Category: Modern Politics
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President Biden’s plan to turn Ukraine into an Oil Pump for the EU.
Much is said about why the U.S. is involved in War in Ukraine. Since armed conflict that started in 2014 in the aftermath of the Ukrainian Revolution of 2014, which led to the ousting of the pro-Russian president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych. Russian-backed separatists in the Donbass region of Ukraine, which includes the Donetsk and…
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Mexico President Rejects ‘Irresponsible’ Calls for US Military Action Against Cartels
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Thursday rebuked calls from some U.S. lawmakers advocating military action in Mexico against drug cartels, describing the proposals as threats to Mexican sovereignty. “We are not going to permit any foreign government to intervene in our territory, much less that a government’s armed forces intervene,” Lopez Obrador said…
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Biden urged not to approve oil terminals that could create ‘carbon bombs’.
Joe Biden’s administration has been urged not to sink its own climate goals by approving an unprecedented ramp-up of oil export infrastructure off the Texas coast that could result in planet-heating emissions equivalent to three years of the US’s entire emissions output.
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Sweden has developed herd immunity after refusing to lock down, experts claim. Its coronavirus infection rate is falling
Leading Swedish health experts claim the country has a falling coronavirus infection rate because it was one of the few that didn’t go into lockdown and has rejected the use of masks. Arne Elofsson, a professor in biometrics at Stockholm University, thinks the population has developed a form of immunity: “Strict rules do not work…
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Republicans look to use convention as election test bed
Republicans are aiming to use this week’s national convention as a test bed for their efforts to reelect President Donald Trump, just weeks before the start of early voting. The Republican National Committee plans to hold more than 7,500 events across the country — the majority of them in person — as part of a…
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Trump hits Biden over guns, schools and police at campaign stop in Pennsylvania
President Donald Trump delivered a wide-ranging political indictment of Joe Biden on Thursday in a speech near his Democratic challenger’s Pennsylvania birthplace, just hours before Biden accepts his party’s nomination for president. The president delivered his remarks at a building products company in Old Forge, Pa., about a 10 miles from Scranton, where Biden was born and grew up. Trump, who originally…
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Biden touts ‘Recovery’ in speech at DNC
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden will seek to unite the American public around his candidacy Thursday, using his convention address to portray the country as resilient and hopeful after three days in which party luminaries lambasted President Trump. Mr. Biden’s remarks—in which he will formally accept the Democratic presidential nomination, three decades after he first…
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U.S. says Maduro blocking Americans from leaving Venezuela
The government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is blocking U.S. citizens in the country from leaving, rebuffing efforts by Washington to arrange humanitarian evacuation flights, a State Department spokeswoman said on Thursday. “We have made offers in the past that would allow U.S. citizens to leave, but all were rejected by Maduro and his cronies,”…
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Liz Cheney condemns QAnon conspiracy
House Republican Conference Chairwoman Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) denounced the far-right QAnon conspiracy theory as a “dangerous lunacy,” becoming the highest-ranking GOP lawmaker to condemn it. Cheney’s comment came one day after President Trump told reporters that he doesn’t “know much about the movement other than I understand they like me very much, which I appreciate.”…