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Boris Johnson takes his Brexit demagoguery to the social media sphere
Sep 07, 2019 03:10“Given its instrumental, accelerated, individualistic, demagogic and tabloid character, Johnson’s use of social media in his People’s PMQs neither advances deliberative nor participatory democracy but rather, authoritarian plebiscitary politics.”
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Ashura traditions in Iran
Sep 06, 2019 05:00The battle of Imam Hussein and his loyal companions against the hordes of Yazid took place at Karbala desert on the day of Ashura, 61 AH. This event was the most poignant catastrophe in the history of Islam and humanity.
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From El Paso to Sarajevo organized terrorism takes its toll (2)
Sep 06, 2019 04:48On July 20 this year, in the town of Prijedor, in the Balkan Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina, the newly identified 86 victims of the horrible massacre that had occurred a quarter century earlier, were buried in their village cemeteries after a collective funeral ceremony held at Vedro Polje Stadium.
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From El Paso to Sarajevo organized terrorism takes its toll (1)
Sep 05, 2019 03:52On July 20 this year, in the town of Prijedor, in the Balkan Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina, the newly identified 86 victims of the horrible massacre that had occurred a quarter century earlier, were buried in their village cemeteries after a collective funeral ceremony held at Vedro Polje Stadium.
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Moharram mourning in world countries
Sep 05, 2019 03:42The arrival of the month of Moharram is reminiscent of the innocent martyrdom of Imam Hussein (PBUH) and his companions and it fills the hearts of Muslims and even free-spirited people of the world with grief.
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Yemen War reaches Riyadh!
Sep 04, 2019 04:21As the war in Yemen continues, the Saudi regime more and more finds itself bogged down in the quagmire that is the creation of its own. Journalist, Yusuf Zia-Allah, has dealt with the issue in his article titled, "Yemen War reaches Riyadh."
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Art of Ashura, Symbolic and Epic (2)
Sep 04, 2019 04:12Art acts as media in the ceremonies of Ashura. Ashura is manifested in various branches of art. In the modern painting in Iran the art of Ashura can be clearly seen especially in a branch of it called Saqqa Khaneh. In addition to painters, other contemporary artists have tried to use signs and motifs in their works that symbolize Ashura and Imam Hussein (AS).
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Breaking media blackout on imprisonment of Assange
Sep 03, 2019 10:58Australian journalist and founder of the WikiLeaks site, Julian Paul Hawkins, who goes by the pseudonym ‘Assange’ and is currently languishing in prison in Britain after being treasonously surrendered by Ecuador’s embassy in London, where he had taken asylum, is now being completely ignored by his captors and the US government which demands his extradition, because of his courage to expose American crimes against humanity.
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Making a killing from killing
Sep 03, 2019 10:53“Thieves of private property pass their lives in chains; thieves of public property in riches and luxury”, had said the ancient Roman statesman Cato the Elder, according to American journalist Paul Atwood in his article for the ‘Counterpunch’ site, titled, “Making a killing from killing”, which is critical of the catastrophic ways of the US military industrial complex that threatens the peace and security of the whole world.
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Trump escalates economic confrontation with China
Sep 03, 2019 10:44As world leaders gathered in France for this weekend’s G7 summit, US President Donald Trump unleashed a barrage of invective all but declaring economic war on China. Andre Damon, National Secretary of the US-based International Youth and Students for Social Equality, has more on this in an article titled “Trump escalates economic confrontation with China.”