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2 months ago | 
truthdig.com | Aidan Simardone
Project 2025, the alleged blueprint for President Trump, focuses only one African country: Djibouti. Smaller than West Virginia, Djibouti has a population of one million people and few natural resources. Nevertheless, Project 2025’s authors fret about “the U.S.’s deteriorating position in Djibouti.” Likewise, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has stressed the need to work on “countering Chinese influence in Djibouti.”Djibouti is critical because of its location.
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2 months ago | 
msn.com | Aidan Simardone
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
jacobin.com | Aidan Simardone
In the lead-up to his inauguration, President Donald Trump identified a surprising priority: Greenland. Trump wants to purchase the island, which is an “autonomous” province of Denmark; take control of the Panama Canal; and annex Canada as part of his plan to Make America Great Again. The proposal has drawn sharp criticism from Denmark, which claims that Greenland ultimately should decide on its own independence. Detractors have called Trump crazy and deranged.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
readthemaple.com | Marc Edge |Alex Cosh |Aidan Simardone |Jeremy Appel
Where We Are Journalism in Canada is at its lowest ebb in decades, as evidenced by the cancellation or pausing of several post-secondary programs in the subject due to the dismal job market. Postmedia Network, Canada’s largest newspaper chain by far, is 98 per cent owned by U.S. hedge funds and has had to sell assets and lay off workers to make payments on the hundreds of millions in company debt the vulture capitalists also hold.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
jacobin.com | Aidan Simardone
When Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau was first elected in 2015, he embraced immigrants, literally. Images of the prime minister hugging refugees filled newsfeeds, a stark contrast to the border-building rhetoric of Donald Trump in the United States and deportation-happy Brexit leader Nigel Farage in the UK. While much of the rest of the West was closing its doors, Canada stood out by accepting more refugees. Nearly a decade later, the tone has shifted.
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Jun 17, 2024 | 
ricochet.media | Aidan Simardone
Speaking to the Canadian Police Association, Conservative Leader, and likely future Prime Minister, Pierre Poilievre called for consecutive sentences of violent offenders and restrictions on bail. Asked if doing so would violate the Charter, Poilievre said he would use “whatever tools the Constitution allows.” Poilievre was loudly hinting that he’ll use the notwithstanding clause, the section of the Charter that allows governments to opt out of constitutionally protected rights.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
jacobin.com | Aidan Simardone
Last month, speaking before forty thousand protesters in Armenia’s capital, Yerevan, Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan called for Armenian prime minister Nikol Pashinyan’s resignation. The protesters opposed Pashinyan’s decision to hand over four villages to Azerbaijan, Armenia’s foe, without any concessions in return. Pashinyan rose to power during the 2018 Armenian revolution, leading protests against President Serzh Sargsyan’s decision to seek a third term.
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
counterpunch.org | Aidan Simardone
Last week, Iran sent a barrage of rockets and drones to Israel. Listening to Western leaders, one would believe Iran’s actions were unreasonable and unnecessary. It was a “reckless and dangerous escalation” according to British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. “I condemn these attacks in the strongest possible terms” said President Joe Biden. While decrying Iran, Western leaders fail to condemn Israel’s genocide in Gaza, which has killed over 34,000 people.
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Jan 2, 2024 | 
znetwork.org | Aidan Simardone
Amid the ongoing slaughter in Gaza, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan stands out among world leaders for his bold remarks, including labeling Israel a terrorist state and demanding that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu be tried as a war criminal. For Palestinians, a Turkish shift away from Israel would be a significant development, considering Turkey’s stature as one of the largest countries in the Middle East.
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Jan 1, 2024 | 
jacobin.com | Aidan Simardone
Amid the ongoing slaughter in Gaza, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan stands out among world leaders for his bold remarks, including labeling Israel a terrorist state and demanding that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu be tried as a war criminal. For Palestinians, a Turkish shift away from Israel would be a significant development, considering Turkey’s stature as one of the largest countries in the Middle East.
