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Mallen Baker: Faultlines
'Dangerously reasonable' analysis on politics, science, and particularly the bit where they bump into each other. I aim to give an independent, fact-focused, non-ideological take on the issues that matter.
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- Mallen Baker: Faultlines
Fauci Hearing Shows How Far America Has Fallen
Many countries across the world have held inquiries into what worked and what didn't during the Covid-19 pandemic. Some have been better than others, but none…
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What Almost Nobody's Saying About Trump, Putin And Ukraine
Following Trump's reportedly successful meeting with Ukraine's President Zelensky, many reporters are talking about how various factors are 'turning' Trump, or…
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Trump Confronted With Stark Reality Of His Failure In Iran
President Trump was in talks to discuss all his options in massively escalating the war against Iran over the weekend. It turns out, they were a lot more…
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Trump's Delusions About Iran Make The War Unwinnable | News Round-Up
In this news round-up of the week on Friday July 24th 2026. President Trump is furious about the rapid leaks about all the mis-steps and u-turns he's making…
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Trump's Gaza Peace Plan Just Fell Apart
President Trump's biggest triumph, according to some, was to get Israel and Hamas to agree to his Gaza peace deal. And then, to follow that up with the…
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Trump Clueless About Missile Shortage As He Escalates Iran War
As Trump's attacks on Iran resume, and his rhetoric escalates, reports are emerging that officials in the Pentagon are just not telling the White House, and…
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The Real Reason Why Trump's Going After Canada Again
Canada is having a wildfire problem - a huge wildfire problem right now. In the past, it has collaborated with its southern neighbour over such moments - a…
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Trump's Big Election Reveal Immediately Backfires | News Round-Up
In this news round-up of the week for Friday July 17th 2026. President Trump addresses the nation and declassifies documents to show just how vulnerable US…
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Trump Panics And Instantly Caves On Tolls For Strait of Hormuz
President Donald Trump outraged much of the world yesterday when he announced his latest bold and audacious venture - a Strait of Hormuz protection racket. The…
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The Battle For The Strait Of Hormuz Will Decide The Iran War
The Strait of Hormuz is the focus point once again. Iran has declared it closed. President Donald Trump has declared it closed to Iranian shipping with the…
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Trump Just Revealed His Plan To Leave Iran - It's As Bad As You Think | News Round-Up
In this news round-up of the week for Friday July 10th 2026. President Trump floats what is obviously going to become his way out of the Iran war - and it's as…
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Why Trump's Iran Deal Is Falling Apart
stir - but the real events of substance were coming once again from Iran, and from the Strait of Hormuz. The deal, the memorandum of understanding, is full-on…
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NATO In Crisis: The Real Story Behind Trump's Bluster
The much-awaited NATO summit in Turkey has begun, and Trump went in firing off all the usual threats, statements and attacks that generated ... the usual…
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Trump Sabotages World Cup And Embarrasses America
Trump had the perfect term to make a difference as US president - the year of the 250th anniversary of the United States, and the hosting of the World Cup…
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Trump Signals Big NATO Showdown | News Round-Up
In this news round-up of the week for Friday July 3rd 2026. The Ukraine war is intensifying just days before a big NATO summit where Trump has made it clear he…
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How Trump Completely Botched America's Big 250th Party
President Donald Trump had one job in relation to the 250th anniversary of the United States. Hold a great big party to celebrate the founding mythology of…
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MAGA Furious As Trump Suffers Huge Supreme Court Defeat
We know that President Donald Trump really cared about the birthright citizenship issue - because he made an unprecedented in-court appearance at the Supreme…
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Trump Launches New Massive Tariff Threat On Europe | News Round-Up
In this news round-up of the week for Friday 26th June, 2026. President Trump is back on the tariff trail, as he announces that all countries that dare to…
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All Trump's Allies Are Turning Against His Farce
When Trump came into office, everyone in public life across the world apparently started to mimic the nonsense, to talk as though Trumpian fantasy was real…
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How Trump Nearly Sabotaged His Own Iran Deal
For someone who really needs this deal to work, Trump seems to be going out of his way to sabotage it. It's a reflection of two things - one, he just can't…
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Trump Allies Revolt Against His Iran Deal | News Round-Up
In this news round-up of the week for Friday June 19th 2026. The backlash against Trump's ceasefire deal with Iran continues to intensify amongst the…
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Trump's First Major Step To Abandon NATO Announced
Even as he was signing the Iran ceasefire deal, and talking more positively about Ukraine, Trump's first steps towards de facto walking away from NATO was…
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We Have The Iran Deal Text - And It's Worse Than We Thought
When Iran sent over its first list of demands to the Trump Administration, it was reportedly treated with derision - hopelessly unrealistic. And yet, every…
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Trump Celebrates What Seems A Terrible Deal With Iran
President Donald Trump got his birthday deal - well, maybe. So far the text hasn't been released, so we only have the word of the two different sides, and…
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Why Calls To 'Save Democracy From Trump' Don't Work
Lots of us have observed the incompetence, the trashing of US constitutional norms, the undermining of democracy, and all the rest of it - and concluded that…
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Why Trump's 'Close' Iran Deal Could Still Unravel | News Round-Up
In this news round-up of the week for Friday June 12th 2026. The ceasefire deal that President Trump conjured as the reason for pulling back from invading…
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Iran Called Trump's Bluff — And Trump Blinked
President Trump had gone back into bombing Iran, because this time he was going to grab all of Iran's oil, and invade Kharg Island and force them to agree to…
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Q&A: Why Can’t Democrats Land A Blow On Trump?
In this Q&A video, with questions submitted by Patreon supporters, we talk about the possibility that President Donald Trump will choose to invade Cuba, or…
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Global Survey Just Named America The World's Biggest Threat
A major survey of global opinion, from the citizens of countries that make up 90% of the total world population - has found that Trump's America is now viewed…
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The REAL Reason Trump's Iran Talks Are Stalled | News Round-Up
In this news round-up of the week for Friday June 5th, 2026: In an interview with CNN, a senior adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader confirms some of the detail of…
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More And More People Are Saying No To Trump
Congress just passed a motion to restrict President Trump's Iran war powers - something that is a significant embarrassment as he struggles to get a peace deal…
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Trump Furious As The Failures Pile Up
One day after another, it seems that not much is going right for the administration of President Donald Trump. The Iran war is the big quagmire, of course. But…
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Why Donald Trump Is The World's Worst Dealmaker
Ignore all the blather about the 'Art of the Deal' - why is Donald Trump in real life actually such a terrible dealmaker? And if that's the case, how did he…
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How Trump’s Obama Obsession Trapped Him With Iran | News Round-Up
In this news round-up of the week for Friday May 29th 2026 - President Trump is touting how close the US and Iran now are to the final deal. Well, let's not…
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The World Is Turning Away From Trump
The US needs all the allies it can get amongst the gulf states, you would think. And yet yesterday, President Donald Trump casually threatened to bomb one of…
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Trump Caught In His Own Trap On Iran
One minute, President Donald Trump is breathlessly announcing to the world that a deal is on the verge of being signed - the next he is in full pace retreat as…
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The Pope Takes On Trump And The Tech Bros Over AI
Artificial Intelligence is, by its very nature, a transformative technology. But right now, it seems to be being driven by characters who are happy to set…
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Is Trump About To Sign An Iran Surrender Deal?
After numerous false signals where President Donald Trump would claim a deal was close, only to see Iran deny any such thing - it seems as though all parties…
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Why Trump Could Move Early Against Cuba | News Round-Up
In this news round-up of the week for Friday May 22nd, 2026: President Trump is ratcheting up the rhetoric and moving the pieces in place for an apparent…
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Trump’s Newly Announced Iran Strategy Is … Not Great
Now that the 'excitement' of his summit meeting with China's Xi Jinping has worn off, President Donald Trump is left back exactly where he was before - staring…
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Trump’s Latest Secret Attempts To Get Control Of Greenland
An investigation by the New York Times has revealed how Trump's United States has been pushing a maximalist agenda for control on various aspects of Greenland…
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Trump Created A Global Crisis And Doesn’t Care
While citizens of the United States fret about having to pay more at the pump for gasoline, President Donald Trump's illegal war on Iran is having massive…
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Trump Fantasy Slams Into China Summit Reality | News Round-Up
In this news round-up of the week for Friday May 15th 2026: President Trump is forced to explain to MAGA why what they heard with their own ears from Xi…
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Xi Jinping’s Taiwan Warning Made Trump Go Quiet
President Donald Trump is very used to deploying fiery rhetoric against his enemies to seek to cow them into submission, even though he's found his brand of…
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China Prepares To Eat Trump For Lunch
Later this coming week, China's Xi Jinping will be hosting President Donald Trump in Beijing for their delayed summit meeting. It's hard to ignore the fact…
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The Truth About Trump's Big Iran War U-Turn | News Round-Up
In this news round-up of the week for Friday May 8th, 2026. It turns out that President Donald Trump's about-turn on Project Freedom had even less to do with…
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Trump's Humiliating U-Turn After 'Project Freedom' Fails
President Donald Trump has 'paused' so-called Project Freedom. Supposedly, it's because the Pakistanis asked him to. Nothing at all to do with the reality that…
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Trump's Strait Of Hormuz Gamble Likely To Blow Up In His Face
There's no doubt that the thousand ships that are stranded in the Strait of Hormuz need rescuing - and if it could be achieved, it would be a tremendous…
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Iran Won't Let Trump Off The Hook | News Round-Up
In this news round-up of the week for Friday May the first, 2026. Iran presents its new peace proposal, and it does not make President Donald Trump happy -…
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Furious Trump Threatens To Pull Troops From Germany
German Chancellor Merz made an entirely reasonable observation - Iran had humiliated the United States, and was being much more skilful in its negotiations…
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King Charles' Urgent Wake-Up Call To Trump's America
King Charles spoke to Congress, and then again at President Donald Trump's own banquet. He impressed many with his skilful diplomacy, and also that while…
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“Iran Has Humiliated the US” Germany's Chancellor Merz
The world is changing - especially in the fact that a growing number of world leaders are prepared to speak the truth in public, caring little any more how it…
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Trump's America Is Continuing Its Slide Into The Abyss
At the White House Correspondents' Dinner we saw the latest in a growing line of incidents of political violence directed at President Donald Trump and other…
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Leaked Email Reveals Trump's Plan To Punish NATO | News Round-Up
In this news round-up of the week for Friday April 24th 2026. A leaked email shows that President Trump is looking for new ways to bully the world, and…
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Trump Flooded The Zone - Now He’s Drowning In The Consequences
The theory, as expounded by Trump's former strategic adviser Steve Bannon, was that the Trump administration could utterly change America by 'flooding the…
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Why Nobody Wants To Do A Deal With Trump
One of the biggest barriers preventing serious work on an Iran negotiated settlement is the fact that the Iranians have so little trust when it comes to…
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Ukraine Has Given Up On Trump's America
After a painful year and a quarter of flattering and pleading with Trump to stay the right side of the Ukraine war, the president's obvious predisposition for…
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Why Iran Is Running Rings Around Furious Trump
President Trump thought he was being forceful in declining to drop the blockade on Iran's vessels in the Strait of Hormuz after Iran had declared it open. But…
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China and Taiwan In A Race To Learn From Trump's Iran War
The sight of Donald Trump's America throwing everything it has (nearly) at a smaller, but smarter and more determined adversary - this has been a goldmine of…
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Trump Blunders Again On Iran Deal | News Round-Up
In this news round-up of the week for April 17, 2026: Iran is demonstrating its leverage as the US pushes Israel into a ceasefire with Lebanon, and the Strait…