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The prosecution of Julian Assange affects Americans all
Aug 16, 2019 10:42The prosecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, if it were ever successful, would threaten the ability of journalists to receive and publish information that the US government deemed classified all around the world. Assange’s plight is tied to the future of press freedom. But what is at stake is a much larger issue that concerns all of Americans.
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Multipolar world on Iran’s side
Aug 15, 2019 05:02Many people in the West are gradually beginning to understand that the days of the unipolar world are numbered, a unipolar world the United States has been recklessly dominating for the past number of years, using nothing but brute force and military conflict in an attempt to impose its world order on other countries.
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Iran will not be hemmed in by the US and UK
Aug 12, 2019 11:06The Americans, joined by the British are trying to create trouble against the Islamic Republic in the Persian Gulf – a waterway which is thousands of kilometers from their coasts and in which they have no right to interfere.
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UK housing crisis: 630,000 young people face homelessness in retirement
Aug 10, 2019 06:06Hundreds of thousands of young people in the UK risk homelessness when they retire because they will be unable to afford skyrocketing private rental costs.
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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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New captain for a sinking Britain
Jul 30, 2019 12:10The United Kingdom appears anything but united today, as the Scots and the Irish oppose the Brexit plan, while the new prime minister in London is adamant of leaving the European Union.
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Iran runs rings around British navy
Jul 30, 2019 11:59Drone footage of Iran’s detention of the British-flagged ship ‘Stena Impero’ for violating navigational rules in the Strait of Hormuz after colliding with a fishing trawler, brings into sharp focus the UK’s struggle to project power in foreign seas.
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London falling: Bojo’s mojo faces immediate Iran test
Jul 29, 2019 08:13The new British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, who has been propelled to the post not because of the vote of the majority of people, but because of a governmental crisis that saw the fall within the ruling Conservative Party’s ranks of leader and premier, Theresa May.
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What Boris Johnson’s rise means for Asia
Jul 29, 2019 05:41Among the many gaffes made by Boris Johnson during his two-year stint as Britain’s foreign secretary, one of the most awkward was his recital of a Rudyard Kipling poem while attending an event at Myanmar’s Shwedagon Pagoda.
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Why Boris Johnson is even more dangerous than Trump
Jul 26, 2019 08:07Is the rise of Boris Johnson to be the next prime minister the product of a soft coup? Does Donald Trump’s racist demonization of four non-white congress members prove him to be a “fascist” leader like Mussolini and Hitler?