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By David Swanson / World Beyond War.

By David Mandel / Socialist Project.
This article examines the bases of popular support for recently re-elected Russian president Vladimir Putin. Although this support is strenuously “cultivated” by the regime by various illicit means, it nevertheless has a genuine basis that needs to be understood by people on the left who are trying to develop an enlightened position in the escalating confrontation between the “West” and Russia.

No women at the table
By James M. Dorsey / Mid-East Soccer.
In his effort to improve Saudi Arabia’s badly tarnished image and project the kingdom as embracing an unidentified form of moderate Islam, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has hinted that he envisions a conservative rather than an ultra-conservative society, but not one in which citizens are fully free to make personal, let alone political choices of their own.

Indeed, partly because it has no prying co-op board, Trump Tower in New York has received press attention for including among its many honest residents tax-dodgers, bribers, arms dealers, convicted cocaine traffickers, and corrupt former FIFA officials.65

By James M. Dorsey / Mid-East Soccer.
Steep commercial terms for China’s investment in infrastructure projects across Eurasia related to its Belt and Road initiative may give it control of key ports and other assets as recipients of Beijing’s largess find themselves trapped in debt. Yet, that comes with a risky price tag: potentially rising anti-Chinese sentiment, questioning of Chinese intentions, and a tarnishing of the image China is seeking to cultivate.

By Sean Sweeney / Socialist Project.

By James S. Henry / The American Interest.

Did the American people really know they were putting such a "well-connected" guy in the White House?

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers / Popular Resistance

By Robert Scheer / Alternet.
"They drank the Kool-Aid and thought they were saving freedom"

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