Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov breaks rank with the Duma election victors: the war will be for nothing if we do not change course
Travel Notes, St Petersburg: installment six
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Museum art exhibitions
News X World podcast on Russian bridge bombing at arrival of Merz in Kiev
as from minute 1.20
I express my gratitude to the production team at News X World for putting up this morning’s rather passionate condemnation of Merz, “thick as a stick”as I say here. I don’t know how the Modi government feels about Merz, but if any tuned in to this show it gave them food for thought.
To the Community, I ask that you consider how Alternative Media, like Mainstream, devote so much attention to the alleged senility of Donald Trump, to his mental peculiarities underlying his ugly personality. Well, it is high time to pay attention to Friedrich Merz, who, I submit, is insane, yes, criminally insane in the sense that he is a wannabe war criminal. And I can say no better about the captains of German industry who accompanied him to Kiev. My best advice to fellow investors: SELL German assets because Merz and Company are making them worthless.
Copyright Gilbert Doctorow, 2026
Today’s breaking news from Kiev
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Russians attack North Bridge in Kiev, setting off air raid alarms across the city as Chancellor Merz arrives with a trade delegation
Travel Notes, St Petersburg: installment five
News X World interview on Trump’s deal with Ukraine in rare earth extraction
as from minute 18.46
Both the US and Ukraine are apparently desperate to issue some good news. That alone can explain the news release which News X asked me to comment on. They called it a crucial deal on rare earth ehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SudUrnGLmV0xtraction that will be part of what is now $70 million in joint investments.
Well, my friends, when Ukraine’s lost infrastructure and general damages from the war measured in hundreds of billions of dollars, one can say that the rare earths project is a drop in the bucket and it comes at the very time when Ukraine’s survival as a nation is in doubt. The clock is ticking and I see little chance of the Kiev regime surviving more than a month or two under the present devastating Russian bombing, missile and drone attacksl
Travel Notes, St Petersburg: installment four
Window shopping along the main boulevards of the city center
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