Former Trump officials’ names and corporate affiliations have been scrubbed from Project 2025.
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In case you are tempted to believe Trump’s fatuous claim that he secured the release of prisoners without giving anything up in return, here’s a fact check: Criticizing the Biden administration’s recent prisoner swap of Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout for WNBA star Brittney Griner as “a one-sided disaster,” former President Donald Trump wrongly boasted that his administration “got 58 hostages released from various hostile countries without paying any money, or giving up anything.” In fact, several of the deals resulting in the release of Americans held hostage or being wrongfully detained abroad came as a result of prisoner swaps during Trump’s time in office. In November 2019, the Trump administration secured the release of American Kevin King and Australian Timothy Weeks, who were being held by the Taliban, in exchange for the release of three senior Taliban leaders being held in jails in Afghanistan. In December 2019, the U.S. did a prisoner exchange with Iran, freeing Xiyue Wang, a graduate student at Princeton University who was serving a 10-year sentence in Iran on espionage charges.
You know, I wouldn’t say this to just anyone. I’m not one to gam and gossip around the old grog-cooler. But I know you’re a good New England boy working your hardest to crew this vessel just like me, so let’s talk straight.
Be honest: Have you noticed the harpooners getting a little more… ethnic these past few voyages?
Look, I’ve got nothing against Queequeg. He’s a nice guy. And he can spy a whale-spout in a hurricane. And swim like a dolphin. And hit a nickel-sized moving target in open water in one steel stroke. But all those “biggee” tattoos? Tell me they don’t scream “diversity hire.”
Yeah, last week, he did leap into the ocean to save me from drowning. What’s your point?
All I’m saying is that I could spear just as many whales until they spout black blood as Queequeg can. If they gave me the chance. But Quakers will do anything to look progressive. And you know they were just shitting themselves to find the one buff Polynesian guy who looks like George Washington.
(Plus, with that mopey twink of his as a spousal hire, he’s kind of a two-fer. Bildad and Peleg are getting a lot of bang for their buck.)
The eyes in deepfake photos give them away.
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Here's the Doctor Who SDCC 2024 panel with Showrunner Russell T. Davies and stars Ncuti Gatwa (Fifteenth Doctor) and Millie Gibson (Ruby).
That energy has a familiar feel: Look around and you might see it: the telltale signs that the #Resistance has been born again. A-list celebs are rallying for and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris; Zoom calls of Black, Latino, female, and young voters are reaching capacity; the coconut-tree and brat memes keep coming. Even cringe and earnest #Resist merch is back — now in the form of organic Kamala Harris merch. The political movement that materialized organically, protested policy decisions, and eventually helped end Donald Trump’s presidency may now be taking on a second political life with the goal of not just beating Trump, but electing the first woman president. None of this was a sure thing. Just a few months ago it looked a lot like the anti-Trump #Resistance was dead. Progressive organizers and activists were exhausted; Trump fatigue had settled in. And voters of all kinds were tuned out and unenthusiastic about the candidate choices they had. That dynamic has flipped — for now.
From Ismail Haniyeh to Imad Mughniyeh, Israel’s policy of assassinations is a great example of winning the battle but losing the war, writes Emad Moussa. Israel’s double assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’s political leader, in Tehran, and Fuad Shukr, a senior military figure in Hezbollah, in Beirut, on July 31 has sent shockwaves around the world. A Continue reading »
“Tectonic shifts are underway in global politics, economy, and other spheres of international relations. A fairer multipolar world order is being born.” Opening words of the SCO 2024 declaration, Astana, Kazakhstan. “A fairer multipolar world order is being born”. Eight words that sum up what is being created at pace and yet is being largely Continue reading »
The Roman emperor Nero was a horrible, horrible man, as Donald Trump might put it. His murderous reign of terror has certainly earned him a place in the history books, but the only thing most people believe about him is certainly false: that he played the fiddle while Rome burned. He may have strummed his Continue reading »
Few alliance nations would ponder how the cadence of Netanyahu’s speech inside Congress put them under the spell of denial. This is akin to the Khmer Rouge (government in exile) that was invited to hold a seat in the United Nations until 1993. Continue reading »
This is what a genocide looks like. The impact of the Israeli missile was so powerful it flung Sidra out of the building she was in, leaving her mutilated body dangling from the ruins of the destroyed building with her also-killed mother’s arm still attached to her. Rafah, Gaza 14.2.2024. جثامين الأطفال عالقة بين الأنقاض Continue reading »
There is reason to believe that genuine integrity reform – even just insistence on obeying the law – would have a big impact. Not just on the operation of the APS but on the Government, the Parliament and the Australian public. There may be too much rhetoric about integrity reform in the APS, and some Continue reading »
ATEC discussion paper gets a resounding smackdown. In recent years, the university sector has behaved as if it had little choice but to nip around the edges of poor government policy. Consequently, it has had to wear bad ideas like the Job-ready Graduates funding package in the vain hope that cooperation on that might result Continue reading »
Kerry Brown is Professor of Chinese Studies and Director of the Lau China Institute at King’s College, London. He recently spoke about his important new book, “The Great Reversal: Britain, China and the 400 Year Contest for Power” (Yale University Press, 2024) with Richard Cullen. A fundamental reality, which this stimulating book stresses, is how Continue reading »
Both parties in Sudan’s civil war are to blame for a looming mass famine, experts say, and the military’s blocking of U.N. aid at a border crossing with Chad exacerbates the problem. Sudan’s military is blocking United Nations aid trucks from entering at a key border crossing, causing severe disruptions in aid in a country Continue reading »
Attorney General Andrew Bailey had argued that the state should execute Marcellus Williams without vetting evidence of his wrongful conviction.
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In the village of Buula-Balow, near the district of Bariire, in Somalia’s volatile Lower Shabelle, Qaadi Hamud and his family were socialising after breakfast – when their lives changed forever
The next generation cannot take forward the peace process if they continue to be subject to segregation and reinforced division that defined previous generations, argues Emma DeSouza
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The allegations could be a 'huge headache' for the Conservative Party as it tries to move on from the scandals of its recent past