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Sign up for our upcoming research tour ➡️ Exploring #energy and #climate stories: Insights on Poland's pre-election discourse

#Elections in #Poland 🇵🇱 will be crucial for the direction of energy and climate policy in this part of Europe, as ongoing war in Ukraine still impacts #energysecurity, attitudes toward #climateaction, approaches to #nuclearenergy, and the sustainability of #foreignrelations and alliances.

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/research-tours/research-tour-exploring-energy-and-climate-stories-insights-polands-pre-election-discourse

A quotation from Havel, Vaclav:

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A state that denies its citizens their basic rights becomes a danger to its neighbors as well: internal arbitrary rule will be reflected in arbitrary external relations. The suppression of public opinion, the abolition of public competition for power and its public exercise opens the way for the state power to arm itself in …
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/havel-vaclav/7564/

#quote #quotes #quotation #civilrights #foreignrelations

Marjorie Taylor Greene introduces amendment directing Biden to withdraw from Nato

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-biden-nato-b2373535.html

#MarjorieTaylorGreeneAmendment #BidenNATOWithdrawal #USPolitics #ForeignRelations #NationalSecurity #InternationalAlliance #Politics #News

#Blinken meeting with #Xi in #China did not produce any concrete results #ForeignRelations

https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-06-20-china-puts-onus-us-stabilize-deteriorating-relations.html

India’s Worsening Democracy Makes It an Unreliable Ally

The generals who annulled elections in Myanmar consider India a steadfast friend. It has issued only tepid, pious platitudes for peace in response to Russia’s illegal war in Ukraine. Its trade with Russia has not stopped, and it is accused of selling Russian oil in international markets undermining sanctions. It is wary of China, but only with regard to its disputed border; it has abstained U.N. resolutions on the treatment of Uyghurs and is unlikely to say anything meaningful if China invades Taiwan.

#india #UnitedStates #democracy #diplomacy #china #russia #myanmar #ukraine #geopolitics #BJP #ForeignRelations #fascism #PressFreedom #authoritarianism #hindutva

https://time.com/6288505/indias-worsening-democracy-makes-it-an-unreliable-ally/

The Next Global Superpower Isn't Who You Think | Ian Bremmer | TED

15 min video

he gets to the point after 5 min. Although he speaks about tech companies, understand billionaires control tech. Their smallish number, some 2000 individuals worldwide is a very exclusive club of immense economic and social power. These are would by totalitarian giants

“ The Next Global Superpower Isn't Who You Think | Ian Bremmer | TED”

https://youtu.be/uiUPD-z9DTg

#ted #politics #economy #foreignrelations #reddit

The Crook on the #Senate #ForeignRelations Committee
https://medium.com/@codepink/the-crook-on-the-senate-foreign-relations-committee-cc51fee274d2

Interesting to note that the 3 countries specifically quoted as being in reputational ditches internationally have something very important in common - the anti-climate change action, anti-environment, hardline conservative Murdoch media are most influential in those same three nations.

Sure, a few wins are listed, but it should also be remembered that the same-sex marriage listed as a success came at a very high cost to the LGBTQ community due to the divisive process of a plebiscite (a non-binding public vote) the conservative govt chose to hold before the SSM vote in Parliament. Many very nasty, hurtful & ill-informed comments were thrown at the LGBTQ community in the lead-up to the (totally unnecessary) plebiscite. #ForeignRelations #Murdoch #NewsCorp #Australia

Australia’s reputation has been hit. We need more than Sarah Snook for success https://www.smh.com.au/national/australia-s-reputation-has-been-hit-we-need-more-than-sarah-snook-for-success-20230606-p5degb.html

Now, Bangladesh objects to ‘Akhand Bharat’ mural in new Parliament

Political leaders in Nepal have also expressed opposition to Lumbini being included in the installation of the subcontinent.

#bangladesh #lumbini #AkhandBharat #NewParliamentBuilding #RSS #BJP #HinduNationalism #hindutva #ForeignRelations #nepal #india

https://scroll.in/latest/1050489/now-bangladesh-objects-to-akhand-bharat-mural-in-new-parliament

🚨BREAKING: Ukraine Targets Putin with Drone Strike
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https://twitter.com/MarioNawfal/status/1653732375568736259

🚨BREAKING: Ukraine Targets Putin with Drone Strike on the KremlinRussia has accused Ukraine of attempting a drone attack on the Kremlin with the aim of killing President Putin.Russian officials said Putin was not injured, and that Moscow shot down two drones.The Kremlin… pic.twitter.com/YsbYsAGDcs— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) May 3, 2023
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Chinese Diplomacy Seen as Threat to US ‘Peace,’ ‘Stability’ https://fair.org/home/chinese-diplomacy-seen-as-threat-to-us-peace-stability/

Article honestly asks "what US Peace, Stability? As if, LOL." I've been saying for years we need to pay more attention to China though.

#CurrentAffairs #ForeignRelations #diplomacy #history

I love consumer protections but making threats to a Chinese business when tension with China is soaring (pun intended) seems risky

#POTUS #ForeignRelations #TikTok #ConsumerProtection #China #US

#Ukraine
> Extraits du discours de #GeorgeFriedman, directeur de la société de #renseignement et d’#analyse #Stratfor, au Council on #ForeignRelations de #Chicago. (2015 !)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emCEfEYom4A

> Selon lui, "la priorité des #USA est d'empêcher que le capital allemand et les technologies allemandes s'unissent avec les ressources naturelles et la main d'œuvre russes pour former une combinaison invincible".

Beau on China aid to Russia 9min video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv7BmRJ4Zuc

I have several thoughts on this:

I think China’s soft power is a tad more squishy than @beautfc ’s take.

the US is constitutionally unable to think national interest in the manner of #China. We are ruled by a bunch of an-cap libertarian whack job plutocrats pre-occupied with crushing us into a Tsarist peasantry. US foreign aid is an orgy of exploitation, see #Iraq and #Afghanistan
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#foreignrelations #china #russia #us

The Office of the Historian at the U.S. Department of State has released a series of documents on national security policy and arms control and disarmament from 1958 to 1960. These documents were first released in 1998 on microfiche and have now been digitized and are available online. Check them out here:

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1958-60v03mSupp

#histodons #PrimarySources #ForeignRelations

Instead of canceling his trip to Beijing, Secretary of State Blinken should have shown up with a little helium balloon in hand, releasing it into the air as soon as he stepped foot on the tarmac.

@foreignpolicy #ForeignRelations #China #Balloon @politicalscience #histodons @histodons

U.S. Vice President⁩ #KamalaHarris condemned the attack by pro-#Bolsonaro radicals on government institutions in #Brazil’s capital, and said the new U.S. #ambassador to the country, #ElizabethBagley, is ready to work with ⁦#Lula⁩’s administration.

https://brazilian.report/liveblog/2023/01/10/harris-bagley-ambassador/

#ForeignRelations #ForeignPolicy

Does anyone know about the #NationalPrayerBreakfast that PM #AbiyAhmed and #LemmaMegersa purportedly attended as was mentioned in this clip from the #MajorityReport? [Link | https://youtu.be/E2lGejPQ-wI]

I tried looking it up online but the organizers of this event (#TheFellowshipFoundation) don’t seem to maintain any online public records of their activities, guests or dignitaries.

#Ethiopia #SamSeder #EmmaVigeland #Oromo #Politics #ForeignRelations #News #Leftist #InternationalPolitics

The emerging deal Kevin McCarthy is discussing to make him House speaker would propose a roughly $75 billion cut in defense spending https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-06/mccarthy-s-emerging-speaker-deal-tees-up-75-billion-defense-cut?utm_source=website&utm_medium=share&utm_campaign=twitter?sref=SlPcyNLs via #bpolitics #ukraine #defense #republicansindisarray #nationalsecurity #foreignrelations

Ottawa needs to get realistic for 2023.

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/topstories/opinion-a-new-year-s-resolution-for-politicians-let-s-embrace-realism/ar-AA15V0Xa
pub: Financial Post

#canpol #cdnpoli #economy #immigration #environment #healthcare #foreignrelations #military