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Henk Overbeek
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International political economy, geopolitics, Europe, China
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Hoe streeft de NAVO naar vrede?
Welkom allen op donderdagavond 6 maart in Den Haag voor dit belangrijke gesprek over de rol van de #NAVO met oa Prof.Bastiaan van Apeldoorn (VU, Eerste Kamer) en Dr. Maja Vodopivec (UL)
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February 21, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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⚡️ Kremlin denies demanding NATO eastern rollback in talks with US.
Kremlin denies demanding NATO eastern rollback in talks with US
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said this in reaction to an article by the Financial Times claiming that during the talks in Riyadh on Feb. 18, Russian delegates asked for the NATO rollback as a co...
kyivindependent.com
February 21, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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The richest man in the world has taken over the US government and his first order of business is taking revenge for the fall of apartheid in South Africa www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump says he is cutting off funding to South Africa over land ‘confiscations’
Government of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is ‘treating certain classes of people very badly’, Trump claims as he demands ‘full investigation’ of situation
www.theguardian.com
February 3, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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"Forming an anti-technofeudal front that reaches beyond the left to various democratic forces and fractions of capital at odds with Big Tech. (...) This would imply a form of digital protectionism (..) as well as a new digital internationalism" newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
Cédric Durand, Fragile Leviathan? — Sidecar
Trump and tech.
newleftreview.org
January 30, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Elon Musk’s allies are moving swiftly to exert control over swaths of the U.S. government, as they demand access to sensitive information at federal agencies and lay out plans to block spending they deem excessive
Musk Moves With Lightning Speed to Exert Control Over the Government
The billionaire’s representatives gained access to a Treasury Department payment system and sensitive documents at USAID.
www.wsj.com
February 3, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Ontluisterend hoe Wierd Duk hier op zijn plek gezet wordt!

Talking International Politics in the Netherlands open.substack.com/pub/mearshei...
Talking International Politics in the Netherlands
On 16 January 2025, I had an excellent discussion with Paul Buitink, who runs the popular Dutch podcast — “Reinvent Money” — and Wierd Duk, one of Holland’s most influential journalists, who writes fo...
open.substack.com
January 21, 2025 at 6:53 PM