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A World Turned Upside Down Authored by Alastair Crooke (former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum) via LewRockwell.com, Outline of a talk given at the Higher School of Economics, Moscow, 7 Sept 2026 Can civilizations pull together the fragments of older insights and knowing to give the context by which to make moral discourse intelligible again? The global future is often framed as being that of a multi-polar or multi-nodal world, with the implicit assumption that states would get along better - and would resolve their differences more easily...

Will Ukraine End Up Forcibly Conscripting Women To Fight On The Frontline? Via Remix News, Since Ukraine’s population has shrunk dramatically, the army’s number one problem is no longer the lack of weapons, such as ballistic missiles and air defense systems, but the lack of soldiers to operate them, writes Világgazdaság. The authorities in Kyiv, however, must bring the army size required by Commander-in-Chief Zelensky (800,000 active soldiers), and since the number of men eligible for military service (between the ages of 18 and 60) is slowly running out, the Ukrainian leadership is now trying...

Germany's Debt King Merz Gets a Greek Lesson in Fiscal Policy Submitted by Thomas Kolbe Revenge is sweet. It tastes all the sweeter the longer one has had to wait for it to arrive, and the deeper the pain of the humiliation that preceded it. Some may still have the images of the great debt crisis of a decade and a half ago before their eyes: German politicians, led by then-Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble, traveled to Athens at regular intervals to make sure everything was in order. Greece, the supposed sinner of...