By Shwe Aung A group of youth activists began distributing t-shirts and stickers promoting religious harmony in Rangoon and Mandalay on Friday, as part of a grassroots campaign to counter the growing threat of Buddhist extremism in Burma. Dozens of activists travelled through several townships in the former capital planting stickers on cars, shops and [...]
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A strong anti-minority message and a sharp rise in Hindu nationalist sentiment has brought former pariah Narendra Modi to the forefront of Indian politics. But is this a future Indians really want to consider? By Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay Fourteen months before a scheduled parliamentary election that is widely expected to yield a regime-changing mandate, has India [...]
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By Rajiv Nayan Once again, and not surprisingly, China and Pakistan have been in the news for making a mockery of the global nuclear order and also exposing its weakness. Bill Gertz, who has the reputation of breaking news on China, reported in the Free Beacon (March 22, 2013) that by cleverly using the ‘grandfather [...]
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By Ernest Corea The party has ended, and the hubbub of nice sounding words and phrases has receded into personal and institutional memory. There are other issues calling for urgent attention, including the dangerous war talk from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK, better known as North Korea.) For all that, President Barack Obama’s [...]
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As reported in a number of news outlets today, the President’s budget plan will likely feature a proposal to adopt a chained CPI for the calculation of Social Security cost of living adjustments (COLA). The administration suggests this is a mere tweak to entitlements that will make Social Security benefit calculation more accurate in exchange [...]
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Bad news on the economy. It added only 88,000 jobs in March – the slowest pace of job growth in nine months. While the jobless rate fell to 7.6 percent, much of the drop was due to the labor force shrinking by almost a half million people. If you’re not looking for work, you’re not [...]
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Authorities in eastern China have begun culling thousands of birds from a live market while local residents scrambled on Friday to protect themselves from the H7N9 virus, as the death toll from the new strain of bird flu mounted to six. A Shanghai resident surnamed Zhou said he had been scouring local pharmacies to find [...]
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(RFE/RL) — A fund set up by Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai plans to send 40 girls to school in her home region with the support of U.S. actress Angelina Jolie. Malala, 15, was shot in the head and neck by the Taliban in October in Pakistan’s restive Swat Valley for campaigning for girls’ education. Malala [...]
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The history of third parties in America is pretty dismal. The system is rigged against them, for one thing. But equally problematic is the lack of focus that leads to infighting and splits whenever a third party is created. A great answer to this would be to create a third party that has a laser-like [...]
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Obama in Israel: Every word right. Every gesture genuine. Every detail in its place. Perfect. Obama in Palestine: Every word wrong. Every gesture inappropriate. Every single detail misplaced. Perfect. It started from the first moment. The President of the United States came to Ramallah. He visited the Mukata’a, the “compound” which serves as the office [...]
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The deputy head of Iran’s Parliament says the attack on the British Embassy in Tehran in December of 2011 was “illegal” and must be condemned. Mohammadreza Bahonar, who is running for president in the June 2013 election, told a press conference: “We do not approve of illegal behaviour in the country, irrespective of where it [...]
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At one end of Delhi, in the verdant campus of Jawaharlal Nehru University, scholars gathered to update one another on the current trends in Historical Materialism. At the other end of Delhi, in Ashok Hotel, on April 4 Nehru’s grandson, Rahul Gandhi, delivered the keynote address at the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), the conference [...]
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Winning hearts and minds of terrorists, mentality of surrender, advocating theory of “unwinnable war” and policy of appeasing, reducing the country to a pariah state, knowingly giving a terrorist organization status on par with a sovereign state and a democratic government were the characteristics of those led by Ranil Wickremasinghe that went on to sign [...]
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With so many focused on the threat of rising private military contractors, many are missing the importance of the rising “global citizen mercenary” that fights for a state as professional rather than a patriot. This type of warrior permeates the private and public sector, fusing the two together. This internationalist warrior ethos is effecting traditional [...]
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As many as 120 tons of contaminated water have seeped into the surrounding ground from a compromised tank at Japan’s stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Though the contaminated water is not expected to reach the sea, as it is located 800 meters inland, Saturday’s incident is yet another reminder to Japan that it will [...]
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What happens to Australian delegations when they go overseas? They whimper, whine or fawn; they stumble into positions of prostrate foolishness. They resemble, as Malcolm Muggeridge described British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan’s meeting with the Soviet Union’s Nikita Khrushchev, Don Quixote mounting Rocinante, with Sancho Panza by his side. In this instance, Prime Minister Julia [...]
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Cyprus announced a partial relaxation of currency controls on Friday, raising the ceiling for financial transactions that do not require central bank approval, but keeping most other restrictions in place. A Finance Ministry decree on Friday raised the monthly ceiling on corporate transactions to 10,000 euros and to 2,000 for individuals. Most other restrictions, introduced [...]
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U.S. President Barack Obama will host a series of Middle Eastern leaders over the next few months to discuss the Syrian crisis, the White House said on Friday. According to reports by AFP, Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahayan of the United Arab Emirates will be the president’s first guest, arriving April 16, before [...]
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By Donna Miles Missile defenders preparing for the deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Air Defense System to Guam are ready for the mission, the Army general at their home station reported, noting his full confidence in the ability of U.S. air defense systems to protect against North Korean missiles. “We don’t know the duration [...]
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Pakistan’s election board barred yesterday former President Pervez Musharraf from contesting polls in one constituency and the Supreme Court agreed to look into a treason complaint against him, hurting his efforts to win back influence. The Election Commission barred Musharraf from the polls in Kasur in Punjab province because of court cases against him, commission [...]
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