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Western-backed rebel leader, Jamal Maarouf, has admitted that the fighting against Al-Qaeda was “not our problem” and that his group is battling alongside the terrorist organization.
Maarouf told The Independent that his group, the Syrian Revolutionar ...[Read more]
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Frankie Mullin: Use of antidepressant drugs has become more common than ever before. Perhaps it's time that we looked at the wider causes of this trend ...[Read more]
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Just before 2 pm EDT, the New York City Police Department called via Twitter for photos of citizens with its officers. Almost immediately the campaign #myNYPD seemed to backfire, as users flooded the hashtag with photos decrying police brutality. ...[Read more]
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The current Ukraine crisis is serious and threatening, so much so that some commentators even compare it to the Cuban missile crisis of 1962.
Columnist Thanassis Cambanis summarizes the core issue succinctly in The Boston Globe: "[President Vladimir V.] P ...[Read more]
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The Yatsenyuk regime's anti-terrorism operations in the southern and eastern oblasts/provinces of Ukraine are really a use of martial force against Ukrainian civilians opposed to the coup-installed... ...[Read more]
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When organic activist Alexis Baden Mayer of the Organic Consumers Association was arrested after leading a "spirited protest" against watering down organic standards last month, she wasn't at a rally on the street or in a park. She was at a meeting of the ...[Read more]
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The news comes after US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel ordered an internal review of Pentagon records, which have now uncovered hundreds of troops who told the military they believed they were exposed to chemical weapons. Oh look, another shiny object -> ...[Read more]
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The reports are rolling in: the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is dead. If you read the obituaries, most news outlets seem to agree that the cause of death was simple: the election of Donald Trump, who railed against the deal during his campaign. But the ...[Read more]
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Portland, Oregon, is reeling after a newborn baby birthed by a homeless woman died the morning after a punishing ice storm tore through the city. ...[Read more]
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Steve Bannon, the assistant and chief strategist to President Donald Trump believes the U.S. will be at war with China within the next few years.
Speaking on his radio show in March 2016, Bannon predicted relations between the U.S. and China would ultimat ...[Read more]
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When Bangladesh became independent from Pakistan in 1971, secularism was one of the new country’s founding principles. It soon came under siege — first in the 1970s, under Ziaur Rahman, the founder of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (B.N.P.), who reh ...[Read more]
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