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While a great deal of controversies have arisen in the world-wide activities of USAID it may be worthwhile to explore its attempts of preventing individuals from finding information that challenges official narratives. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) was created by the U.S. president John Fitzgerald Kennedy on 3 November …

When it comes to the Middle East, the choice in November 2024 is clear enough. We may wish we had a different choice, but we do not. Recently, I attended a demonstration called by groups opposing the carnage in Gaza, where eight months of air, ground, and sea attacks by the …

Two new reports detail how the world’s nine nuclear-armed countries are spending aggressively to modernize and deploy weapons that pose an existential threat to civilization. A pair of reports published Monday show that global spending on nuclear arms surged to nearly $3,000 a second last year as nations expanded and …

Now should be a time of diplomacy to bring the NATO proxy war madness in Ukraine to an end. But the warmongers of the U.S., EU, G7 and NATO have no such qualms about escalating the futile hostilities to a nuclear apocalypse. This week provided an instructive juxtaposition of summits. …

The housing affordability crisis is a moral outrage of the highest order. So why does Los Angeles leave kids and adults to suffer? For California’s homeless population, it is a multi-generational affair. After decades of inaction and utter indifference, there are now hundreds of homeless children on the streets of Los Angeles. …

Election results of the European Parliament are the explict sign that the EU dream is coming to an end The European Parliament (EP) election results, which are not a surprise to those who follow the course of Europe closely, but are a surprise to many, actually reflect the footprints of …

The US faces a formidable challenge in its confrontation with China. While America focuses on military spending, China leads in civil engineering, high-speed rail, infrastructure, 5G technology, electric vehicles, and more. I wonder how many Americans quite understand what the Us is facing in its aggressive confrontation with China. Washington …

The draconian restrictions on asylum-seekers owe a lot to Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, but the path was paved by Democrats. “PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN is pulling from former President Donald Trump’s immigration playbook,” CNN reported on Tuesday. The occasion was Biden’s announcement this week of a draconian executive order to temporarily shut down asylum …

LONDON – One of the more amusing exercises on the economic calendar is the International Monetary Fund’s annual review of the United States. Yet while everyone knows that the US government pays absolutely no heed to what the IMF has to say about its affairs, the Fund’s most recent Article IV …

A slew of hot-button issues will be ruled on by the Supreme Court before the end of its decision season that could transform the nation’s political landscape in a pivotal election year. By the end of June, the high court is expected to decide matters including access to a widely …