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Shrinking the Pentagon

Now that Joe Biden is slated to take office as the 46th president of the United States, advice on how he should address a wide range of daunting problems is flooding in. Nowhere is there more at stake than when it comes to how he handles this country’s highly militarized …

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The Center Cannot Hold: Biden and the Challenge for Progressives

The election is over and Trump, with or without conceding, will leave the White House. The jubilant Democrats cheer on the president-elect as he convenes his center-right administration. The disaster of four more years of Trumpogarchy was indeed incomprehensible. Having the old, corrupt party machine back in power has never …

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Hundreds of Syrian mercenaries return from Karabakh

More than 2,580 Syrian combatants had been sent to back Baku in total, of whom 293 have died, according to the SOHR monitoring group. More than 900 pro-Turkish Syrian mercenaries have returned to Syria since the end of fighting in the disputed area of Nagorno-Karabakh, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for …

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