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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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9/11 and the unsolvable Afghan drama
Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар
With 9/11 fading into the past, there are now two possible solutions for Afghanistan: one involves the US while the other focuses on Asia
Sixteen years after 9/11, and the subsequent US bombing that toppled the Taliban, where do we stand?
Osama bin ...
North Korea: from buffer state to China’s nightmare neighbor
Xuan Loc Doan Xuân Lộc Duẫn
The BRICS summit in Xiamen, a port city on China’s southeast coast, was supposed to be another important moment for China to present itself as a global power and its president, Xi Jinping, as a great world leader.
But on Sunday, just hours ...
The Genocide of the Rohingya: Big Oil, Failed Democracy and False Prophets
Ramzy Baroud رمزي بارود
To a certain extent, Aung San Suu Kyi is a false prophet. Glorified by the west for many years, she was made a ‘democracy icon’ because she opposed the same forces in her country, Burma, at the time that the US-led western coalition isolated ...
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Why Trump's new strategy for Afghanistan is the disaster you'd expect it to be
- Vijay Prashad
On August 21, President Donald Trump announced that he plans to send more thousands of U.S. troops ...
Korea, Afghanistan and the Never Ending War trap
- Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар
While the US-backed 'Hunger Games' in South Korea plow on, a 'new strategy' for Afghanistan is really ...
Afghanistan and the CIA Heroin Ratline
- Pepe Escobar Пепе Эскобар
The Persian Gulf harbors an array of extremely compromising secrets. Near the top is the Afghan ...
Self-defense and the DPRK
- Workers World
We live in a world where there are oppressors and there are the oppressed.
Inevitably, those who are ...
India: midnight's children reach bitter adulthood
- Supriyo Chatterjee সুপ্রিয় চট্টোপাধ্যায়
Today 15 August 70 years ago, India became independent. Here are some facts and numbers on the India ...
North Korea has learnt the brutal lessons of US regime change and will not disarm
- Neil Clark
Will World War III kick off this week because of the bellicose actions of a buffoonish leader with ...
The Killing Fields of Australia: how we failed Elijah Doughty, and countless others
- Chris Graham
It’s official. Mowing down a 14-year-old boy is worth three years in jail. Almost. Chris ...
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