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Paintings of windows provide such an interesting perspective, a window upon a window. Captured here is Moscow's Arbat Street.

Post-Soviet visual. "My Window" painting by Andrey Dareev, Russia, 2013. (https://t.co/Q8hdQgRvcs)

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TG 1935: Rethinking Stalin, Russia And The Soviet Union

George Szamuely and Peter Lavelle sat down for a conversation about Stalin, Russian history and the Soviet Union with eminent historian Professor Sheila Fitzpatrick.

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TG 1934: U.K. (Half-Heartedly) Threatens To Recognize Palestinian State

George Szamuely and Peter Lavelle discuss U.K. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's threat to recognize a Palestinian state --but only under certain conditions--and wonder what, if any, difference a British recognition would make.

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Monday Night At The Movies: "Come And See" (1985)

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BREAKING: President Trump delays Tariffs until Aug 7.
(except Canada Aug 1)

Canada: 35%
EU: 15%
China: 55% with prior tariffs
Vietnam: 20% baseline
Indonesia: 19%
Philippines: 19%
Japan: 15%
South Korea: 15%
India: 25%
Brazil: 50%
Cambodia: 36%
Bangladesh: 35%
Laos, Myanmar: 40%

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/responses/what-kind-great-power-will-india-be

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NEW - Trump said to warn Jewish donor that MAGA is "starting to hate Israel."

Read more: https://www.disclose.tv/id/s90cg7cb5m/

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JUST IN - U.S. imposes sanctions on Palestinian Authority and PLO officials, including denying visas, for failing to meet commitments.

https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2025/07/sanctioning-officials-of-the-palestinian-authority-and-members-of-the-palestine-liberation-organization

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NEW - Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir says, "Germany is returning to support Nazism" after Germany's Foreign Minister met with Netanyahu today amid speculation that Berlin may recognize the State of Palestine.

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JUST IN - Trump grants Mexico 90-day extension to reach trade deal, temporary tariffs remain in place.

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/114948452793702817

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Fuck NO! I will never comply nor participate in this crap. I own my data and you have no rights to my personal property. Everyone should refuse this. Keep your own medical records, on paper, and only share with trusted health providers if strictly necessary.
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NOW - Trump launches "Digital Health Tech Ecosystem" to "bring healthcare into the digital age," with trusted partners like OpenAI, Amazon, Anthropic, Apple, Microsoft AI, and Google. https://x.com/sasha_latypova/status/1950977183280930860

My friend is in the business of buying wholesale steel rebar, steel beams, steel sheets, etc. from inexpensive overseas producers and then selling it downstream to American homebuilders who build budget homes.

He got an email from his customs broker this afternoon that their order from Hanoi, Vietnam will be subject to either 50%, 70%, 110%, or 135% tariff tomorrow.

50% penalty for foreign steel.

Another 20% penalty for Vietnam.

Another 40% transshipment ...

January 21, 2023
More Leftie Than Thou
"Jacobin" Magazine Celebrates A Strike Against Ol' Blue Eyes

Here at "The Gaggle" we have very little time for the "more Leftie than thou" school of thought--that's the approach to life according to which the only thing that matters is whether you take the right position on every issue under the sun from Abortion to Zelensky. No one in the world meets the exacting standards of this school of thought; any Leftie leader anywhere is always selling out to the bankers and the capitalists. The perfect exemplar of this is the unreadable Jacobin magazine. 

The other day I came across this article from 2021. It's a celebration of trade union power. And not simply trade union power, but the use of trade union power to secure political goals. Of course (and this is always the case with the "more Leftie than thou" crowd), this glorious, never-to-be-forgotten moment on the history of organized labor took place many years ago--in the summer of 1974 to be exact. Yes, almost half a century has gone by since that thrilling moment when the working-class movement of Australia mobilized and prepared to seize the means of production, distribution and exchange. 

Well, not quite. Organized labor went into action against...Ol' Blue Eyes, the Chairman of the Board, the Voice; yes, Frank Sinatra. Why? What had Sinatra done? Sinatra was certainly very rich, and he owned a variety of properties and businesses. But if the Australian trade union movement were, understandably, searching for the bright, incandescent spark that would finally awaken the working class from its slumber there were surely richer, greedier, more dishonest, more decadent, above all more Australian individuals it could have discovered. Australia was never short of them. Rupert Murdoch immediately springs to mind. Why Sinatra?

 

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