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Ideas Of Expulsion: Trump, NATO And Spain

Intellectual giants are in painfully short supply in the Trump administration, but if there was anyone who might lay claim to cerebral weight of any sort, Elbridge Colby might be one of them.  Self-styled as a China hawk, the US Under Secretary of War for Policy must privately be bemused […]

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EU Stands Firm: Uphold Trade Deal Amid Trump’s Tariff Turmoil

The European Commission has issued a stern call to the United States, urging Washington to honor last year’s hard-fought trade agreement despite a whirlwind of legal setbacks and fresh tariff threats from President Donald Trump. In a recently released statement, the Commission emphasized that the current chaos is undermining the […]

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The ‘Sprawling, Crazed Manifesto’ By The Attempted Trump-Assassinator

Cole Allen’s explanation of why he attempted to assassinate President Trump was published in full in the April 26th edition of the Republican Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post, and the reader-comments to it generally blamed the Democratic Party for this attempted assassination because the self-described perpetrator votes for the Democratic Party, which […]

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Corruption Crisis And Political Upheaval: How The US, UK, And Europe Face A Democratic Reckoning

The decline in global corruption perception scores is more than a statistical trend; it is a clear signal that the political systems of some of the world’s most powerful democracies are under strain. The latest Corruption Perceptions Index compiled by Transparency International reveals that countries long considered models of clean […]

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$50 Billion Lost

Nearly fifty days of conflict linked to the Iran war have produced one of the most severe energy disruptions in modern history, removing more than $50 billion worth of crude oil from global markets and sending shockwaves through economies worldwide. What began as a geopolitical confrontation at the end of […]