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Most political ads are bad, bordering on excruciating. The clichés, the fearmongering, the unfortunate attempts at humor, the awkward candidates struggling to look human — it’s enough to drive a person off the grid for the duration of election season. Then there’s “Doors,” the new online ad promoting M. J. …

Against the background of an exacerbation of Nicaragua’s political situation, Havana Times accuses the USA of an attempted ouster of the Republic’s leadership. Radio France Internationale (RFI) draws attention to the recent decision of the White House to impose sanctions on some high-ranking officials from President Ortega’s closest entourage. According …

The United States is trying to restore the shaky positions in Latin America, Diplomatic Courier, and Foreign Policy note. Winter, the editor-in-chief of the magazine Americas Quarterly, is convinced that the Trump administration has finally realized that further inaction is fraught with increasing influence of China in the region, which …

The Japan Times indicates that Japan and the EU are entering a new phase of their relations, ‘Tokyo and Brussels are actively getting closer owing to similar problems in their dialogue with Washington’. In the rhetoric of European and Japanese leaders EuroNews is hearing the appeal for forming an alliance …

Observing the world’s leading economies, it’s easy to see that there has been a split between the US and other countries of the Western world, which is getting deeper and deeper. Saying “the Western world”, I mean not only North America and Western Europe, but also some other countries pursuing …

The recent victory of the candidate from the Left Alliance Andrés Obrador in presidential elections in Mexico will contribute to further cooling of relations between Mexico and Washington, most commentators believe. The New York Magazine observes, Andrés Obrador will continue to be commensurate with the reputation of a tough critic …

Carefully cultivated European image of the official Kiev motivates some idealistically oriented Western partners to observe the processes passing in the country through the lens of their own democratic experience. However, there’s a difference between positioning as a democrat, and being a democrat. Ukraine lives under absolutely different laws than …

The previous part of the Prognostics, devoted to technical unemployment, ended with the question, ‘Will humanity revolt against industrial robots depriving people of their livelihoods?’ In this part, we will try to give a reasonable answer to it. Approaching to any statement on the issue follows the identification of a …

According to analysts, the escalation of trade disputes between the USA and Canada can lead to a systemic crisis between the two countries. As the Globe and Mail writes, non-diplomatic insults of President Trump against Prime Minister Trudeau at the G-7 Summit evoked widespread reaction within Canadian elite that called …

There are at least two Histories. One of them is obvious and publicly available; the other is covert, hidden from the eyes of outsiders under the cloak of secrecy. And it is not hard to find which one is true. Dozens of thousands of learned scholars, holders of authoritative scientific …