Opinion | Dick Cheney and the Fruits of Regime Change
He has largely proved right about Iraq and the broader Middle East. Barton Swaim Source link
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Opinion | The Brains Behind Ukraine’s Pink Flamingo Cruise Missile
Kyiv, Ukraine If politics makes strange bedfellows, war sometimes makes strange career paths. In her 20s, Iryna Terekh was a “very artsy” architect who viewed the arms industry…
Read more Opinion | The Brains Behind Ukraine’s Pink Flamingo Cruise MissileNovember 7 as Victims of Communism Day – 2025
Bones of tortured prisoners. Kolyma Gulag, USSR (Nikolai Nikitin, Tass). (NA) NOTE: The following post is largely adapted from last year’s November 7 post on the same subject.…
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This is part of Reason‘s 2025 summer travel issue. Click here to read the rest of the issue. The people of Georgia might well be the first folks who ever got properly wine-drunk.…
Read more Georgia: The possible birthplace of wine and definite birthplace of StalinRussian disinformation slams Paris and amplifies Khelif debate to undermine the Olympics
WASHINGTON (AP) — The actor in the viral music video denouncing the 2024 Olympics looks a lot like French President Emmanuel Macron. The images of rats, trash and…
Read more Russian disinformation slams Paris and amplifies Khelif debate to undermine the OlympicsRussian media throw shade at Paris Olympics, which TV won’t show
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Watching the Paris Olympics will be difficult for most people in Russia — and in the view of its media, it’s not really worth…
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Remembering Lenin – the First Great Communist Mass Murderer
Vladimir Lenin (Soviet propaganda poster). (NA) Today is the 100th anniversary of the death of Vladimir Lenin, the first leader of the Soviet Union, the world’s first communist…
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How British libel law lets bad people get away with bad things
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. LONDON — In May last year, my phone buzzed with a message from a contact in the…
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Russia warns US that Ukraine will be its ‘second Vietnam’
The Kremlin’s spy chief Sergei Naryshkin warned the U.S. that Ukraine will turn into its “second Vietnam,” amid disagreement in Congress over funding for Kyiv. “Ukraine will turn…
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Ukraine says Israel-Hamas war shows West must ramp up arms production
BERLIN — Facing war on two fronts — in Ukraine and in the Middle East — Kyiv is calling on Western democracies to ramp up investment in weapons, saying…
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EU, Russia and US held secret talks days before Nagorno-Karabakh blitz
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. Top officials from the United States and the EU met with their Russian counterparts for undisclosed emergency…
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Deal ‘with the devil’: Meet the Cubans who’ve joined Russia’s war on Ukraine
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. What César really wanted was to get out of Cuba. A bartender struggling to make ends meet…
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The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict explained
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. Fierce firefights and heavy shelling echo once again around the mountains of Nagorno-Karabakh, an isolated region at…
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Putin exposes the myth of Austria’s victimhood
VIENNA — No one does victimhood quite like Austria. Over the past century, the Central European country has presented itself to the outside world as an innocent bystander…
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‘Just a temporary blip’: Chinese travelers will be back, says Banyan Tree founder
Chinese travelers are returning to Banyan Tree Holdings hotels, it’s founder told CNBC. Christian Heeb| Prisma By Dukas | Universal Images Group | Getty Images A dearth of…
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Is nuclear energy the answer to a sustainable future? Experts are divided
Nuclear power has been touted as a proven, safe way of producing clean energy, but why isn’t it more widely adopted? Sean Gallup | Getty Images News |…
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Facing threat of Trump’s return, Ukrainians ramp up homegrown arms industry
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. KYIV — Ukraine’s long-range Beaver drones seem to be making successful kamikaze strikes in the heart of…
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Russia shoots for the moon as space race against US heats up
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. Despite war and sanctions, Vladimir Putin is trying to haul Russia back into the space race. In…
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Sun, sea and sanctions evasion: Where Russians are spending the summer
Press play to listen to this article Voiced by artificial intelligence. Even as war rages in Ukraine, hundreds of thousands of Russians are eyeing popular holiday destinations for…
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Ukraine Replaces Soviet-Era Emblem On Towering Kyiv Monument
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The towering Mother Ukraine statue in Kyiv — one of the nation’s most recognizable landmarks — lost its hammer-and-sickle symbol on Sunday as officials…
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