There Was No Russian Election (www.theatlantic.com)
Vladimir Putin staged an elaborate charade—so why did some western media outlets play along?...
Jeffrey Epstein's Island Visitors Exposed by Data Broker (www.wired.com)
Now, however, 11,279 coordinates obtained by WIRED show not only a flood of traffic to Epstein’s island property—nearly a decade after his conviction as a sex offender—but also point to as many as 166 locations throughout the US where Near Intelligence infers that visitors to Little St. James likely lived and worked. The...
ISW: Kremlin intensifying rhetoric pushing for hypothetical partition of Ukraine (kyivindependent.com)
The Kremlin is intensifying efforts to normalize Western discussions of a hypothetical partition of Ukraine, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reported in their daily assessment....
Prominent German leftist to launch a new party that could eat into far-right's support (apnews.com)
BERLIN (AP) — A prominent German leftist politician has launched plans to form a new party that some observers think could take votes away from the far-right Alternative for Germany....
Tens of thousands march in London calling for a permanent cease-fire in Gaza (apnews.com)
LONDON (AP) — Tens of thousands of people turned out on central London’s streets Saturday for a pro-Palestinian march calling for a permanent cease-fire in Gaza....
Putin is expected to seek reelection in Russia, but who would run if he doesn't? (apnews.com)
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Vladimir Putin isn’t quite the man he used to be — more than a decade has passed since the Russian president engaged in public stunts to boast of his vigor by hugging a polar bear or riding a horse barechested in the mountains. The war in Ukraine has further dented that strongman image....
Opinion: Tucker Carlson visiting Moscow is like touring Berlin in 1940 (kyivindependent.com)
Former Fox News anchor and far-right commentator Tucker Carlson recently completed his speaking tour of Canada. Apparently, he wants to “liberate” us from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Carlson is now visiting Moscow to convene with the paragon of freedom and democracy himself: Russian President Vladimir Putin....
Antisemitic Propaganda and Disinformation in Putin’s War Against Democracies (www.wilsonquarterly.com)
Why Israel Should Declare a Unilateral Cease-Fire in Gaza (www.foreignaffairs.com)
These Women Came to Antarctica for Science. Then the Predators Emerged (www.wired.com)
Opinion | Putin Is Making His Plans Brutally Clear (www.nytimes.com)
In 2023 there were more than 6,000 air alerts in Ukraine. Last month alone, Russia launched some 624 drones carrying explosives, according to official sources. On Dec. 29, more than 120 Russian missiles and drones targeted towns across the country, killing 44 people. It was the deadliest attack on civilians in Kyiv since the...
US will resume food aid to millions across Ethiopia after monthslong pause over massive corruption (apnews.com)
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — The lead U.S. development agency plans to restart food aid deliveries for millions of people across Ethiopia in December, five months after it took the extraordinary step of halting its nationwide program over a massive corruption scheme by local officials....
Suicide Mission: What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane (prospect.org)
Putin approves new restrictions on media coverage ahead of presidential elections (apnews.com)
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved changes to the law that governs presidential elections putting new restrictions on media coverage, local news agencies reported on Tuesday....
Putin Will Leave Russia in Ruins (www.wilsoncenter.org)
With Navalny’s death, Russians lose their last hope (www.politico.eu)
“The cause of death is being investigated,” Russia’s prison authorities announced after Alexei Navalny died in Penal Colony No. 3 just above the Arctic Circle on Friday....
World reacts to Taiwan election as China says reunification ‘inevitable’ (www.aljazeera.com)
China said “reunification” with Taiwan was still “inevitable” after president-elect William Lai Ching-te won Saturday’s pivotal election on the self-ruled island that Beijing claims as its own....
Mexican president inaugurates centralized 'super pharmacy' to supply medicines to all of Mexico (apnews.com)
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president is inaugurating a ‘super pharmacy’ in a bid to end the woes of patients throughout the country who are often told they need a specific medicine — but the hospital in question doesn’t have it....
Argentines vote in election that could lead Trump-admiring populist to the presidency (apnews.com)
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina’s Economy Minister Sergio Massa conceded defeat to populist Javier Milei in Sunday’s fiercely polarized presidential runoff even before the country’s electoral authority released official results....
South Africa recalls ambassador and diplomatic mission to Israel and accuses it of genocide in Gaza (apnews.com)
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s government has recalled Monday its ambassador and diplomatic mission to Israel in condemnation of the bombardment of the Gaza Strip, calling it a “genocide.”...
China said the US is a disruptor of peace in response to Pentagon report on China’s military buildup (apnews.com)
BANGKOK (AP) — China said the United States is the “biggest disruptor of regional peace and stability” in the world in a scathing response Wednesday to a Pentagon report on China’s growing military buildup....
Argentine minister Massa has a surprise lead over populist Milei. They head to presidential runoff (apnews.com)
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Economy Minister Sergio Massa produced a big surprise by finishing first in the opening round of Argentina’s presidential election, reflecting voters’ wariness about handing the presidency to his chief rival, a right-wing populist who upended national politics and pledged to drastically...
'Facebook has nuked our page': Inside Kansas Reflector's clash with the social media Goliath • Kansas Reflector (kansasreflector.com)
I don’t believe that our coverage of the Marion County raid or Kansas Legislature led to the digital purge of Kansas Reflector content. But I can’t say that for certain, because Facebook has been maddeningly opaque about the entire situation. Stone outright denied that the likeliest target — a column from documentary...
Dutch defense minister: You don't start negotiations with gun pointed at your head (kyivindependent.com)
Europe needs to make great strides in increasing the capacity of its defense industry, and can only do this by working together within the EU and with Ukraine, Dutch Defense Minister Kajsa Ollongren told the Kyiv Independent on March 20....
The Neglected History of the State of Israel (prospect.org)
One of Chotiner’s best interviews ran this past November. A leader of the militant West Bank settlement movement told him that Jews have a sacred duty to occupy all the land between “the Euphrates in the east and the Nile in the southwest,” that nothing west of the Jordan River was ever “Arab place or property,” and...
