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The Western alliance is falling apart
Aug 07, 2019 04:49Washington’s hegemony over West Asia is fading rapidly. A few days ago, Germany has refused Washington’s request to take part in a US-led maritime mission in the Strait of Hormuz, under the pretext to secure hydrocarbon shipments through this Iran-controlled narrow water way. In reality it is more like a new weaponizing of waterways, by controlling who ships what to whom – and applying “sanctions” by blocking or outright pirating of tankers destined for western territories.
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Federal Reserve cuts rates, but Wall Street demands more
Aug 07, 2019 04:45The decision by the US Federal Reserve to lower the federal funds rate by 0.25 percentage points—the first reduction since the financial crisis of 2008—and indications that more is to come mark an unprecedented turn in monetary policy.
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A new chapter in the Sino-Italian relationship
Aug 06, 2019 08:17During the Qing Dynasty, the West labeled China with the term “Serica” because of the silk (Latin serica) Rome imported along a meandering 8,000-kilometer passage called by the geographer Ferdinand von Richthofen “the Silk Road.”
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The crisis of Anglo-American democracy
Aug 06, 2019 08:09How did the United Kingdom and the United States – end up with Donald Trump and Boris Johnson at the helm? Trump is not wrong to call Johnson the “Britain Trump”.
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Maximum pressure yields economic prosperity for Iran
Aug 06, 2019 08:04The US policy of economic terrorism against the Islamic Republic is actually a blessing in disguise for the country as is evident by development and flourishing of various domestic industries that greatly reduces dependence on foreigners and saves billions of dollars in hard currency.
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With criticism crushed in the West, Israel can enjoy its impunity
Aug 06, 2019 05:10In the US and Europe, strong criticism of Zionist regime, even from Jews – let alone demands for meaningful action – is being conflated with anti-Semitism. Much of this furor seems intended to ease the path towards silencing Israeli regime’s critics.
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When Trump calls people “filth,” he’s laying groundwork for genocide
Aug 06, 2019 04:59The US president is a racist and a hatemonger who is dividing the American society through his insulting remarks directed at citizens and immigrants like.
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China lays out its road map
Aug 05, 2019 14:37The key merit of China’s National Defense in the New Era, a white paper released by the State Council in Beijing, is to clear any remaining doubts about where the Middle Kingdom is coming from, and where it’s going to by 2049, the mythical date to, theoretically, be restored as the foremost global power.
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Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and the unraveling of US empire
Aug 05, 2019 14:32All indicators point towards the breakup of the United States of America, which starting from the rebellion against British rule of the 13 New England colonies on the Atlantic seaboard, illegally expanded over the past two centuries to cover a vast part in the middle of North America till the Pacific coast in the west to the Gulf of Mexico in the south.
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Bahrain follows U.S. lead on executions
Aug 05, 2019 14:30Citing the existence of the death penalty in the United States as justification, Bahrain’s government executed political prisoners Ali al-Arab and Ahmed al-Malali by firing squad on the morning of Saturday, July 27. Another man was also executed in a separate, non-political case.