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Defense reporters must refuse the Trump Administration's demand that they trade access for an agreement to publish only "authorized" material In the Trump Administration’s latest attack on journalism – and through journalism, the American people – the Pentagon is now demanding that reporters must sign a sweeping new agreement binding them to publish only information “explicitly authorized” by the Defense...

But what of the peace? The CRITICAL CONDITIONS podcast In today’s installment of Critical Conditions, Claire and I focused on the hostage release in the Middle East — obviously. For the first time in two years, Israel exhaled — and the Palestinians in Gaza faced the prospect of a end to the war forced on them by their Hamas captors after...

“Any man’s death diminishes me,/ Because I am involved in mankind”, laments John Donne in his most famous of poems, “No Man Is an Island”. In a devastating accident, forty-two Zimbabwean and Malawian citizens have died after a bus taking them home flipped over on a South African road Sunday night. The tragedy occurred as the bus squeezes through...

Germany’s Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul says Romania, Bulgaria are "crucial partners for Europe's security and stability" ahead of a visit to the EU and NATO members where talks will focus on common security and defense capability. Wadephul is scheduled to meet Romania’s Foreign Minister Oana Toiu on Tuesday morning where they will discuss support for Ukraine with which Romania shares...

 BlackRock’s IBIT spot bitcoin ETF crosses 800,000 BTC milestone Crypto markets crashed on Friday as President Trump announced on Truth Social (in response to Chinese controls on rare earth minerals) that, starting from November 1st, the US would impose new tariffs of 100% on Chinese imports, over and above any tariff that they are currently paying. Over $19 billion of perpetual...

Moldovan Prime Minister Dorin Recean on Monday announced he was stepping down after his pro-European party won crucial parliamentary elections last month and will leave politics. "My term ends simultaneously with that of the current government's. Immediately after we approve the new government in parliament, I will resign my mandate,"  Recean, 51, said. The Action and Solidarity Party, led by President...

Russia says Moldova has made a 'grave mistake' by identifying it as an enemy. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has hit out at Chisinau on Sunday after it described  Moscow as threat and accused it of waging intense cognitive warfare,  Tass news agency reported.  Pro-European party PAS won last month’s parliamentary election and earlier this week, the Moldovan  government under pro-EU President...

 Putting ICE on Ice, the E3 seize Russian assets, weirdness at the Fed, and an amazing project for children in Gaza With Trump headed to the region, I was asked again and again by TV interviewers: What does he have to do to pressure Netanyahu to ensure that this deal is carried out — unlike in March, when Israel violated...

STEVEN GUTKIN WRITES: Maria Corina Machado’s Nobel Prize shines a light on decades of misrule, economic collapse, and human suffering, underscoring that restoring democracy in Venezuela is essential   By Steven Gutkin I arrived in Venezuela in the late 1980s with eagerness and a sense that I was entering a remarkable country. Caracas greeted me with salsa in the street, the scent...

The Italian Catholic prelate has served as the Vatican's Secretary of State since 2013, and has served as a member of the Council of Cardinals since 2014, the same year he was made a cardinal. Romanian Senate speaker, Mircea Abrudean, had a meeting with His Eminence Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Secretary of State of the Holy See (the second  position in...