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From the enigmatic Easter Island in the East to the dying Aral Sea in the West, Asia is a land of contrasts: two great civilizations – India and China – deserts, hugely populated areas and a great number of indigenous people struggling for their survival.
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Erasing Muslim/Kashmiriness of Kathua Victim
Basharat Ali بشارت علی
Three months after the rape and murder of an eight-year-old Muslim girl, Aasifa, in Kathua, Jammu and Kashmir (J & K), the Indian media and civil society suddenly woke up to demand justice. Some are demanding death penalty for the ...
Anti-rape protests in India show a growing public stand against sexual violence
Vijay Prashad
The BJP-led government has let horrible crimes go unpunished for too long
Both stories are horrendous. An eight-year-old girl kidnapped in Kathua (Jammu and Kashmir), then sedated and gang-raped before she was killed. A 17-year-old woman raped by ...
The myth of a neo-imperial China
Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар
Silk Road infrastructure projects could bring back a peaceful and prosperous Eurasia
Ingram Pinn
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China’s president for life? Not Xi Jinping, a student of history
- Deng Yuwen 邓聿文
Deng Yuwen says even with the removal of presidential term limits, Xi is too mindful of the lessons ...
Afghanistan ready to play connector role in Eurasian integration
- Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар
The inauguration of TAPI – the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India pipeline – signals ...
Hunderman Brok: A museum of memories – and missiles
- Stanzin Saldon བསྟན་འཛིན་ སལྡོན
Hunderman, a remote village on the LOC in Kargil, in the crossfire between two hostile nations, has ...
US feels uneasy about inter-Korean amity
- MK Bhadrakumar
The North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has upset all doomsday predictions that once the Winter Olympics ...
USA-DPRK: Finding the answer to a riddle shrouded in a mystery
- Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар
The art of the non-deal might be the only way out of the stand-off between the US and North Korea
High-level ...
The New Great Game moves from Asia-Pacific to Indo-Pacific (I & II)
- Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар
Is the world's center of gravity shifting to the heart of the Indo-Pacific – a new pivot to Asia?
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‘Say the Word’: What the Rohingya Struggle is Really About
- Ramzy Baroud رمزي بارود
Pope Francis lost a historical opportunity to truly set his legacy apart from previous Popes. Alas, ...
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