Global
A discussion about international affairs, geoeconomics, politics, and wars.
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Climate Change: Who Should Pay For Loss & Damage
Extreme flooding in Pakistan in 2022 affected 33 million people. Akram Shahid/AFP via Getty Images You may be hearing the phrase “loss and damage” in…
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Vladimir Putin Warns West at Valdai Speech
The world is entering a new period of change as the pursuit of a more just world order clashes with the arbitrary hegemony of the…
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Podcast: From radiation to water pollution to cities, humans are now a driver of evolution in the ‘natural’ world
Humans do many different things to the environment, and there aren’t many natural processes – aside from an asteroid impact or the like – that…
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Europe’s Far-Right Lurch
The struggle to save democracy is proving even more difficult in Europe than in the US. Virtually every European country is bedeviled by the rising…
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Africa: The Other Russia-West War
China remains a powerful newcomer to Africa (frustrating the US) the more urgent battle, for now, is between Russia and France.
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OPEC Tells Joe Biden – No More Oil
The global embarrassment of President Joe Biden going to Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) on his knees begging for oil three months ago has become a…
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The Return Of Fascism
(Chris Hedges – Scheerpost) — Energy and food bills are soaring. Under the onslaught of inflation and prolonged wage stagnation, wages are in free fall.…
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The U.S. is becoming a ‘developing country’ on global rankings that measure democracy, inequality
Kathleen Frydl, Johns Hopkins University The United States may regard itself as a “leader of the free world,” but an index of development released in…
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Xi does well in Central Asia; Taiwan fares well in the US Senate
During his Central Asia tour, Xi Jinping met with Vladimir Putin for what some analysts thought would be a reprise of their “no limits” declaration,…
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Silencing the Lambs. How Propaganda Works
In the 1970s, I met one of Hitler’s leading propagandists, Leni Riefenstahl, whose epic films glorified the Nazis. We happened to be staying at the…
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