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Audit The Rich! – OpEd

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Hold everything! I mean it. Stop talking about cutting school budgets, Social Security benefits, Medicare, Veteran’s pensions. Stop cutting subsidies to transit systems, to foreign aid. Stop cutting unemployment benefits. Stop it all. There can not be any justification for budget cutting while wealthy criminals, corrupt politicians and business executives are hiding what reportedly totals [...]

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Is Australian Foreign Minister A “Spy?” Australian Newspaper Exposes Bob Carr As An “agent” Under US Influence – OpEd

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This revelation could open up old suspicions within the Australian Labor party once again Murray Hunter Just around a week ago in Beijing, Australia’s Foreign Minister Bob Carr entered the US-Korea conflict by trying to persuade the Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi to adopt sanctions against North Koreai. Today (8th April), an investigative journalist from [...]

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Is it Time To Stop Arms Sales To Taiwan?

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By Wu Zurong Since ancient times, Taiwan has been the territory of China. Oddly enough, Taiwan has always been an obstacle to the stable development of Sino-US relations since the birth of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in October of 1949. The peaceful development of relations across the Taiwan Straits since 2008 is helping [...]

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Afghan Reconciliation: Karzai’s Qatar Gambit – Analysis

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Afghan President Hamid Karzai led a high-level delegation to Doha, Qatar, on March 30 to discuss bilateral ties and trade among other issues with the Qatari authorities. National Security Council advisor Rangin Spanta and High Peace Council (HPC) chairman Salahuddin Rabbani were part of the team accompanying Karzai. Also on Karzai’s agenda was the opening [...]

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Serbia Rejects EU-Brokered Kosovo Deal

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(RFE/RL) — The Serbian government has announced it is rejecting the latest EU-mediated proposal on normalizing ties with Kosovo. Prime Minister Ivica Dacic told reporters on April 8 that the offer fell short of Serb demands. “By participating in the dialogue so far, and its readiness for compromise, the government of Serbia has shown its [...]

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Pope Considering Secretariat Of State Overhaul

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By Andrea Gagliarducci A top official who works at the Secretariat of State says Pope Francis is thinking about streamlining his department by combining it with another Vatican government body. According to the source – who requested anonymity in an April 6 interview with CNA – the Pope is considering simplifying the Curia by combining [...]

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Irresponsibility In The US Department Of Defense – OpEd

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Many Americans—except perhaps the very small percentage nowadays who actually have served in the American armed forces—have a stereotypic image of “military efficiency” and thus assume that any cuts to the defense budget will make the nation less secure. In reality, however, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has the same problem as every other [...]

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Kerry Suggests Palestinians Change Arab Peace Initiative To Suit Israelis – OpEd


The Korean Crisis: Spinning Out Of Control? – OpEd

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By JUST The danger posed by the increasing hostile situation on the Korean peninsula cannot be understated. There is a frightening possibility that the situation could spin out of control, leading to a deadly regional conflict in one of the most densely populated parts of the world. North Korea has embarked on a near-daily onslaught [...]

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WikiLeaks Makes Leaked US Documents Searchable

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By Meredith Buel The whistleblowing website WikiLeaks has launched a new database containing 1.7 million documents from the U.S. State Department that were declassified, but were difficult for the public to access. WikiLeaks is calling the searchable collection the “Public Library of U.S. Diplomacy,” bringing together diplomatic and intelligence documents that previously could only be [...]

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Iran: 6.3 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Near Bushehr Nuclear Facility, 30 Deaths Reported

Murderous Village Rampage Leaves Serbia Stunned

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Serbia woke up to its worst mass slaying in years on Tuesday when reports broke that a 60-year-old man had gone on the rampage that morning, killing six men, six women and a boy aged two in Velika Ivanca, 60 kilometres south of Belgrade. Milorad Veljovic, police director, said the man, named only as Ljubisa [...]

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Iraq’s ‘Unpaid Bills’: 10 Years After US-British Invasion – OpEd

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By Dmitry Babich The US-British invasion of Iraq ten years ago made headlines in the Western media. Although Iraqi forces and local paramilitary organizations like Fedayeen Saddam prevented the coalition forces from advancing into Basra and other southern towns, the seizure of Baghdad was interpreted by many as a victory. Very few believed then that [...]

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Iran Building New Nuclear Power Plant

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Iran plans to build a new 360-MW nuclear power plant in the south of the country, Naser Shariflou, a former manager of Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant, said on Tuesday, according to the IRNA news agency. The plant, in the Darkhoein region, is “at the design stage,” he said, adding the necessary equipment for it [...]

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Ralph Nader: The Library Of Juma Al Majid – OpEd

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DUBAI, UAE – As we walked through the historical collections of books, manuscripts, periodicals, and rare reference materials at the Juma Al-Majid Center for Culture and Heritage in the growing Arab metropolis of Dubai (with the world’s second busiest airport), I kept thinking of a recent book written by my sister, Laura Nader, who teaches [...]

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Kenya: New Leadership Should Uphold Rights And Obligations, Says HRW

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President-elect Uhuru Kenyatta and his deputy, William Ruto, who are being sworn in April 9, 2013, should ensure full cooperation with the International Criminal Court (ICC), Human Rights Watch said today. Their new government should also uphold and protect the bill of rights in Kenya’s constitution, Human Rights Watch said. “Kenyatta and Ruto should be [...]

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Washington’s Budget Cuts Threaten To Stall Bin Laden Son-In-Law Trial

North Korea Tells Foreigners To Leave South Korea, Threatens ‘Thermonuclear’ War

Continuing Unrest In Tibetan Areas Of China – Analysis

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The anti-Han and anti-Beijing ferment, marked by endless self-immolations of freedom-loving Tibetans — monks and others, young and old, men and women — continues in the Tibetan areas of China. There have already been 114 self-immolations so far — the majority in the Tibetan areas of Sichuan, where the self-immolations started in 2009 following Chinese [...]

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Japan Deploys Interceptors Amid North Korea Missile Tests Fears

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Japan has deployed missile interceptors in key locations around Tokyo as a precaution against possible North Korean ballistic missile tests, AP reported. The Patriot missiles, called PAC-3s, were deployed Tuesday, April 9 at Japan’s defense ministry headquarters and were also to be deployed at bases farther away from central Tokyo. Japan has taken similar measures [...]

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