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If You Provoke The Entire World, Something May Happen

By Andre Vltchek –   Off-Guardian.org The United States believes that it is so invincible, exceptional and so frightening that no one would ever dare to protest, let alone defend its people against constant humiliation, economic embargos and military threats. It used to be like…

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The Limited Mind: Why Fear is Driving Humanity to Extinction

Burrowes* I have previously written many articles describing one or more aspects of the dysfunctional nature of the typical human mind, together with an explanation of how this came about and what we can do about it. See, for example, many of the articles republished in ‘Key…

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Libya Tragedy: Why Lock up Migrants in the First Place?

By James Reinl UNITED NATIONS, Jul 4 2019 (IPS) – A military strike on a detention centre for migrants in Libya that claimed dozens of lives on Tuesday Jul. 2 has reignited a debate over the poor treatment of the mainly African people who transit through the turbulent country…

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The Gaping Hole in Jared Kushner's 'Peace Plan'

By Sarah Saadoun* – Newsweek There is a bitter irony to the White House’s newly released economic development plan for the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Titled “Peace to Prosperity,” the plan was devised by Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, along…

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The Welcome Humiliation of John Bolton

By Michelle Goldberg* – The New York Times A warmonger is the latest to lose his dignity to Donald Trump Say this for Donald Trump. He may be transforming American politics into a kleptocratic fascist reality show and turning our once-great country into a global laughingstock…

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The Trump administration's dangerous fever dream about Iran

Michael H Fuchs* – The Guardian The Iran debate in Washington is increasingly divorced from reality – and that should worry us The Trump administration is caught in a fever dream about Iran, and the fever is becoming dangerous. In the wake of attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf…

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The Death Squads in South Sudan

Johnson* – Vårt Land, Oslo Developments in Sudan are making us all hold our breaths, as we wonder whether paramilitary forces with a past in Janjaweed’s killing operations, will carry the day, and continue the terror we witnessed lately; or whether transition towards civilian…