HAHAHAHA – he now caves t China – said he was going to side with Modi and now drops him like a rock in the midst of Modi’s election. Trumpy can’t decided which dictator to have his bromance with? U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he intends to end India’s preferential trade treatment under a program that allows $5.6 billion worth of Indian exports to enter the United States duty free.
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Hungary’s Viktor Orban calls his EU party critics ‘useful idiots’

Hungary’s right-wing leader has lashed out at critics within his own conservative European parliamentary bloc, accusing them of playing into the hands of left-wing opponents. Some members want him booted from the party.
Russia formally withdraws from INF nuclear treaty

Russia said it has suspended the arms treaty, a month after tit-for-tat threats bounced between Moscow and Washington. The Trump administration has accused Russia of violating the Reagan-era accord.
6 Black Chefs (and 1 Inventor) Who Changed the History of Food
And oftentimes history, period.
‘We are fighting’: Brazil’s indigenous groups unite to protect their land

Residents of Raposa Serra do Sol are determined to face down the threat posed by mining
“A united people will never be defeated!” shouted Maria Betânia Mota, as the indigenous assembly in a partially burned-out agricultural college began. Hundreds of voices roared back in approval.
Betânia Mota is the women’s secretary of its organisers, the Indigenous Council of Roraima (CIR), which represents the majority of those living in the 1.7m hectares of savannah and scrub that make up the Raposa Serra do Sol reserve in Brazil’s northernmost state.
Macuxi indigenous people of the Raposa reserve – in pictures
The Raposa Serra do Sol reserve in northern Brazil is home to 25,000 indigenous people, whose land has been targeted by the country’s rightwing president, Jair Bolsonaro
Europe’s forests threatened by biodiversity collapse, warn campaigners
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Logging in Poland’s Vistula lagoon described by experts as part of a ‘war on nature’ across the continent’s ancient forests
A logging operation at Poland’s spectacular 55-mile-long Vistula lagoon is casting a “dark omen” of deforestation and biodiversity collapse across Europe’s forests, campaigners say.
Tree felling around the Natura 2000 site is aimed at clearing a path to the Baltic Sea for use by Poland’s navy, to the alarm of Russia. But they are just one front in what some academics describe as a war on nature.
Donald Trump tells a fake American story. We must tell the real one | Robert Reich

The Triumphant Individual, the Benevolent Community, the Mob at the Gates, the Rot at the Top. Four narratives define America – true Americans must define them
Donald Trump has perfected the art of telling a fake story about America. The only way to counter that is to tell the real story of America.
As the toll of Australia’s frontier brutality keeps climbing, truth telling is long overdue | Paul Daley

The myth of benign, peaceful settlement persists today – even as historians reveal a far more sinister picture
• The Killing Times: the massacres of Aboriginal people Australia must confront
• A massacre map of the frontier wars – interactive
A friend sent me a photograph he’d taken in north-west Queensland of the memorial to the Kalkadoon warriors who, in 1884, fought what was perhaps the biggest battle against government forces to unfold on this continent.
Local oral history, black and white, has it that dozens of Indigenous fighters were shot dead after they charged native police contingents under the command of Sub-Inspector FC Urquhart at Battle Mountain, about 60km from Cloncurry.
Facebook faces backlash over users’ safety phone numbers

Contact details supplied by users to enable two-factor authentication led to reduced privacy
Facebook has been accused of abusing a security feature in order to weaken user privacy, after the social network was found using phone numbers initially handed over for account safety for other purposes.
The company now faces criticism that it will be harder to convince users to take other necessary security measures if users view this as an abuse of trust.
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