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Trump's pretending to be president, with an 'envoy' and everything Trump is conducting shadow diplomacy, and the facts of it are terrifying. The House map was already skewed to the GOP. Now it's even worse Can Democrats reclaim the House against the...
by Daily Kos Staff
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on Fri Mar 29, 2024 at 12:30 PM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. You know we’re in an increasingly extreme world when a young American airman burns himself to death outside the Israeli embassy in...
by TomDispatch
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on Mon Mar 04, 2024 at 07:13 AM PST
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The prospects for a world defined by the rule of law, peace, and the cooperation of great powers grow dimmer by the week. The Russia/China orbit and its allies are waging a new Cold War against the United States and its allies. Putin invaded Ukraine to...
by jasonsibert
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on Sat Feb 24, 2024 at 10:25 AM PST
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Consider this strange: Seventy-eight years after the first and only nuclear weapons were used on Planet Earth, anyone with half a...
by TomDispatch
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on Thu Feb 08, 2024 at 09:46 AM PST
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With the passing of Henry Kissinger at age 100 this past week the retrospectives of his time as foreign policy maven during the tumultuous Nixon-Ford era are as controversial as were the men he served. In the years following his time in government, he...
by vjr7121
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on Mon Dec 04, 2023 at 03:30 AM PST
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We, as Americans, have never been nurtured with the concept of soft power. We're told from cradle to grave to be firm, unyielding, unbending, never allowing room for doubt, always hustling, always competing with everyone, looking out for number one. We...
by Audreybeardsley
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on Wed Oct 25, 2023 at 02:27 PM PDT
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I hope historians give Biden credit for an impressive performance in this Israeli/Hamas confrontation. But I expect they won’t. I think Biden has achieved a leadership tour de force around this crisis. But however impressive his effort, it seems...
by AndySchmookler
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on Sat Oct 21, 2023 at 08:28 AM PDT
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As coverage of the House Republican speaker fiasco continues to blot out the sun, two wars that feel a world away for many Americans should still command national attention. In each of them, democracy and the fundamental right to self-determination are...
by Kerry Eleveld
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on Fri Oct 20, 2023 at 03:05 PM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. When it comes to war, increasingly autonomous drones are now, it seems, the name of the game. Only the other day, in its stunning...
by TomDispatch
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on Mon Oct 16, 2023 at 07:21 AM PDT
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On Monday, Sen. Marco Rubio joined CNN’s Jake Tapper to give his useless opinion on ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Mon Oct 09, 2023 at 06:06 PM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. In September 2007, retired Air Force lieutenant colonel and historian William Astore emailed me out of the blue. He’d been reading...
by TomDispatch
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on Mon Sep 25, 2023 at 07:19 AM PDT
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“Since Donald Trump became president on an “America first” ticket, the world seems to become less accepting of America as a lead nation. There is a somewhat tragic, or at least ironic, ring to Trump’s often repeated vow to make “America great again”,...
by Joseph2482
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on Mon Apr 24, 2023 at 09:03 AM PDT
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Top diplomats from Europe and North America recently met in Japan to discuss the world's most intractable crises, including ways to end Russia's war in Ukraine, confront China's aggression toward Taiwan, and lure North Korea back to nuclear disarmament...
by jasonsibert
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on Sat Apr 22, 2023 at 08:32 AM PDT
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China’s plan to erode the US dollar’s world trade dominance China is waging a hybrid war against the US and Europe, the West, without the shooting. Russia has been waging an all out hybrid war against the West for decades. The difference is China has...
by Joseph2482
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on Fri Apr 21, 2023 at 09:12 AM PDT
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GT Voice: EU needs to make good use of market opportunities China offers
By Global Times Published: Apr 05, 2023
Despite headwinds on Europe's China policy, such as "reducing dependence on ...
by Joseph2482
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on Thu Apr 06, 2023 at 06:00 AM PDT
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Don’t Dismiss China’s Peacemaking Bid. Harness It By The Editors March 29, 2023 Given Xi’s leverage over Putin, Chinese involvement will be necessary to reach any durable settlement in Ukraine. Even if the belligerents aren’t yet ready to sit down,...
by Joseph2482
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on Tue Apr 04, 2023 at 09:38 AM PDT
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Welcome to Street Prophets Coffee Hour! Thermal for the warmth of a good cup of coffee or your preferred beverage, as well as the warmth of a more progressive religion and community. Please follow #...
by elenacarlena
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on Thu Mar 23, 2023 at 01:07 PM PDT
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com . To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here .
News flash! Ten thousand Marines and other U.S. troops recently invaded ...
by TomDispatch
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on Thu Mar 16, 2023 at 10:00 AM PDT
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Yesterday, the New Mexico House of Representatives honored my father Dr. Daniel Fine in a Memorial. My thanks to the majority whip and friend Reena Szczepanski. Life long friend and tutor at St. Johns, College, Phil LeCuyer. Energy Committee Charmain...
by bluewill
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on Sat Mar 11, 2023 at 08:29 PM PST
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. I must admit that, from time to time, the true madness of our world, of us, gets under my skin. Here we are, once again, doing...
by TomDispatch
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on Thu Mar 02, 2023 at 09:48 AM PST
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