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18 years after its opening, justice remains elusive for prisoners of Guantánamo
Jan 13, 2020 10:04"Many years after the opening of Guantánamo — and in many cases, years after release — justice remains elusive for Guantánamo’s current and former prisoners, even when they are the victims who have not been charged with any wrongdoing. Without justice, there is no way of ensuring that such crimes and complicity will not occur again", says Aisha Maniar.
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Changes in culture and arts in 1st two decades of 21st Century (2)
Jan 12, 2020 19:19In the previous episode, we spoke of the grand revolution which Internet and social networks sparked in our everyday lives. Now, let's pay a glance at the current status of publication industry and its developments, in addition to current status of press.
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Why Asia could soon dominate responsible investing
Jan 12, 2020 10:16Lisa Beauvilain, Head of Sustainability and ESG at Impax Asset Management says businesses in Asia have made progress on establishing investor relations teams.
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Undeclared US war on humanity
Jan 12, 2020 10:12No nation in world history has been responsible for more high crimes of war, against humanity, and genocide over a longer duration than the US.
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Similar behavior of Israel and U.S. against Iran’s ‘hard revenge’
Jan 12, 2020 10:03The newly-appointed Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC)’s Quds Force said that Iran dealt the US “a first slap” by striking two American bases in Iraq in retaliation for the assassination of his predecessor, Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani.
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Qassem Soleimani was a peace champion
Jan 11, 2020 12:15The American terrorists, who have the blood of millions of innocent people in the world on their hands, assassinated Lieutenant General Qasem Soleimani, the Commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), in the hope of getting rid of their nightmares.
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It’s time for museums to return stolen treasures
Jan 11, 2020 12:13Mighty museums such as the Metropolitan in New York, the Getty, the Louvre, the British Museum and the Humboldt Forum in Berlin have locked up the precious legacy of other lands taken in wars of aggression or by theft or duplicity.
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IMF boss says raise taxes on the rich to tackle inequality
Jan 11, 2020 12:10In the 1990s, the IMF was at the heart of the Washington consensus — a free-market approach to running economies that included the belief that tax cuts for the better off would have trickle down benefits through greater innovation and higher growth.
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Bolivia’s new right-wing government intensifies crackdown on journalists, doctors
Jan 11, 2020 12:06Since November last year, the new Bolivian government has begun systematically destroying all voices opposed to it. TeleSUR, Bolivia TV and RT en Español have already been taken off the air, journalists have been shot, detained and tortured. Meanwhile, Al-Jazeera correspondent Teresa Bo was tear-gassed in the face live on air at point-blank range by riot police as she stood alone, talking to the camera.
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Changes in culture and arts in 1st two decades of 21st Century (1)
Jan 11, 2020 10:10The first two decades of the 21st Century have been concurrent with the emergence of a profound revolution in the global cultural arena. In these two decades, culture and art were impacted by Internet in an unimaginable manner.