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Edwin Montagu’s memo on the anti-Semitism of the current (British) government

Edwin Montagu’s memoir on anti-Semitism of the current (British) government – Submitted to the British Cabinet, August 1917 I have chosen the above title for this memorandum, not in a hostile sense, not at all to quarrel with an anti-Semitic point of view that could be defended by my colleagues, …

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Will the Battle of Kursk be a turning point? Tracking the latest developments on the Russian-Ukrainian front, the Chinese are asking this question too.

Chinese publicies and bloggers, whose political pubicists are always censored by Beijing, agree that as the operations of the AFU escalate on the territory of the Russian Federation, the military situation is developing in an increasingly complex and dangerous direction. And two more points of consensus: the AFU intercepted the …

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The Financial Future of the Islamic State

Abstract: The fall of the Islamic State’s caliphate in Iraq and Syria significantly impacted the group’s ability to fundraise through territorial control. Despite this loss, the group retained substantial financial reserves, estimated between $10 million to $30 million, some of which were stored outside its immediate area of operations. These …

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