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End of a blood-soaked year, start of another
Jan 01, 2024 10:24Today marks the start of the year 2024 of the Gregorian calendar that was ushered in at midnight in the West and in societies influenced by Western culture.
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As Israeli war on Gaza rages on, US says still not drawing any red lines for Israel
Nov 13, 2023 11:46Since the latest spate of attacks by Zionist regime against civilians in the Gaza Strip began, western countries, most notably the USA, have voiced their unequivocal support for Israel and ignored the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people.
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The war 'diplomat': How Borrell and the West lost the 'global battle of narratives'
Jul 27, 2022 12:13In a blog entry reflecting on the G20 Foreign Ministers’ meeting in Bali, Indonesia on July 7-8, the High Representative of the European Union, Josep Borrell, seems to have accepted the painful truth that the West is losing what he termed “the global battle of narratives.”
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Media freedom at risk as Western regimes refuse to accept multipolarity
Jun 19, 2022 04:51As the world marches decisively towards multipolarity, changes taking place globally are also influencing the internal political mechanisms of Western countries.
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US sanctions on Afghanistan will starve 97% of its population
May 06, 2022 10:39With the world’s attention focused on Ukraine- Russia crisis— deliberately one might add—the plight of Afghans has fallen off the radar screen. Afghanistan has been and continues to be the victim of Western sanctions and aggression.
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Qur’an-burning episodes reflect anti-Islam animus of Western politicians
May 05, 2022 16:10Hardly a day passes by without some Islamophobic incident occurring in the western world. Anti-Muslim hatred has long surpassed the stage of verbal abuse.
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The outrageous—and largely hidden—$5.9 trillion annual subsidy to the fossil fuel industry that is killing people
Apr 19, 2022 16:30Western governments have been heavily subsidizing their own fossil-fuel industries even as they exhort much poorer countries to do more to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. But the full extent of these subsidies has been hidden by the methods used to measure them.
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On its seventh anniversary, Yemen seeks to end a war the world has forgotten (1)
Apr 08, 2022 15:46Many Yemenis feel that the war on their country has been forgotten despite its significantly higher death toll and the fact that it is marked by much more blatant violations of human rights.
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Tears for Ukraine, sanctions for Russia, yawns for Yemen, arms for Saudis: The West’s grotesque double standard (1)
Mar 10, 2022 06:07The speed of Western retaliation over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has raised eyebrows among Yemenis who have endured a relentless bombing campaign and deadly air, land, and sea blockade for 2,520 consecutive days.
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Russia-Ukraine: Western media are acting as cheerleaders for war (2)
Mar 10, 2022 06:05The racist undertones and overtones of much western coverage – with commentators and interviewees regularly stressing how Ukrainian refugees are "European," "civilized," "blond haired and blue eyed" - is hard to miss.