Extreme flooding in Pakistan in 2022 affected 33 million people. Akram Shahid/AFP via Getty Images You may be hearing the…
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The world is entering a new period of change as the pursuit of a more just world order clashes with…
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Humans do many different things to the environment, and there aren’t many natural processes – aside from an asteroid impact…
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The struggle to save democracy is proving even more difficult in Europe than in the US. Virtually every European country…
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China remains a powerful newcomer to Africa (frustrating the US) the more urgent battle, for now, is between Russia and…
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The global embarrassment of President Joe Biden going to Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) on his knees begging for oil three…
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(Chris Hedges – Scheerpost) — Energy and food bills are soaring. Under the onslaught of inflation and prolonged wage stagnation,…
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Kathleen Frydl, Johns Hopkins University The United States may regard itself as a “leader of the free world,” but an…
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During his Central Asia tour, Xi Jinping met with Vladimir Putin for what some analysts thought would be a reprise…
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In the 1970s, I met one of Hitler’s leading propagandists, Leni Riefenstahl, whose epic films glorified the Nazis. We happened…
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