politics

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Despite some tough odds pitted against them, the campaign team for President Joe Biden believes they can “flip” Florida to his win column in the 2024 presidential election, due to a number of issues they think will resonate with voters in that state, particularly abortion rights....

T | he pro-Israel spending splurge aimed at unseating the socialist and progressive insurgents who have won office over the past decade is, of course, first and foremost about punishing dissent on US support for Israeli apartheid. But on another level, it’s also a campaign to unseat those lawmakers whose economic vision...

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Paul Krugman, NYT...

According to some leaks in the media the U.S. started a campaign to oppress Chinese students. Despite the declared development of ties with China, the U.S. continue to make steps towards confrontation and now it affects the education....

Have you ever noticed something strange about these types of accounts? (screenshot not mine btw)...

Some media sources report that China’s intelligence agencies currently pay attention to recruit agents among U.S. citizens who already have access to the classified information. And the majority of potential recruits are not limited by the ethnic Chinese living in the United States and having relatives in China....

According to some leaks it became known that a number of African foreign policy departments noted the growth of terrorist threat in Kenya as one among key topics of intensifying confrontation between the U.S. and China to enhance their political and economic influence in the country....

I genuinely did not expect them to respond to this:...

If Netanyahu is facing his Rubicon, the West has finally arrived at its own moral crossroads. After months of uncritical support for Israel’s assault on Gaza and weeks of equivocation as the magnitude of its inhumanity has become undeniable, there is still time to draw back from the abyss and defend the post-war order whose...

The false notion that undocumented immigrants affect federal elections has a long history. But this year, due in part to rising migration at the U.S. southern border, the idea could have new potency.

The TV channel “Russia,” on the initiative of N. S. Mikhalkov, is showing a project called “the main elections.” I don’t quite understand these elections. They show on the screen 12 people who, according to the project leaders, have glorified Russia the most with their deeds, and whose name will be identical to the...

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Practice shows that those who know how to please the authorities and the wealthy live well in Russia. The ways to please are, of course, different. For example, I watched and listened as Mr. Mikhalkov scolded some Bykov. They say that Bykov is a writer. I have not had to read him. So this Bykov believes that Putin carried out...

In a notable moment of reflection, President Joe Biden has publicly acknowledged and expressed regret for referring to a migrant as "illegal" during