AK—France ordered the deportation of Xenia Fedorova, the former head of RT France who’s lived in the country for nearly a decade and regularly shares Russian-friendly viewpoints on French media platforms, on the alleged grounds that her opinions are actually disinformation aimed at destabilizing society. To be sure, any country can deport whoever they want for whatever reason they want, but the optics for France are terrible in this case since the country presents itself as a bastion of Western values.

KW—This video argues that while the global race for AI is often framed as a battle of chips or models, the true bottleneck is data center infrastructure and electricity. While Western nations struggle with limited real estate and power constraints, China has emerged as the global leader in AI computing capacity due to state-sponsored planning and abundant energy resources.

GD—The Collapse of Western Diplomacy. Ambassador Freeman argues that diplomacy is effectively “dead” in the West, replaced by ultimatums, threats, and a lack of strategic common sense. He attributes this to media consolidation, the negative influence of social media, and a shift in leadership away from expert practitioners. (But not the obvious villain, an unfettered imperialism and the criminality it implies).
A Shift to Multipolarity. The speakers discuss the transition from the U.S.-led unipolar moment to a complex, multinodal system. They emphasize that nations are increasingly acting based on their own agency and interests rather than strictly adhering to alignment with a single superpower.

JM—CM—Where Chavismo sees a great amenity for the people and an astonishing habitat to be preserved, the Kushner and Machado worldview sees billions of dollars of prime beachside real estate, ripe for condominiums and huge hotels. Do not for one moment believe that they do not have their eye on it as part of the Imperialist grab. They do not want Venezuelans frolicking with their families on those beaches. They want them reserved to American and Israeli tourists, with the only Venezuelans in white shirt and bow tie carrying trays of drinks.

MW—One way or another, this latest TACO will likely have serious political and geo-political consequences. This is a failing regime. As PP pointed out yesterday, sooner rather than later we and the rest of the world will be experiencing serious energy (and other resource) shortages brought on by this reckless Jewish Nationalist war to retain world hegemony. There will be serious consequences.

PM—Queens was farmland, then it was a cemetery for Manhattan’s dead, then a piano factory town, then the most diverse place on Earth. This is the story of the borough that absorbed everything New York City couldn’t hold — from the opening of the Queensboro Bridge in 1909 to the garden apartments of Jackson Heights, from the Steinway piano factory in Astoria to the 1939 World’s Fair on an ash dump that F. Scott Fitzgerald made famous, from the golden age of Paramount Pictures’ East Coast studios to the glass luxury towers now rising over Long Island City. A hundred years of real estate deals, immigration waves, and infrastructure decisions that built the world’s borough — and the housing costs, population decline, and vanishing affordability that are quietly unmaking it