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5:14
🎙️ Watch: Spain Is Welcoming Migrants While the Rest of the West Builds Walls. Here Is What That Looks Like.
🎙️ Morning Comments — Thursday, June 11, 2026
 • Alexander Verbeek
Trump Promised a Peace Deal in "Two or Three Days." He Got Bombing on Day Two and More Bombing on Day Three.
Morning Compass — Thursday, June 11, 2026
 • Alexander Verbeek
One hundred years of Gaudí, Who Died on This Day in 1926.
The sainthood cause that needs two miracles, the papal Mass today, and 12,060 plastic bricks
 • Alexander Verbeek
🧭 Booed in His Hometown, Asleep in His Suite, 35 Percent Approval. Trump's War Is Not Going as Planned.
🧭 Morning Compass — Tuesday, June 9, 2026
 • Alexander Verbeek
3:59
🎙️ Watch: The World's Conflict Researchers Just Published Their Worst Numbers Since 1945
🎙️ Morning Comments — Tuesday, June 9, 2026
 • Alexander Verbeek
The World Just Had Its Most Conflict-Ridden Year Since World War II. Here Is What the Data Shows.
I sat in on yesterday's PRIO briefing in Oslo. The numbers for 2025 are some of the worst since World War II, and most of it never made the news.
 • Alexander Verbeek
4:02
🎙️ Watch: Trump Is Removing 900 Ocean Sensors on World Oceans Day. The Consequences Will Last Decades.
🎙️ Morning Comments — Monday, June 8, 2026
 • Alexander Verbeek
🧭 An American Fascist on the Beaches Where Americans Once Fought Fascism. Europe Noticed.
🧭 Morning Compass — Monday, June 8, 2026
 • Alexander Verbeek
4:59
🎙️ Watch: A Flesh-Eating Parasite Is Back in Texas. Trump Had Cut the Program Designed to Stop It.
🎙️ Morning Comments — Friday, June 5, 2026
 • Alexander Verbeek
🧭 Trump Just Spent $700 Million on Coal, While Europe Saves €136 Million a Day With Solar. Happy World Environment Day.
🧭 Morning Compass — Friday, June 5, 2026
 • Alexander Verbeek
3:41
🎙️ Watch: Kushner Wants to Build a Resort on One of Europe's Last Pristine Coastlines. Albania Is Fighting Back.
🎙️ Morning Comments — Thursday, June 5, 2026
 • Alexander Verbeek
🧭 Republicans Are Breaking With Trump on Four Fronts Simultaneously. Something Has Shifted.
🧭 Morning Compass — Thursday, June 4, 2026
 • Alexander Verbeek
4:50
🎙️ Watch: Only 9 Percent of Americans Support Trump Naming Buildings After Himself. That Is Lower Than Flat Earth Believers.
🎙️ Morning Comments — Tuesday, June 2, 2026
 • Alexander Verbeek
🧭 More Americans Think the Moon Landing Was Fake Than Support Trump Naming Buildings After Himself.
🧭 Morning Compass — Tuesday, June 2, 2026
 • Alexander Verbeek
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