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Lula is entering the final stretch of Brazil’s most contested election, showing the intelligence and energy that define the country’s leading political figure, an asset that is beyond dispute in

On September 29, 2026, President Trump convened the chief executives of several of the world’s most powerful technology companies at the White House and announced a voluntary AI-safety accord: The

You’ve almost certainly been inside Palantir’s machinery without knowing it. Palantir Technologies was born from CIA venture money and is chaired by Peter Thiel — the man who once wrote

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In 1960, the US economist Walt Whitman Rostow published The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto. The subtitle revealed the book’s purpose. Rostow did not merely describe economic development;

On September 21, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government introduced legislation that could amount to one of the most significant rollbacks of workers’ rights in Canada since the creation of

On 20 September, South Korea’s Lee Administration stated that, contrary to foreign media coverage, it had not rejected Trump’s request for support in the Strait of Hormuz. The New York

Let Me Walk in Beauty O Great Spirit,whose voice I hear in the windsand whose breath gives life to all the world,hear me.I am small and weak.I need your strength

As the Left epitomized by the Democratic Socialists of America resurges and Marxist thought returns to the fore, as a real force, not simply as a bogeyman; as the Midterms

Five men, initially detained on suspicion of committing offences under the Explosives Act, then arrested on suspicion of preparation of a terrorist act.  Residents of 85 households in the Cotswolds

What is happening in Ethiopia is no longer adequately described as another round of the Tigray war. The fighting grew out of questions that Pretoria stopped but never resolved, and

For decades, the architecture of West Asia has rested on a comforting fiction: that Pax Americana could indefinitely manage the region through the policy of offshore balancing, security guarantees to

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