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Deep State is the convenient bogeyman of modern politics. It’s entered India too
Sometimes, those who claim to be part of the deep state ascribe to themselves a larger-than-life role in state affairs—for ...
The Free Press22h
USAID Under Fire After Taxpayer Dollars Fund Transgender Operas In Colombia, Afghanistan Opium Trade
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is facing intense scrutiny after a damning report revealed ...
Trump threatens ‘something very powerful is going to happen’ if Panama doesn’t give back canal
Trump threatens ‘something very powerful’ to take back Panama Canal, US wants Ukraine elections, Starmer meets with Rutte, key votes on the Hill.
Leeds-raised author Lisa Carter inspired by Afghanistan veterans to write Six Poppies novel
Author Lisa Carter, who grew up in Alwoodley and Bramhope in Leeds, has released Six Poppies – a novel inspired by ...
I was so haunted by a soldier’s tattoo I had to tell his story
Rob, 42, who served for nine years in the Marines, had been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and was clearly haunted by their loss, especially Ben’s. He’d been killed two weeks after Rob, ...
My Edmonds News1d
Art Beat Q&A: Rick Steves shares how life ‘On the Hippie Trail’ led him into the travel business
Book on Sale Feb. 4, preorder here In 2020, in the thick of the pandemic, travel writer and Edmonds local Rick Steves found ...
The National Interest2d
The Taliban Is Selling America’s Lost Afghanistan Arsenal
Given the Taliban’s contacts during their twenty-year insurgency, it should come as little surprise that American weapons are ending up in the hands of the world’s worst rogues’ gallery.
Paul Theroux: ‘The business of identity, cultural appropriation and pronouns harms the imagination’
The travel writer and novelist on ignoring woke politics, smoking opium in Afghanistan and the book that broke his marriage ...
How Alexander the Great redrew the map of the world
He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before ...
Spokane Public Radio4d
'We can kill your family': Journalist shares his flight to the US to escape the Taliban
Afghan journalist Zia Danesh speaks about his experience covering the Taliban and making the difficult decision to leave ...