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WP: 10 options if Democrats actually try to replace Biden

9:09 30.06.2024

WP: 10 options if Democrats actually try to replace Biden

The Democratic Party has spent much of the 2024 campaign burying its head in the sand over Americans’ concerns about President Biden’s age and mental sharpness. Rather than reckon with the problem, its most influential voices have cast it as an overblown media construct. But the party abruptly jerked its …

‘The New York Times’ Editorial Board: “To serve his country, President Biden should leave the race”

9:08 30.06.2024

‘The New York Times’ Editorial Board: “To serve his country, President Biden should leave the race”

President Biden has repeatedly and rightfully described the stakes in this November’s presidential election as nothing less than the future of American democracy, insists the Editorial Board of ‘The New York Times’. Mr. Biden has said that he is the candidate with the best chance of taking on this threat …

Matteo Salvini on EU summit appointments: “What is happening smells like a coup”

9:08 30.06.2024

Matteo Salvini on EU summit appointments: “What is happening smells like a coup”

“What is happening” regarding personnel appointments in the leadership of the European Union “smells like a coup,” said the leader of the Italian League and Deputy Prime Minister of the Italian Government Matteo Salvini (photo). “Millions of Europeans voted and called for changing Europe. What do those who make the …

Sergey Lavrov: “The West should wait until this madness subsides… When they think they are ready, they should come to us. We will listen to them and respond, but our reaction will depend…”

21:00 29.06.2024

Sergey Lavrov: “The West should wait until this madness subsides… When they think they are ready, they should come to us. We will listen to them and respond, but our reaction will depend…”

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks and answers to questions at the Primakov Readings International Forum, Moscow, June 26, 2024: “Mr Dynkin, Colleagues, Your Excellencies, Friends, I am happy to be able to address you at the 10th Primakov Readings forum. Your respected platform traditionally brings together politicians, experts, diplomats, academics …

The end of the petrodollar is the end of America’s global dominance

10:24 29.06.2024

The end of the petrodollar is the end of America’s global dominance

The petrodollar agreement with Saudi Arabia began in 1974, two years into Joe Biden’s first term as a United States senator. It ended, a half-century later, during Biden’s first term as U.S. president, writes ‘The Federalist’. Among all the news stories that matter, few rank higher than this. It’s bigger …

View from Washington: Putin’s peace offer. The Biden administration might try to use it

10:22 29.06.2024

View from Washington: Putin’s peace offer. The Biden administration might try to use it

Putin’s proposal seems designed for rejection. But the U.S. should not reject his peace feelers out of hand, notes James W. Carden, a contributing editor to ‘The American Conservative’ and a former adviser to the U.S. State Department. Russian president Vladimir Putin laid out a series of conditions that he …

A museum in Oxford will conduct a research project into the 'political nature' of milk and its 'colonial legacies'

10:21 29.06.2024

A museum in Oxford will conduct a research project into the 'political nature' of milk and its 'colonial legacies'

Now experts are asking whether milk is racist as part of a tax-payer funded research project into connections between milk and colonialism? Academics at a museum in Oxford will conduct a tax-payer funded research project into the 'political nature' of milk and its 'colonial legacies.' The History of Science Museum …

Western press: “Biden's horrific 'car crash' debate performance”

10:18 29.06.2024

Western press: “Biden's horrific 'car crash' debate performance”

The Democratic party has been thrown into a full-blown panic about the 2024 general election by a disastrous debate performance from a meandering and mumbling Joe Biden. Behind the scenes there are calls to replace the 81-year-old president on the ticket after his dismal showing against Donald Trump on Thursday …

Senior Russian diplomat: Risks of direct armed clash between nuclear powers as high

11:13 28.06.2024

Senior Russian diplomat: Risks of direct armed clash between nuclear powers as high

Senior Russian diplomat sees risks of direct armed clash between nuclear powers as high. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov (photo) also said Western opponents deliberately make unacceptable conditions for security talks with Moscow. The risks of a direct armed clash between nuclear powers are currently high, Sergey Ryabkov said, …

Is it a “democracy”? Instead of 373 million European citizens, just a group ‘making the decisions’ in EU is far smaller – only six negotiators agreed on the trio of EU leaders!

11:13 28.06.2024

Is it a “democracy”? Instead of 373 million European citizens, just a group ‘making the decisions’ in EU is far smaller – only six negotiators agreed on the trio of EU leaders!

Millions of people vote in a European election and then 6 people work out a deal on the EU’s next leadership, notes POLITICO. When cardinals select a new pope after backroom negotiations in the Vatican, they send out a cloud of white smoke. When EU leaders meet in Brussels to …

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