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    John Bolton’s Accidentally Unflattering Self-Portrait
    Jun25

    John Bolton’s Accidentally Unflattering Self-Portrait

    It is a remarkable thing that in our sharply divided political environment, John Bolton has emerged as a rare unifying figure: Almost no one approves of him. Bolton’s saga and that of his book, The Room Where It Happened, has now churned through several news cycles. The notoriously hawkish Bolton served as Trump’s National Security...

    Japan’s False Hopes of Courting Russia
    Jun25

    Japan’s False Hopes of Courting Russia

    As the old Soviet joke goes, it is difficult to predict history in Russia. Against the backdrop of the Kremlin’s longstanding efforts to promote a revisionist version of World War II, this past April the Russian Duma (parliament) passed a law to officially change the war’s end date from September 2nd to the 3rd. The bill’s...

    Illegal Logging Is Blamed for Worsening Floods in Ukraine
    Jun24

    Illegal Logging Is Blamed for Worsening Floods in Ukraine

    Environmentalists say illegal logging in the Carpathian Mountains is contributing to flooding. Rising waters forced the partial evacuation of a hospital treating Covid-19 patients. …read more Source:: The New York...

    Evelyn Farkas Came for the Free Beacon, Then She Came in Fourth
    Jun24

    Evelyn Farkas Came for the Free Beacon, Then She Came in Fourth

    Evelyn Farkas, the former Obama administration official and advocate for Burisma Holdings, lost her Democratic House primary for New York’s 17th District, coming in fourth place on Tuesday. Although Farkas outraised most of her opponents, bringing in $1.2 million, her campaign platform that focused on combating Russian election influence...

    Polish President Duda Visits Trump at White House
    Jun24

    Polish President Duda Visits Trump at White House

    U.S. President Donald Trump hosts Polish President Andrzej Duda at the White House Wednesday, as Duda finds himself locked in a surprisingly tight race for reelection back home.Polish voters will decide in four days whether the right-wing president will serve a second term in office.Duda, a close ally of Trump, reportedly hopes that Trump will...

    Trump Is Struggling to Run Against a White Guy
    Jun24

    Trump Is Struggling to Run Against a White Guy

    Eight months into Barack Obama’s first term as president, the right-wing radio host Rush Limbaugh, who was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Donald Trump earlier this year, warned that Obama’s election had ushered in a dangerous inversion of power.“Obama’s America—white kids getting beat up on school buses...

    Three Dead, Hundreds Evacuated After Flooding In Western Ukraine
    Jun24

    Three Dead, Hundreds Evacuated After Flooding In Western Ukraine

    Rainstorms in western Ukraine have killed three people and forced hundreds of others to evacuate their homes. …read more Source:: Radio Free Europe / Radio...

    Three Die, Hundreds Evacuated in Ukraine Flooding
    Jun24

    Three Die, Hundreds Evacuated in Ukraine Flooding

    KYIV (Reuters) – Torrential rains in Ukraine have killed three people, forced hundreds from their homes and cut off villages in western regions,… …read more Source:: U.S....

    America’s Uniquely Humiliating Moment
    Jun24

    America’s Uniquely Humiliating Moment

    “He hated America very deeply,” John le Carré wrote of his fictional Soviet mole, Bill Haydon, in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Haydon had just been unmasked as a double agent at the heart of Britain’s secret service, one whose treachery was motivated by animus, not so much to England but to America. “It’s an aesthetic judgment as much...

    The Contagion of Trump’s Failures
    Jun23

    The Contagion of Trump’s Failures

    By the time Attorney General William Barr tried to fire Geoffrey Berman, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, over the weekend, the Department of Justice had become an extension of the financial and political interests of President Donald Trump. No act of politicization was too blatant for the country’s top...