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Global Leaders Call On Bangladesh To End ‘Harassment’ Of Nobel Winner Yunus
By Kamran Reza Chowdhury Former U.S. President Barack Obama joined more than 100 Nobel laureates in signing an open letter Monday to Bangladesh’s prime minister urging her to stop her government’s...
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Indonesia’s Effort To Reshape The Perception Of The OECD – Analysis
By Rania Teguh and Fajar B Hirawan Indonesia’s pursuit of the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) membership is an opportunity for it to develop advanced economy credentials...
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Japan’s Security Engagement With The Philippines – Analysis
By Felix K. Chang (FPRI) — In June 2023, Japan’s sent its largest coast guard patrol ship, the Akitsushima, to the Philippines. There, it participated in trilateral exercises with its Philippine and...
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Trump’s $3.6 Trillion Dollar Tax Hike – OpEd
Most candidates would not make a huge tax hike a center piece in their presidential campaign, but Donald Trump is not your typical presidential candidate. In case people missed it, Trump floated the...
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Ex-French President Charged As Influence Peddler – OpEd
By Lisa Vives Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has had anything but a stellar record since stepping down from office more than a decade ago. The 68-year-old has already been convicted twice,...
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Are Markets Tyrannical? Where Christian Conservatives Are Mistaken – OpEd
By William L. Anderson Christian conservatives, for the most part, are relatively receptive to free markets, or at least a generalized concept of what used to be called free enterprise. (This is as...
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Virus Variant: Perpetuating White Coat Supremacy In America – OpEd
On August 20, an unnamed “White House official” told reporters the Biden administration urges all Americans to get booster shots to counter a new wave of infections. The announcement came days after...
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Anti-Chinese Attitudes Widespread In Central Asia, Often Overshadowing Expert...
Anti-Chinese attitudes exist at the popular level throughout Central Asia, although they are most strongly manifested the closer the country is to China, Bishkek scholar Temur Umarov says. What is...
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The Fed’s Inflation Rate Targeting Is A Sham – OpEd
The Federal Reserve System’s Board of Governors summarizes Section 2A of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, which authorized the central bank’s creation, as requiring it “to promote effectively the...
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Donald Trump And The Fourteenth Amendment – OpEd
I’m not a Donald Trump fan. Nor am I a fan of going back to Romney-Ryan Republicanism. (For my thoughts on Trump and the GOP, see this post written two days before the riot that took place on January...
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Ralph Nader: Mass Media Stop Being A Trump Megaphone And Cover Civic Critics...
Marc Fisher of the Washington Post is often the “go-to” reporter editors choose to write Page One stories that synthesize and analyze the Big Story of the Day. On August 17th, Mr. Fisher delivered a...
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US Starts To Take Action To Reverse Loss Of Its Regional Influence – OpEd
By Zaid M. Belbagi Two years ago, as US forces clambered to hastily withdraw from Afghanistan, leaving billions of dollars’ worth of military equipment behind, the chaotic scenes spoke volumes. The...
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US Sending Ukraine AIM-9M Missiles, Additional $250 Million In Aid
By C. Todd Lopez With the presidential drawdown authority package announced Tuesday, the U.S. has committed more than $43 billion in security assistance to Ukraine since the beginning of Russia’s...
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White House Suggests Kremlin Behind Prigozhin’s Death
(RFE/RL) — The White House on August 29 came close to declaring that the Kremlin was responsible for the death of Wagner mercenary group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin, who was killed in a mysterious plane...
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China’s Real Estate Meltdown: Value Of Chinese Firm’s Malaysian Residential...
By Iman Muttaqin Yusof Real estate analysts said they expected property values to drop at a Chinese developer’s housing project in Malaysia’s Johor state and that the U.S. $100 billion venture may not...
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The Impact Of EU’s Regulation 2023/1542 On Chinese Power Battery Industry –...
By He Jun The EU’s Regulation 2023/1542 concerning batteries and waste batteries (henceforth “Regulation”) officially came into effect on August 17 this year. This will significantly impact battery...
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Russian Disinformation In Africa: No Door On This Barn – Analysis
By Dan Whitman (FPRI) — In 2018, Yale scholar Timothy Snyder called Russian information operations in the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea, “the most sophisticated propaganda campaign in the history...
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Zimbabwe: President Secures Second Term Amid Severe Economic Crisis
Zimbabwe’s president Emmerson Mnangagwa has been reelected to serve a second term following the general elections held on August 23-24. The leader of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic...
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‘Big Three’ Auto Workers Vote To Strike By 97 Percent
Workers at the three largest (or "Big Three") automakers in the United States have voted by a majority of 97 percent to authorize a potential strike of 144,000 autoworkers. The United Auto Workers...
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Protests Break Out In Libya Over Rumors Of Normalization With Israel
Libya is experiencing political turmoil, with rare popular demonstrations in different parts of the country on August 27. This follows reports that the Tripoli-based Government of Nation Unity (GNU),...
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