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<item><title>Iraq Faces First Quiet Election in Decades. Don't Let That Fool You., by James Durso</title><link>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/#comments</comments><pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 13:34:46 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[James Durso]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=551236</guid><description><![CDATA[]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>5</slash:comments></item><item><title>Notice Which Genocides You Are and Are Not Allowed to Oppose, by Caitlin Johnstone</title><link>https://www.unz.com/cjohnstone/notice-which-genocides-you-are-and-are-not-allowed-to-oppose/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/cjohnstone/notice-which-genocides-you-are-and-are-not-allowed-to-oppose/#comments</comments><pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 04:15:58 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Caitlin Johnstone]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=551241</guid><description><![CDATA[Do you notice how nobody’s losing their jobs or getting deported for criticizing the genocidal atrocities in Sudan? How mainstream western politicians are able to call out the RSF and the UAE without having their careers nuked by high-powered lobby groups? How the western media aren’t churning out op-eds concern trolling about the possibility that...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>2</slash:comments></item><item><title>How Much Longer Can Putin Ignore Reality?, by Paul Craig Roberts</title><link>https://www.unz.com/proberts/how-much-longer-can-putin-ignore-reality/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/proberts/how-much-longer-can-putin-ignore-reality/#comments</comments><pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 04:10:29 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Craig Roberts]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=551232</guid><description><![CDATA[Russia’s President Putin should read The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli and ponder the famous statement that “it is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.” Putin’s problem is that he is neither loved nor feared. Western propaganda has made him unloved, and Putin himself has made himself not feared. President Trump...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>0</slash:comments></item><item><title>The Russian Regret, by Israel Shamir</title><link>https://www.unz.com/ishamir/the-russian-regret/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/ishamir/the-russian-regret/#comments</comments><pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 04:08:51 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Israel Shamir]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=551228</guid><description><![CDATA[The Russians are disappointed with Trump's policy towards Russia. They have long given up hoping to partner with the US in building a just world order, and they are now giving up the hope that they might be treated fairly. The last person in Russia (if not in the world) still hoping to get along...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>25</slash:comments></item><item><title>It's Just Wall-to-Wall News Stories About the US and Its Allies Abusing the World, by Caitlin Johnstone</title><link>https://www.unz.com/cjohnstone/its-just-wall-to-wall-news-stories-about-the-us-and-its-allies-abusing-the-world/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/cjohnstone/its-just-wall-to-wall-news-stories-about-the-us-and-its-allies-abusing-the-world/#comments</comments><pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 04:00:58 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Caitlin Johnstone]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=551230</guid><description><![CDATA[It’s just news story after news story about the US and its allies terrorizing the world today. The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been filming themselves committing horrific massacres in Sudan over the last couple of days, reportedly murdering some two thousand civilians. You can see the bloodstains on the ground in satellite images. As...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>23</slash:comments></item><item><title>Katy Perry’s Horrible Music Cannot be Turned Off, by Richard Parker</title><link>https://www.unz.com/article/katy-perrys-horrible-music-cannot-be-turned-off/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/article/katy-perrys-horrible-music-cannot-be-turned-off/#comments</comments><pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 04:00:48 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Richard Parker]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=551244</guid><description><![CDATA[Author’s note: The caption “Entartete Musik” featured on this and other images means “degenerate music.” This along with greater condemnations of degenerate art were a prominent platform position of a certain political movement in the past. Some readers may recognize the stylized lettering from a certain progpaganda poster as well. The cultural milieu any individual...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>1</slash:comments></item><item><title>Two Hundred Years of US Trade with China, by Hua Bin</title><link>https://www.unz.com/bhua/two-hundred-years-of-us-trade-with-china/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/bhua/two-hundred-years-of-us-trade-with-china/#comments</comments><pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 04:00:45 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Hua Bin]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=551224</guid><description><![CDATA[A reader referred to the Burlingame Treaty between the US and Qing Dynasty in the comment section of my last essay. This triggered a thought to do a look back at the trade relationship between the two countries through historical lens. Many things have changed but some patterns of behavior stick. It could shed some...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>25</slash:comments></item><item><title>Is Israel ‘On the Brink?’ (w/ Ilan Pappé), by Chris Hedges</title><link>https://www.unz.com/article/is-israel-on-the-brink-w-ilan-pappe/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/article/is-israel-on-the-brink-w-ilan-pappe/#comments</comments><pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 04:00:39 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Hedges]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=551243</guid><description><![CDATA[Despite the demoralization and destruction produced by Israel’s two-year-long genocidal campaign on the Palestinians, Israel potentially finds itself at its weakest point in its short history. In his new book, Israel on the Brink, renowned Israeli historian Ilan Pappé makes the case that Israel’s current path forward is unsustainable. With a combination of domestic, political,...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>0</slash:comments></item><item><title>AI and the Digital Revolution Are Bringing a Socialist Revolution, by Paul Craig Roberts</title><link>https://www.unz.com/proberts/ai-and-the-digital-revolution-are-bringing-a-socialist-revolution/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/proberts/ai-and-the-digital-revolution-are-bringing-a-socialist-revolution/#comments</comments><pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 04:00:36 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Craig Roberts]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=551231</guid><description><![CDATA[Tens of thousands of workers are falling victim to job cuts at Amazon, UPS, Nestlé, and other large companies, in an economy increasingly destroyed by AI. Amazon, which recently said that AI would result in 600,000 lost Amazon jobs, announced in a message to employees yesterday that it would reduce its workforce by 14,000 as...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>0</slash:comments></item><item><title>The World Financial and Geo-Political Framework at a Time of Imminent Disorder, by Alastair Crooke</title><link>https://www.unz.com/acrooke/the-world-financial-and-geo-political-framework-at-a-time-of-imminent-disorder/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/acrooke/the-world-financial-and-geo-political-framework-at-a-time-of-imminent-disorder/#comments</comments><pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 04:00:07 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alastair Crooke]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=551234</guid><description><![CDATA[Putin remains focussed on achieving a new Europe-wide security architecture. Trump’s attempt to build a ‘Budapest scenario’ (i.e. a Putin-Trump summit grounded on the earlier Alaska ‘understanding’) was unilaterally cancelled (by the U.S.) amid acrimony. Putin had initiated the 2.5 hr Monday call. It reportedly contained tough talking by Putin about the lack of U.S....]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>12</slash:comments></item><item><title>The AutoPen Solution to the Debt Crisis, by Philip Kraske</title><link>https://www.unz.com/article/the-autopen-solution-to-the-debt-crisis/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/article/the-autopen-solution-to-the-debt-crisis/#comments</comments><pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2025 04:00:01 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Philip Kraske]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=551239</guid><description><![CDATA[Desperate times, desperate measures. Here’s an offer that Chuck Schumer can make to President/King Trump to end the government shutdown: “That Autopen photo that replaces Biden’s picture on your Walk of Fame? It is insulting and unAmerican and...well, I won’t go on. But here’s the deal: if you’ll replace it with a normal photo of...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>0</slash:comments></item><item><title>Attack of the Cat Ladies, by Jack Antonio</title><link>https://www.unz.com/article/attack-of-the-cat-ladies/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/article/attack-of-the-cat-ladies/#comments</comments><pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 04:10:26 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Antonio]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=551222</guid><description><![CDATA[America has been invaded but not by a foreign force. No, this invasion is much more insidious. America has been invaded and subverted from within. A female army of obnoxious, humorless, censorious, scolds and shrews has slithered out from beneath various rocks to occupy, moderate and control all thought, speech and behavior public and private....]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>12</slash:comments></item><item><title>From Darwin to Deontology, by Jonas E. Alexis</title><link>https://www.unz.com/article/from-darwin-to-deontology-the-fetzer-alexis-philosophical-and-historical-debate-part-i/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/article/from-darwin-to-deontology-the-fetzer-alexis-philosophical-and-historical-debate-part-i/#comments</comments><pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 04:00:37 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonas E. Alexis]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=551210</guid><description><![CDATA[Note to the reader: The debate will proceed as follows: I (JEA) will first summarize key points of tension and outline some of the central issues, after which James Fetzer will respond. A second installment—published later, which may be considered the rebuttal period—will follow the same format. JEA: Following the publication of my article on...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>22</slash:comments></item><item><title>The Camp of the Saints Is Now Denmark’s Official Policy, by Paul Craig Roberts</title><link>https://www.unz.com/proberts/the-camp-of-the-saints-is-now-denmarks-official-policy/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/proberts/the-camp-of-the-saints-is-now-denmarks-official-policy/#comments</comments><pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 04:00:34 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Craig Roberts]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=551205</guid><description><![CDATA[Replacement of White Populations Is Now Official Policy of Governments of White Countries. Denmark’s State Television Has Ads Warning White Danish from Breeding with Other White People. The State TV Calls It Inbreeding and suggests it can result in a population with health problems. The official policy is to turn Danish ethnics into a chocolate-colored...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>0</slash:comments></item><item><title>Trump Drops Tons of 24 Karat Bovine Excrement on Israeli Knesset—and a Couple of Truth Bombs, by Kevin Barrett</title><link>https://www.unz.com/kbarrett/trump-drops-tons-of-24-karat-bovine-excrement-on-israeli-knesset-and-a-couple-of-truth-bombs/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/kbarrett/trump-drops-tons-of-24-karat-bovine-excrement-on-israeli-knesset-and-a-couple-of-truth-bombs/#comments</comments><pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2025 04:00:23 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kevin Barrett]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=551227</guid><description><![CDATA[Note: This article was published in last week’s American Free Press. I had to change some of the wording, because AFP has a no-four-letter-words policy—even when the four letter word is part of an eight letter word! The creatively edited version turned out fine. Meanwhile here is the original. People who subscribe to AFP as...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>29</slash:comments></item><item><title>American Pravda: A Dozen Unknown Books and the World War II History They Reveal, by Ron Unz</title><link>https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-a-dozen-unknown-books-and-the-world-war-ii-history-they-reveal/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-a-dozen-unknown-books-and-the-world-war-ii-history-they-reveal/#comments</comments><pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2025 04:10:59 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Unz]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=551001</guid><description><![CDATA[During the early 1990s Germar Rudolf was a young chemist employed at Germany's prestigious Max Planck Institute with a bright future ahead of him. But then he was hired to conduct a chemical analysis of the walls of the Auschwitz concentration camp. One thing led to another and he spent the next thirty-odd years suffering...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>291</slash:comments></item><item><title>You Believe the Mainstream Narrative? of Course You Do, You're Twelve, by Caitlin Johnstone</title><link>https://www.unz.com/cjohnstone/you-believe-the-mainstream-narrative-of-course-you-do-youre-twelve/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/cjohnstone/you-believe-the-mainstream-narrative-of-course-you-do-youre-twelve/#comments</comments><pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2025 04:05:04 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Caitlin Johnstone]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=551200</guid><description><![CDATA[The ultimate expression of “everyone is twelve now” theory is in the mainstream worldview promoted by western pundits and politicians which holds that the world is full of evil villains doing evil things simply because they are evil, and that these Bad Guys are opposed by the virtuous Good Guys of the US-led world order....]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>59</slash:comments></item><item><title>The Rubio Doctrine: Neocons Are Back, by Ron Paul</title><link>https://www.unz.com/rpaul/the-rubio-doctrine-neocons-are-back/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/rpaul/the-rubio-doctrine-neocons-are-back/#comments</comments><pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2025 04:00:59 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Paul]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=551186</guid><description><![CDATA[According to several recent news reports, the two major Trump foreign policy shifts last week are the handiwork of Marco Rubio, the President’s Secretary of State and (acting) National Security Advisor. As with all neocon plans, they will be big on promises and small on delivery. First up, according to Bloomberg it was Rubio who...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>20</slash:comments></item><item><title>Serge Alexandre Stavisky: The Jewish Fraudster Who Brought Down a French Government, by Jose Alberto Nino</title><link>https://www.unz.com/article/serge-alexandre-stavisky-the-jewish-fraudster-who-brought-down-a-french-government/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/article/serge-alexandre-stavisky-the-jewish-fraudster-who-brought-down-a-french-government/#comments</comments><pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2025 04:00:48 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jose Alberto Nino]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=551196</guid><description><![CDATA[A single fraudster exposed the fragility of modern France by showing that power serves itself before it serves justice. Serge Alexandre Stavisky was born on November 20, 1886, in Slobodka near Kiev in the Russian Empire. The son of Emmanuel Stavisky, a Russian Jewish immigrant, Alexandre received his formal education at the prestigious Lycée Condorcet...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>6</slash:comments></item><item><title>A Trump Xi Meeting, if It Happens, Will be a Nothing Burger, by Hua Bin</title><link>https://www.unz.com/bhua/a-trump-xi-meeting-if-it-happens-will-be-a-nothing-burger/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/bhua/a-trump-xi-meeting-if-it-happens-will-be-a-nothing-burger/#comments</comments><pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2025 04:00:47 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Hua Bin]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=551184</guid><description><![CDATA[All eyes are on Geyongju, South Korea for a rumored “side talk” between Trump and Xi later this week. Beijing has not confirmed but Trump and Bessent sounded positive. Among the topics are rare earth, tariff, soybean, chips, and Taiwan. While diplomatic protocols and direct talks between principals of major powers are important and some...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>131</slash:comments></item><item><title>President Trump Needs to Turn Attention to Our Problems, by Paul Craig Roberts</title><link>https://www.unz.com/proberts/president-trump-needs-to-turn-attention-to-our-problems/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/proberts/president-trump-needs-to-turn-attention-to-our-problems/#comments</comments><pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2025 04:00:42 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Craig Roberts]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=551178</guid><description><![CDATA[Do you remember when we were told that the “Reagan deficit” was going to destroy the economy? In the past two and one-third months ending October 15 the US national debt increased by $1 trillion. That is five times greater in a mere 71 days than David Stockman’s exaggerated “$200 billion annual deficits as far...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>0</slash:comments></item><item><title>By Confiscating Russian Frozen Assets, Europe Was Playing with Fire, by J. Ricardo Martins</title><link>https://www.unz.com/article/by-confiscating-russian-frozen-assets-europe-was-playing-with-fire/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/article/by-confiscating-russian-frozen-assets-europe-was-playing-with-fire/#comments</comments><pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2025 04:00:26 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[J. Ricardo Martins]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=551176</guid><description><![CDATA[EU leaders at a summit in Brussels failed to agree on a plan to confiscate illegally frozen Russian assets. When European leaders met in Brussels on October 23-24, 2025, the bloc confronted a dilemma that exposes the fault lines of a post-Cold War settlement: what to do with the vast stock of Russian sovereign assets...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>12</slash:comments></item><item><title>Richard Hanania's Economic Illiteracy, by Keith Woods</title><link>https://www.unz.com/article/richard-hananias-economic-illiteracy/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/article/richard-hananias-economic-illiteracy/#comments</comments><pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2025 04:05:23 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Keith Woods]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=551152</guid><description><![CDATA[Richard Hanania penned an article titled The System Everyone Hates Is the One That Has Actually Worked, intended as a defence of every leftist college professor’s favourite ideological punching bag — neoliberalism. Hanania prides himself on attacking the populist beliefs of the left and right alike in favour of the “elite human capital” beliefs which...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>76</slash:comments></item><item><title>Sizing Up Trump and Putin, by Paul Craig Roberts</title><link>https://www.unz.com/proberts/sizing-up-trump-and-putin/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/proberts/sizing-up-trump-and-putin/#comments</comments><pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2025 04:00:38 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Paul Craig Roberts]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=551151</guid><description><![CDATA[Sizing Up Trump Approaching a year since Trump’s third election as president, how do we sum him up? He has done good things. He has closed the border. He is attempting to deport some of the many millions of illegal immigrants that the Democrats brought into our country. He freed the January 6 protesters framed...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>0</slash:comments></item><item><title>Everybody's Antisemitic!, by Kevin Barrett</title><link>https://www.unz.com/kbarrett/everybodys-antisemitic/</link><comments>https://www.unz.com/kbarrett/everybodys-antisemitic/#comments</comments><pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2025 04:00:20 +0000</pubDate><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kevin Barrett]]></dc:creator>		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
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<guid  isPermaLink='false' >https://www.unz.com/?post_type=item&#038;p=551154</guid><description><![CDATA[Rumble link Bitchute link FFWN Link If your business model involves marginalizing people by calling them names—and requires you to terrorize your funders with the specter of an exponentially-growing number of “antisemites” who need to be marginalized and insulted, leading you to deliberately set about pissing off more and more people—you will eventually reach a...]]></description><wfw:commentRss>https://www.unz.com/article/iraq-faces-first-quiet-election-in-decades-dont-let-that-fool-you/feed/</wfw:commentRss><slash:comments>198</slash:comments></item></channel></rss>