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The U.S. Can Help Solve the Venezuelan Crisis by Not Being a Bully

Caracas’s options are to oust Maduro and join its democratic neighbors, or risk becoming a protectorate of Russia, Cuba and China.

Call for more indigenous protection on Sami national day

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The Sami flag is the official symbol for the indigenous people, in Sweden, Norway, Finland and also Russia.

Lyssna: Call for more indigenous protection on Sami national day

Wednesday is the Sami national day in Sweden, raising the profile of the indigenous group which lives across an area of the north stretching from Norway to Russia.

Sweden now has a Sami national assembly and broadcasts radio in Sami, but the way of life for Sami people is still not fully protected.

The country has still not ratified a UN convention on indigenous rights from 1991, despite being a driving force behind the initiative at the UN level.

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Viktor Orbán has crossed all the red lines. And no one’s stopped him | Dóra Diseri

Fascism deja vu

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Despite weeks of protest in Hungary, it’s clear now the PM can rely on support within the EU to shield him from criticism

As a Hungarian living in Berlin, I’d watched the protests against Viktor Orbán from afar – until, like almost everyone I know, I went home for Christmas. Recent months have been very special for many people in my native country. Thousands have been demonstrating against the government, the ruling party Fidesz and its leader. Among the cheerful crowds in Budapest, I felt the significance of these events for myself too.

Many Hungarians are still waiting for some kind of ‘saviour’ from the outside. But no one has come

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Tusk warns of ‘special place in hell’ for those who backed Brexit without a plan

EU leader also takes aim at Jeremy Corbyn and says there is no new offer to UK

The EU’s frustration with Westminster erupted into the open as Donald Tusk warned of a “special place in hell” for politicians who promoted Brexit “without even a sketch of a plan”, just 24 hours before his crunch meeting with Theresa May in Brussels.

The European council president insisted that the EU was not “making any new offer” to Britain, and demanded a “realistic suggestion” from the prime minister on how to end the impasse.

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Wednesday Open Thread | SOTU: Nancy Pelosi creates the “fuck you clap”

Nancy Smash is straight savage………… I love it so much

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has pushed back hard against President Trump’s most self-destructive tendencies and general ridiculousness since taking back the majority in the House. Pelosi seems to have loosened up with a more freewheeling approach to battling with the president not just on policy, but everywhere, capturing the hearts and (maybe) minds of everyday voters in her own party. At Tuesday’s State of the Union, Pelosi took the dark art of performative piss-take to another level when she literally clapped back at the president’s face by way of rebuttal for Trump’s disingenuous call for comity and unity.

“We must reject the politics of revenge, resistance, and retribution, and embrace the boundless potential of cooperation, compromise, and the common good,” Trump said.

Pelosi wasn’t having it.

Fox News Guest Says AOC’s ‘Latin American Values’ Could Turn America Into Venezuela 

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At this point, it’s common knowledge that Fox News is obsessed with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Hosts on the network love to be outraged by her ~radical~ platform and gross insubordination. Today, Media Matters for America noticed that a guest on Fox Business had some extremely interesting thoughts about Alexandria…

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And Here We Have Marlee Matlin Posing in a Nail Salon Near a Cape-Wearing Roger Stone

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It appears that Roger Stone, who was recently arrested for crime time and then promptly released on $250,000 bail, has been spotted at a nail salon by actor Marlee Matlin. He is wearing a cape, possibly to hide his crimes under.

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Thornberry: it is wrong to recognise Guaido as interim Venezuela president

right on!

Shadow foreign secretary also rebukes Maduro’s record in speech on Labour policy

The shadow foreign secretary, Emily Thornberry, broke with the European big power consensus by saying it was wrong to recognise Juan Guaido as the interim president of Venezuela, saying she did not wish to strike a pose to help Venezuela, but do something realistic and practical to secure fresh elections.

She was answering questions at the end of a major speech in which she promised a hallmark of a Labour-run foreign office would be a consistent preparedness to criticise human rights abuses by Britain’s powerful allies including Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Egypt.

Political career

Related: Chakrabarti defends Jeremy Corbyn’s Venezuela remarks

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