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379 --Not a Drop to Drink: Desperate Droughts Starve Millions
Syria, Turkey, the Balkans
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378 - Selling out to Putin: Trump is almost There
The Anchorage Follies
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377 - Trump Dumps Deportees Into Africa but Neglects Real Humanitarian Concerns
Death in Sudan
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376 - How Irrationally Initiated Tariffs Distort and Destroy Global Trade
From Lesotho to Japan
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July 2025

374 - Selling Taiwan Short: Another Trump Folly
It is a major Trump mistake to ban Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te from stopping over next month in New York, or any other U.S.
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373 - Does Israel Really Want to Starve the People of Gaza?
Does a nation of Holocaust survivors really want to starve 2 million Gazans and abuse almopst 3 million more Palestinians in the West Bank?
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372 - Trump Talks to Himself About the World: A Revealing Monologue Exclusively Reported Here
Revenge is Good
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371 - The Perils of Africa, II: More Self-Inflicted and Natural Woes
The Demographic Surge, Climate Change, and the Debt Crisis
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370 - The Perils of Africa, I: Woes Self-Inflicted and Trump-Inflicted
Kenya, Ethiopia, Sudan, Congo
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369 - Doing Dumb Things That Help America's Enemies: A Continuing Saga
Are we condemned interminably by a vast electoral mishap to endure a never-ending Mad Hatter's Tea Party?
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368 - Keeping Ukraine Free: Is it Still Possible?
Mercurial Trump finally understood yesterday that Putin had all along been leading him on, never really wanting anything like a truce.
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367 - The Manchurian President Strikes Again, for China
Trump is working overtime for China and Russia.
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