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Putin Might Accept Trump’s Reported Peace Plan

It represents a pragmatic balance of interests between all sides. The Washington Post reported that Trump’s Special Envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are working on a four-part peace plan for resolving the Ukrainian Conflict. The first part concerns Ukraine’s reconstruction in which BlackRock and the World Bank would take […]

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How Could AI Produce Catastrophe, And What Can Prevent That?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i30jVPqQeOM “Ex-Anthropic insider tells CNN how AI could kill all humans by 2030” 9 September 2026, 10,000,000+ views as-of 12 Oct 2026 CNN INTERVIEWER: Jacob Coxon [notice there that his 8 September 2026 tweet announcing and explaining his resignation from Anthropic received 174.5 million views] has left Anthropic sounding the […]

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Ethiopia Is On The Brink Of War: Escalation Of Violence In The Horn Of Africa

Recent events in Ethiopia demonstrate how the middle powers of the region are trying to project their interests and use the emerging opportunities to destabilize their geopolitical opponents. On September 23, large–scale fighting began in Tigray, Akhmara and Afar provinces as the so-called Alliance for Survival began attacking government forces […]

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Slovakia’s Glitch Diplomacy: Balancing Between Brussels And Moscow (II)

Part I Slovakia’s increasingly unconventional foreign policy has attracted disproportionate attention within Europe. Prime Minister Robert Fico’s willingness to maintain dialogue with Moscow while remaining inside both the European Union and NATO has often been interpreted as evidence of ideological divergence from Brussels. Such explanations, however, overlook a more fundamental […]

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The Fuel That Moves Everything

Last week’s US inflation report offered some encouraging news. Core price momentum appeared to be easing as of August, and households under cost-of-living strain could be forgiven for hoping the worst had passed. Commodity analysts are urging caution. The record run-up in diesel prices in the United States and Europe […]

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The Two Fronts Testing Burnham’s Government

Andy Burnham built his premiership’s early identity around a single, emotionally resonant promise: not to manage rough sleeping, not to reduce it, but to end it. This week he put money behind that pledge – £442 million for a national drive modeled on the pandemic-era effort to get people off […]

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The Russian-US Diesel Deal Advances Trump 2.0’s “Strategy Of Denial” Against China

Since China declined to radically accelerate multipolarity by defying the US’ sanctions against Russia and cutting Ukraine off from drone-related sales, it’s poetic justice for Russia to radically exacerbate the US’ pressure campaign against China through a resource-centric rapprochement with the US that will derail China’s superpower trajectory. Trump announced […]