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Hands Off Mahmoud Khalil!
Last night, DHS agents abducted Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist and recent Columbia graduate, from his home. Khalil and his wife, a U.S. citizen who is eight months pregnant, had just unlocked the door to their building when two plainclothes DHS agents forced their way in behind them. The agents initially refused to identify themselves,… Continue reading
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BREAKING: DHS Detains Lead Negotiator of Columbia Gaza Solidarity Encampment After Online Campaign by Pro-Israel Groups
NEW YORK CITY—On Saturday night, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents entered a student residential building at Columbia University in uptown New York and detained Mahmoud Khalil, one of the lead negotiators on behalf of pro-Palestine protesters at 2024’s Gaza solidarity encampment. In a sweeping attack on the First Amendment, the Trump administration said this… Continue reading
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Whose Dog Was Being Wagged During Showtime Between Trump and Zelensky?
Art requires the use of imagination, but so does political and social analysis. But imagination is just a first step; it proves nothing. Continue reading
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Tariff Mania: Let the Tariff Games Begin …
US corporations and US investors have based their business strategies on the fundamental belief that the US state will always use its power to force open other nations to free trade, while at the same time generally practising free trade itself. A belief that has proven correct since WW2, and has been the basis upon… Continue reading
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US puts firewall to protect Ukraine deal with Russia
The verbal shootout at the Oval Office last Friday brought out President Vladimir Zelensky’s fury that Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are very close to a deal on Ukraine, while the conclave in Lancashire House in London on Sunday involving 18 European leaders messaged that Zelensky is in good company. Continue reading
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A verbal and gestural combat sport at the Oval Office: for what are the results?
The conversation in the Oval Office turned out to be a deal-breaker for Ukraine, an embarrassment and the expulsion of the Kiev politician from the White House. Continue reading
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Unsustainable Spoilt Brat Diplomacy meets Inglorious End
In a botched February 28th meeting, Trump and Zelensky engaged in what can be described as spoilt brat diplomacy, as each hoped to get the best of the other, with no room for concessions or compromises. Continue reading
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After the Zelensky-Trump Clash – US May Replace Zelensky and Put Greater Pressure on Europe to End the War
Monday, 3 March 2025 — Glenn Diesen’s Substack Prof. Glenn Diesen on Neutrality Studies Glenn Diesen I spoke with Pascal Lottaz about the clash in the Oval Office. The US demands that Zelensky agree to ending the war on the terms being negotiated between the US and Russia: No NATO membership, accepting territorial concessions, and Continue reading
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Trump’s MAGA and deregulation
Trump sees the United States as just a big capitalist corporation of which he is chief executive. Just as he did when he was the boss in the TV show, the Apprentice, he thinks he is running a business and so can employ and fire people at his whim. He has a board of directors… Continue reading
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Trump-Zelensky Drama a Distraction from US-EU “Division of Labor”
Sunday, 2 March 2025 — The New Atlas New Atlas LIVE is a weekly stream for discussing current events, connecting with the New Atlas community, and more. Q&A is open the entire time, please write “QUESTION” or “Q” and then your question so we can more easily spot it. Continue reading
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Trump plans to make Ukraine a US economic colony, exploiting its critical minerals
Donald Trump’s fight with Zelensky reflects how the US treats Ukraine as a colony. He demands control of its rare earths & critical minerals, to weaken China, re-industrialize, and build tech products Continue reading
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Gilbert Doctorow: Trump Outmaneuvers Europe
I had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Gilbert Doctorow about America’s efforts to end the Ukraine War and reduce its presence in Europe. The British and French are the main countries that can disrupt America’s plans, and Trump thus hosted both Macron and Starmer in Washington. While the Europeans want US security guarantees to… Continue reading
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What’s behind Keir Starmer’s latest defense spending boost?
Who is Sir Keir Starmer and whose interests does he represent? Even his strongest supporters from the West are beginning to notice that there hasn’t been one single policy strategy since he became British PM, which is for the actual British public themselves. Traditionally one tends to think of Labour PMs wanting to make a… Continue reading
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Zero for Zelensky
Volodymyr Zelensky showed up at the White House, in his best attire, which even President Trump had to note and admire, and decided that it would be the height of diplomacy to get into a verbal fight with both the President and Vice-President of the United States—for those who might not now remember, the US… Continue reading
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Trump takes on the ‘collective west’
The dramatic scene in the Oval Office on Friday evening signals that President Donald Trump is decoupling the US from the ‘forever war’ in Ukraine that his predecessor Joe Biden left behind. The war is poised to end with a whimper, but its ‘butterfly effect’ on our incredibly complex, deeply interconnected world will define European… Continue reading
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Trump gives Zelensky bum’s rush and flushes the European ploy to escalate war against Russia
The Europeans are covering their desire for continuing the proxy war with a belated apparent concern for making peace and backing Trump’s diplomacy. Continue reading
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“Brian Berletic” Kalibrated Live #138
Brian Berletic from @TheNewAtlas joins me to cover the dramatic events in the oval office and what it means for the future of the conflict. Continue reading
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Trump – Zelensky
Well – just when you thought that things could not get any more dramatic, on Friday 28th February the White House was transformed into a Stage as Donald J used the occasion of Zelensky’s visit to strip the Emperor of his clothes in front of the whole world. I am not sure how much of… Continue reading
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How to assess the U.S.-Ukraine mineral deal to be reached?
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has confirmed that his country and the U.S. have reached consensus on a deal to co-set up an “investment fund” for Ukraine’s reconstruction. Ukraine would contribute 50 percent of future proceeds from state-owned mineral resources, oil and gas to the fund, and the fund would then invest in projects in Ukraine… Continue reading
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The Climate Intelligence Assessment the Government Doesn’t Want You to See
2008 Assessment Could Fill Critical Gaps in Most Recent 2021 Intelligence Estimate “There’s no secret stuff in here… Just good analysts working with publicly available information and applying good methodological tradecraft” Continue reading
The New Dark Age 