Naveed
@naveed360.bsky.social
Security Policy Analyst.
Journalist.
Academic.
Thomas Jefferson Fellow [Globalization] 2000
[. . . in the trenches . . .]
Journalist.
Academic.
Thomas Jefferson Fellow [Globalization] 2000
[. . . in the trenches . . .]
“They are playing games, both with you and with us,” Merz said, seemingly referring to Washington’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner — the son-in-law of President Donald Trump — who spent five hours locked in talks with Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Tuesday.
www.politico.eu/article/euro...
www.politico.eu/article/euro...
Macron warned US could ‘betray’ Ukraine in leaked leaders’ call, Spiegel reports
According to a transcript obtained by the German outlet, Europe rallied around Volodymyr Zelenskyy and sharply criticized Washington.
www.politico.eu
December 4, 2025 at 9:32 PM
“They are playing games, both with you and with us,” Merz said, seemingly referring to Washington’s envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner — the son-in-law of President Donald Trump — who spent five hours locked in talks with Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Tuesday.
www.politico.eu/article/euro...
www.politico.eu/article/euro...
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Ancient carved faces shed new light on Neolithic society.
On the windswept hills overlooking Turkey's vast southeastern plains, new archaeological discoveries are revealing how life might have looked 11,000 years ago when the world's earliest communities began to emerge
u.afp.com/ShFR
On the windswept hills overlooking Turkey's vast southeastern plains, new archaeological discoveries are revealing how life might have looked 11,000 years ago when the world's earliest communities began to emerge
u.afp.com/ShFR
December 4, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Ancient carved faces shed new light on Neolithic society.
On the windswept hills overlooking Turkey's vast southeastern plains, new archaeological discoveries are revealing how life might have looked 11,000 years ago when the world's earliest communities began to emerge
u.afp.com/ShFR
On the windswept hills overlooking Turkey's vast southeastern plains, new archaeological discoveries are revealing how life might have looked 11,000 years ago when the world's earliest communities began to emerge
u.afp.com/ShFR
A Baltic diplomat said: “If all we do is continue being reactive, we just invite Russia to keep trying, keep hurting us. Especially when hybrid warfare is asymmetric — it costs them little, and us a lot. We need to try to be more inventive.”
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on.ft.com/3XXFJOS
Nato considers being ‘more aggressive’ against Russia’s hybrid warfare
Alliance’s top military officer says it could become proactive in dealing with Moscow threat
on.ft.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:48 AM
A Baltic diplomat said: “If all we do is continue being reactive, we just invite Russia to keep trying, keep hurting us. Especially when hybrid warfare is asymmetric — it costs them little, and us a lot. We need to try to be more inventive.”
on.ft.com/3XXFJOS
on.ft.com/3XXFJOS
Some 42 per cent of all recorded human rights abuses between 2000 and 2020 occurred on tuna vessels, according to research by the University of British Columbia and the NGO Ecotrust Canada, based on the world’s largest repository of fishery offences.
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The dark truth behind supermarket tuna
Major retailers are selling tuna from fisheries where crews say they are exploited and abused
ig.ft.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Some 42 per cent of all recorded human rights abuses between 2000 and 2020 occurred on tuna vessels, according to research by the University of British Columbia and the NGO Ecotrust Canada, based on the world’s largest repository of fishery offences.
ig.ft.com/supermarket-...
ig.ft.com/supermarket-...
In the silent, pressurized depths of the Cold War, the contest between American and Soviet submarines was a battle of ghosts. It was a hidden war fought with sound waves and shadows, where the ultimate prize was invisibility.
www.19fortyfive.com/2025/11/russ...
www.19fortyfive.com/2025/11/russ...
Russia’s Titanium-Hulled Alfa-Class Submarines Are Just Useless
The Soviet Alfa-class titanium ‘hot rod’ sub was faster and deeper-diving than anything the U.S. had—so why was it a noisy, costly failure?
www.19fortyfive.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:04 PM
In the silent, pressurized depths of the Cold War, the contest between American and Soviet submarines was a battle of ghosts. It was a hidden war fought with sound waves and shadows, where the ultimate prize was invisibility.
www.19fortyfive.com/2025/11/russ...
www.19fortyfive.com/2025/11/russ...
There has been no superpower more sophisticated, majestic and glamorous than the Roman empire.
www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/advic...
www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/advic...
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www.telegraph.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 8:40 AM
There has been no superpower more sophisticated, majestic and glamorous than the Roman empire.
www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/advic...
www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/advic...
The senators told reporters that they heard Mr. Rubio describe the document as one largely composed by the Russians, rather than as an American creation. “It is not our recommendation,” Mr. Rounds paraphrased Mr. Rubio as saying. “It is not our peace plan.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
How Rubio Tried to Bring a Pro-Russia Peace Plan to Middle Ground
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:35 AM
The senators told reporters that they heard Mr. Rubio describe the document as one largely composed by the Russians, rather than as an American creation. “It is not our recommendation,” Mr. Rounds paraphrased Mr. Rubio as saying. “It is not our peace plan.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
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Shabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive | Nesrine Malik
Shabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive | Nesrine Malik
‘She is the daughter of immigrants,’ supporters of her cruel asylum policies say. ‘How can she be wrong?’ Let me put them straight, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Shabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive | Nesrine Malik
To escape from Epstien's ghost, Trump is benting on punishing Ukraine, Venezuela and the US marines.
A sequel to Wag the Dog could not have done better.
A sequel to Wag the Dog could not have done better.
November 23, 2025 at 9:08 PM
To escape from Epstien's ghost, Trump is benting on punishing Ukraine, Venezuela and the US marines.
A sequel to Wag the Dog could not have done better.
A sequel to Wag the Dog could not have done better.
Iran's elite proxy - Hezbollah - loses another top commander. After Taatabaei, there is no obvious successor. The terror outfit is effectively hallowed in terms of arsenal as well as leadership. Lebanese leadership and armed forces must step forward fast. www.cnn.com/2025/11/23/m...
Israel says Hezbollah chief of staff killed in first strike on Beirut in months | CNN
The Israeli military says it killed Hezbollah’s second most senior figure in the first air strikes in months on southern Beirut.
www.cnn.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Iran's elite proxy - Hezbollah - loses another top commander. After Taatabaei, there is no obvious successor. The terror outfit is effectively hallowed in terms of arsenal as well as leadership. Lebanese leadership and armed forces must step forward fast. www.cnn.com/2025/11/23/m...
Putin is doing more for Democrats than the DNC's leaders and strategists.
It must not be hard to take down Trump, exposed layer after layer.
abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
It must not be hard to take down Trump, exposed layer after layer.
abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
US senators slam Trump’s Russia-Ukraine peace plan as rewarding aggression
A group of American senators critical of President Donald Trump panned a U.S. peace proposal on Ukraine at an international security conference in Canada
abcnews.go.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Putin is doing more for Democrats than the DNC's leaders and strategists.
It must not be hard to take down Trump, exposed layer after layer.
abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
It must not be hard to take down Trump, exposed layer after layer.
abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
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British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain (left) meets German dictator Adolf Hitler (right) in Munich during the negotiations that led to the Munich Agreement, which ceded the Sudetenland to Germany. Less than a year later, Hitler’s occupation of the rest of […]
[Original post on mstdn.social]
[Original post on mstdn.social]
November 22, 2025 at 4:39 PM
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain (left) meets German dictator Adolf Hitler (right) in Munich during the negotiations that led to the Munich Agreement, which ceded the Sudetenland to Germany. Less than a year later, Hitler’s occupation of the rest of […]
[Original post on mstdn.social]
[Original post on mstdn.social]
Mamdani did not move an inch. Trump travelled a hundred miles.
The unpeculiarly magnanimous president must have left JD Vance with a stomach bug.
All because New York is their common ground today not politics.
The unpeculiarly magnanimous president must have left JD Vance with a stomach bug.
All because New York is their common ground today not politics.
November 21, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Mamdani did not move an inch. Trump travelled a hundred miles.
The unpeculiarly magnanimous president must have left JD Vance with a stomach bug.
All because New York is their common ground today not politics.
The unpeculiarly magnanimous president must have left JD Vance with a stomach bug.
All because New York is their common ground today not politics.
It's better for the DNC to not take advice from Obama.
He is an open book on how not to do things.
He is an open book on how not to do things.
Barack Obama privately met with freshman House Democrats to share advice on the key fight they face while opposing the Trump administration.
Obama Gives House Dems Secret Battle Plan for Taking on Trump
The former president is taking an active role in his party’s fight to reclaim power.
trib.al
November 21, 2025 at 11:49 AM
It's better for the DNC to not take advice from Obama.
He is an open book on how not to do things.
He is an open book on how not to do things.
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LOL, LMAO, ROFL
THERE AREN'T CAPS BIG ENOUGH FOR HOW MUCH I'M LAUGHING AT THIS
THERE AREN'T CAPS BIG ENOUGH FOR HOW MUCH I'M LAUGHING AT THIS
Ben Shapiro: “When the president said deport all the illegal immigrants, I never thought that he meant that literally”
November 18, 2025 at 8:29 PM
LOL, LMAO, ROFL
THERE AREN'T CAPS BIG ENOUGH FOR HOW MUCH I'M LAUGHING AT THIS
THERE AREN'T CAPS BIG ENOUGH FOR HOW MUCH I'M LAUGHING AT THIS
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Historian Andrew Lownie says he has seen “internal FBI correspondence” that contradicts the official story of Jeffrey Epstein’s death.
I Read FBI's Wild Epstein and Andrew Files: Author
Historian Andrew Lownie says he has seen “internal FBI correspondence” that contradicts the official story of Jeffrey Epstein’s death.
trib.al
November 18, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Historian Andrew Lownie says he has seen “internal FBI correspondence” that contradicts the official story of Jeffrey Epstein’s death.
The images hammered into the sides of a goblet found in Palestine give us an idea of what people living more than 4000 years ago imagined the creation of the cosmos looked like or something entirely different
www.newscientist.com/article/2504...
www.newscientist.com/article/2504...
Ancient silver goblet preserves oldest known image of cosmic creation
The images hammered into the sides of a goblet found in Palestine give us an idea of what people living more than 4000 years ago imagined the creation of the cosmos looked like
www.newscientist.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:19 PM
The images hammered into the sides of a goblet found in Palestine give us an idea of what people living more than 4000 years ago imagined the creation of the cosmos looked like or something entirely different
www.newscientist.com/article/2504...
www.newscientist.com/article/2504...
Rigsby had been on the road for some 30 years. A precocious North Carolina boy who enrolled at Harvard at 16, he had left the US soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall, arriving in Kabul via Japan, China, a prior period in Afghanistan, and Ethiopia. www.semafor.com/article/11/1...
The curious life and lonely death of an American in Kabul
Jeff Rigsby moved back to Afghanistan after the US withdrawal with a self-imposed mission to save lives and inform millions.
www.semafor.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Rigsby had been on the road for some 30 years. A precocious North Carolina boy who enrolled at Harvard at 16, he had left the US soon after the fall of the Berlin Wall, arriving in Kabul via Japan, China, a prior period in Afghanistan, and Ethiopia. www.semafor.com/article/11/1...
German officials have estimated that about 9,000 Nazis fled to the continent following World War II. About 5,000 went to Argentina; somewhere between 1,500 and 2,000 headed to Brazil, including Josef Mengele, Auschwitz’s “angel of death.”
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
One man’s obsessive quest to uncover Brazil’s buried Nazi past
The story of Brazil’s fugitive Nazis is clouded by uncertainty and conspiracy theories. But one local journalist is convinced he is closing in on the truth.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:55 PM
German officials have estimated that about 9,000 Nazis fled to the continent following World War II. About 5,000 went to Argentina; somewhere between 1,500 and 2,000 headed to Brazil, including Josef Mengele, Auschwitz’s “angel of death.”
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...
Aspen has lost its small-town charm. It’s a bunch of influencers and celebrity wannabes. It’s a shame, we loved the town for so long.” www.ft.com/content/f9fe...
Has Aspen reached peak chic?
America’s most fashionable ski resort is a playground for billionaires. But the ‘gravity-defying property prices’ are making even some of them wince
www.ft.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Aspen has lost its small-town charm. It’s a bunch of influencers and celebrity wannabes. It’s a shame, we loved the town for so long.” www.ft.com/content/f9fe...
Inevitably, there are mistakes. Those mistakes are magnified by ideological and commercial opponents. “I suspect that if Gilligan’s report had been on Channel 4 News it would have gone unnoticed.” www.ft.com/content/7124...
Why is it so difficult to run the BBC?
As complaints over the editing of a Donald Trump speech topple another director-general, leading the broadcaster is once again looking like an impossible job
www.ft.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Inevitably, there are mistakes. Those mistakes are magnified by ideological and commercial opponents. “I suspect that if Gilligan’s report had been on Channel 4 News it would have gone unnoticed.” www.ft.com/content/7124...
Swiss bribe Trump their way
". . . the Swiss sent a delegation of industry tycoons bearing gifts — a special Rolex desktop clock, a 1-kilogram personalized gold bar, and loads of flattery."
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
". . . the Swiss sent a delegation of industry tycoons bearing gifts — a special Rolex desktop clock, a 1-kilogram personalized gold bar, and loads of flattery."
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
How to lobby Trump with Swiss precision: gifts, gold and gab
How the Swiss broke a diplomatic logjam on tariffs by arriving with tributes fit for a king.
www.axios.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Swiss bribe Trump their way
". . . the Swiss sent a delegation of industry tycoons bearing gifts — a special Rolex desktop clock, a 1-kilogram personalized gold bar, and loads of flattery."
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
". . . the Swiss sent a delegation of industry tycoons bearing gifts — a special Rolex desktop clock, a 1-kilogram personalized gold bar, and loads of flattery."
www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...
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🔥Ukrainian Defense Forces have hit the oil storage facility of Russia's Rosrezerv Kristal plant in Engels, which serves, among other things, to store jet fuel for Russian strategic aviation.
🔗Read details: militarnyi.com/en/news/defe...
🔗Read details: militarnyi.com/en/news/defe...
Defense Forces Strike Rosrezerv’s Oil Storage Facility in Engels - Militarnyi
Ukrainian forces have hit the oil storage facility of the Kristal plant in Engels, which serves to store jet fuel for Russian strategic aviation.
militarnyi.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:57 PM
🔥Ukrainian Defense Forces have hit the oil storage facility of Russia's Rosrezerv Kristal plant in Engels, which serves, among other things, to store jet fuel for Russian strategic aviation.
🔗Read details: militarnyi.com/en/news/defe...
🔗Read details: militarnyi.com/en/news/defe...