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Kamil Askerkhanov05.11.2026

Washington warns that record European financing for Airbus could undermine the longstanding US–EU agreement on aircraft subsidies. A record $3.4 billion European financing package for Airbus threatens to unravel a fragile trade truce between Washington and Brussels, potentially reigniting one of the longest-running trade disputes between the two economic powers, President Donald Trump’s top trade […]

Robert Reich04.11.2026

The great sleeping giant of America has awakened, taken a hard look at what’s become of the nation, and roared a thunderous “NO!” What occurred yesterday was not — as some are saying — the inevitable mid-term swing of the pendulum against the party in power. Texas hasn’t elected a Democratic senator since 1988. The […]

Dmitri Drobnitsky25.10.2026

President Donald Trump’s temporary suspension of the so-called Graham sanctions has provoked outrage in Congress. In doing so, America’s legislators have displayed a familiar parliamentary vice: collective irresponsibility. Mr Trump invoked the waiver provisions of the sanctions law named after the late Senator Lindsey Graham. Such provisions are hardly unusual in American sanctions legislation. The […]

Sergey Stankevich16.10.2026

How a fuel shortage has entangled geopolitics, energy markets and America’s midterm elections Thousands of social-media commentators who were discussing America, Iran or Ukraine only yesterday have abruptly discovered a new obsession: the global diesel crisis. As usual, a torrent of ill-informed commentary threatens to drown out the few surviving voices of reason. Let us […]

Kamil Askerkhanov13.10.2026

The past few days’ events make it worth returning to a concept I first outlined back in 2023: Europe’s energy ring-fencing. What we may now be seeing is the transition to a new stage. After restricting access to energy supplies, the battle appears to be shifting toward control over their eventual return to the European […]

Kirill Benediktov12.10.2026

Another thaw has arrived in U.S.-Russian relations. Donald Trump finally called Vladimir Putin to wish him a happy birthday. A little late, admittedly. Putin’s birthday was October 7; the call came on October 9. Even allowing for the time difference, Trump was more than a day behind schedule. But never mind. Wishing someone a happy […]

Robert Reich11.10.2026

The most basic function of government is to protect people from harm. Two growing phenomena — climate change and AI — pose escalating risks of extraordinary harm. Climate change is already causing floods, wildfires, drought, and record heat. AI agents are already escaping super-secure environments to hack into systems they’re supposed to avoid. Yet Trump […]

Robert Reich10.10.2026

Here’s today’s trivia question (which may turn out to be not at trivial at all when all the facts emerge): Who solicited money from a presidential donor in return for access to the head of the IRS over the donor’s taxes, was a Fox News host, was engaged to the son of the U.S. president, […]

Vladimir Golstein09.10.2026

What is Going on in Germany, and is this the Waning of Anglo-American Influence? German elite had been successfully colonized by English. English language, English thinking, English rhetoric, English sensitivity, English/American Political Correctness and simplifying political discourse. The result of this colonizing is obvious as are its goals — ever since the war with Napoleon […]

Michael Moore28.09.2026

The Founders failed to create a true Democracy. Let’s win, then demand one. You can have all the 250th birthday parties you want for America — that great Democracy! But none of your cake and candles or champagne can obscure the fact that we have never been a true democracy. No matter how many times […]

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Airbus Loan Tests Trade Truce

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