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TrumPutin Horror Show
“You will not replace us!”–tiki torch MAGA marchers The psychological phenomenon known as projection is nowhere as glaring as with white nationalists, most of whom are direct descendants of people who...
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How the War on Gaza is Shaking Up the Region, from Saudi Normalization to the...
Giorgio Cafiero, CEO of Gulf State Analytics, joined The Freedom Side to discuss US hypocrisy in its unconditional support for Israel’s shocking aggression against Gaza, how this war impacts prospects...
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Geopolitics, The Imperial System and Socialist Anti-Imperialism
Claudio Katz is a professor of economics at the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina) and a member of Economists of the Left. He is also the author of various articles and books on contemporary...
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Europe Agonizes In Gaza
Europe is a small corner of a vast continent called Eurasia stretching from Cape Roca to Cape Dezhnyov – a vast continent with a very rich history. In that small corner, what we call the Iberian...
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As War In Ukraine Grinds On, U.S. Officials Focus On Black Sea
U.S. officials view the war in Ukraine as a way of achieving geopolitical objectives in the Black Sea, an energy-rich region that connects Russia, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. At two recent...
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Free Agents?
‘Agency’ might be the word of the decade so far. When applied to the Ukraine war, the term is usually taken to mean that we must follow the lead of Ukrainians themselves – keeping mum about peace...
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How the U.S. Has Darkened the Nuclear Cloud Over Humanity
Forty years ago, across a dozen pages of The Nation magazine, I was in a debate with the English historian E. P. Thompson about the U.S.-Soviet nuclear arms race, the relative culpability of both...
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On How Israeli/US War Crimes in Gaza Are Orders of Magnitude Worse Than Those...
The Biden administration has spent most of its diplomatic energy since the February 24, 2022, Russian invasion of Ukraine marshaling the world to punish the Russian Federation, to boycott its petroleum...
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Finland vs. Stalin and a Possible Endgame for Ukraine
As public support for Ukraine has waned over time, and Washington’s policy elites are shifting their focus more toward the conflict in Gaza, an endgame for Ukraine is desperately needed. U.S. and...
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My Trip to Syktyvkar
I was going to the airport to meet my wife, who was returning from abroad on July 25 last year. But the meeting did not take place. Two polite young men approached me and, presenting their FSB officer...
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The New Cold War and the Risk of Nuclear Annihilation
The Cuban missile crisis of 1962 is etched into the minds of anyone old enough to experience the terror it triggered. For the first time, our leaders had ordered and succeeded in creating a military...
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The Nadezhdin Phenomenon
It has long been the consensus of the political scientists that elections in Russia solve nothing. And in fact, no matter how free and competitive any one election might be, throughout Russian history...
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Russia: “The Fatigue of Society From the War and From Old People in...
Citizens in Russia saw a measurable chance for change — and immediately mobilized. Yes, this chance is measured in millionths of a percent — but it is intelligible. Had there been a little bigger...
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Two Years Into the Ukraine War, Europe Has No Strategy
After ratcheting up pressure on Hungary in recent weeks, European leaders have convinced premier Viktor Orbán to stop blocking a crucial extension of aid for Ukraine’s war effort. The deal emerged from...
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Anti-War Socialist Boris Kagarlitsky Sentenced To Five Years’ Jail
A Russian military court of appeals has ordered socialist and anti-war dissident Boris Kagarlitsky spend five years in jail, after prosecutors succeeded in overturning his original sentence of a...
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Russian Dissident Alexei Navalny Dies in Arctic Prison; “No Doubt” He Was...
More than 400 people have reportedly been detained in Russia for publicly mourning the death of Alexei Navalny, who died in an Arctic penal colony on Friday at age 47. He was the most prominent critic...
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After Two Years of War in Ukraine, It’s Time for Peace
As we mark two full years since Russia invaded Ukraine, Ukrainian government forces have withdrawn from Avdiivka, a town they first captured from the self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) in...
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Navalny and Assange: in the Shadows of Eagles
In the late evening of February 16, I was standing on the other side of the iron fence that surrounds the imposing white building of the Russian embassy in The Hague. Abundantly illuminated by the...
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After 2 Years of War in Ukraine, It’s Time for Peace
As we mark two full years since Russia invaded Ukraine, Ukrainian government forces have withdrawn from Avdiivka, a town they first captured from the self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic, or DPR, in...
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Ukraine War and the Ghost of Clausewitz
This week, February 24, 2024 marks the beginning of the third year of the war in Ukraine. Hundreds, if not thousands, of assessments of the first two years of the war will be published, heard, or...
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