In
the Eastern Mediterranean, where large natural gas offshore fields have
been discovered, a bitter dispute is underway for the definition of
exclusive economic zones, up to 200 miles from the coast, where each of
the coastal countries has the rights to the field exploitation.
Vietnam
won international praise for its response to COVID-19. But the
country’s intensifying capitalist restructuring may leave its people
sicker and more impoverished.
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Red
zones”, travel bans, quarantines, “red lists”. A “Second Wave” has been
announced. The fear campaign has gone into overdrive. Drastic state
measures are contemplated, including restrictions on social gatherings,
marriages, funerals, the closing down of restaurants and bars, the
outright paralysis of civil society.
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The
UN has just recently admitted that new cases of infantile paralysis or
polio have resulted in Africa from an oral polio vaccine developed with
strong support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It mirrors
what happened in the USA in the 1950s. This is worth a closer look.
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The
Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which has been tasked with
helping to “secure” the elections and protect the nation against
cyberattacks, is not exactly an agency known for its adherence to
freedom principles.
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With Recep
Tayyip Erdogan’s neo-Ottoman desires at the forefront, Turkey is
expanding its national borders, with what Erdogan seems to believe will
resurrect the Ottoman Empire. From Iraq to Syria and Libya, Turkey has
attempted to either gain territory or forcefully make a seat at the
international table through military action.
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Pro-Armenian
forces captured the region in the early 90s triggering an armed
conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Further development of the
hostilities and the expected offensive by pro-Azerbajian forces were
stopped by a Russian intervention in May of 1994.
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The reality
is, of course, that U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East has been all
about Israel for a very long time, at least since the presidency of Bill
Clinton, who has been sometimes dubbed the first Jewish president for
his deference to Israeli interests.
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Officially
launched on October 1, 2008, AFRICOM (the U.S. Africa Command) is just
one part of the U.S. global command that covers the planet—and as of
2019, the United States has colonized outer space, too, with the U.S.
Space Force.
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Cotton is
the only genetically modified (GM) crop that has been officially
approved in India and has been cultivated (illegally then legally) in
the country for more than 20 years.
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