Is the world order on the cusp of change?
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Is the world order on the cusp of change?

Politics tamfitronics “Asia-Pacific leaders will discover – as Australians are finding with Aukus – that the price for being deputy sheriff to the US will cost them and the coming generation more than just an exorbitant monetary sum.” WITH Western mainstream media fixated on the US presidential election, they are critically missing examining the unprecedented turbulence rocking key players in geopolitics and the world order dominated by the United States. The Group of Seven (G7) advanced economies forum, which has been coordinating global policy for 50 years and functioned as a handmaiden of American economic and foreign policy interests and agenda, is in disarray. Italy has a newly elected president from the radical right wing, and its nationalist conservatism wave, anti-incumbency, anti-immigrant sentiments and electoral volatility have had aftershocks reverberate across the continent....
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Unmasking Netanyahu’s gambit
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Unmasking Netanyahu’s gambit

Politics tamfitronics IN the labyrinthine world of Middle Eastern politics, where truths are as layered as the ancient cities’ dust, Benjamin Netanyahu stands – a figure both enigmatic and polarising. To the keen observer, his recent manoeuvres amid the fragile ceasefire negotiations are not merely political posturing but rather a revelation of a deeper, perhaps darker, strategic calculus. As the Israeli prime minister ostensibly engages in talks aimed at peace, his true intentions, as illuminated by Haaretz through sources close to the negotiations, seem to aim for anything but. Netanyahu’s declaration that Israel would not relinquish control over the crucial Gaza-Egypt border came at a moment brimming with tension and hope. It was a statement that resonated through the corridors of power and into the war-weary streets of Gaza. Such pronouncements are not just...
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When Jaya Bachchan Called Daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai Her ‘Buddy’: I Don’t Do Politics… | Republic World
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When Jaya Bachchan Called Daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai Her ‘Buddy’: I Don’t Do Politics… | Republic World

Politics tamfitronics Published 18:43 IST, August 27th 2024 When Jaya Bachchan Called Daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai Her 'Buddy': I Don’t Do Politics... Politics tamfitronics Jaya Bachchan-Aishwarya Rai: In an old interview the Sholay actress heaped praises on her daughter-in-law Aishwarya Rai and called her a 'buddy'. Entertainment News 2 min read Reported by: Republic Entertainment Desk Follow: Aishwarya Rai - Jaya Bachchan file photo | Image: Instagram Listen to this article 2 min read Advertisement 18:43 IST, August 27th 2024 ...
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In “We’re Not Going Back!” Dems Find an Antidote to the Politics of Nostalgia
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In “We’re Not Going Back!” Dems Find an Antidote to the Politics of Nostalgia

Politics tamfitronics Editorial / August 27, 2024Underneath the cliché that “we’re all in this together” lie harder truths that will need to be faced if Harris and Walz want to rally the nation for real change.Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, greet supporters.(Kamil Krzaczynski / Getty)The failed campaign to save Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti—the Italian immigrants and anarchists who were executed in 1927 for a bank robbery and murder they didn’t commit—prompted John Dos Passos to lament, in his novel The Big Moneythat “our nation has been beaten by strangers who have bought the laws and fenced off the meadows and cut down the woods for pulp and turned our pleasant cities into slums and sweated the wealth out of our people and when...
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