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    Republican QAnon conspiracy promoter picked to run for US Senate

    Jo Rae Perkins wins Republican primary contest in Oregon FBI has warned that conspiracy could encourage extremism The QAnon theory has been embraced by some of the president’s supporters, such those at a rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, in August 2018. Photograph: Rick Loomis/Getty Images Oregon Republicans have nominated a high-profile backer of the QAnon conspiracy […] More

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    COVID-19 Casts a Shadow Over Swedish Exceptionalism

    Sweden has dealt with the global COVID-19 pandemic very differently from the other Nordic countries. All but Sweden are led by women. The female prime ministers in Denmark, Norway and Finland closed down their countries in the middle of March and have dealt with the pandemic in an open, inclusive and democratic way you would […] More

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    The Limits of Western “Creativity” Facing China

    The disastrous numbers produced by the coronavirus crisis in the US have generated a second pandemic, one that will predictably last for just the next six months: the virus of electoral rhetoric focused on blaming an overseas enemy. Whereas the Democrats, clinging to their Cold War nostalgia, still appear to be obsessed by Russia, Republicans […] More

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    Post-coronavirus, the UK must find some friends to stand up to China | Martin Kettle

    Post-coronavirus, the UK must find some friends to stand up to China Martin Kettle Covid-19 has seen China supplant the US in the global power league. Alliances are now crucial to reject the superpower’s bullying Coronavirus – latest updates See all our coronavirus coverage Illustration: Eva Bee Amid the pandemic, the great issues of the […] More

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    Can US Special Operations Command Be Held Accountable?

    Last October, a group of eight Apache attack and CH-47 Chinook helicopters carrying US commandos roared out of an airfield in Iraq. They raced through Turkish airspace and across the Syrian border, coming in low as they approached a village just north of Idlib province where Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, his bodyguards and some of […] More