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from Asia Times Online
News & Media Website
A year after the Philippine city was liberated, residents see little benefit from multi-billion-dollar rehabilitation packages from the US and China.
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from BBC News (UK)
LEFT-CENTER BIAS
The US will withdraw from a landmark nuclear weapons treaty with Russia, President Donald Trump has confirmed. Speaking to reporters, Mr Trump said Russia had "violated" the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty. The deal banned ground-launched medium-range missiles, with a range of between 500 and 5,500km (310-3,400 miles). The US would not let Russia "go out and do weapons [while] we're not allowed to", Mr Trump said.
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from The Guardian (UK)
LEFT-CENTER BIAS, HIGH, daily newspaper
Even as we rail at our leaders, we fail to address our own manifest flaws
Our political class is paralysed and we complain that we have never been so badly served. But what about our own errors of judgment? Now is the perfect storm of our discontent. Rather than wonder how it will end – because it can only end badly – we’d do better by asking how it began. I am inclined always to take the long view myself. We listened to the snake in the garden – it’s striking how like Brexit the Garden of Eden story is – and that was the last we knew of happiness. Even if we start with more recent events we cannot discount the gullibility of our natures, our appalling judgment in the matter of those whose advice we take and our restless reaching after catastrophe. We should be looking to morality and psychology for an explanation, not politics. Henceforth, let the measure of a scoundrel be how soon he proclaims the “will of the people” to be sacrosanct – which it isn’t – and this in a society where nothing is sacrosanct: not trust, not the politeness we owe one another, not the vows we make, not the right of a woman to work in the House of Commons unmolested. And let the measure of our folly be our willingness to listen to any old silver-tongued spiv or clapped-out ideologue, whose views have been doctored to chime with ours, on whichever side of the political divide we pitch our tents. Words are not true because we agree with them. Those with whom we don’t agree are not our enemies. The world needn’t end for others because it’s not giving us what we want. Don’t expect to be happier than is reasonable. Ignore the snake. The apple will drop when it’s ready. In the meantime, smell the flowers and try not to argue with their scent.
Even as we rail at our leaders, we fail to address our own manifest flaws
Our political class is paralysed and we complain that we have never been so badly served. But what about our own errors of judgment? Now is the perfect storm of our discontent. Rather than wonder how it will end – because it can only end badly – we’d do better by asking how it began. I am inclined always to take the long view myself. We listened to the snake in the garden – it’s striking how like Brexit the Garden of Eden story is – and that was the last we knew of happiness. Even if we start with more recent events we cannot discount the gullibility of our natures, our appalling judgment in the matter of those whose advice we take and our restless reaching after catastrophe. We should be looking to morality and psychology for an explanation, not politics. Henceforth, let the measure of a scoundrel be how soon he proclaims the “will of the people” to be sacrosanct – which it isn’t – and this in a society where nothing is sacrosanct: not trust, not the politeness we owe one another, not the vows we make, not the right of a woman to work in the House of Commons unmolested. And let the measure of our folly be our willingness to listen to any old silver-tongued spiv or clapped-out ideologue, whose views have been doctored to chime with ours, on whichever side of the political divide we pitch our tents. Words are not true because we agree with them. Those with whom we don’t agree are not our enemies. The world needn’t end for others because it’s not giving us what we want. Don’t expect to be happier than is reasonable. Ignore the snake. The apple will drop when it’s ready. In the meantime, smell the flowers and try not to argue with their scent.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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