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Your Democracy Sunday, April 20, 2025 - 07:30 Source

The unplumbed depths of Peter Dutton cynical politics should be a matter of deep concern to genuine political conservatives across Australia. Whoever those people are (at present they appear to be in hiding), its time they distanced themselves from what the Liberal Party is becoming under Duttons leadership.

 

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Your Democracy Sunday, April 20, 2025 - 06:12 Source

Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz doesn’t officially take office until May 6, but that hasn’t stopped him from hitting the press circuit like it’s demolition day. Apparently, he’s got some lost time – and infrastructure – to make up for. 

 

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Your Democracy Sunday, April 20, 2025 - 05:50 Source

Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared an Easter truce in Ukraine, the Kremlin press service said Saturday, over three years after Moscow launched a full-scale offensive of the neighboring country.

The unilateral break in fighting is scheduled to last from Saturday evening until midnight on Sunday local time.

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MacroBusiness Sunday, April 20, 2025 - 04:12 Source

  Weird things happen.   At 2 o’clock in the morning on Easter Sunday a mate at the BBC beams me a question.  “Haven’t your mates been saying this for years?’ seconds before another Youtube video link is fed through.  This is it.     Within minutes another close mate a long way up the

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Your Democracy Saturday, April 19, 2025 - 22:01 Source

US President Donald Trump has said that Washington could abandon efforts to find a peaceful resolution to the Ukraine conflict if Moscow and Kiev don’t engage in negotiations. He added, however, the US still hopes to see the fighting come to an end.

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MacroBusiness Saturday, April 19, 2025 - 20:44 Source

      Australia & New Zealand       Europe       Asia   Americas …and the rest…

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John Quiggin Saturday, April 19, 2025 - 18:00 Source

Back in November, when I concluded that Trump’s dictatorship was a fait accompli lots of readers thought I was going over the top. In retrospect, and with one exception, I was hopelessly over-optimistic. I imagined a trajectory similar to Orban’s Hungary, with a gradual squeeze on political opposition and civil society, playing out over years and multiple terms in office,.

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Your Democracy Saturday, April 19, 2025 - 12:57 Source

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Your Democracy Saturday, April 19, 2025 - 03:53 Source

The US has presented its allies with details of its peace plan to bring the conflict between Russia and Ukraine to an end, Bloomberg reported on Friday, citing European officials familiar with the matter.

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Your Democracy Friday, April 18, 2025 - 18:18 Source

Trump’s actions were neither ‘spur of the moment’, nor whimsical. The ‘tariff solution’ had been pre-prepared by his team over years.

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Your Democracy Friday, April 18, 2025 - 17:39 Source

“Chaos.” “A disaster.” “Uncertainty.” “Very negative.”

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Your Democracy Friday, April 18, 2025 - 16:33 Source

Bernie Sanders has been repeatedly uttering the phrase “Israel has a right to defend itself” on his “Fighting Oligarchy” tour with Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, which in the year 2025 can only be interpreted as blatant genocide apologia. 

 

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