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GrayZone UK Chief Investigator and Co-Founder of Active Measures investigative project, Kit Klarenberg, joins Bad Faith to talk about the impact of the new administration on the Ukraine/Russia war, recent developments, and what the ultimate end game is likely to be. Also, he speaks to the authoritarian crackdown on pro-Palestine speech from his personal experience being detained in the U.K. for his reporting on Ukraine.

European Court of Human Rights press release

Bullets:

• Western media outlets, Wall Street, and Silicon Valley are belatedly coming to the same conclusion: years of falling asset prices and cost of living has made China the most competitive economy in the world.

• Our top government officials, industry leaders, and columnists were predicting a collapse in China, because they completely misunderstood the long-term policy implications of falling costs across a modern economy.

• China was the only major economy to see long-term deflation in recent years, and the costs of housing, commercial rent, food, electricity, travel, and education were pushed lower because of soaring industrial productivity and efficiency gains.

• Now China is reaping the benefits of building a ruthlessly cost-competitive economy that dominates in most areas of manufacturing, raw materials sourcing, high technology, logistics, education, and health.

• Caitlin Johnstone: Thoughts On The Trump Team's Signal Chat About Bombing Yemen
• Aaron Maté: Uproar focuses on Trump team's Signal mishap, not bombing Yemen for Israel
• Sam Husseini: Yemen: Is the Scandal the Leak or the Slaughter? [NSFL images]

“The left and right take the same reality-based view of the world but respond to it in different moral terms. Liberals, on the other hand, live in an alternate universe – of pure make-believe”

Warren Mosler, The Founder of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), comes on 1Dime Radio to talk about MMT, what Elon Musk's DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) gets wrong, Trump's tariffs, inflation, and an alternative for a better tax system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Mosler

Relevant 1Dime playlist: Understanding Modern Monetary Theory (MMT)

I had a conversation with Prof. Nicolai Petro regarding the complicated relationship between Zelensky and the nationalists. Zelensky, much like Poroshenko, initially opposed the nationalists. Yet, a partnership was formed after the nationalists threatened Zelensky. As the war is now coming to an end, the partnership will unravel and the nationalists may turn against Zelensky.

BYD unveils battery system that charges EVs in five minutes

https://fortune.com/2025/03/17/byd-battery-system-charging-5-minutes-tesla-superchargers/

BYD Shares Jump to Record on Five-Minute EV Battery Charging

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-17/byd-unveils-battery-system-that-charges-an-ev-in-five-minutes

Cheap Chinese Cars Are Taking Over Roads From Brazil to South Africa

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-03-17/chinese-carmakers-threaten-ford-gm-stellantis-in-global-markets

Tesla Is Flailing in China and BYD’s Rapid Rise Is to Blame

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-09/tesla-is-flailing-in-china-and-the-rapid-rise-of-byd-is-to-blame

Paywall bypass link: http://archive.today/AUM2Q

The attack came just hours after Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump discussed the war in Ukraine. While Putin refused to commit to a 30-day ceasefire with Ukraine, he agreed to a plan under which Russia and Ukraine will stop mutual energy infrastructure strikes for the same time.

The CPC infrastructure, stretched between Kazakhstan’s giant oil fields and Russia’s Black Sea coast, is the single-largest route for exports of Kazakh barrels. It also ships some crude from Russia’s Caspian projects. The latest attack highlights the vulnerability of a route that’s key for the nation and its European buyers.

“The CPC pipeline continues its operations,” the CPC press service said. “The Kropotkinskaya pumping station is still not operational and repair works there are underway,” so the damaged depot could not affect CPC flows, it said.