Qatar’s quiet campaign: How Doha is buying America

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April 23, 2025

Qatar’s quiet campaign: How Doha is buying America

In the early days of the second Trump administration, while America focuses on domestic priorities and global challenges, Qatar is executing a calculated influence campaign within America’s power centers. Leveraging its immense wealth and strategic position, Qatari envoys and lobbyists are actively cultivating ties, shaping policy discussions, and seeking favor with key decision-makers throughout the […]

Cutting interest rates would be a terrible idea

President Donald Trump escalated his fairly one-sided war of words this week with Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, whom he nominated for the position in 2017. “‘Preemptive Cuts’ in Interest Rates are being called for by many,” Trump posted on Truth Social on Monday. “With Energy Costs way down, food prices (including Biden’s egg disaster!) substantially lower, and […]

An Oregon house bill would greenlight political lawfare

Tens of millions of Americans deal with differing levels of fraud every year, so many that, in Oregon, Attorney General Dan Rayfield has made consumer protection one of his top priorities. When Oregon Democrats introduced House Bill 3789 and called it the Workers’ Fraud Protection Act, proclaiming to protect public employees from bad actors falsely […]

A response to China-Russia Arctic dominance could bolster US-Canada ties

Russian state-owned nuclear energy corporation Rosatom and Chinese shipping company Hainan Yangpu NewNew Shipping announced in 2024 that they would cooperate on operating an all-year-round container shipping route through the Arctic. Since then, shipping interruptions at flashpoints from the Panama Canal to the Red Sea have thrown the global economy into turmoil. Worse, increasing military and technological collaboration […]

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