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338 - Africa's Killing Fields, III: Somalia and Puntland
Thanks to Trump and Musk, the long smoldering deadly war in the Horn of Africa has burst into hot flames, with a new Islamist insurgency joining…
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337 - Brutal Trump Grovels Before Putin: Weakens U.S., Shoots Ukraine in the Back
Here is what I think we now know:
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336 - The White House Becomes a Capo Haven: Threatening to Take Out a Defender of Universal Freedom
"Every time we think we have taken the measure of Mr.
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February 2025

335 - The Killing Fields of Africa, II: The Congo Disintegrates
The rebel Rwandan-backed M23 guerilla movement in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has laid waste to much of North and South Kivu, adjoining…
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334 -Putin's Poodle Pursues Perdition, and Other Senseless and Apocalyptic News from Inner Washington
President Reagan railed against the Soviet "evil empire." Nothing has changed.
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333 - Africa's Killing Fields, I: Splitting Sudan
With Trump cosying up to Putin and Secretary of State Marco Rubio talking to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, it is no wonder that dangerous…
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332 - Appeasement: The Selling out of Ukraine is Underway, Unless...
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331 - Making the World More Corrupt: Good Job, Trump!
plus Accusing South Africa Falsely
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330 - Subverting Our National Interest and Giving the Peoples of the World More War and Pestilence
What the world now desperately needs is some steadiness, some intelligent attention to reducing violence and to a stanching of the state-sponsored…
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329 - The Manchurian President Acts to Subvert and Destroy
Gaza, Tariffs, USAID
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328 - The Fall of Goma: Another Autocrat Invades a Neighbor to Create Mayhem
Congo and Rwanda
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January 2025

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