Famine grips the country, but ruthless lawyers are smelling profit.
America and the World
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Afghanistan Exemplifies the Depravity of U.S. Foreign Policy
A nation of exceptional bullies and hypocrites
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How Biden Will Make Afghans Bleed
Joe Biden wants to unfreeze Afghanistan’s financial assets to hand them over to 9/11 families while Afghans themselves continue starving.
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Altercation: Right Answers Celebrated; Speaking Truths Not So Much
Jeopardy! champion Emma Saltzberg’s commitment to Israel-Palestine justice draws the ire of the organized American Jewish establishment.
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Putin and Bolsonaro: The Second Time as Farce?
Today on TAP: It’s not the Nazi-Soviet Pact, but their alliance is rotten nonetheless.
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Was Putin Inevitable?
How policy blunders under Bill Clinton and George W. Bush helped bring about a post-communist Russia hostile to democracy, free markets, and the West
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Distressed-Debt Hedge Funder Becomes CEO of New Development Bank
The new head of the Development Finance Corporation spent two decades at a Boston hedge fund that controlled nearly $1 billion in Puerto Rican debt.
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Altercation: The Times Goes AWOL on Amnesty and ‘Apartheid’
‘Apartheid’ is how an Amnesty International report last week characterized Israeli rule. Every group under the sun reacted, but there was no story in the Times.
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Congress Proposes $500 Million for Negative News Coverage of China
The effort to counter China’s ‘malign influence’ would fund negative coverage of China’s Belt and Road Initiative—while also beefing up the U.S.’s international lending.
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The Ukraine Crisis: Another Chapter in the Russian-American Carbon Rivalry
The U.S. and Russia have vied to serve Europe with energy since the 1940s. The current tensions in Ukraine must be viewed in that context.
