a Rússia será ainda mais prejudicada pelo inevitável realinhamento com os Estados Unidos.
Escreva para nós: infostrategic-culture.su
Brasil e Rússia firmaram, entre fevereiro e março, uma série de acordos bilaterais que ampliam a cooperação estratégica em áreas como energia, agricultura, ciência e tecnologia.
By Patrick LAWRENCE
In Iran and Ukraine, what is at stake - what is fought for and against - is a rebalancing of power that will prove of world-historical magnitude when it is at last accomplished.
First came news that, on April 8, Israeli jets bombed what is known as the China-Iran railway, a key component of Beijing's ambitious Belt and Road Initiative. Of all the targets the Zionist terror machine might have hit, why a Chinese-sponsored infrastructure project, you had to wonder.
La propaganda bélica siempre persigue retratar las guerras como un conflicto entre buenos y malos. Semejante error -creer que la maldad de un contendiente convierte automáticamente en bueno a su adversario- ha tenido históricamente consecuencias nefastas.
Fernando DEL PINO CALVO-SOTELO
Escríbenos: infostrategic-culture.su
Asi, en la II Guerra Mundial dicha creencia fue aprovechada por el genocida Stalin para transformarse en "bueno" -y con él el comunismo- por enfrentarse a Hitler, otro genocida.
Finian CUNNINGHAM - Writer, journalist and commentator
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Daniele Lanza
Si apre la settima con la notizia politica del momento che farà parlare per le settimane a venire: con l'addio ad Orban si chiude una breve era nella politica interna ungherese che, forse, mai più tornerà.
I mezzi di informazione dal canto loro non aiutano, trasformandosi in un ring dove un torrente di analisti e di utenti di ogni orientamento esprimono chi il giubilo o desolazione: in pratica ne emerge una polarizzazione di sentimenti inutile alla vera comprensione delle dinamiche in corso.
Lorenzo Maria Pacini
Roma è tornata, per tre giorni consecutivi - 15, 16 e 17 aprile - al centro del palcoscenico diplomatico, ma non per meriti propri. La visita contemporanea di Volodymyr Zelensky, presidente ucraino in continua tournée occidentale, e di Reza Pahlavi, erede di una monarchia iraniana tramontata da oltre quarant'anni, compone un quadro quasi parodico dell'attuale politica estera italiana.
Alastair Crooke
Trump's tariff war will be seen in retrospect to be peanuts to the threatened strike on China's supply lines.
We are entering upon a new stage to this war on Iran. It may not be what many expect (especially in financial markets). Yesterday Trump said inter alia that Hormuz was open and that Iran had agreed never to close Hormuz again; that Iran, with the help of the U.S., has removed, or is removing, all sea mines, and that U.S.
Par Strategic Culture Foundation, éditorial du 17 avril 2026
L'illusion d'une Europe en tant que projet de paix démocratique s'estompe rapidement.
Les nations européennes sont détruites par la guerre et le militarisme, et pour ajouter à cette folie, leur classe politique et leurs médias accélèrent ce processus à un rythme toujours plus effréné.
Le sort du continent ne pourrait guère être plus menacé, alors qu'il est né des cendres de la Seconde Guerre mondiale dans l'espoir d'être un modèle de paix internationale.