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Subscribe now with a one-month trial for only $1, then enjoy the first year at an exclusive rate of just $99. Germany resists as France’s debt troubles threaten contagion Diego Faßnacht reports that France’s rising…
Israel-Palestine
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The occupying Israeli army targeted a prominent Lebanese journalist when they pillaged and demolished his painstakingly-constructed family home located outside Israel’s so-called “buffer zone” in southern Lebanon. Was it…
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The University of Oxford has agreed to let the university’s far-right Reform UK group use its Harris Lecture Theatre for an evening with white supremacist Nathan Cofnas. Cofnas is the racist eugenicist whose comments…
Europe
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Analytical readings from Chinese think tanks and strategic circles, such as the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and the China Institute of International Studies (CIIS) indicate that the European Parliament’s…
South Africa
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My husband, Paddy Donnelly, who has died aged 70, was a South African who moved in the early 1980s to London. There he worked for the International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa (IDAF), which funded the legal…
Economics
A 40 year campaign to make you believe that monopolies are just an aspect of nature has led us to believe that you can’t do anything about them. This is total nonsense and all we have to do is remember. Robin McAlpine is…
Austerity
France’s current economic crisis is the crisis of neo-liberalism Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger . Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog The recent high school and student…
Activism
There is no floor to what the modern Republican Oarty will turn into a political attack. On Oct. 19, Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign released an ad featuring the mother of his opponent, Dr. Amy…
Geopolitics
If you read one thing today, make sure it is this Trita Parsi is the co-founder and Executive Vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. Cross-posted from Parsi’ Substack In a stunning piece…
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8 November 1996 Graca Machel (left), former Minister of Education of Mozambique and the Secretary-General's appointed Expert on the Impact of Armed Conflict of Children, presents her report titled "The United Nations…
Analog Bits
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The future of intelligent computing depends on silicon that delivers more performance within tighter power and thermal limits. Combining TSMC’s advanced process technology with Analog Bits’ analog and mixed-signal…
Africa
In 1816 , a group of white people in the U.S. created the American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Color of the United States (later simply the American Colonization Society), aimed at resolving the “problem”…
Activism
The following story is co-published with Luke Savage’s Substack . Earlier this week, the eminent economist Thomas Piketty published a short intervention on the ongoing youth-led protests across France, which he dubs “the…
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October 18, 2026, marks the 35th anniversary of the full restoration of diplomatic relations between Israel and the Soviet Union, with the Russian Federation acting as its legal successor. Over the last three and a half…
Economy
At the FT Africa summit, retired president Olusegun Obasanjo explores Nigeria’s economy, Horn of Africa tensions, and why he’s still not ready to retire. Nigeria’s retired president Olusegun Obasanjo has said that the…
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Trump’s vision of “his” federal capital continues to irritate The excitement In Washington is palpable with the announcement that President Donald Trump has a new project to help beautify the city on top of the huge…
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Will snipers shoot American tourists in Washington? It is hard to imagine how President Donald Trump’s insane assertions might go beyond the point of being merely demented to something far worse, i.e. catastrophic. Last…
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Who is doing what to whom? Once upon a time the United States of America was confident that it, shielded by broad oceans to the East and West and having friendly countries that it dominated economically and militarily to…
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The United States competes with Israel for the “Most Hated” Distinction It was another horrific week in Washington with President Donald Trump actually succeeding in coming out with an apparently improvised comment that…
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How many more innocent people will die? If one were seeking to create something like a modern-day folk tale based on current realities and having the theme of “good versus evil” there are any number of real-life…
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The horrors deliverable by Israel that might come next Speculation is growing over the sustainability of the United States’ model of global dominance which emerged as Washington ended the Second World War as plausibly…
Ebola
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Switzerland says patient is wife of Swiss diplomat and believed to have contracted virus while travelling in Uganda Health officials across Africa are racing to determine how Nigeria’s first Ebola patient in more than a…
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Tomorrow’s ‘London for Sudan’ (LFS) march will mark the anniversary of Sudan’s popular ‘ October Revolution ‘ uprising and raise awareness of the ongoing, UAE- and Israel -enabled genocide in that country. ‘Resistance…
Human Rights
On a recent Piers Morgan show , the guest was Robert Pape, a University of Chicago political scientist. The subject was a set of wars that now feed each other: Russia and Ukraine, the Yemen and Saudi Arabia, the United…
Canada
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In September, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke of building a “unique alliance” between Canada and the European Union. Reports around the discussions went further, raising the possibility of some form of…
Analysis
Ed Torsney writes that Andy Burnham’s latest push to protect Israel in schools is at odds with the duty of schools to teach children to evaluate evidence, assess truth – and with ‘British values’ themselves: The tension…
Fake News
BRAVE NEW EUROPE has posted innumberable articles and videos by Glenn. His is one of the few remaining powerful voices in Europe speaking truth to power. His youtube channel is so good that it made our establishing our…
Always-at-war
After a four year truce, Saudi Arabia and the Houthis have returned to open conflict in Yemen. Last month, the Saudis conducted over 250 air raids that killed over 150 civilians according to the Yemen Data Project, while…
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America still gives every citizen one vote, but its billionaires are spending fortunes to determine which political choices voters get to make. The Billionaire Election Machine With the November 3 midterm elections…
90 Years Latter The New Long March China Bet on Adaptation Over Dogma Commemorating the Long March is less an exercise in historical memory than an examination of strategic discipline. As emphasized in Xi Jinping’s…
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“[T]he exigencies of desperate survival do stimulate wise leaders to seek such unorthodox solutions.” —Barton Whaley, StratagemOn the night of Jan. 5, 2025, my first mission in the Pokrovsk command post was to make a…
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For decades, Southeast Asia has turned great-power rivalry to an economic advantage. By maintaining healthy ties with Washington and Beijing, ASEAN governments attracted investment, expanded trade and preserved room for…
Southeast Asia
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When Thailand and Cambodia reopened fighting along their 817-kilometer border, the question was not just who would stop the weapons, but who in Southeast Asia could afford it. The fighting in July 2025 ended with a…
Asia
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A sharp critique of Luke Coffey’s article on the C5+1 format and American ambitions in the region The other day, another opus from the camp of American neocons saw the light of day—an article by Hudson Institute senior…
Crime & Justice
Boats in Villa Marina, Falcón State. Credit:Jujovar2010, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Francisco R. Rodríguez DENVER, Colorado, USA, Oct 23 2026 (IPS) Money chase So, if Venezuela claims to be importing from the…
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Credit: United Nations By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Oct 23 2026 (IPS) The international day for the eradication of poverty, commemorated last week, was a grim reminder that the UN will not achieve its highly-ambitious…
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On October 9, fighters from two jihadist groups clashed near Gonadaouri, in Burkina Faso’s Oudalan province, not far from the Malian border. One side belonged to Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), al-Qaeda’s…
Congress
Democratic lawmakers have begun planning their post-midterm investigations into Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, whose tenure has been filled with controversy. According to The Telegraph , congressional Democrats “have…
Nato
During the Cold War, the exclave of West Berlin, isolated in the middle of Communist East Germany, was regarded as one of the most dangerous potential flashpoints for a conflict between the Soviet Union and the West…
Japan
In a recent report , Jennifer Kavanagh of Defense Priorities called for the U.S. to end its formal security commitments to Japan, South Korea, and the Philippines and to withdraw nearly all of its forces in those…
Larry C. Johnson
Donald Trump has discovered a remarkable statistical phenomenon. In Iran, the dead multiply on their own, unassisted, between speeches. You don’t need a morgue, a name, a death certificate or a human rights group. You…
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By: Mahi Ramakrishnan Anwar Ibrahim visited Indonesia in 2015. Wikimedia photo There was a time when I thought I was witnessing a political transformation in real time. Anwar Ibrahim, a man many believed carried UMNO’s…
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“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground.” ~ Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) The U.S. Constitution was ratified to create and to restrain the government. It established…
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With Beijing keeping its rare earth refining technology, equipment and technicians at home, Washington is funding private refiners to develop new ways to process the strategic metals rather than copying Chinese methods…
Americas
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“Conscious of his emptiness, a man tries to make a faith for himself in the political realm. In vain.” -Karl Jaspers, Reason and Anti-Reason in our Time (1952) Though the dissembling “Trump Era” will end with elections…
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Oman is a country of contrasts, where ancient traditions, dramatic landscapes and warm hospitality meet an ambitious vision for economic transformation. During my recent visit to the Sultanate, I explored Muscat, Duqm…
Formula One 2026
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- 41-year-old set on ‘dream to be able to race in Africa’ - Rwanda to host despite criticism of human rights record Lewis Hamilton has said he hopes to remain racing in Formula One until he can take part in the African…
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Ten years ago, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) articulated what would become the epitaph of his version of the Democratic Party. On the eve of the 2016 election, he insisted that “for every blue-collar Democrat we lose in…