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A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.

-William Hazlitt

EU reacts to ‘concerning’ report of Hungarian leak to Russia

Mark Hallam with AFP, dpa, Reuters © DW.com
March 23, 2026

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Monday said he had ordered an investigation into what he has referred to as the “wiretapping” of Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto.

“The wiretapping of a government member is a serious attack on Hungary. I have instructed the Minister of Justice to immediately investigate the information,” Orban wrote on Facebook.

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One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

-Niccolo Machiavelli

Trump calls voting by mail ‘cheating’ just days after voting by mail

Shrai Popat © The Guardian
March 24, 2026

Donald Trump has described voting by mail as “cheating” at an event in Memphis, Tennessee, just days after casting a mail‑in ballot himself.

“Mail-in voting means mail-in cheating. I call it mail-in cheating, and we got to do something about it all,” the US president said on Monday, in remarks to a roundtable on his administration’s crime taskforce.

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Una nación sin elecciones libres es una nación sin voz, sin ojos y sin brazos.

-Octavio Paz

Del lado Walsh de la vida

Por Flor de la V © Página 12
March 24, 2026

Desde el regreso de la democracia en nuestro país, la memoria fue muy importante para reconstruir una historia que intentó ser ocultada a cualquier precio. Recuperarla nos llevó años. ¿Cuántas veces hemos escuchado o repetido la palabra “memoria” en los últimos años? ¿Cuántas veces discutimos por ella y sus alcances? En un país cada vez más dividido por la grieta, es increíble que un hecho sangriento como la última dictadura militar caiga en ella y haya personas que pongan en duda las atrocidades que ocurrieron en una de las épocas más oscuras de Argentina. La memoria es necesaria para no olvidar, para construir y no repetir los mismos errores.

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La peor de las democracias es mil veces preferible a la mejor de las dictaduras.

-Ruy Barbosa

War Becomes Spectacle in Trump’s Horrific Propaganda Promoting War in Iran

By Henry A. Giroux, © Truthout
March 24, 2026

During his presidential campaign, Donald Trump promised to be an antiwar candidate, boasting that, unlike his predecessors, he would end endless wars and keep the United States out of new military conflicts. Yet the trajectory of his presidency has unfolded in the opposite direction. From expanding military confrontations in the Caribbean to the escalating war with Iran, launched through large-scale strikes that risk igniting a wider regional catastrophe, Trump’s rule has increasingly relied on the language and machinery of war. As Zachary Basu points out in Axios, “he has attacked seven nations [and] authorized more individual air strikes in 2025 than President Biden did in four years.”

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