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20.01.2021
The Real Reason behind Trump’s Frustration Over the Twitter Ban – Money, What Else?
Everybody’s talking about Jack Dorsey banning Donald Trump on Twitter. The public is being churned into crazy sour cream because the social networks have gagged the big mouth Looney Toons billionaire over allegedly inciting an insurrection at the US Capitol. But nobody, and I mean nobody seems to get it. Trump could care less about twisting […]
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20.01.2021
What Snowden’s Exile Says About America
Edward Snowden’s 2013 leak of US National Security Agency (NSA) information helped the world see more clearly what the US – in its current manifestation – really is. Its extensive, abusive surveillance network targeted friends and foes alike around the globe but also pointed inward at America’s own population. It provided the clearest picture to […]
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20.01.2021
Conflict in Central Africa
The Constitutional Court of the Central African Republic announced the results of the presidential elections in the country, which were held within the time frame set by the Constitution of the country – December 27, 2020. The current president remains the head of state. Faustin-Archange Touadéra, who, according to figures announced by the National Electoral […]
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20.01.2021
Park Geun-hye’s Conviction and Talks of Possible Pardon
On January 14, 2021, South Korea’s Supreme Court upheld former President Park Geun-hye’s 20-year sentence on charges of corruption and abuse of power. This is quite a milestone, as the charges against Park are finally being brought and approved. That evening, the Blue House issued a statement on the verdict: “such an incident must never […]
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19.01.2021
Duelling Monuments Defines Political Landscapes and Slanted Histories
There are definite double standards in all aspects of life, such as the way different protests are handled. This has not only been recently demonstrated in the US, but in many different versions of history. The Suffragettes are presented by history as selfless freedom fighters who corrected an injustice by obtaining votes for women. While […]
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19.01.2021
Joe Biden’s “Asia Pivot 2.0” is Already Here
The Joe Biden administration has already made its intentions clear about reversing, through a series of executive orders, some of the policies of the Trump administration. The new regime is well poised to reverse the over-all course of the previous regime. This includes not only domestic policies, but foreign relations as well. During the Trump […]
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19.01.2021
Iran Hijacking a South Korean Tanker
On January 4, 2021, Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) boats detained a South Korean-flagged vessel in the Strait of Hormuz. According to Iranian agencies Tasnim and Fars, the South Korean tanker MT Hankuk Chemi, which was going from Saudi Arabia to the United Arab Emirates, is now in the port of Bandar Abbas on the […]
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19.01.2021
Algeria to Protect its National Interests
Algeria, thanks to its large gas and oil resources, pursues an independent policy, positioning itself as a regional power with its own principles. Its leadership has for decades demonstrated a negative attitude to attempts by other countries to interfere in Algerian politics, or to infringe on the regional interests of the country. Moreover, the very […]
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18.01.2021
Injustice So Thick You Could Cut It with a Knife
The US government will go to any length to keep the truth away from the world. But does the US have a government? Can we call the Trump regime a government? How will a President Biden deal with an illegal Israel embassy, whose location is based on racism and ignoring rule of law placed, now […]
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18.01.2021
Iran’s Warning to US-funded Agitators
CNN would report in its article, “Iran executes dissident journalist Rouhollah Zam,” Iran’s swift and severe punishment for what the American media company suggested was “alleged attempts to overthrow” the Iranian government. CNN glosses over Iran’s claims that Zam and his media operation helped incite deadly violence during protests targeting the Iranian government in 2017 […]
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18.01.2021
Iraqi People are Forcing Washington to Withdraw its Troops
The million-strong protests that took place in Iraq on the anniversary of the killing of Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani and Iraqi Commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis along with 8 other people in a January 3, 2020 US drone strike near Baghdad International Airport in Iraq became the latest breeding ground for the rise of anti-American […]
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18.01.2021
What Did More Damage to the World: COVID-19 or Trump?
Out of all the hot topics in international life over recent times, there are most likely two that vie with each other for primacy: COVID-19 and Trump. The website Worldometers.info reports that in one year of the pandemic, more than 2 million people have already passed away because of COVID-19. Now the United States is […]