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NATO Is Expanding Its Reach
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NATO Is Expanding Its Reach

Gorana Grgic Senior Lecturer, Department of Government and International Relations and US Studies Centre University of Sydney Since Russia invaded Ukraine last year, NATO meetings and summits have been receiving significantly more attention compared to previous years. And there are several big-ticket items on the agenda at the upcoming summit

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Why Not a Global Ban?

Why Not a Global Ban?

The U.S. Banned Farmers From Using a Brain-Harming Pesticide on Food. Why Has It Slowed a Global Ban? by Sharon Lerner ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. On his first day in

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Is it Bad News or Good News?

Duggan Flanakin Duggan Flanakin is a Senior Policy Analyst with the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow. A former Senior Fellow with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Mr Flanakin authored definitive works on the creation of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and on environmental education in Texas. cfact.org Reports

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NZ Gets Ready to Embrace NATO

Geoffrey Miller Geoffrey Miller is the Democracy Project’s geopolitical analyst and writes on current New Zealand foreign policy and related geopolitical issues. He has lived in Germany and the Middle East and is a learner of Arabic and Russian. He is currently working on a PhD on New Zealand’

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And the Devil Rides Out
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And the Devil Rides Out

Harry Palmer It’s a great puzzle, and I’m probably going to go to my grave not knowing how it happened. What’s got me intrigued is how, ever since the 1960s, so many people have become so unquestioning of those elected to run the country for them and

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Defending freedom in Ukraine? What freedom?

Defending freedom in Ukraine? What freedom?

We know that the Masters of War lied about the Gulf of Tonkin in order to rev up the Vietnam War. We know they lied about “Weapons of Mass Destruction” to drag us into Iraq. We know that they’ve lied and lied and lied about one war after another.

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India Could Soon Be the World’s Third Biggest Economy

India Could Soon Be the World’s Third Biggest Economy

Rahul Sen Auckland University of Technology India’s economy has emerged as a bright spot in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Currently the fifth largest global economy, it is predicted to become the third largest by 2030. It is expected India will contribute 15.4% to global economic growth

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UN Report Says Free Speech Is Violence

UN Report Says Free Speech Is Violence

Joe Schaeffer Political Columnist at LibertyNation.com Joe Schaeffer is a veteran journalist with 20+ years’ experience. He spent 15 years with The Washington Times, including 8+ years as Managing Editor of the newspaper’s popular National Weekly Edition. Striving to be a natural health nut, he considers staring at

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Fear in the City of Westminster

CJ Hopkins consentfactory.org Our descent into City Airport was like the drop-ship scene in the movie Aliens. The BA CityFlyer Embraer 190, a narrow-body twin-engine airliner, rolled over into a 40-degree bank and started bucking like a mechanical bull. Simulated “chimes” began chiming frantically. Flight attendants bolted for their

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What Will It Take to Counter China in the Pacific?

Dave Patterson National Security Correspondent at LibertyNation.Com. Dave is a retired U.S. Air Force Pilot with over 180 combat missions in Vietnam. He is the former Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense, Comptroller and has served in executive positions in the private sector aerospace and defense industry. In

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Czech President Wants West to ‘Monitor’ Russians

Tyler Durden ronpaulinstitute.org Czech President Petr Pavel just took anti-Russian xenophobia to a new level, saying this week that he’s in favor of Russians living in Western countries being “monitored” by authorities, akin to what happened with Japanese people living in the United States during World War II.

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Saudi Arabia Wants a ‘Nuclear Aramco’ – Why?

Saudi Arabia Wants a ‘Nuclear Aramco’ – Why?

Ran Porat Affiliate Research Associate, Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Monash University lens.monash.edu US Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Riyadh at the beginning of June to bargain with the Saudis over a package of concessions to be granted to the kingdom in exchange for normalisation of relations

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What Now of the Ukrainian Counterattack?

Moon of Alabama ronpaulinstitute.org On June 4/5 the Ukrainian military launched its long announced counteroffensive in southeast Ukraine. Ten days later there is no significant progress. This is not the outcome the war propagandists expected: [General Petreus] spoke about the situation in Ukraine to BBC Radio 4’s

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Why Do Governments Keep Pushing CBDCs?

Peter St Onge Peter St Onge is a Mises Institute associated scholar and an Economic Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation. St Onge received his PhD from George Mason University and was a 2014 Mises Institute Research Fellow. mises.org Governments worldwide are trying to replace cash with CBDCs, and

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A Q&A on the WHO and IHR

A Q&A on the WHO and IHR

David Bell David Bell, Senior Scholar at Brownstone Institute, is a public health physician and biotech consultant in global health. Thi Thuy Van Dinh Dr Thi Thuy Van Dinh (LLM, PhD) worked on international law in the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and the Office of the High

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Where Will Products Come From?

Where Will Products Come From?

Ronald Stein Ronald Stein is an engineer, senior policy advisor on energy literacy for CFACT and co-author of the Pulitzer Prize nominated book Clean Energy Exploitations. cfact.org Just for electricity from EV batteries and the electricity occasionally generated from wind turbines and solar panels, the World Bank estimates that

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