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Your Democracy Wednesday, July 2, 2025 - 04:07 Source

Russian President Vladimir Putin has spoken with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron by telephone, the Kremlin press service said on Tuesday. It is the first phone contact between the leaders since September 2022. 

The conversation revolved around the situation in the Middle East, as well as the Ukraine conflict.

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Your Democracy Wednesday, July 2, 2025 - 03:24 Source

Germany’s new chancellor Friedrich Merz has plunged the country into a deep political and geopolitical crisis, driven by aggressive pro-war rhetoric and a failing foreign policy agenda centered on Ukraine.

 

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Your Democracy Wednesday, July 2, 2025 - 03:20 Source

One way to get a robust, comparative fix on how obscene American global preaching about human rights has become is (borrowing a vivid image from Caitlin Johnstone) to imagine what the world might think about a scorching lecture from a Taliban leader on the Western oppression of women and women’s rights.

 

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Your Democracy Wednesday, July 2, 2025 - 03:13 Source

Lugansk People’s Republic liberated: How it happenedRussian troops have gained control over all areas of the region, ending Kiev’s occupation

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MacroBusiness Wednesday, July 2, 2025 - 00:05 Source

Some charts from Westpac make the point. After increasing by 0.6% in May, the Cotality house value index increased by 0.6% in June. The current price increase is 2.3% since January, after a minor 0.8% drop at the beginning of the year. At 2.7% annually, growth was somewhat stable. Similar increases were seen in all

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Club Troppo Tuesday, July 1, 2025 - 19:02 Source

I posted something similar on Facebook a few days back, and thought I might get some useful feedback here.

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Cheeseburger Gothic Tuesday, July 1, 2025 - 16:07 Source

I’ve been spending some time in the 1950s. The other 1950s, of course, which I buggered up jamming a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier into a wormhole and back to the Battle of Midway.

Would you like a peek?

(That’s not really a question, I know).

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MacroBusiness Tuesday, July 1, 2025 - 16:00 Source

The new financial year is seeing some calm return to Asian share markets with Japanese bourses pulling back amid tariff dramas with the Trump regime, while Yen is firming on solid manufacturing data from both China and Japan as we await the US ISM print later tonight. Oil markets continue to steady after their recent

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Your Democracy Tuesday, July 1, 2025 - 14:36 Source

A Melbourne company is recruiting Australians to work on a mysterious Israeli and American-backed aid project in Gaza. Could it be the infamous Gaza Humanitarian Foundation? Yaakov Aharon reports.

An ad posted by Claymore Personnel – named after an anti-personnel landmine – promises that successful candidates will “be looked after.”

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MacroBusiness Tuesday, July 1, 2025 - 14:00 Source

As we know, VIC is the worst-run state in Australia. This is strange given that there is no native industry left to drain talent from the government. But it is what it is. Lowest income growth. Highest debt. And unemployment. Worst business conditions. And, you guessed it, absurd population growth. But don’t get cocky, because

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