Connexion
Pascal Lottaz from Neutrality Studies and Prof. Manuel J. Ramos
The age of European colonialism never really ended, it just changed its costume. Today’s geopolitics look and feel so barbarian medieval because they are the ghosts of the Crusades and a forgotten medieval legend.
To explore these startling ideas, I’m talking to Dr. Manuel João Ramos, an Associate Professor at the Dept. of Anthropology at the University Institute of Lisbon, where he has been working for decades on questions of European Colonialism and Power in International Relations.
We trace a 1,000-year-old story, uncovering the surprising roots of Christian Zionism, the messianic fantasies behind the “Age of Discovery,” and the religious undercurrents that still shape Europe’s troubled relationship with the world.
Brian Berletic insisted against much opposition that neither USAID, nor NED, is dead. He said that these two organizations are being reformed and reformatted. This is why all the attempts at regime change and color revolutions. Take a look at the Moldova election today (in the Russian English press you will find more than what you are looking for). https://sputnikglobe.com/20250928/moldovas-parliamentary-elections-marred-by-massive-violations-1122882485.html
This is a clear regime change; don’t look away, as we can’t count this empire out yet. Pavel Durov stated:
“About a year ago, when I was stuck in Paris, the French special services contacted me through an intermediary with a request to help the Moldovan government censor certain Telegram channels before the presidential elections in Moldova.
After checking the channels marked by the French (and Moldovan) authorities, we identified several that clearly violated our rules and removed them. The intermediary then told me that in exchange for this cooperation, the French intelligence would “say good things about me” to the judge who issued the arrest warrant for me in August last year.
This was unacceptable for several reasons. If the agency really contacted the judge — it meant an attempt to interfere in the judicial process. If not, and they only claimed to have done so, then they used my legal status in France to influence political events in Eastern Europe — a scheme we also observed in Romania.
Shortly after that, the Telegram team received a second list of so-called “problematic” Moldovan channels. Unlike the first, almost all these channels were legitimate and fully complied with our rules. Their only commonality was that they expressed political positions unfavourable to the French and Moldovan governments.
We refused to comply with this request.
Telegram is committed to freedom of speech and will not remove content for political reasons. I will continue to expose every attempt to pressure Telegram to censor our platform. Stay tuned for updates.
USAID is being revived in the USA*
The Trump administration has submitted to Congress proposals to fund a new foreign aid program called “America First”, which involves allocating funds to promote American interests abroad.
According to the first financial request for this initiative, $1.8 billion is planned to be allocated to programs aimed at “strengthening the global leadership of the USA.” Of this, $400 million will be directed to support activities to stop illegal immigration to the USA, counter the dominance of 
China in critical minerals and AI, as well as to “counter Marxist, anti-American regimes Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua.”
Predictably, these projects will be aimed at creating conditions to undermine the constitutional foundations of these states in the interests of American business elites represented by Trump. Just three months after the official transfer of powers from USAID to the US State Department, the functions of this formally reduced organization were resumed, but now in the interests of other clients. American tools of external influence operate regardless of which president is in power and what he says publicly.
*an organization recognized as undesirable and despicable
Two Majors (http://t.me/two_majors)
L’ancienne directrice de l’USAID, Samantha Power, a parlé en toute franchise aux farceurs russes Vovan et Lexus des investissements américains
L’article L’ancienne directrice de l’USAID Samantha Power révèle l’ampleur de l’ingérence américaine en Moldavie est apparu en premier sur STRATPOL.
DDGeopolics examines how faith-based extremism, military privatization, and intelligence-linked trafficking narratives are converging into something new: a weaponized theology of aid: the Modern Crusaders. What began as “help” is fast becoming something else entirely, a gospel delivered at gunpoint and faith weaponized to destroy the amalek.
The report and I would encourage you to read it, is on their substack and not behind a paywall. https://ddgeopolitics.substack.com/p/the-gospel-of-the-gun
An extract …
The Weaponization of Faith.
The situation in Gaza was never just a humanitarian emergency. It has become a crucible where ideology, militarism, intelligence, and privatized aid collide to form something far more dangerous: a weaponized faith project masquerading as relief.
Over 1,000 Palestinians have reportedly been killed at or near aid distribution points operated by GHF since May 2025. Many of those sites were staffed or secured by contractors from Sentinel Foundation and UG Solutions, armed, many trained in evangelical security seminars, and several publicly espousing beliefs that frame Islam not as a religion but as an enemy of God. These are not isolated incidents or fringe actors. They are part of a coordinated structure, backed by U.S. funding, interlinked with former intelligence officials, and wrapped in the moral authority of “saving the children.”
From Gaza to Central America, it is occupation by proxy masquerading as aid. It is the rebranding of militarized power as humanitarian grace. And in this model, the missionary, the mercenary, and the intelligence operative are one and the same.
Worse still, these efforts have embedded themselves in bipartisan consensus. Even as reports of abuses, dehumanizing rhetoric, and ideological extremism mount, there is little public scrutiny. Figures like Matthew Murphy are treated as legitimate faith leaders, despite calls for exorcisms of “Islamic demons” and praise for Hitler’s religiosity. Evangelical Zionists like Johnnie Moore, who assumed a leading role at GHF following Jake Wood’s resignation, bring the full weight of political access, media cover, and theological justification to this new frontier of empire.
The international implications are staggering. Humanitarian aid is now a vector for surveillance, social engineering, and sectarian warfare. Faith is no longer a private belief, it has become policy. It is biometric checkpoints wrapped in biblical prophecy. It is famine relief doled out at gunpoint. It is the sword cloaked in scripture.
And it is spreading.
The aid-industrial complex of 2025 no longer simply echoes the failures of Iraq or Afghanistan. It reflects a deeper mutation: the fusion of American religious fundamentalism with global security architecture, operating in tandem with Israeli occupation policy and Western geopolitical objectives. Gaza is the pilot program, but the doctrine is scalable.
The question is no longer whether this crusade will continue…it’s how far it will go before someone calls it what it is.
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As background to this report, I opened a book club in the Hearty Salon, and the first book that I posted is 100 years old, called Forgery in Christianity. This book outlines the roots of the barbarism of our current crusaders.
There are also groups like the one that was previously called The Family, and now called The Fellowship Foundation, which is a Christian Group for Elites in the US. Now take a moment, is Christianity not egalitarian by nature? For Elites? They profess that once you are a Christian, you may do whatever you like because you are now saved. It is deathly in its break from true Christian values. https://thehumanist.com/arts_entertainment/culture/the-family-more-gilead-than-godly/
The overall objective is to understand that these militarized and misguided loosely aligned groups of crusaders are as dangerous and as misguided and as violent as the most dangerous Muslim extremists that we’ve all learned to despise. It is two sides of one coin. You will see what child trafficking, Gaza aid, private contractors, military zeal, and Christian exorcists have in common. DDGeopolitics states that the network of evangelical veterans, intelligence cutouts, and spiritual warriors turned Gaza into a battlefield, not just of bombs, but of ideology.
From biometric checkpoints to Bible-backed psyops, humanitarian aid is being weaponized in ways you’re not supposed to see. The history of these movements is old as you will immediately see if you read or only scan the foreword of the currently posted book on the Hearty Salon.
As Nazism never died in Europe, Crusaders are also still alive and active. These groups meet one another on the field of extremism and totalitarianism. A latest development out of Chrisian Zionism is Zionist Christianity. Here is a soldier channeling Jesus amid zionist war bluster. Invoking what looks like his divine backup, he states: “I am a Jewish believer in Jesus,” invoking divine backup. https://t.me/geopolitics_prime/54426
As most know, Trump yet again delivered bombast instead of truth, although Khamenei was able to pick out the one shred of truth that tumbled from Trump’s maw.
with appreciation to Dr. Karl at karlof1’s Geopolitical Gymnasium.
What sort of admission it will become in time is unknown at the present. But it will bolster the Iranian nation even more than the attacks themselves. And in that case alone, Trump made yet another major mistake. I won’t spoil Khamenei’s words by telling readers now. The speech is short, and you’ll soon find out:
In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful
My greetings and best wishes to the dear, great nation of Iran. First, I would like to honor the memory of the esteemed martyrs from recent events – the martyred generals and scientists who were truly, genuinely valuable for the Islamic Republic. They dedicated their lives to serving others. Today, they are with God receiving the reward for their outstanding services, God willing.
I find it necessary to offer my congratulations to the great nation of Iran. I congratulate the nation for several reasons.
First of all, I offer my congratulations on the victory over the fallacious Zionist regime. With all that commotion and all those claims, the Zionist regime was practically knocked out and crushed under the blows of the Islamic Republic. The thought that the Islamic Republic could inflict such blows on that regime never even crossed their minds and they never imagined such a thing, but this is what happened.
We thank God for helping our Armed Forces. They were able to break through the enemy’s advanced, multi-layered defense and raze many of their urban and military areas under the pressure brought by Iran’s missiles and powerful attacks using advanced weaponry. This is one of the greatest divine blessings. It has shown the Zionist regime that attacking the Islamic Republic of Iran carries a heavy price. It will be costly for them. It will result in and generate a heavy cost for them. And praise God, this has happened. This honor is due to our Armed Forces and our dear people who’ve built, trained, and supported these Armed Forces from within themselves, enabling and empowering them to carry out such a great task.
My second congratulations is related to our dear Iran’s victory over the US regime. The US regime entered the war directly because it felt that if it didn’t, the Zionist regime would be completely destroyed. It entered the war in an effort to save that regime but achieved nothing. It attacked our nuclear facilities, which warrants an independent criminal prosecution in an international court, of course. But they weren’t able to achieve anything significant. The US President used a bizarre exaggeration in describing what happened. It’s evident he needed such an exaggeration. Whoever heard his remarks knew that beneath the surface of these words lay another truth, which was that they weren’t able to accomplish anything. They failed to achieve their intended goal and they exaggerate things to cover up and conceal the truth.
Here too, the Islamic Republic has been victorious and delivered a heavy slap to the US’s face in return. It [Iran] attacked and inflicted damage on the Al-Udeid Air Base, which is one of the US’s key bases in the region. The same people who made exaggerated claims in the previous case, tried to downplay this one, claiming that nothing much had happened. But in fact, a major event had taken place. The fact that the Islamic Republic has access to key US centers in the region and can take action whenever it deems necessary is a significant matter. It’s quite significant. Such an action can be repeated in the future too. Should any aggression occur, the enemy – the aggressor – will definitely pay a heavy price.
My third congratulations is for the remarkable unity and solidarity shown by the Iranian nation. Praise God, a nation of approximately 90 million people stood together as one, were united in voice, stood shoulder to shoulder, and didn’t show any differences in their demands or the goals they expressed. They stood together, chanted slogans, spoke out, and supported the actions of the Armed Forces, and this will continue to be the case in the future. The Iranian nation demonstrated its greatness and its distinguished, exceptional character in this event. It showed that when it’s necessary, a unified voice will be heard from this nation, and praise God, this is what happened.
The key point I wish to emphasize in my speech is this that in one of his remarks, the President of the United States declared that Iran must surrender. Surrender! The issue isn’t about enrichment or the nuclear industry anymore. It’s about Iran surrendering. Needless to say, this statement is too big to come out of the US president’s mouth.
For the great country of Iran – a nation with such a history, such a rich culture, and a steadfast national determination – any talk of surrender is nothing but a mockery in the eyes of those who truly know the Iranian people. But his statement revealed a certain reality, which is that the US has been actively opposing and trying to harm Islamic Iran from the very beginning of the Revolution. And each time, they come up with a new pretext. One time, it’s human rights. Another time, it’s defending democracy. Then, it’s women’s rights. Sometimes it’s uranium enrichment, and at other times it’s the nuclear issue itself. Or it’s the matter of missile development.
They bring up all kinds of pretexts. But at the core, it all boils down to one thing, which is that they want Iran to surrender.
The previous administrations never openly stated this because it’s something unacceptable. It isn’t justifiable by any human logic to tell a nation that they must surrender. That’s why they were disguising this objective behind other titles and pretexts.
This person let the truth out. He showed this reality that the US will only be satisfied with Iran’s surrender and nothing less. This is a crucial point. The Iranian nation must know that the core of the conflict with the US is over this point. The US is greatly insulting the people of Iran, and such a thing will never happen. It will never happen.
The Iranian nation is a great nation. Iran is a strong, vast country. It possesses an ancient civilization. Our cultural and civilizational wealth is hundreds of times greater than that of the US and other similar countries. Anyone who expects Iran to surrender to another country is spouting nonsense that will surely be ridiculed by wise, knowledgeable people. The Iranian nation is noble and will remain noble.
The Iranian nation is victorious and will remain victorious, by the grace of God. We are hopeful that Almighty God will continuously protect this nation under His grace, preserving it with dignity and honor. May He elevate the spiritual rank of Imam [Khomeini (ra)]. And may Imam Mahdi (may our souls be sacrificed for him) be pleased and satisfied with this nation, and may he support it with his assistance.
May God’s greetings, mercy, and blessings be upon you. [Dr. Karl: my Emphasis]
Given that Iran now knows with 100% certainty what the Outlaw US Empire demands, they’re no longer any grounds for negotiations excepting one: Iran will rejoin the NPT when the Zionists enroll themselves. I expect the papers Iran has incriminating Grossi and the IAEA will be published when Iran votes to withdraw from the NPT. I expect other outcomes will occur as a result of the conflict, some obvious like becoming closer to Russia and China militarily and a change in relations with Azerbaijan, and some not so obvious like the degree of further isolation of the Collective West from the Global Majority. I’m also curious to see what happens with Japan and South Korea’s relations with the Empire once the tariff deadline arrives as this conflict IMO will have a bearing on what occurs. And then there’s Taiwan. Its separatists can’t like what they just observed as the Empire’s most important proxy was partially thrown under the bus.
Speech of Imam Sayyid Ali Husayni Khamenei (H) on 36th demise anniversary of Imam Sayyid Ruhullah Musawi Khomeini (r): (1/5):
Selection from Speech: Nuclear Issues and Gaza
The nuclear industry is not just for energy. Some people imagine that the nuclear industry is only about clean electricity, which of course it is as well clean and inexpensive energy comes from the nuclear industry. But it is not limited to that. This is only one part of the benefits of the nuclear industry.
The nuclear industry is a foundational industry, a mother industry.
Experts, scientists, and those whose profession it is have explained this to us, and I hope they explain it more to the people as well. Many scientific fields are influenced by the nuclear industry. Numerous scientific areas are impacted by it, including precision and sensitive technologies such as medical equipment, aerospace, precision sensors, and electronics all of these are related to or influenced by the nuclear industry. This includes basic sciences and engineering fields such as nuclear physics, energy engineering, and materials engineering.
It also includes medical and pharmaceutical applications, both in diagnosis and treatment. The nuclear industry leads in treating certain difficult diseases in both diagnosis and treatment.
In agriculture-related and environmental industries, there are numerous areas that are either dependent on or influenced by the nuclear industry.
The nuclear industry is a mother industry, a core industry. Now, within the nuclear industry, there is a key element, and that is uranium enrichment.
Our enemies have focused on uranium enrichment. They have fixated on this point. A nuclear industry of such magnitude, without the ability to enrich uranium, is useless. To fuel our power plants, we would need to reach out to others.
It’s like having oil in your own country but being prohibited from building refineries or producing gasoline. You have oil, but you must buy gasoline from others. That country may choose to sell to you or not, and at any price it wants. If it doesn’t want to sell, it will come up with excuses. It might say: “Do such-and-such, or else I won’t give you gasoline.”
That is their goal. Even if we had a hundred nuclear power plants, without enrichment, they would be of no use to us. Because a nuclear plant needs fuel. If we cannot produce this fuel domestically, we will have to stretch our hand toward America. And they might attach dozens of conditions to providing us with nuclear fuel. We experienced this in the 2000s.
In the 2000s, over 20% enrichment fuel, the President of the United States himself used two presidents of our friendly countries as intermediaries to tell Iran: “Give us a portion of your 3.5% enriched uranium, and we will give you the 20% fuel that you need.”
We needed the 20% fuel. Our officials agreed. It was decided that there would be an exchange. I said this exchange must be such that they bring the 20% fuel to Bandar Abbas, we test it to ensure it is accurate, then we will take it and give them the 3.5% fuel.
When they saw that we were being meticulous and firm about receiving the 20% fuel, they broke their promise and did not deliver. Of course, during that very time, while our officials were involved in these political tussles over the matter, our scientists inside the country themselves produced the 20% fuel.
The Americans’ main position is that Iran should not have a nuclear industry at all. They want Iran to be dependent on them for radiopharmaceuticals, energy, desalination devices, and dozens of other important fields. They demand that Iran have no nuclear industry whatsoever.
Currently, we have thousands of young scientists working in nuclear and nuclear-related fields across the country. Should we disappoint them? Leave them unemployed? Make them lose hope in their country’s future? This is what the Americans want, what they are demanding from us.
The rude and insolent leaders of America repeat this demand in various ways. They are against Iran’s progress, against the self-sufficiency of the Iranian nation. Our response to the nonsense of the loud and incompetent U.S. government is clear. Everyone knows how we’ll respond.
Some years ago, a U.S. president once said, “If I could, I would dismantle every nut and bolt of Iran’s nuclear program.” But he admitted he couldn’t. And since then, the nuts and bolts of our nuclear industry have become even more solid. He confessed: “I couldn’t, if I could, I would have.”
Those in power today, whether Zionists or Americans, should also know: they can’t. They can’t do a damn thing in this matter.
The first thing we tell the Americans and others regarding nuclear issues is this:
Who do you think you are? Why do you interfere in whether Iran should have enrichment or not? What business is it of yours?
You have nuclear capabilities. You have atomic bombs. You possess massive destructive power. What right do you have to decide whether the Iranian nation may enrich uranium or not? Whether it may have a nuclear industry or not? This is a sovereign nation; it decides for itself. It has nothing to do with you. What legal or moral standing do you have to make these statements?
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As for the crimes of the Zionist regime in Gaza, they are truly shocking. One could hardly believe they had such criminal plans.
Look: previously, they would drop a bomb, destroy a house or two, kill ten or fifteen people. They saw that it wasn’t enough.
Now what are they doing? Now they set up a “food distribution center.” Since food is not being allowed into Gaza, people rush to these places to get food. Then, with machine guns, they kill ten times more than they could with a bomb. Killing people was costing them too much. So they made it cheaper. Instead of bombs, they now use bullets.
This is truly astonishing. Such a crime makes one marvel at how low, wicked, and evil a human being can be to commit something like this.
Today, Islamic governments have a serious responsibility. I want to be blunt with them: now is not the time for politeness, hesitation, or neutrality. Today is not the time for silence.
If any Islamic government, in any way or under any pretext, supports the Zionist regime — whether by normalizing relations, blocking aid to Palestine, or justifying Zionist crimes — know this: eternal disgrace will be stamped on their foreheads.
Governments should also understand that no government can achieve security by relying on the Zionist regime. They cannot obtain security through dependence on this regime, because the Zionist regime is, by the decisive will of God, in the process of collapse, and God willing, it will not last long.
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