By Ajit Kumar Singh Unsettled by the Deepening Peace in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), as well as the continuous and cumulative failures of the separatists to orchestrate disorders within J&K over the past two years and to revive a 2010 type ‘uprising’, Pakistan-backed separatists have been in search of an ‘event’ that could be exploited [...]
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One of the nation’s top gun rights and weapons law experts on Sunday stated that the pro-gun and pro-life movements share a common goal: the preservation of innocent lives. While gun-control proponents say they want to make life safer than it is, their proposals will not bring about a reduction in murder and other violent [...]
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A National Basketball Association player has become the first active player in a major professional U.S. team sport to reveal he is homosexual. Free-agent center Jason Collins, who has played 11 seasons in the NBA, revealed he is gay in the cover article for this week’s Sports Illustrated magazine. He wrote he did not “set [...]
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A prominent expert in federal death penalty cases, whose client list includes the infamous Unabomber, has joined a stellar public defense team representing suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, The Boston Globe reported. According to the newspaper, US Magistrate Judge Marianne Bowler ruled on Monday that Judy Clarke, a California-based attorney, has the “background, knowledge [...]
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By Jim Garamone North Korea, the East China Sea and creating a new working group for joint intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities were on the table as Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera met here today. The U.S.-Japan alliance remains the cornerstone of security and prosperity in Northeast Asia, Hagel reaffirmed [...]
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By Prof. Anis H. Bajrektarevic How to draw the line between the recent and still unsettled EU/EURO crisis and Asia’s success story? Well, it might be easier than it seems: Neither Europe nor Asia has any alternative. The difference is that Europe well knows there is no alternative – and therefore is multilateral. Asia thinks [...]
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s the new season of the world’s longest-running war in Afghanistan is warming up, the Afghan civilians and children are falling prey as easy victims. Early this month, the NATO airstrike has killed eleven children, aged between two months and seven years in the Shigal district of Kunar province bordering Pakistan. At the same time, [...]
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By Keshab Giri Prachanda’s recent week long Beijing visit, on the invitation of newly elected Chinese President Xi Jinping, marked a departure in South Asian geo-political contours on multiple ways. Prachanda earned the honour in Beijing to be the first South Asian leader to meet the Chinese president in the Great Hall where state leaders [...]
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By Keshab Giri Two major proponents of ethnic based federalism in Nepal; UCPN Maoist leader Puspakamal Dahal aka Prachanda and its break-away faction led by Mohan Baidya aka Kiran’s China visit has conferred new direction in Chinese policy towards its immediate neighbourhood. Puspakamal Dahal, ‘Prachanda’ is the first leader from South Asia to visit President [...]
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Bu William T. Hathaway Vicious fanatics are trying to kill us and destroy our country. They’re blowing up our soldiers overseas. They’ve infiltrated our country. We must defend ourselves against these mad-dog berserkers before it’s too late. This litany has been repeated by corporate-controlled media and politicians for years now, pumping fear into us. It [...]
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Despite substantial increases in the educational attainment and age of the U.S. workforce over the last three decades, which are reflected in productivity, the quality of jobs in the United States as measured by wages and access to benefits has deteriorated sharply. A new report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research examines possible [...]
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Employment-related complaints by two international players, one of whom is barred from leaving Qatar, threaten to overshadow the 2022 World Cup organizing committee’s release of a charter of worker’s rights designed to fend off criticism of labor conditions in the Gulf state. In separate interviews French-Algerian player Zahir Belounis, who is locked into a salary [...]
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A protocol to the Geneva Convention outlaws the use of gas in warfare. This did not stop Iraq’s Saddam Hussein from using it during his eight-year war with Iran. In one infamous incident Saddam ordered the use of poison gas against Kurdish guerrillas and civilians in the border town of Halabja, killing 5,000 people at [...]
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“The worst mistake of my presidency,” said Ronald Reagan of his decision to put Marines into the middle of Lebanon’s civil war, where 241 died in a suicide bombing of their barracks. And if Barack Obama plunges into Syria’s civil war, it could consume his presidency, even as Iraq consumed the presidency of George W. [...]
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By Sofo Bukia For the first time since his party suffered a crushing defeat in an election last October, Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili has called his supporters out onto the street, accusing his political opponents of pushing the country back towards Russia. Analysts saw the April 19 protest as a success insofar as it showed [...]
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The Iranian government is increasingly violating workers’ rights to peaceful assembly and association. Dozens of labor and independent trade union activists are in prison for speaking out in defense of workers.Human Rights Watch called for the government to end the crackdown and free labor rights advocates in anticipation of International Workers’ Day on May 1, [...]
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Israeli president Shimon Peres invited Pope Francis to visit the Holy Land during an April 30 meeting with him at the Vatican. “I am expecting you in Jerusalem, not just me but the whole country of Israel,” Peres told the Pope in the Apostolic Palace. He made his invitation in front of journalists after holding [...]
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By Klaudija Lutovska and Miki Trajkovski Macedonia is taking a proactive role to foster regional military co-operation, sending a positive signal on security and Euro-Atlantic integration efforts, experts said. Last week, the Macedonian parliament voted unanimously to send another unit to the EU peacekeeping mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), known as Althea. In addition, [...]
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Thursday, May 2, is a day to be especially watchful. Jihadists are particularly fond of celebrating anniversaries and on that day in 2011 Seal Team Six found and killed Osama bin Laden. September 11. 2001 is now an indelible part of U.S. history and on September 11, 2012, jihadists attacked and killed an American ambassador [...]
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By Jim Garamone The U.S. military stands ready to do whatever it is ordered to in Syria by civilian leaders, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said here today. Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey told reporters at a Christian Science Monitor news roundtable that nothing he has heard out of Syria in the [...]
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