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UK Government Criticised for Not Including Sudanese Voices at Conference on Sudan
The conference followed a weekend of brutal massacres of civilians by the RSF in refugee camps around Darfur
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An Urgent Warning to the West From the Ukrainian ‘Elves’ Fighting Russian Infiltration
Zarina Zabrisky speaks exclusively to Ukrainian officers from the ‘Elves’ unit about how Putin’s agents waged a decades-long hybrid war against their country
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True Grit: The Student Blockades in Serbia
Nicole Burgund reports from inside one of Europe’s most important protests
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Ten Britons Accused of Committing War Crimes In Gaza While Serving in the IDF
The British nationals are accused of murder, extermination, attacking civilians, and the forcible transfer of people
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Trump Family Looms Over Serbian Political Crisis
Jared Kushner wants to build a Trump tower in Belgrade, beleaguered Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić needs allies – will the deal be made?
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‘Trump is Recycling the Kremlin Playbook In Order to Take Over Greenland’
The ‘many similarities’ between the Trump administration and Putin’s autocratic regime
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Russia’s Murderous Ceasefires and Musk Admiration for Putin
In his latest dispatch from Kyiv, Chris York has tales of occupied territories, tariffs, stalled talks – and storks!
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How Nazi Race Science Conquered the White House, and is Coming for Your Democracy
One of the major ‘Dark Enlightenment’ influencers has stepped into the light, talking of the ‘negro problem’. Nafeez Ahmed explains how the Silicon Valley broligarchy has resurrected Nazi-inspired eugenics ideology and is already putting it into action
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Donald Trump’s Claim That Marine Le Pen’s Conviction is a ‘Witch Hunt’ Doesn’t Hold Up
Friends and opponents of the far-right French politician need to be honest about what her barring from the next Presidential election is really about, argues Olly Haynes
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From Jimmy Lai to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Families of Brits Detained Abroad Demand New Strategy Over ‘Hostage Diplomacy’
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s husband Richard tells Byline Times that the UK’s approach is leaving vulnerable Britons ‘left behind’
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Russian Interference: Some Good News for Once – Journalism Can Make a Difference
The Labour Government has finally been true to its word on a ‘foreign agents registration’ scheme, six years on from Byline Times campaigning for it
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Moscow’s Ties to the Georgian Regime Ran Through Kensington and Chelsea
Leaked documents reveal how UK firm Hunnewell Partners, controlled by alleged enablers of Georgia’s ruling oligarch, facilitated a top Putin crony’s attempts to exploit the collapse of a more than $1.5bn corruption scheme in Uzbekistan
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‘Israel’s Genocide in Gaza is the Fatal Flaw in Starmer’s European Alternative to Trump and Putin’
If we are to build a broad consensus in Europe against Trump, we need to bring Palestine into equal focus with Ukraine, argues Martin Shaw
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Deadly Lies: Ukraine on Tenterhooks as Putin and Trump Talk of Truces
In his latest dispatch, Chris York reports on overnight attacks on Kyiv, Trump’s diplomacy and the latest drone and media manoeuvres
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‘Welcome to Soviet America’
The return of Donald Trump to the White House has exposed the need for major reform of the US political and constitutional system
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‘Russia Will Be Hungry for More if Europe Doesn’t Unite to Protect Ukraine’
Defending Ukraine without the US will be complex, costly and politically challenging – but there is simply no alternative, argues Jacob Öberg
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Musk’s DOGE Is Inspired by Pro-Kremlin Monarchists and 1930s Technofascism
Musk’s top DOGE operative is linked to a Russian American network of anti-West pro-Kremlin monarchists inspired by the 1930s counter-democracy “Technocracy” movement, of which Musk’s grandfather was a member
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The ‘Gag Order’: Trump Comes to Bury Free Speech, Not Defend It
The most sinister instances of censorship and repression are happening in America right here, right now
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Guerrilla Ad Campaign Attacks UK Government For Doing Trade Talks with Israel ‘War Criminals’
Anonymous activists plaster adverts on Tube trains showing Foreign Secretary David Lammy with “war criminal” Israeli PM Netanyahu
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Populist Simplicity in a Hyper-Complex World: Will Trump Overplay His Hand?
Hardeep Matharu dissects what the now infamous Oval Office meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky revealed about the American President’s approach – and speaks to political scientist Brian Klaas about why his ‘alternative realities’ don’t stack up against real-world complexities
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Trump’s Mob Rule: An Offer We Can Only Refuse
If Europeans come from Venus, Peter Jukes observes, it’s only because they are aware (unlike Elon Musk) of the bleak devastation of Mars
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The Brutalist: How Europe Can Respond to Trump’s New World Order
For all its chaos in operation, Trump’s regime has a strategic rationale and must be fought strategically, argues Jon Bloomfield
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One Hundred Days of Protests: Georgia on the Crossroads between East and West
Zarina Zabrisky explores the cultural and political tensions of a country caught in the crossfire of global conflict
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Keir Starmer’s ‘Geo-Political Minefield’ Between Donald Trump and Europe
With Starmer thrust into a damage limitation exercise by the Ukraine crisis, Chris Painter reflects on the fluctuating relations between British Prime Ministers and American Presidents.
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Clouds Darken Over Ukraine: But Is There a Sliver of a Silver Lining?
In his regular dispatch from Kyiv, Chris York explains how US actions feel like a complete betrayal in the interests of Putin
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For Ukrainian Survivors of Putin’s War, Donald Trump is Yet Another Threat to Their Lives
“Let the Trumpists come and spend a few days [here] and feel, hear, and see how Putin ‘wants peace’” a mother of a fallen Ukrainian soldier tells Kris Parker
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Caught in the Net: Star Wars Tactics and Geopolitical Struggles in Kherson
An exclusive Byline Times interview with Oleksandr Prokudin, Head of the Kherson Regional Military Administration
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Holocaust Survivor Summoned for Police Interview Over Gaza Solidarity Protest
Stephen Kapos, 87, is among dozens of activists interviewed or charged by police for their part in the January 18th pro-Palestine protest in London
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‘It’s Time to End the Trump Denialism and Admit the US Is No Longer Europe’s Ally’
Keir Starmer’s attempts to be an “honest broker” with Donald Trump are doomed to failure, argues Adam Bienkov
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‘Trump’s Embrace of Putin Should Push the UK Back Towards the EU’
The UK must accept that its economic and political interests now lean heavily towards Europe, argues Richard Barfield
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Fear and Favour: What Does Trump Owe Putin? Maybe His Life
With the increasingly bizarre compliance of the US President to the Russian President, Zarina Zabrisky wonders if the KGB/FSB tradition of assassination and mafia-style intimidation may be key
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How the German Elections Were ‘Successfully Manipulated’ By Foreign Actors and AI-Generated Content
Social media posts using generative AI were widely circulated by far-right supporters and the AfD
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Trump’s War on ‘Woke’ and DEI: Incubated by a Nazi Eugenics Foundation
Mainstream American conservative icons Christopher Rufo, Peter Boghossian, and Richard Hanania – who inspired Trump’s assault on diversity – were bankrolled by the funder of a Nazi eugenics foundation
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Why Releasing Alaa Abdel Fattah Is the Right Thing to Do
Yasmine Ahmed talks to Lala Soueif who has spent almost 150 days on hunger strike in protest over her son’s imprisonment in Egypt
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‘Blind Rearmament Won’t Counter the Threats from Putin and Trump’
With the US potentially allied to Russia over the fate of Ukraine, there needs to be a root and branch rethinking of British and European security
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Kemi Badenoch’s Foreign Policy: ‘Channelling Her Inner JD Vance’
The former senior diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall sees signs of Trumpist culture wars and a woeful lack of realism in the opposition leader’s foreign policy set piece speech
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Kemi Badenoch Calls for Trump’s ‘Foreign Interference’ in UK-Mauritius Chagos Islands Deal
The Conservative leader’s spokesman backed a “foreign power” intervening in the UK’s sovereign interests
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‘Trump’s New World Order: America Will Enable Authoritarians to Win’
The spread of war in Europe is now a greater possibility than it has been since the height of the Cold War, writes AC Grayling
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Will the US Celebrate the Third Anniversary of Russia’s Invasion by Betraying Ukraine?
Zarina Zabrisky explores Trump’s new alliance with Putin and the dark economic and ideological forces behind this new phase in the war
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‘F**k Trump’: Kyiv Faces the Darkest Hour
Chris York explores the mood in the capital as Ukrainians try to make sense of the US President’s support for the Kremlin
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‘Keir Starmer Must Accept These Hard Truths Before Meeting Donald Trump’
Before the Prime Minister heads to Washington he must wake up to the fact that the UK’s real allies may now lie elsewhere, argues UK diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall
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Donald Trump Was Recruited by the KGB Under Codename ‘Krasnov’ Claims Former Soviet Spy Chief
A former senior KGB chief claims Trump was recruited by them in 1987 due to his role as a prominent US businessman
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‘There Is Nothing ‘Natural’ About Donald Trump’s Predatory Exploitation of Ukraine’
The US President’s attempts to extort Ukraine for its natural resources, while abandoning its fate to Russia, is a return to the worst imperial politics of the past, argues Aleksandar Djokic
