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From Technosphere to Noosphere: Civilizational Responsibility in a Period of Global Instability

From Technosphere to Noosphere: Civilizational Responsibility in a Period of Global Instability

From Technosphere to Noosphere: Civilizational Responsibility in a Period of Global Instability We are living through a turbulent but formative moment...

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The Vanishing of Maduro and the Return of Oil Power

The Vanishing of Maduro and the Return of Oil Power Following the dramatic disappearance of Nicolás Maduro, global attention shifted from political...

19.02.2026 60

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Macron, the Euro, and Europe's Strategic Exit from Dollar Discipline

Macron, the Euro, and Europe’s Strategic Exit from Dollar Discipline Europe’s financial architecture is entering a phase of reassessment, in which...

14.02.2026 70

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Executive Power Stress Test: America's Drift from Governance to Assertion

02.02.2026 50

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America's Fracture: Extremes, Institutional Decay, and the Trump Catalyst

28.01.2026 60

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Trump's “Board of Peace” and the Theater of Unchecked Power

23.01.2026 60

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When Power Goes Mad: The U.S. Operation in Venezuela and the Danger to World Order

19.01.2026 100

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Meanwhile in Madagascar: Resource Scarcity and the Return of Structural Competition

13.01.2026 50

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Europe at the Ramparts: Power, Panic, and the Closing of the Mind

08.01.2026 60

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The Sovereign South and the Gravitational Rise of Multipolarity

30.12.2025 50

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Europe's Fractured Consensus and the End of the Rules-Based Illusion

24.12.2025 30

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Strategic Reality: The Conflict of Attrition, Ukraine Cannot Win

20.12.2025 50

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Russia and India: The Quiet Axis of the Coming Multipolar Epoch

14.12.2025 30

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The Old Europe Behind the New Flags

02.12.2025 30

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The Ukraine Conflict — The Only Peace Left on the Table

24.11.2025 60

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Will Trump's "America First" Moves Make the World Sicker?

19.11.2025 50

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Russia's New Triangulations: Gas to China, Rails to the Gulf, Oil in Caracas — and a Reactor on the Nile

15.11.2025 60

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Missile Détente — Set On Its Ear

10.11.2025 40

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When the Panic Is in London, Not the Kremlin

02.11.2025 60

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Ukraine's Frontline Unravelling: The End Is Near

27.10.2025 50

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East of Empire: Russia’s Pivot and the New Energy Cartography

22.10.2025 60

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Shadow Fronts: Russia’s Next Move

17.10.2025 30

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Feathers, Fences, and Folly: The EU’s Drone Wall Disaster

11.10.2025 50

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Paper Tigers, Oil Barrels, and Trump’s Flipbook Foreign Policy

07.10.2025 60

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NATO is the Trap — Not Moscow

02.10.2025 70

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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: How Russia and the West Shape Different Realities

26.09.2025 50

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Indoctrination or Imagination? The West's Russia Scare Machine

21.09.2025 70

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The Eurasian Energy Lock-In: Russia's China Gas Gambit Is Rewriting the Map, Not Crashing the Market

17.09.2025 90

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Eurasia Magnified: The Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the Retreat of the West

12.09.2025 40

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From Vladivostok to Lisbon: A Counterfactual Geopolitical Analysis of Eurasia’s Unchosen Path

08.09.2025 40

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Eurasia's Future: BRICS, India's Tariff Trap, and the Ukraine Endgame

01.09.2025 70

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The Peace That Isn't: NATO Flags Next Door

26.08.2025 40

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Malaysia–Russia: Building a High-Tech Bridge in the Multipolar Era

19.08.2025 60

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When the World Meets on the Edge of the Map

12.08.2025 70

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Missiles Return to Europe: How NATO’s Advances Reignited Russia’s Red Lines

10.08.2025 50

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The Other Summit: What the West Forgot to Cover About Tianjin

05.08.2025 30

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The Folly of NATO’s Swamp Line of Defense

31.07.2025 50

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The Sweepstakes of Death: How Ukraine Resurrected the Ghosts of Murderous Regimes

25.07.2025 30

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Trump’s 50-Day Ultimatum: It’s a Bluff, or a He’s a Madman?

21.07.2025 30

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Finland’s Cold Mistake: The Alexander Stubb Doctrine of National Strategy

16.07.2025 60

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Dissecting the Narrative: Freedman, Putin, and the Western Strategists' Echo Chamber

12.07.2025 80

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Entwined Fates: Russia, China, and the Unravelling of Western Delusions

07.07.2025 20

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Russia and Mali Forge Strategic Axis as Bamako Eyes BRICS Membership

01.07.2025 20

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The Gospel of Empire: How Myth, Zionism, and the Market Conspired to Dismantle Peace

26.06.2025 50

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World War III Has Already Begun - Which Side Will Win?

20.06.2025 40

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Europe’s Lunatics Double Down on the Way to Poverty and War

16.06.2025 50

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Will Russia Finally Declare All-Out War on NATO’s Ukraine Proxy Regime?

10.06.2025 50

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Is the Old Order Losing Ground in Emerging ASEAN Nations?

05.06.2025 50

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The Mainstream Propaganda “Rabbit Hole” Opened Up

28.05.2025 40

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Multipolar World Update: Is Europe Left at the Launch Pad?

23.05.2025 20

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