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Kaja Kallas took office as the European Union's high representative for foreign affairs only a few months ago. Estonia's former prime minister, who believes ‘evil lives on in Russia', has had quite a first year. - 2025/11 / article
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Kerry James Marshall: The Histories, on show at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, until 18 January 2026. It is the first big retrospective of the work of this major American artist to be held in the UK. - 2025/11
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In June 1971 President Richard Nixon declared that ‘America's public enemy number one is drug abuse.' At a time of social and racial unrest, he launched a ‘war on drugs' at home and abroad. The Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs became the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in 1973 with a remit that included operations in Mexico. Joint missions with the Mexican army destroyed cannabis and poppy plantations. This was the period when the term narco began to gain currency. Until then, (…) - 2025/11 / article, 2025/11 drugs
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Feuding drug cartels make great TV – and handy political enemies. In France, as elsewhere, though it's largely a myth, the ‘narco threat' has become a justification for expanding the security machine. - 2025/11 / article, 2025/11 drugs
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Two visions of Jewish identity – one civic, one religious – divide Israel, yet both defend a sacred state. And both believe implicitly that their state is a democracy, ignoring its colonial reality. - 2025/11 / article
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Donald Trump's plan for Gaza promises ‘everlasting peace' but leaves most key questions unanswered. In reality, it contains little that is new – and certainly no surprise as to its chief beneficiary. - 2025/11 / article
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Once the most violent country in Latin America, Honduras has made great strides since the former resistance took power. But stalled reforms cast a doubt over their victory in the coming election. - 2025/11 / article
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As the cold war ended, US hawks seized the moment to push for NATO expansion. European powers feared a humiliated Russia might one day lash out, but could do nothing to alter Washington's course. - 2025/11 / article
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Yemen's Houthi rebels, also known as Ansar Allah, have been defying the United States, Saudi Arabia and Israel ever since they first emerged as a military force in 2004, protesting against the US invasion of Iraq and the Israeli occupation of Palestine. The confrontation entered a new phase when Hamas attacked Israel on 7 October 2023. The Houthis, who had endured nearly a decade of starvation under a US-backed Saudi blockade of their ports, tried to force Israel and its allies to lift the (…) - 2025/11 / box, 2025/11 us-army
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Today, the modern American military is a much weaker and more debilitated force than Trump's braggadocio and the defence department's gargantuan spending might suggest. The US has either failed to achieve its stated aims in, or outright lost, every major war it has waged since 1945 – with the arguable exception of the Gulf war – and seems to be getting less effective as defence expenditure continues to rise. - 2025/11 / article, 2025/11 us-army
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The world now runs on raw computing power. Surrender control and you surrender sovereignty. - 2025/11 / article
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Big Tech is rewiring the American state; it's not just a case of corporate capture but a transformation of sovereignty itself. - 2025/11 / article
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Theodore Roosevelt, an advocate of ‘big stick diplomacy', viewed Latin America as the United States' backyard – a place where it could intervene at will. At the slightest threat to American interests, he would send in the marines – to Honduras, the Dominican Republic, Cuba. In 1903 Washington sponsored a separatist movement in Panama, then a province of Colombia, to secure control of the future canal. Three years later, having been lauded for mediating in the Russo-Japanese war, Roosevelt (…) - 2025/11 / editorial
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[l] at 10/25/25 4:08am
The United Nations is an institution that is having to take a crash diet. The world organisation is struggling with a severe financial crisis as the Trump administration has withheld almost all US funding for its activities. Secretary-General António Guterres, who is approaching the end of his ten-year term at the end of 2026, is having to make emergency budget cuts and propose options for rationalising international agencies and offices. The UN will be providing less food, less shelter and (…) - 2025/10 / Exclusive, article
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The United Nations is an institution that is having to take a crash diet. The world organisation is struggling with a severe financial crisis as the Trump administration has withheld almost all US funding for its activities. Secretary-General António Guterres, who is approaching the end of his ten-year term at the end of 2026, is having to make emergency budget cuts and propose options for rationalising international agencies and offices. The UN will be providing less food, less shelter and (…) - 2025/10 / Exclusive, article
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[l] at 10/20/25 7:45am
In Madagascar, Morocco, Nepal, Peru and the Philippines, ‘Gen Z' is taking to the streets. A striking flag flutters above these protests: that of the Straw Hat Pirates in the manga One Piece. - 2025/10 / Dossier
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The month's archives. - 2025/10 / perspective
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[l] at 10/6/25 4:52am
A Sanaa-based writer grapples with years of catastrophic loss across her country, now reflected in the ongoing Gaza genocide. ‘Yemen, like other countries and regions in the world, is meant to be kept unsettled,' observes Elham Al-Oqabi, a Yemeni anti-war writer and rights advocate. ‘Neither completely collapsed nor destroyed, alive nor finished,' she adds. ‘Always closer to death than life.' Al-Oqabi has lived in her country's Houthi-held north through years of US, Saudi, Emirati and (…) - Outside in / Comment
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Bicycles made in Taiwan by the world's biggest manufacturer will be seized at the border by the US Customs and Border Protection. - Outside in / Comment
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Since the start of the year, Israeli soldiers and settlers have forced thousands of Palestinians from their land. Israel's creeping annexation of the West Bank has devastated Palestinian food sovereignty. - 2025/10 / article
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Behind the carnage of Israel's war on Gaza lies a demographic struggle whose outcome threatens the Zionist project itself. - 2025/10 / article, 2025/10 palestine

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