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Will a Documentary Take Down the Polish Government?
A film exposing sex abuse by Catholic priests also exposes the corrupting ties between the church and the ruling political party.
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The Hidden World of the Doctors Cuba Sends Overseas
Thousands of Cuban doctors work in healthcare missions around the world. Some medics say conditions can be nightmarish.
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Trump's Tariff Push Squeezes Businesses and Consumers
Trump on Sunday vowed to lift tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese imports to 25 percent from 10 percent by the end of this week if no trade pact is sealed between the world’s two largest economies.
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How Rupert Murdoch’s Empire of Influence Remade the World: Part 1: Imperial Reach
Murdoch and his children have toppled governments on two continents and destabilized the most important democracy on Earth. What do they want?
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China’s systematic approach to poverty reduction paid off
Addressing delegates from Gansu Province at the second session of the 13th National People’s Congress (NPC) in Beijing on March 14 ,China’s President, Xi Jinping, pointed out that time was running out for fulfilling the lofty pledge to rid China of “extreme poverty” by 2020. “There should be no retreat until a complete victory is achieved,” Xi exhorted.
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Will Poland be an enfant terrible of the post-Brexit EU?
A Polish-Italian alliance may counteract the Franco-German driving force for European integration.
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Orbán’s place in European center right still in doubt after talks
‘Problems are not yet solved,’ Manfred Weber says after meeting Hungarian PM.
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Theresa May’s Plan Fails in Parliament, Sowing Confusion
The 391 to 242 vote left Britain in limbo, without a clear way forward on Brexit, and threatens Prime Minister May’s hold on power.
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In America, talk turns to something unspoken for 150 years: Civil war
At a moment when the country has never seemed angrier, two political commentators from opposite sides of the divide concurred last week on one point, nearly unthinkable until recently: The country is on the verge of "civil war." First came former U.S. attorney Joseph diGenova, a Fox News regular and ally of President Trump. "We are in a civil war," he said. "The suggestion that there's ever going to be civil discourse in this country for the foreseeable future is over. . . . It's going to be total war."
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How the Spring party is reviving the Polish left
Spring has come to Poland – in the form of a new left-wing party....The new party, named Spring (Wiosna in Polish)...aspires to remake Poland as a secular, diverse and egalitarian country “where no one is left behind”, in the words of its founder, Robert Biedron.
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Green New Deal is feasible and affordable
Don't listen to the right wing and corporate lobbyist naysayers: Jeffrey Sachs writes that Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Markey's Green New Deal Resolution would provide economic, social and environmental benefits--and it can be done.
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Warsaw’s Middle Eastern Failure
Recently, the Polish government agreed to host a gathering in Warsaw on the Middle East that was held the day before the Munich Security Conference, which typically brings together all the sides of major conflicts in the world; however, the Polish conference would be exclusively focused on an anti-Iranian agenda and based on the current narratives espoused by the Trump administration and Israel.
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The Rest of Us Always Knew Churchill Was a Villain
His record in Britain’s former colonies more closely resembles that of a war criminal than a defender of democracy and freedom.
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A political battle over history now grips Poland’s proudest memory
How the fall of the Berlin Wall began in a beautiful Baltic port city in Poland with the Solidarity movement
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What Did Elliott Abrams Have to Do With the El Mozote Massacre?
Inadvertently, Ilhan Omar revealed that Trump may have picked the right man to implement his policy in Venezuela.
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4 winners and 4 losers from the funding bill and emergency declaration
Trump’s national emergency declaration starts a new fight — but it also resolves the spending battle of the past few months.
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Trump Declares National Emergency to Build Border Wall
The president’s decision diverts money from military construction projects, bypassing Congress but triggering a clash over the constitutional balance of power.
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The Future of Politics Is Coming to Poland
Promising newcomers are threatening to tear apart the country’s two-party system in every direction.
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Theresa May: Tusk’s ‘hell’ comments ‘not helpful’
The British prime minister said the remarks from the EU Council president had caused ‘widespread dismay’ in the UK.
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Is the “Populist” Tide Retreating?
Strong support for immigration and globalization in the US sits uneasily with the view that “populism” is a problem. In fact, the term remains vague and explains too little – particularly now, when support for the political forces it attempts to describe seems to be on the wane.
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