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By Adam Isacson for IPS: “The migrants try to organize themselves to stay safe,” a humanitarian worker told me as we stood near a town square in Reynosa, Mexico, steps
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Civility— A Gentleman in Moscow is a transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of
The word democracy comes from the Greek words “demos”, meaning people, and “kratos” meaning power. The process of voting backed by rule of law helps establish control of an organization
The Congress has voted to strip Moscow of its preferential trade status with the United States and to ban the import of Russian energy into the U.S. The legislation will
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Somini Sengupta, Global Correspondent, Climate, for The New York Times: I find most valuable in the new report this week from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It tells us
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IRSHAD SALIM: Some comments shared with me on Pak-US relations – a HOT topic in Pakistan these days amid ‘Lettergate’: Sarwar, a political activist: “Simple. U.S. values us only when
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Liam Kofi Bright at The Sooty Empiric: Those of us in the contemporary academy who are not liberals ought give an account of why not. This asymmetric burden falls on
By Martin Butler: Beliefs about the essential goodness or badness of human beings have been at the heart of much political theory.[1] A recent book by the political philosopher Lea Ypi succinctly
Prabir Purkayastha in CounterPunch: Do the Ukraine war and the action of the United States, the EU and the UK spell the end of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency? Even
Ron Paul (former Congressman from Texas) once gave a speech called “The End of Dollar Hegemony,” where he pointed out the ONE THING that would precipitate the US dollar’s collapse.
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A good read below, if you are interested in global politics in general, and India’s relation with other nations: BY Swaminathan Gurumurthy – Having pushed Ukraine into war, the US
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ISLAMABAD, MAR 18, 2022 – It all started (in Pakistan) with the “Mehengai” chorus.It was then replaced with the “US+EU vs China+Russia” narrative.Then came Khan’s “language issue”, and then the