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US actions foster de-dollarization
Dec 07, 2018 15:45After the world financial crisis of 2008-2010, the process of de-dollarization began in the world economy. Increasingly more countries around the world, especially in Asia, are striving to decrease their use of American currency in their foreign trade. Doing so helps them to protect their financial systems from risks associated with fluctuations in the dollar’s rate and to strengthen their own currencies.
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MBS – the New Saddam (1)
Dec 07, 2018 15:41Mohamed bin Salman, or more properly MBS, as this mass murderer is known, imposed himself as Heir Apparent to his ailing and senile octogenarian father, King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz, in early 2017. He has since indulged in a string of bloodcurdling crimes and state terrorism that places him in the list of West Asia’s notorious tyrants.
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Iran, India, and a new way forward for Afghanistan
Dec 07, 2018 15:39A new strategy for Afghanistan begins in Iran and needs India’s help, says C. Christine Fair, who is Associate Professor at the US Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, in her report for The Diplomat.com, titled: “Iran, India, and a New Way Forward for Afghanistan.”
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Djibouti: The Casablanca of a new Cold War
Dec 07, 2018 04:42Nowhere in the world are there so many military bases run by rival nations in such close proximity than in East Africa's Djibouti, where intrigue is rife and espionage is “de rigueur”, says Swedish journalist Bertil Lintner in his report for Asia Times, titled: “Djibouti: The Casablanca of a new Cold War.”
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Iqbal and the liberation of the Muslim world
Dec 07, 2018 04:35This is an abridged version of a paper presented by ICIT Director Zafar Bangash at the International Iqbal Society, Canada Chapter in Whitby (near Toronto) on November-3-2018.
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Children, civilization's future, victims of western brutality
Dec 06, 2018 04:33The United Nations Universal Children’s Day– 20 November – has come and gone – and nothing has changed. No action that would now protect children any more than before, no move even by the UN to call on nations at war to take special care to protect children – if for nothing else but the fact that children are our planet's future.
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Zionist defeat in Gaza
Dec 06, 2018 04:32Militarily, tiny Gaza is no match for the Zionist goliath. Few, however, can deny the courage of Gaza’s little Davids. The tiny sliver of land is besieged from all sides with its two million people living a precarious existence. Yet even in these grim circumstances, they demonstrate exemplary courage.
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Russia moves on SE Asia, as US-China tussle and joust
Dec 06, 2018 04:18From trade deals to arms sales to nuclear cooperation, Moscow is making its case as a third force competitor in the strategic region, says Nile Bowie in his article for Asia Times titled: “Russia moves on SE Asia, as US-China tussle and joust”.
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Yemen: Suffer the little children
Dec 05, 2018 06:46Amal Hussain, the 7-year-old Yemeni girl, died of hunger on November 1. Her frail frame could no longer withstand even the meagre demands of survival. Amal’s grieving mother said her “heart was broken.” She was now worried about her other children; they too might succumb to hunger. The reason is that little or no food is being allowed into war-torn Yemen as it is pounded by a Saudi-led coalition of warmongers from the air and blockaded at sea.
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Fake news and beyond: An American saga
Dec 05, 2018 06:44We have long been saying that whatever the Zionist-controlled western media churns out is nothing but lies and propaganda on a vast scale to mislead world public opinion. Now at last facts are emerging of the distortion of realities in an organized way by the so-called mainstream media.