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Trump will likely use senate trial to push his conspiracy theories
Dec 15, 2019 17:08Trump is no student of sociology, but he has a very finely honed sense of how to spoil the public and he’s a natural at disinformation and propaganda. He’s been doing it his whole life. He knows the value in using a Senate trial to push his conspiracy theories into the mainstream and seems to instinctively understand that the more exposure they get, the more “real” they become.
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Expansion of ties with Uzbekistan of great importance
Dec 15, 2019 08:06The Islamic Republic of Iran gives priority and attaches significance to development of relations with Uzbekistan in all areas. Iran can definitely help provide Uzbekistan with easier access to other countries’ markets due to its strategic geographical position and proximity to the Persian Gulf and Sea of Oman.
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ICC holds hearing on Afghanistan war crimes, including US torture
Dec 15, 2019 08:00The International Criminal Court (ICC) opened a three-day hearing in the Hague, Netherlands on Wednesday at which prosecutors and Afghan torture victims are attempting to convince the court to overturn a previous decision to refuse to investigate war crimes committed by Taliban and US forces.
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Let’s push democratic presidential hopefuls to address U.S. bases on Okinawa
Dec 14, 2019 10:41Roughly one in eight overseas U.S. troops are in Okinawa, Japan. The U.S. maintains 31 military facilities there, all without securing Okinawa’s consent. A new base — supposedly replacing Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, in another part of the island — is under construction at Henoko.
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UN: Climate change will create “New Great Divergence” between rich and poor
Dec 14, 2019 10:25A “new generation” of inequalities around education, technology and the degree to which communities are impacted by climate change has emerged. These rising inequalities threaten to create a “new great divergence” of a scale not seen since the Industrial Revolution, the UN warned.
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‘The Lady’ is a liar: Suu Kyi’s genocide whitewash
Dec 14, 2019 10:22“Rohingya civilians.” That’s the phrase conspicuously absent from Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi’s 3,500-word statement to the International Court of Justice recently.
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Is Iran’s missile program inconsistent with Resolution 2231?
Dec 14, 2019 10:09The Russian representative to the UN sent a letter to Guterres on November 26 stating that Iran is a full member of the UN, and the country is a member of many non-proliferation mechanisms, such as the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
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Extreme poverty digs deeper into Arab region
Dec 14, 2019 10:05International organizations, such as the World Bank and the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, report the Arab region is the only one in the world in which extreme poverty has risen in the past six years to touch 20 percent of the population.
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High time for NATO’s end for the sake of global peace
Dec 13, 2019 10:45"NATO is the cause of the new arms race with Russia, including upgrading of nuclear arsenals. Therefore, the sooner it is disbanded the better for world peace and stability, since a relic of the cold war shouldn’t be reconfigured to prolong the US domination of Europe, or to pick up fights with Russia, China, and the Resistant Front of the Muslim World, or to launch suicidal space wars."
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Trials and tribulations of Central Asia integration
Dec 13, 2019 10:42Crossing Tajikistan from west to northeast – Dushanbe to the Tajik-Kyrgyz border – and then Kyrgyzstan from south to north all the way to Bishkek via Osh, is one of the most extraordinary road trips on earth. Not only this is prime Ancient Silk Road territory but now is being propelled as a significant stretch of the 21st century New Silk Roads.