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The background of Ukrainian-American talks in Jeddah: Koshchei’s needle of the Kiev junta
Everything that is happening now in Saudi Arabia can be assessed from different process levels and several angles. The deepest cut is the general confrontation of globalist elites and the American Deep State with the national forces that came to power in the USA. The next level is the pushing through of their goals by… Continue reading
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Pete Hegseth: Crusader Against Godless Commies and Islam!
Pete Hegseth displays an utter ignorance of reality and an ideologically-blinded worldview combined with a view of himself as a holy warrior against the Godless Commies (China) and Islam. He was a high school valedictorian and American football player before becoming an undergraduate at Princeton (politics, graduating in 2003). There he played in the university… Continue reading
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DOGE is Sharpening the Tools of US Empire – Not Dismantling Them
Many people have become so distracted with debates over the process DOGE is overseeing in exposing and eliminating US government fraud, waste, and abuse, that no one is focused on its purpose. The current US administration has declared its intention to uphold the irrational and unwarranted pursuit of US dominance over the globe and is… Continue reading
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🇺🇸 USAID Streamlined, Not “Dismantled,” Secretary Rubio Confirms
Monday, 10 March 2025 — New Atlas Brian Berletic As predicted, USAID was never “dismantled,” simply streamlined into a more effective tool of foreign interference. I warned over the past weeks that ALL of the organizations mentioned in my research remain operational and fully funded. Now US Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirms after significant… Continue reading
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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
The New Dark Age 