3 w. ago ‘The president is ... unwell’: Mike Johnson doesn’t refute claim as Democrat assails Trump to his face over generals address

Pennsylvania rep Madeleine Dean also took Johnson to task over ‘racist’ AI meme Trump shared of Democratic leaders during shutdown negotiations

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3 w. ago Veterans react to Hegseth’s ‘insulting’ address to generals and admirals

Defense secretary’s speech touching on physical fitness and doctrine of lethality was seen as ‘egotistical’ and ‘dangerous’Naveed Shah, a veteran and activist who served as an enlisted public affairs specialist – an army journalist – uncharacteristically found himself searching for words to describe the address of the newly styled secretary of war to flag officers on Tuesday.“A lot of the words that are coming to me aren’t fit to print,” said Shah, policy director for Common Defense, a veterans advocacy organization. “The people in that room who have served for 20, 30-plus years in uniform do not need Pete Hegseth to tell them about warrior ethos.” Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Trump defends troops in US cities after Hegseth decries military DEI efforts

President and defense chief delivered pair of incendiary speeches to a crowd of hundreds of generals and admiralsUS politics – latest updatesAt an address of assembled generals and admirals, Pete Hegseth, the US defense secretary, outlined changes to military policy and philosophy in a set of 10 directives meant to change organizational culture around fitness, race and gender, describing the previous state of military affairs as the “woke department.”Donald Trump followed Hegseth’s call to embrace the virtues of lethality as a doctrine with a suggestion buried in an hour-long campaign-style speech that the gathering of officers and senior enlisted advisers should consider targeting US cities and civilian populations as a training exercise. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Zelenskyy condemns ‘vile’ and deadly Russian strikes on Ukraine; drones spotted over Danish military sites – Europe live

Twelve-year-old girl among those killed in Kyiv; unidentified drones spotted over Danish military bases on Saturday nightIn an address at the UN general assembly in New York on Saturday, Moscow’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov warned that “any aggression against my country will be met with a decisive response” but insisted Russia has no intention of attacking EU or Nato member states.In a wide-ranging speech, Lavrov said threats against Russia by western countries were becoming “increasingly common”. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Greta Thunberg fires back at Donald Trump’s climate change claims

Greta Thunberg fired back at Donald Trump after the US president decried climate change as “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world” in his address to the United Nations General Assembly this week.

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3 w. ago More than a narcissist’s rant, Trump’s UN address marked a disturbing turn towards a new world order | Julianne Schultz

Behind the US president’s speech lay the long-term logic of neoliberalism: winners and losers, racialism and a crude, exclusionary nationalismEleanor Roosevelt, Doc Evatt, Jessie Street, Dag Hammarskjöld and the other founders of the United Nations must be spinning in their graves.No one who believes that the world could be a better place thinks that the UN is perfect, but the language the US president used in his address to the general assembly offered no hope. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago US military brass brace for firings as Pentagon chief orders top

Pete Hegseth ordered hundreds of generals and admirals to Virginia to meet and receive address on ‘warrior ethos’US military officials are reportedly bracing for possible firings or demotions after the Trump administration’s Pentagon chief, Pete Hegseth, abruptly summoned hundreds of generals and admirals from around the world to attend a gathering in Virginia in the upcoming days.The event, scheduled for Tuesday at Marine Corps University in Quantico, is expected to feature a short address by Hegseth focused on military standards and the “warrior ethos”, according to the Washington Post. Continue reading...

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