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Starmer Begone: Another Dud Leaves Number 10

It is one of the most remarkable ways to fall from grace.  Leading British Labour to a deceptively crushing victory over diddling, muddling, decrepit fools.  Asserting a period of stable rule, if not exactly dull then at least reliable after several stints of lunacy under the Conservatives gone to the […]

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US Waives Iran Sanctions

The United States has taken a significant step toward easing tensions in the Middle East by granting Iran a temporary 60-day sanctions waiver following the first round of negotiations under a newly established peace framework. The move comes as Washington and Tehran attempt to transform a fragile interim understanding into […]

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Russia Is Winning The Drone War In Ukraine

The following is from the lone neutralist website in the Ukrainian language, strana.ua, which is blocked in both Ukraine and Russia, but is nonetheless either #1 or #2 as the most frequently visited online news website by Ukrainians: https://stranaua.media/news/507688-itohi-1580-dnja-vojny-v-ukraine.html https://stranaua-media.translate.goog/news/507688-itohi-1580-dnja-vojny-v-ukraine.html?_x_tr_sl=uk&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp https://archive.ph/EGIUb “The Day at the Front: Russians in Konstantinovka” 22 […]

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The Rural Realignment: Why America’s Political Divide Runs Deeper Than Elections (I)

For decades, commentators have tried to explain one of the most significant political transformations in modern American history: the steady erosion of Democratic support across rural America and the simultaneous consolidation of Republican dominance in communities that once formed the backbone of the New Deal coalition. The phenomenon has often […]

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The Starmer Resignation And Britain’s Leadership Crisis: Why The United Kingdom Is Preparing For Its Seventh Prime Minister In A Decade (I)

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced on 22 June 2026 that he would step down as leader of the Labour Party and resign as prime minister once a successor had been chosen, ending a premiership that lasted less than two years after Labour’s landslide victory in the 2024 general election. […]

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Iran’s Strategic Calculations Could Determine The Future Of Ceasefire Diplomacy

The latest escalation between Iran and Israel has pushed the Middle East into another period of dangerous uncertainty, raising a critical question for regional observers and international diplomats alike: can negotiations survive when military confrontation appears to offer some factions greater leverage than diplomacy? Recent developments suggest that the answer […]

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Trump’s European Network Is Cracking: Why Even His Closest Allies Are Beginning To Distance Themselves

For nearly a decade, Donald Trump cultivated something unprecedented in postwar transatlantic politics: an informal ideological network of European allies united not necessarily by institutions or treaties, but by political instinct. Leaders such as Hungary’s Viktor Orbán and Italy’s Giorgia Meloni became symbols of a conservative-nationalist current skeptical of Brussels, […]

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Bürgenstock U.S.-Iran Negotiations Seem Heading To Failure

On Sunday, June 21st, U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, met in Bürgenstock at Lake Lucerne in Switzerland, with Iran’s delegation, headed by Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, to finalize the U.S.-Iran 14-point peace deal that was signed on Wednesday, June […]