Category: World News
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Sow the wind in Syria, reap the whirlwind in Turkey
For two and a half terms Erdogan and Abdullah Gul kept up a plausible manner: they were non ideological, moderate Muslims. Yes, there was an occasional skirmish on trifles like headscarves for…
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US leaving Afghanistan? There is plenty of time for script to change
New Delhi is extremely skeptical of the US placing its eggs in the Taliban basket and leaving the basket in Pakistani care. This incidentally is not a new US approach. A steady…
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No Fire Zone: The Killing Fields of Sri Lanka
Carefully evidenced and powerfully measured, No Fire Zone is a feature length film about the final awful months of the 26 year long Sri Lankan civil war told by the people who…
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Will Western intervention for Africa’s minerals also checkmate China?
In other words, the arrival of the French in Mali could well be the beginning of link ups across the oil and mineral rich regions stretching from Sudan across Chad, Niger, Mali,…
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How Chavez made the media electorally irrelevant
Doesn’t this yearning for “much needed foreign investment” by most of the losing politicians in Latin America resemble the sentiment of the Indian ruling class?