October 15, 2019
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Europe Can No Longer Trust the United States. Better Look Eastwards
by Brian Cloughley
The solution for EU is not to formally cut ties with US but to foster and develop economic links with Russia, its obvious partner for the future.

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If you want massive corporations to serve one master then they must be given no opportunity to serve a second, the NBA did nothing wrong, Tim Kirby writes.

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The best partnerships occur when all participants have special talents to bring to the relationship which makes a whole more powerful than the sum of its parts.

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