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  Trump’s Iran Credibility Problem Will the President really follow through on his new economic threats? By President Donald Trump Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images After six months of war with Iran , President Trump has a credibility problem. His blustering threats, alternating with claims of imminent peace and victory, are doubted by friends and foe. Will his new threat this week on Truth Social of the “MOST CRUSHING ECONOMIC OPERATION EVER TAKEN AGAINST ANY COUNTRY!” be different? Opinion: Potomac Watch By now the world will have to see it to believe it. No President has yet climbed the Iran sanctions ladder with China, moving from the isolated “teapot” refineries that buy Iran’s oil to the Chinese state-owned enterprises that support them. Nor has any President given Dubai an ultimatum to shut down Iran’s illicit financial network and meant it. “ANY country that allows its financial institutions, businesses, airports, or government entities to provide any type of lifeline to Iran w...
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  Leonard Cohen, la profezia tabù di un poeta scomodo Una strofa di vent'anni fa usata oggi per raccontare il tramonto degli Stati Uniti. Ma il bersaglio non è soltanto l’America, ma chiunque creda di controllare la storia (e oggi l'artista non sarebbe accolto allo stesso modo) Una strofa di quattro versi circola negli ambienti che contano di Washington, Londra e Ottawa, come una specie di sortilegio: «Oh, e un’altra cosa: / non vi piacerà / quello che verrà dopo / l’America». L’aveva riscoperta e rilanciata per primo Timothy Garton Ash in una newsletter sul disordine mondiale in arrivo. L’ha ripresa un economista belga, Johan Van Overtveldt, per interrogarsi su cosa resterà dell’ordine liberale occidentale. E l’ha usata di recente Chrystia Freeland, intellettuale progressista nonché ex vicepremier canadese, sul New York Times, per chiudere un atto d’accusa contro Donald Trump. I versi sono di Leonard Cohen , e sono la chiusa di una poesia che il cantautore canadese scrisse ...
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  Meta’s Trial Adds a Trillion-Dollar Risk to Its Struggling Stock Meta shares fell 4.5% on Tuesday.Photographer: Benjamin Fanjoy/Bloomberg August 20, 2026 at 9:30 PM GMT+10 Updated on August 20, 2026 at 11:34 PM GMT+10 Save Translate Takeaways  by Bloomberg AI Shares of  Meta Platforms Inc.  have been under pressure all year due to questions about its spending on artificial intelligence. But a trial accusing its social media platforms of targeting children goes beyond that, raising existential questions about the future of its core business. Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, is  being sued  by a bipartisan coalition of states on allegations of deceiving the public and designing the apps to encourage compulsive use among young users. If it loses the trial, the company says it  could face  penalties of as much as $1.4 trillion, which is roughly the size of its market capitalization.
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  Freitag, 21.08.2026 | Zur Online-Ansicht MEINUNG Der Kommentar-Newsletter Deutschland wiederholt einen alten Denkfehler Geopolitisch hat Deutschland die „Zeitenwende“ nur halb vollzogen. Die Anstrengungen zur Eindämmung und Abschreckung Russlands, die nach 2022 unvermeidlich wurden, korrigierten lange gehegte Fehlannahmen der deutschen Politik. Aber die Korrektur blieb weitgehend auf die europäische Sicherheit beschränkt. Nikolas Busse Verantwortlicher Redakteur für Außenpolitik. Folgen Im Rest der Welt versuchten sowohl die Regierung Scholz als auch jetzt die Regierung Merz, die alten Linien der deutschen Außenpolitik fortzuführen: transatlantische Verankerung, Multilateralismus, Völkerrechtsbindung und vor allem eine starke Fixierung auf den Außenhandel.   Diesen Newsletter mit Freunden teilen                   Anzeige     Das zeigte sich besonders in den Beziehungen zu China, in denen es beim Pekin...
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