Surviving on Credit Cards

The cost-of-living crisis is forcing people into a debt crisis.

You are probably already feeling the pressure. Gas prices are going up. Food prices are going up. And some products are becoming harder to find. The money you allocated for food and gas a month ago isn’t cutting it anymore. The extras we have been blessed with for so long, like subscriptions to websites and streaming services, have to be cut from the budget. Summer road trips have to be canceled. Putting your kids in extracurricular activities might be impossible in a few months. This is the reality we are all having to grapple with as the cost of living keeps rising.

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Foreign Policy Blob

Meet the players inside the “Blob” that makes Biden’s many ill-advised foreign policy decisions.

In moments of great peril and uncertainty, the question of who actually runs Washington – who they are, what they think, what they know, what they think they know – takes on even more importance than it might under normal circumstances.

In this, the first in a three-part series, Asia Times will examine the current power dynamics that shape the Biden White House and his national security team.

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Pivot to Proxy War

While Biden remains steadfast there will be no “boots on the ground”, US paramilitaries are effectively already in Ukraine.

The Russian war on Ukraine has seen “the Blob” reassert itself with a vengeance in the 11 weeks since Russia announced the commencement of hostilities on February 24.

This article will examine the forces shaping President Joe Biden’s approach to the Ukraine crisis, and then move on to explore the state of foreign policy debate, or lack thereof, within Biden’s Democratic Party.

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