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The bombers that look like giant bats
Bangkok Post
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June 28, 2025
Anyone who has observed those B-2 Stealth bombers used by the US in Iran last week will be aware of the unique futuristic design that some say makes them resemble giant bats. Opinion is divided on whether these planes are an inspired example of...
Guam: Forever a Colony?
The Guam Daily Post
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What’s taking so long? It’s been close to 500 years that Guam has been flying a foreign flag, and still there’s been no serious effort to shake loose and walk its own path. Decolonization peaked years ago - soon after World War II when long-time...
Extreme Heatwaves Underscore Climate Urgency
teleSUR
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Over the past few weeks, heatwaves have hit several regions of the Northern Hemisphere, including parts of North America, Europe, and eastern Asia. RELATED: Glacier Collapse Buries Swiss Village That Voted Against Climate Change Policies As the...
Oh My Ghost Clients Ending, Episode 10 (Finale) Preview, Spoilers
International Business Times Singapore
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June 27, 2025
Oh My Ghost Clients episode 10 will feature the final move by Noh Mu Jin as he tries to help his ghost clients. The chapter will air on MBC on Saturday (June 28) at 9:50 PM KST. It will take viewers through the showdown between the labor attorney,...
Smarter Science: Staying One Step Ahead of the Next Pandemic
The Good Men Project - California
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June 29, 2025
By Andrew Dunne As the world woke up to a global pandemic in early 2020, a new EU-funded research initiative was just getting underway – the Versatile Emerging Infectious Diseases Observatory (VEO). The researchers involved in this timely...
‘Keir Starmer Has Missed His Chance to Make a Bold Break With the Past on Foreign Policy’
Byline Times
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June 27, 2025
As we approach the one-year anniversary of the Labour Government’s election, it’s worth looking at how it has performed on foreign policy. It’s important to recognise first of all that it entered office at an extraordinarily difficult time – a...
Trump’s irresistible force flattens immovable objects
The Sydney Morning Herald
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June 30, 2025
In a stunning display of political disarmament, the NATO member nations (except for Spain) capitulated to Trump’s demands for a massive increase in their defence spending as a percentage of each country’s GDP. NATO chief Mark Rutte wrote to Trump,...
France Undermining U.S Strategy in the Middle East
Townhall
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June 28, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump established a ceasefire between Israel and Iran on June 24th. The cessation of hostilities comes after Washington’s precision strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities at Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan – a highly limited...
Which way forward for the resistance?
Tempest
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June 30, 2025
Our resistance must build independent and democratic organizations for class and social struggle, oppose all of President Trump’s attacks on the exploited and oppressed, and organize. In this editorial, the Tempest Collective argues that now is...
Emperor Trump's new clothes
Independent Australia
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When diplomacy meets delusion, only the finest invisible fabrics will do, writes John Longhurst. MICK HAD THE MOBILE phone glued to his ear as he paced within easy earshot of the bar table: “Yeah, yeah... thanks, Sharky... I am onto it... I am...
For nine days, the Earth was shaken every 90 seconds by a unique phenomenon
Notebook Check
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June 28, 2025
Since its formation, Earth has had to deal with numerous hazards related to its seismic activity, but also due to cosmic events. However, in 2023, our planet was shaken every 90 seconds for nine days, and the reason for this is quite surprising....
US defence firms lining up deals with European counterparts to hedge against any shift away
The New Zealand Herald
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June 29, 2025
Canada is considering pulling out of the US-led F-35 fighter programme and buying Swedish planes instead. “We should no longer send three-quarters of our defence capital spending to America,” Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said this month....
Georgia Rep. Buddy Carter nominates Trump for Nobel Peace Prize
Chattanooga Times Free Press - Tennessee
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June 28, 2025
Coastal Georgia's U.S. Rep. Earl "Buddy" Carter has nominated President Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize, citing the president's "extraordinary and historic role in brokering an end to the armed conflict between Israel and Iran" and preventing...
The Wobbly Planet – It’s Destabilizing!
Pressenza
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June 28, 2025
Science is under attack throughout the world. Meanwhile, there’s substantial scientific evidence that the planetary system is turning unstable. This may not strike most people as a big problem because ‘life goes on,’ an attitude that’s more, and...
Unmasking Fascism: Edward Said’s Pedagogy of Wakefulness in an Age of Educational Repression
CounterPunch
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June 27, 2025
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The War at Home—State Terrorism on Full Display Across the globe, we are living in a moment of profound crisis where the very essence of education as a democratic institution is under attack. In the United States,...
Is Trump now more likely to use military force?
BBC
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ShareSave Has US President Donald Trump found a new security doctrine with big air strikes taking the place of conventional wars? Should other countries expect more of this from the American military? Even though we don't have all the information...
8 ultra-luxury cruise holidays worth splurging on
The New Zealand Herald
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June 26, 2025
Circumnavigation of Antarctica | Ponant Be part of history aboard one of the world’s most modern and luxurious icebreakers as it makes a ground (and ice) breaking journey. Departing from Ushuaia in January 2028, Le Commandant Charcot will spend 30...
‘It looks more likely with each day we burn fossil fuels’: polar scientist on Antarctic tipping points
The Guardian
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June 27, 2025
4-Louise Composite: AP / Guardian Design For more than 20 years, Louise Sime has worked at the British Antarctic Survey specialising in polar climate dynamics. She uses ice cores to reconstruct past conditions and predict future changes. She now...
What was the first number-one of the 1960s?
Far Out Magazine
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June 25, 2025
(Credits: Far Out) If there’s one decade that feels the most like the tip of an iceberg, it’s the 1960s. First acts that come to mind? Easy: The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Beach Boys, The Doors…these are all names synonymous with the best of...
‘A cascade can be more positive’: social tipping points expert on fixing climate crisis
The Guardian
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June 28, 2025
5-Tim-B Composite: TT/Shutterstock/Guardian Design Timothy Lenton is a professor of climate change and Earth system science at the University of Exeter. He started working on tipping points in the 1990s, making him one of the first scientists in...