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4 days ago | thewashingtonstandard.com | Tim Brown

Japanese company Nippon Steel’s plan to purchase US Steel was bound to provoke a strong reaction from left- and right-wing economic nationalists. After all, US Steel was once the world’s largest company, and it was the first company to be valued at over a billion dollars. US Steel was thus a symbol of America’s economic dominance. So it was not surprising that Nippon Steel’s purchase of US Steel was blocked by both the Biden and Trump administrations.

5 days ago | thewashingtonstandard.com | Tim Brown

Israel has admitted to the killing of the new chief of the terrorist group Hamas. Will this put the ceasefire agreement at risk as tensions escalate? CEASEFIRE AGREEMENT: Israel And Hamas Agree To TermsThe ceasefire agreement, in which both sides had agreed to terms, was announced a few days ago. But now, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has officially confirmed the killing of Hamas leader Muhammad Sinwar during an airstrike conducted earlier this month in the southern Gaza City of Khan Younis.

5 days ago | thewashingtonstandard.com | Tim Brown

There are party schools and then there are Party Schools. Nobody ever accused Harvard of being a party school, but for Communist China, it is a Party School. For decades, the party has sent thousands of mid-career and senior bureaucrats to pursue executive training and postgraduate studies on U.S. campuses, with Harvard University a coveted destination described by some in China as the top “party school” outside the country.

6 days ago | thewashingtonstandard.com | Tim Brown

Have you heard of the TAKE IT DOWN Act? No? Its proper name is “Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Networks Act”. As with most bills presented on the Hill, They always present them as “good” and “noble” or at least that’s how they title them. However, the devil is literally in the details, not the title.

1 week ago | thewashingtonstandard.com | Tim Brown

In today’s America there are those who claim that, under the guise of “protecting” children, they should be gender transitioned. Some are so adamant about this that they believe it should be done away from the attention of parents, parents who refuse to be “affirming” of a gender identity that doesn’t match the child’s biological sex. Returning to Crosstalk Radio to put the spotlight on this issue is Alex Newman.