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Deadly Memes: Tyler Robinson’s Far-Right ‘Groyper’ Ties
Despite initial reports and President Trump’s claim that the suspect in the murder of Charlie Kirk was a ‘leftist’, two pieces of evidence point the other way
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The Trump Administration’s Partisan Global Human Rights Report Will Have ‘Devastating Consequences’
The Trump administration’s attempts to downplay human rights abuses globally suggests they want to make it easier to violate them domestically, argues Alexandra Hall Hall
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The Turning Point Takeover: The Growing Network Bringing Trump’s Politics to the UK
The Women’s Safety Initiative is getting more attention, but its ideological underpinnings deserve serious scrutiny, reports Katherine Denkinson
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Paying to Play: Europe’s Costly Concessions in Trump’s New Trade War
The US-EU trade deal is a “hopelessly one-sided” agreement, which will ultimately harm the economy on both sides of the Atlantic, argues Simon Nixon
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‘Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill Act Is a Ticking Time Bomb for Elder Homelessness’
The number of homeless Americans over 50 is expected to triple by 2030 as Trump unveils massive cuts to social safety net programmes, reports Mary O’Hara
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‘What Trump’s Ukraine U-Turn Really Tells Us About His Psychology’
Trump’s shift from betraying Ukraine to turning on Putin reveals a lot about the man and his Presidency, argues George Llewelyn
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Americans Oppose Trump Joining Israel-Iran War and Do Not See the Iranian Nuclear Program as an Immediate Threat
New polling suggests that voters do not want the President to further involve the US in the Middle East conflict
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Raining on his Parade: Trump’s Military Blunder
A clear majority of Americans are opposed to the US President’s army parade, and his handling of immigration and the economy
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‘Donald Trump’s Los Angeles Military Deployment Is an Assault on American Democracy’
It’s time to shake off our ‘Trump denial syndrome’ and wake up to the clear and present danger posed by the President, argues Alexandra Hall Hall
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‘Why We Must Call the National-Populist Far Right by Its Name’
The centre left should stop being afraid of accurately describing and countering the global far right threat we now face, argue Jon Bloomfield and David Edgar
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‘America Is Ignoring the Warning Signs of Giving Up Its Commitment to Fighting Human Rights Abuses – At Home and Abroad’
The Trump administration appears concerned that it would be hypocritical to criticise governments abroad for doing things which it would like to do in the US, writes Washington-based Alexandra Hall Hall
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What People Really Think of Trump’s First 100 Days in Office
Despite distain for many of Trump’s policies, Independent voters still don’t think the Democrats are the answer
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The Beginning of the End or ‘Trump 2028’? 100 Days of an Unprecedented Presidency
There may be a far more sinister motive for Donald Trump to go as far as to try to violate the constitutional ban on running for a third term, writes Washington-based Alexandra Hall Hall
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‘Trump’s War on Academic Institutions Is Even Worse Than You Think’
This is the greatest assault on academic freedoms in generations, argues Emma DeSouza
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Power, Visas, and the Politics of Exclusion: How Borders Are Being Used to Silence Dissent
Borders are now being used not just to prevent the passage of people, but of ideas too, argues Iain Overton
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Trump’s ‘Devastatingly Incompetent’ Attempts at Negotiating an End to the Ukraine War
In his latest dispatch from Kyiv, Chris York details how Trump’s ‘Art of the Deal’ just isn’t working
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Trump’s Persecution Projection: the Tyranny Escalates
Alexandra Hall Hall exposes Trump’s increasing attacks on free speech and his weaponising the judicial system against former officials who have been critical
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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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Blue Labour on MAGA Square: Maurice Glasman’s Journey to Trumpism
Jon Bloomfield and David Edgar look at the nationalist populist drift of Labour’s anti-progressive tendency
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Farage Celebrates Securing Clacton ‘Free Port’ Coup as Part of US-UK Trade Deal
True purpose of the Reform Leader’s visits to Washington revealed as Trump-backed plans to transform the Essex coastline into the ’51st State’ are unveiled
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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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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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Dazed and Confused: How the World Must Respond to Trump’s Assault on the Global Trading System
Former EU Trade Negotiator John Clarke on how to counter the method behind the madness of current US trade policy
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Starmer’s Moment of Truth: ‘Britain Must Align Itself with Europe’s Regulated Capitalism and Collective Security’
The PM’s pronouncement that Britain need not choose between the US and Europe is ‘downright reckless’ and an ‘exercise in dangerous delusion’, argues Clive Lewis
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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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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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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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‘Reform’s Policies Are Dangerously Out of Step With Public Opinion and It’s Time the Media Started Scrutinising Them’
The British press has given Nigel Farage’s party a free ride for too long, argues Salman Shaheen
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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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‘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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‘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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‘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
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It’s Not Ukraine that Needs DeNazifaction: US Far-Right Operatives in Kyiv
Why was Jack Posobiec, who has spread baseless Russian propaganda about the country, accompanying a US Treasury delegation visit to Ukraine?
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Trump’s Middle East Riviera: What Next for Gaza?
Even if Jordan and Egypt somehow agreed to a US take over Gaza, who would physically remove 2.5 million Palestinians? Trump’s proposal is pure fantasy – but what does it reveal?
