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Netanyahu’s remaining options
Former French premier Georges Clemenceau said: “The graveyards are full of indispensable men,” about a century ago, and it’s still true.
World View
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Colombia and the ebbing tide in South America
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Colombia and the ebbing tide in South America
‘‘He won, big!’’ exulted Donald Trump on Truth Social, welcoming the victory of Abelardo de la Espriella, his preferred candidate for the presidency of Colombia, in last Monday’s election.
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Dealing with the legacy of slavery
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Dealing with the legacy of slavery
At a ‘‘high-level United Nations consultative conference’’ in Ghana earlier this month, African and Caribbean countries called on the countries that benefitted from the transatlantic slave trade to...
The BIG war is not likely, but plenty of small wars are ongoing
The BIG war is not likely, but plenty of small wars are ongoing
A Politico opinion poll conducted in the four biggest Nato countries in February revealed almost identical popular expectations about the likelihood of a global war in the next five years.
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Three very poor countries in a doomed region
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Three very poor countries in a doomed region
These countries are absolute losers by every metric.
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Writing is on the wall for oil as UAE exits Opec
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Writing is on the wall for oil as UAE exits Opec
Eat your hearts out, Pablo Escobar, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman and Nemesio "El Mencho" Oseguera Cervantes.
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The threats are not working, so what comes next?
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The threats are not working, so what comes next?
Taco!
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With every post, the death rattle of a superpower
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With every post, the death rattle of a superpower
"We're offering a very fair and reasonable DEAL, and I hope they take it because, if they don’t, the United States is going to knock out every single Power Plant, and every single Bridge, in Iran."
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The consequences of not draining the swamp
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The consequences of not draining the swamp
A not very old folk saying: ‘‘When you’re up to your arse in alligators, it’s hard to remember that your original goal was to drain the swamp.’’
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A definite maybe on the future, membership of Nato
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A definite maybe on the future, membership of Nato
Asked on Wednesday if he would reconsider his decision to pull the United States out of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato), Donald Trump said ‘‘it’s beyond reconsideration. I just think...
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Trump’s unpalatable Iran menu
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Trump’s unpalatable Iran menu
The Iranians know they have won, but President Trump doesn’t get it yet.
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Iran war a series of miscalculations
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Iran war a series of miscalculations
Still not four full weeks into the war, and already Donald Trump’s ‘‘short-term excursion’’ has morphed into a global economic crisis and a region-wide war.
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China’s new language law solving a non-problem
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China’s new language law solving a non-problem
In Quebec the English-speaking minority used to call them ‘‘tongue-troopers’’: the government functionaries who come around to check that the French on signs in shops is in a typeface twice as big...
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Burning US scientific credibility
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Burning US scientific credibility
In 1953, Ray Bradbury, an American writer, published a book entitled simply Fahrenheit 451.
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Caught in a trap of his own making, Trump looks for ways out
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Caught in a trap of his own making, Trump looks for ways out
Donald Trump is caught in the trap that he helped to build, and he is starting to flail against his fate.
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The Art of the Deal Part XVII
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The Art of the Deal Part XVII
Donald Trump’s vision for how the war against Iran should end is simple: "Unconditional surrender."
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Is the 80-year-long peace now a thing of the past?
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Is the 80-year-long peace now a thing of the past?
The Trump/Netanyahu war in the Middle East will not spread any further, and nothing going on there threatens our collective existence.
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Simple Trump has been outwitted by wily Netanyahu
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Simple Trump has been outwitted by wily Netanyahu
Donald Trump is not just Benjamin Netanyahu’s glove puppet, but it is remarkable how much influence the Israeli prime minister has over the American president.
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Nato is dead: long live Nato 2.0
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Nato is dead: long live Nato 2.0
Every year at this time the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato), the world’s most powerful alliance for the past 77 years, holds a conference in Munich to examine its state of health.
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Surviving the population crash as the global birthrate plunges
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Surviving the population crash as the global birthrate plunges
To them that hath shall (more) be given is generally a reliable guide, but it doesn’t work if the beneficiaries are too stupid to take advantage of the gift.