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How Jared Kushner’s Luxury Hotel Sparked a Protest Movement in Albania - The American Prospect

Albania’s protests have started to become routine. Each night, protesters gather in Skanderbeg Square, a plaza in the center of Tirana, the capital. The meeting time has gotten later and later as the summer days get hotter and hotter, first at 6 p.m., then 7, now closer to 8. The crowd gathers and marches toward the prime minister’s office. They hold a small rally, some delivering speeches, before continuing the march around the ministerial offices or a main route in Tirana. They will do it all...

Do Democrats Have a Plan for the Post-Trump World Order? - The American Prospect

MUNICH – The Friday nightcap session at the Munich Security Conference focused on “seismic shifts” in U.S. foreign policy, and it featured a bit of an odd grouping: Matthew Whitaker, the current United States ambassador to NATO; Gretchen Whitmer, the Democratic governor of Michigan; and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the progressive Democratic congresswoman from New York.

Why Are We Bombing Drug Boats?

The United States apparently bombed a third suspected drug boat in the Caribbean Sea. “We knocked off, actually, three boats – not two – but you saw two,” Trump told reporters last week. 
That the United States may have committed a third, almost certainly illegal lethal strike on a suspected drug boat without bothering to provide much supporting evidence or justification underscores just how brazen and expansive the administration’s so-called war on drugs has been. The United States has historic...

An uncertain future for Space Futures Command

In July, the Space Force led its largest exercise to date, “Resolute 25,” which sought to demonstrate how the U.S. and its allies would “operate in a contested, dynamic environment against high-end threats on short notice,” according to a press release.
The warfighting simulation incorporated “space-based and space-enabled capabilities,” including space electromagnetic and orbital warfare. These are too...
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