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We Will and Shall Overcome Masses will triumph not the entrenched and powerless so-called elitesCoronavirus has seemingly wiped them offSimmering in their caves for being spared Haha! Nature triumphs!All else
Continue reading‘I Can’t Breathe’, ‘We Shall Overcome’, and a Paulo Coelho
We should bear in mind that as severe as this crisis is, there is worse coming, renowned political activist Noam Chomsky warns. “There will be recovery from the pandemic, at
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John Bolton Book Claims Impeachable Offenses Across ‘Full Range’ of Trump’s Foreign Policy Coming months before the Presidential elections in November, former national security adviser John Bolton’s book “The Room
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Prime Minister Imran Khan’s adviser on Finance says the government had inherited an economy deep in debt, with depleting foreign reserves and a default looking like a possibility. The growth
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New Delhi’s deepening alliance with Washington has alarmed Beijing and intensified border tensions, says a report in The Financial Times. According to the report, “Simmering tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbors
Continue readingTrump’s Embrace of Modi Stokes India-China Stand-off in Ladakh: FT
UPDATED: This Truck Art from Pakistan landing in Tennessee (this time) dovetails earlier such outings and public exhibits in the tri-state. It may be catching up, specially in states like
President Donald Trump insisted last week that he was down in his protective White House bunker for a “tiny, little short period of time” for an “inspection.” Not true, Attorney
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ISLAMABAD — Islamabad has strongly reacted to India’s threats of conducting air strikes inside Pakistan, saying any aggression or misadventure by New Delhi will receive a befitting response. Rejecting Indian
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“The Presidential form of government’s the solution” RIYADH; JAN 2, 2012: Irshad Salim – a consultant, journalist/writer and a motivational speaker, who is an American national of Pakistani origin living
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Possibly so: Cities might have to reinvent themselves all over again. Urban areas will survive, but with a surge in working from home just as it’s happening now and post
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39 years ago 8 Israeli Air Force F-16s escorted by half a dozen F15s destroyed Iraq’s nascent nuclear reactor at Osirak on the outskirts of Baghdad. The surprise strike carried
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Robin Wright in The New Yorker: In the early nineteen-hundreds, the American writer O. Henry coined the term “banana republic” in a series of short stories, most famously in one about the fictional country