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The bounty farce: How the Western media rebrands an invasion as a ‘capture’

The bounty farce: How the Western media rebrands an invasion as a ‘capture’

When the Trump administration’s attorney general, William Barr, announced a “bounty” of $15 million in March 2020 on Venezuelan President...

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Mustafa Fetouri

The EU is addicted to American economic punishment

The EU is addicted to American economic punishment

An American think-tank has some bad news for Europe. Just as the continent tries to wriggle free from an abusive relationship with Washington, it...

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Rachel Marsden

There’s one way the EU could resist Trump’s US. But it won’t

There’s one way the EU could resist Trump’s US. But it won’t

Watching Trump toy with the EU over his vows to seize Greenland is infuriating in the same way that a friend keeps calling you nonstop to describe her...

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Rachel Marsden

The plunder of Venezuela is the dead end of history

The plunder of Venezuela is the dead end of history

As deplored in the Washington Post, Washington’s recent assault on Venezuela wasn’t just your usual US war of aggression/regime change operation...

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Tarik Cyril Amar

The tripolar reset: Washington, Beijing, and Moscow’s new global manual

The tripolar reset: Washington, Beijing, and Moscow’s new global manual

What analysts have speculated about for two decades is now codified policy: The post-Cold War epoch of unipolar American hegemony, draped in the...

20.01.2026 52

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Adamu B. Garba Ii

Why are EU leaders suddenly being nice to Russia?

Why are EU leaders suddenly being nice to Russia?

Sometimes a surprising statement made almost in passing on a minor occasion can pack a lot of political oomph. And sometimes, it’s just a slip and...

17.01.2026 32

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Tarik Cyril Amar

Why American Big Oil isn’t buying the Venezuela ‘victory’

Why American Big Oil isn’t buying the Venezuela ‘victory’

Everything has gone beautifully in Donald Trump’s Venezuela operation. An alleged narcoterrorist dictator was captured and brought to justice in a...

16.01.2026 39

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Finian Cunningham

Be it Venezuela or Greenland, the EU will cheer America’s every land grab, even at its own detriment

Be it Venezuela or Greenland, the EU will cheer America’s every land grab, even at its own detriment

There are three major foreign-policy items on the EU’s radar, and they’re all connected: Ukraine, Venezuela, and Greenland. All three involve...

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Rachel Marsden

Over the top? ICE agent shoots soccer mom, blames ‘domestic terrorism’

Over the top? ICE agent shoots soccer mom, blames ‘domestic terrorism’

Is it becoming impossible to protest the US government as specifically protected by the First Amendment without being branded a domestic terrorist, or...

14.01.2026 25

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Robert Bridge

Why Venezuela and Greenland are not so different

What’s the difference between Venezuela and Denmark? Apart, of course, from geography, food, the weather, and the fact that the Venezuelan...

13.01.2026 39

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Tarik Cyril Amar

Force-based international order: Here’s how the US is remaking world politics

The US military intervention in Venezuela to kidnap President Maduro was a gross violation of the UN Charter. Nothing justifies this blatant flouting...

11.01.2026 55

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Kanwal Sibal

Here’s who really weaponizes children in the Russia-Ukraine conflict

For the last three years, Ukraine and concerted legacy media campaigns have been screaming that Russia has abducted, or forcibly displaced, thousands...

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Eva Bartlett

This one delusional neocon gives a perfect glimpse into the Ukraine War Fantasy Land they all live in

This one delusional neocon gives a perfect glimpse into the Ukraine War Fantasy Land they all live in

Former US Secretary of State and CIA Director Mike Pompeo seems irked that the Ukraine conflict could end without Russia groveling and handing over...

10.01.2026 25

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Rachel Marsden

The American Blitzkrieg on Venezuela: No one is safe

After five months – really two-and-a-half decades – of ever-escalating preparations by increasing diplomatic, economic, and clandestine warfare,...

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Tarik Cyril Amar

Woke politics forced the US media to ignore a $9bn scam

How is it possible that a young man with a video camera has done more to expose exorbitant fraud and corruption in one American state than all the...

04.01.2026 35

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Robert Bridge

The bill is due: Africa demands colonial justice now

For decades, the demand for colonial reparations in Africa was treated by Western capitals as a rhetorical exercise—a radical plea from the fringes...

03.01.2026 83

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Mustafa Fetouri

2025 was dismal for Western Europe. And at this rate, it will get worse

To be fair to the dismal year on the way out, at least 2025 won’t be a hard act to beat. In particular, if last January anyone was recklessly...

01.01.2026 30

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Tarik Cyril Amar

India courts Africa: Who gains most?

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent visits to two African countries, South Africa and Ethiopia, within the span of a month, reflect more...

30.12.2025 9

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Samir Bhattacharya

The Starmer regime is turning Britain into a police state

The UK is witnessing the largest and most significant prison hunger strike since 1981. Since the beginning of November, a total of eight activists in...

29.12.2025 66

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Tarik Cyril Amar

NATO’s scandal-ridden boss wants war with Russia to be his next train wreck

NATO boss, Mark Rutte, says that Western Europe could be heading toward a war with Russia “like our grandparents experienced.” Which implies that...

27.12.2025 24

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Rachel Marsden

The American people will never get closure on the Epstein files

Across the United States, Democrats and Republicans are demanding that their leaders come clean with the Epstein files and the truth finally be told....

26.12.2025 21

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Robert Bridge

Who are the deluded ‘experts’ trying to send Germans to war with Russia?

The governments and media elites of the West pride themselves on providing and promoting freedom of thought, opinion, and debate. Together with a...

25.12.2025 26

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Tarik Cyril Amar

The EU is happy to mug its own taxpayers after failing to rob Russia

Hold up, Eurobozos! And I mean that as a verb – as in to stop and freeze – not as the noun synonymous with the kind of literal bank robbery that...

24.12.2025 15

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Rachel Marsden

India’s third energy front lies in the Arctic, and Russia holds the key to it

For decades, India’s engagement with the Arctic was framed primarily through scientific curiosity, focused on climate research, cryosphere...

23.12.2025 12

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Manish Vaid

Giving the Nobel Peace Prize to warmongers is a crime that’s gone on too long

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has accused the Nobel Foundation of breaking Swedish law when it bestowed its highest honor upon the pugilistic...

21.12.2025 53

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Robert Bridge

Western media peddle Russia’s ‘abduction’ of Ukrainian children to prolong the proxy war

It’s not clear if the Trump administration wants to genuinely resolve the proxy war with Russia, or if it is merely trying to extricate itself from...

20.12.2025 15

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Finian Cunningham

Western media peddle Russia’s ‘abduction’ of Ukrainian children to prolong the proxy war

It’s not clear if the Trump administration wants to genuinely resolve the proxy war with Russia, or if it is merely trying to extricate itself from...

19.12.2025 11

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Finian Cunningham

Domination rebranded: The paradoxes of America’s new security doctrine

The 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS) issued by the administration of US President Donald Trump needs careful analysis as it has many disquieting...

19.12.2025 11

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Kanwal Sibal

Can Africa and Russia rewrite global rules, together?

By the end of this week, African foreign ministers will gather in Cairo for the Second Ministerial Conference of the Russia–Africa Partnership...

19.12.2025 14

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Moussa Ibrahim

The EU wants a country-sized ammo factory against Russia, but the locals aren’t buying it

A kid isn’t totally to blame when it acts like a lunatic in public. Particularly when you take a good look at the parents. Such is the case of the...

18.12.2025 17

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Rachel Marsden

Zelensky stealing election before it has been announced

Currently, with intense diplomacy taking place to – perhaps – end the Ukraine conflict, questions surrounding Kiev’s domestic politics may seem...

17.12.2025 15

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Tarik Cyril Amar

If Western Europe is to be saved from oblivion, this is where it will happen

In Botticelli’s masterpiece Pallas and the Centaur (1482-83), to be seen at the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence, the Firenze-Athena parallel is...

15.12.2025 47

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Pepe Escobar

Multipolarity is not equality, and it shouldn’t be

The new world order takes shape through pressure, rivalry, and the rise of several commanding powers, not through declarations of equality....

13.12.2025 17

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Constantin Von Hoffmeister

The EU rolls up in its clown car to rob a bank ‘for Ukraine’

Memo to the unelected Eurobozos of the European Union’s executive branch 'responsible' for setting policy: just because you keep calling a pile of...

12.12.2025 30

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Rachel Marsden

Socialism and woke extremism won’t save the UK

In his famous political tract – The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, published in 1852 – Karl Marx proffered the generalization that...

11.12.2025 39

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Graham Hryce

Elon Musk and the EU jokers deserve each other

The American tech broligarchy is fighting with Brussels Euligarchs again. When can they all just blast off to Mars already? Brussels fined...

10.12.2025 34

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Rachel Marsden

Tutankhamun is waiting. Will Europe return Egypt’s stolen treasures?

On November 1, 2025, Egypt officially inaugurated the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), a billion-dollar cultural project located on the Giza Plateau, just...

09.12.2025 51

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Mustafa Fetouri

The new US National Security Strategy respects those who stood up to Washington, but expects vassals to keep obeying

The US, currently still the single most militarily powerful country in the world, has issued a new National Security Strategy (NSS). As this is the...

09.12.2025 32

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Tarik Cyril Amar

Elon Musk wants to abolish the EU. He has a point

The EU has once again strayed beyond acceptable boundaries, slapping Elon Musk’s social media platform X with harsh penalties for being in violation...

09.12.2025 33

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Robert Bridge

Trump has shattered the European liberal illusion

The liberal world order is collapsing under the weight of its own arrogance, and at the very moment Europe drowns in a self-inflicted civilizational...

08.12.2025 39

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Ladislav Zemánek

Why the US War Secretary doesn’t want Venezuela ‘cartel’ strikes investigated

Are there any adults left at the Pentagon to stop War Secretary Pete Hegseth (aka Kettlebell Kegseth) from unilaterally raining death on guys in boats...

06.12.2025 37

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Rachel Marsden

Sarkozy falls, the elite plays martyr: A masterclass in narrative laundering

When the Court of Cassation, France’s highest court, upheld Nicolas Sarkozy’s conviction, the former president’s legal troubles deepened,...

06.12.2025 27

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Mustafa Fetouri

The Epstein-Israel link nobody wants you to take seriously

When I first moved to New York, I walked into my new dentist’s office and genuinely wondered whether I’d accidentally wandered into a Victoria’s...

03.12.2025 62

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Rachel Marsden

Africa demands its seat at the table. Will it get one?

During the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in September, African leaders revived the call for reforming the United Nations...

03.12.2025 30

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Jackson Okata

The EU’s top diplomat casually rewrites WWII history on her way to WWIII

Oops. Kaja Kallas, the de facto EU foreign minister already notorious for her chirpy incompetence, has done it again: displayed such elementary...

02.12.2025 36

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Tarik Cyril Amar

Zelensky’s right-hand man is gone, offering hope for peace

Andrey Yermak, the longstanding head of Zelensky’s administration in Kiev (officially known as the Presidential Office) has fallen. After being...

01.12.2025 19

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Tarik Cyril Amar

Trump is the ultimate political pragmatist

Recent events have confirmed that US President Donald Trump is the ultimate political pragmatist. Since his inauguration in January, Trump has endured...

28.11.2025 27

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Graham Hryce

Here’s why India is rushing to acquire more Russian missiles

The four-day India-Pakistan conflict in May, referred to by New Delhi as “Operation Sindoor,” involved significant use of the missile systems of...

28.11.2025 14

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Anil Chopra

Here’s why nobody asked the EU when coming up with the Ukraine peace plan

Someone leaked a 28-point peace plan for Ukraine, attributing it to the US and Russia. Apparently, no one bothered keeping the EU in the loop. But it...

26.11.2025 21

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Rachel Marsden

The European matryoshka of irrelevance

No one ever lost money betting on the politically suicidal instincts of post-Orwellian EU – that acronym for a virtual Europe. Call them juvenile...

26.11.2025 40

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Pepe Escobar