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[l] at 11/11/24 9:31am
The month's archives. - 2024/11 / perspective
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[l] at 11/8/24 5:24am
In 1989, East German youth tore down the Berlin Wall, dreaming of freedom and prosperity. However, the reform programme that was soon imposed on them had devastating effects, comparable to those of war. In English, ‘to gaslight' is a transitive verb. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines it as the ‘psychological manipulation of a person usually over an extended period of time that causes the victim to question the validity of their own thoughts, perception of reality, or memories'. If you (...) - 2024/11 / article, Exclusive
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[l] at 11/5/24 8:13am
The incumbent vice president Kamala Harris wants to ‘turn the page on the last decade'. This seems to concede that the period between 2014-2024 was more marked by her rival, the Republican Donald Trump, than by the achievements of her own administration or that of Barack Obama. The sentiment is a little unfair to Joe Biden — and, incidentally, to Harris herself — who has a decent track record on economic issues. It is more justified in the case of the US's first African American president. (...) - Outside in / Comment
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[l] at 11/3/24 4:00pm
Russia's economy, and its people, have weathered the Ukraine war better than predicted, but resilience has limits. Though still claiming that ‘all war aims will be achieved', Vladimir Putin now faces stark choices about its endgame. - 2024/10 / article
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[l] at 10/30/24 1:23am
With arbitrary arrests and plans for mass expulsions, Israel's far-right government is using the war against Hamas as cover for settling the Palestinian question once and for all, in Gaza and the West Bank. - 2024/11 / article
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[l] at 10/30/24 1:23am
Egypt and the Arab Gulf states have condemned Israel's onslaught on Gaza and Lebanon but, rhetoric aside, have been content to sit on their hands. Each has its own strategic agenda and future to consider. - 2024/11 / article
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[l] at 10/30/24 1:23am
It's now so discredited that no one dares speak its name. When the European Union launched ‘excessive deficit procedures' against seven countries in June, demanding they take corrective action or face sanctions, the commissioner for economy Paolo Gentiloni insisted it had nothing to do with austerity. True, he conceded, Brussels was demanding the affected countries make efforts after the generosity shown during Covid, but ‘prudence in spending, which is obligatory for countries with high (...) - 2024/11 / editorial
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[l] at 10/30/24 1:23am
US consulting firms make vast profits advising foreign governments. A Senate committee scrutinises their business model in advance of legislation that could see them classed as ‘foreign agents'. - 2024/11 / article
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[l] at 10/30/24 1:23am
AI sees humans as rational economic actors, and its early promises of benefiting humanity quickly switched to creating marketable products. - 2024/11 / article, 2024/11 AI
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[l] at 10/30/24 1:23am
AI doesn't just pose the technological challenge of creating ever more sophisticated models to do our bidding. There are profound political choices, too, that shouldn't be left to Silicon Valley. - 2024/11 / article
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[l] at 10/30/24 1:23am
Theories, speculation and rumour have surrounded the attack on the Nord Stream pipelines since they were blown up in 2022. If, as seems very likely, the trail does not lead back to Moscow, then where does it lead? - 2024/11 / article, 2024/11 AI
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[l] at 10/30/24 1:23am
As president, Joe Biden strove to reorientate the US economy towards workers and unions, and reestablish party links with the working class. Was it enough to win Kamala Harris their votes? - 2024/11 / article
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[l] at 10/30/24 1:23am
US auto workers have taken industrial action, as have workers at Boeing, big hotel chains and ports. - 2024/11 / article
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[l] at 10/30/24 1:23am
Hizbullah's leader Hassan Nasrallah was an intelligent but divisive figure in Middle Eastern politics. His killing was a severe blow to the organisation he led, and a significant act in the spiral to all-out war. - 2024/11 / article
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[l] at 10/30/24 1:23am
As its large-scale bombing campaign expands to more cities, how far will Israel go to destroy hold on Lebanon? It is stoking the flames of sectarian conflict and reviving the spectre of civil war. - 2024/11 / article
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[l] at 10/30/24 1:23am
Hanan Abdel Rahman Abu Salama was 59. On 17 October she was harvesting olives in Faqqua ‒ a village in the northern part of the West Bank, about 15km from Jenin ‒ when she was fatally shot in the back. The Palestinian mother was on her own land; the shooter wore an Israeli uniform. Just a day earlier, a group of UN experts had urged the Israeli government to ‘refrain from interfering with this year's olive harvest', a critical income source for around 100,000 Palestinian families in the occupied (...) - 2024/11 / box
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[l] at 10/30/24 1:23am
Israel has devastated Gaza and eliminated key enemy leaders in Hamas and Hizbullah. But will Netanyahu give up on his aim of involving the US in all-out war against Iran?  - 2024/11 / article
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[l] at 10/27/24 5:00pm
Commentators wrote off Iran's drone and missile attack on Israel last month as an attempted show of strength that revealed weakness. That misreads the dynamics of a complex and volatile situation. - 2024/05 / article
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[l] at 10/27/24 5:00pm
Famously, when power last changed hands in the UK in 2010, Labour left the incoming Conservatives a note that read ‘There's no money left'. As a hopeful Keir Starmer prepares to form his new government, what's the state of the nation? - 2024/07 / article
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[l] at 10/23/24 4:00pm
Was Iran behind Hamas's onslaught on Israel? According to the Wall Street Journal (8 October) which only quotes anonymous sources from Hamas and Hizbullah, Tehran gave the green light for ‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood'. Iran's leaders deny this, while praising the Hamas attacks and urging ‘continued resistance' to Israel. In the US, a number of Republican and Democratic politicians have called for fresh sanctions on Iran. There's just one question: if the Islamic Republic was behind the attack, why (...) - 2023/11 / article, 2023/11 Gaza
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[l] at 10/13/24 4:00pm
After narrowly surviving an assassin's bullet, Donald Trump seemed almost invincible. But since Kamala Harris replaced Joe Biden, Trump's routine has begun to look stale and his campaign faltering. - 2024/09 / article

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