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Albanian Resorts and Taiwan Arms Deals Stress Global Alliances

June 21, 2026

The convergence of Jared Kushner’s Albanian luxury developments with high-level drug trafficking probes illustrates how private real estate interests are blurring the lines of state diplomacy. Meanwhile, Taipei’s precarious reliance on U.S. arms sales and the rise of Sweden’s far-right signal a broader retreat from neoliberal stability toward a volatile era of transactional geopolitics and emergency state powers.

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MSF says conditions in Lebanon’s Nabatieh resemble a ‘death trap’

Al Jazeera English — geopolitics, structural power

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How Sweden’s far right went from political pariah to powerbroker

Al Jazeera English — geopolitics, structural power

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Taiwan Bet Too Big on Washington

Foreign Policy — geopolitics, structural power

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The End of Neoliberalism

Foreign Policy — geopolitics, structural power

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Albanian Authorities Target Alleged Cocaine Kingpin's Network

OCCRP — structural power, geopolitics

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Bolivia declares state of emergency to clear protest blockades

Al Jazeera English — geopolitics, structural power

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Taiwan hopes US arms sale package can be approved soon, president says

Al Jazeera English — geopolitics, structural power

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Embedding Forbidden Text in Spyware to Discourage AI Analysis

Bruce Schneier — Cybersecurity

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Court Records Should Be Free

EFF — AI governance, structural power, media and technology

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