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Trump’s ‘Mineral Rights’ Deal is about Continuing the American War in Ukraine

With neither political party in the US seeing a benefit in publicizing the fact, last week the Trump administration recommitted the US to the American...

09.05.2025 10

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The People Want Socialism, Not Fascism

In each of the last six years, the Danish NGO AoD (Alliance of Democracies) has compiled and published the Democracy Perception Index, an...

02.05.2025 8

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Social Democracy isn’t Going to Save the West

Over the last five or so decades, American elections have become increasingly defined by what they don’t accomplish. The classical liberal model of...

18.04.2025 10

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New York Times Throws Ukraine Under the Bus, Admits US Proxy War

In a practice that might seem quaint if it weren’t so murderous, the American uniparty is currently assigning party colors to its ‘boutique’...

04.04.2025 50

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US and Russia Speak on Ceasefire, Israel Advances Ethnic Cleansing in Gaza

On March 18, 2025, US President Donald Trump had an extended telephone call with the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, regarding how to end the US...

21.03.2025 6

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DOGE: Nations Aren’t Corporations and ‘Efficiency’ Means Austerity

Apparently unbeknownst to my Republican friends, the effort to cut ‘government waste’ has a long, bipartisan, history in the US. While Republicans...

09.01.2025 8

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