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Putin’s confidence in winning the war, not just in Ukraine.
Yesterday was the day of the funeral of Alexei Nevalny… A sombre affair with thousands queueing to pay their respects. They stood in silence holding onto flowers and entered the Orthodox church while being monitored by the state security forces. There was no family apart from Navalny’s parents. Alexei Navalny’s wife was in Europe, doing her…
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Ukraine 2 years on
It is two years since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the meat-grinder that is the war – is not slowing down. Advika, is the latest town to fall to Russia. But Ukraine with a shortage of ammunition held back by the US Congress’, due to their inability to differentiate right from wrong; Congress are now electioneering for the…
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End of Alex Navalny… thank you for making me laugh.
Alexei Navalny, found his poisoner, he confronted him and questioned his technique. It was just a few drops of a Novichok type of substance on his underpants that led to him being put into a coma. A flight to Germany, a three week coma and waking up in another country was the price of life.…
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Middle East in conflict
In an article by editor in chief of Haaretz, Aluf Benn, tells the story of Roi Rotberg, a man patrolling the fields of kibbutz Nahal. He had been taken by Palestinians and was horribly tortured, his eyes were poked out and the body was found on the Gaza side of the border. He told this…
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The rise of political populism
There is a worrying trend worldwide and that is the movement away from mainstream politics towards populist politics. What makes populism so dominant as a narrative can be underpinned by a disconnect between the politician and the electorate. The disenfranchised electorate argue that they have not been heard and that they are being ignored by…
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Is US intelligence being undone by the isolationists in US Congress.
The rise of intelligence agencies activities is not much of a surprise, but the movement into the realm of technology is a spate that worries those who remember Edward Snowdon and Julian Assange’s warnings of mission creep. That William Burns, the head of the Central Intelligence Agency is writing in this weeks Foreign Affairs, tells…
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