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The Duran is a news-media platform that advances a realpolitik position The Duran is not right, left or center. It is a media site that focuses on a pragmatic analysis of stories in the news.
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February 12, 2024
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Kiev Strike Was Moscow's Warning To Europe; Zelensky Threats Stall Peace Moves; Vance Backs Witkoff

Kiev Strike Was Moscow's Warning To Europe; Zelensky Threats Stall Peace Moves; Vance Backs Witkoff
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Macron, Putin playing Trump. Germany in state of conflict. Iran Round 2. US missile strikes Russia

Macron, Putin playing Trump. Germany in state of conflict. Iran Round 2. US missile strikes Russia
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Trump plays for time. Europe prepares for war

Trump plays for time. Europe prepares for war
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"UK DESTROYING ITSELF AS THE EMPIRE EATS ITS OWN"
Krainer and Luongo on Cryptorich with Promethean analyst Susan Kokinda on bond markets and British status and activities. (About a week ago.)

Luongo: "Geopolitics are tied directly to important movements in certain assets that are the fulcra on which the entire world rests."

US universities look like temples of knowledge, but they are businesses. International students are their clients. And when racist politics or security fears clash with economics, politics wins.

In 2025, China has over 47 million higher education students. Against that, 600,000 in the US is nothing.
State funding for public universities has collapsed over time. In 1980, half of their budgets came from state money. Today it is less than one quarter.

The gap is filled by higher tuition and international students. In graduate programs for math, computer science, and engineering, more than half of all students are now from China or India. Without them, many labs and departments would shut down.
Trump says he welcomes students. But his government tightens visas, targets Chinese scholars, and fuels suspicion.

In May 2025, the State Department announced new visa rules that will “prioritize Americans over China,” reviewing all applicants from China and Hong Kong more strictly. At the ...

If you think it is a worthy endeavor, any little help could make the difference.
The community needs 700k euro to stay in the race and intends to raise 200k through GoFundMe.
They are at about 60k right now and almost doubled the donations amount in the last 4-5 days, since the news seems to have spread wide, including through articles like the one below.
All necessary info can be found inside the article.

https://greekcitytimes.com/2025/08/29/romanian-orthodox-community-rallies-to-raise-funds-to-secure-historic-dublin-church/

June 17, 2024
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A quick commentary on the "Piss Summit"
I might not be able to upload much more or do lives for a while

My Fellow Duranianss.

Yes, it's happened again. I have been assaulted by a vicious Malware Bot Virus or whatever 911 Socks is and this thing is bad ! 

However I wanted to give you a "peace" of my mind concerning the "Piece" or piss, as Elensky calls it, as this thing fell to pieces before it even happened.

Coincidentally on the very SAME DAY  this crap happened Saudi Arabia DROPPED the US Petrodollar as a buying currency and NO ONE absolutely NO ONE is talking about this fact anywhere !!!

 

Hope to see you all asap.

 

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September 29, 2023
Locals Community Private Telegram Messaging

Locals will be sunsetting the private messaging feature throughout the Locals website. In order to keep our private messaging active we have created a private Telegram messaging group called 'The Duran Locals.'

This is a private channel open only to our Locals subscriber community. In the private Telegram group you can send a message to the group or a private message to Alex or Alexander via a direct Telegram message. 

You can access Telegram for web, desktop or mobile here: https://telegram.org/

The link for this Telegram group is below (can be viewed by community subscribers).

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