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Ukraine’s ‘Turning the tide’ narrative has already sunk
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Ukraine’s ‘Turning the tide’ narrative has already sunk
August 22, 2026

How the mainstream media spins each new failure as success – with Leonid Ragozin

Some shattering illusions of our declining empire
August 21, 2026

Americans are waking up to ugly truths.

Some shattering illusions of our declining empire
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America’s political divide is a strategic vulnerability
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America’s political divide is a strategic vulnerability
August 21, 2026

What I struggle to comprehend is the visceral contempt some Americans now direct at their fellow citizens. It is a hatred that feels familiar in intensity yet alien in origin, because it comes from within.

Poland shows how religion can be removed from public life without being banned
August 21, 2026

Administrative secularisation is quiet by design. Its instruments are technical; its consequences are not.

Poland shows how religion can be removed from public life without being banned
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Pentagon drafting new nuclear strategy to expand options for tactical nuclear weapons use
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Pentagon drafting new nuclear strategy to expand options for tactical nuclear weapons use
August 20, 2026

The strategy is being overseen by Elbridge Colby, the Pentagon’s policy chief, who has long called for the US to prepare to fight a “limited nuclear war”

Today in Dystopia: ‘We have cameras everywhere in that town’
August 20, 2026

All these wrongful arrests based on faulty Flock camera evidence is another illustration of the way people are making themselves dumber by outsourcing their thinking to machines.

Today in Dystopia: ‘We have cameras everywhere in that town’
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This mighty scourge of war
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This mighty scourge of war
August 19, 2026

Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, often described as a prose-poem for its surprising brevity and deep meaning, is the most moving work of political discourse I’ve ever read. In that short speech, Lincoln captured the horrific nature of war and the terrible burdens of an American history built literally on the backs of slaves.

Estonia rejects majority of Swedish prisoners
August 19, 2026

More than half of the prisoners that were to be transferred to Estonia as prisons are overcrowded in Sweden have been rejected over alleged gang links and concerns about radicalization.

Estonia rejects majority of Swedish prisoners
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