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The Surreptitious Reincarnation of COINTELPRO with the COPS Gang-Stalking Program
In 1975 Senator Frank Church convened a joint senatorial/congressional inquiry into the egregious human rights and civil liberties violations of the Central Intelligence Agency...
Changing face of Middle Eastern geopolitics
It is a recognized reality that the Middle East is divided into two greater blocs, where Syria, Iraq & Hezbollah are spearheaded by Iran...
US Foreign Policy: Transactional or Value-Based
The 2016 elections presents a divergence in US foreign policy between the two major candidates. On one hand is the continuance of the status-quo...
Trump’s foot’n mouth disease
One of the most memorable lines on George W. Bush is due to Ann Richards, a former Texas governor, who passed away in 2006....
Why Socialism can’t work in America
Everyone who has a conscience wants some type of wealth redistribution, income equality, or minimum wage, so that everyone has the bare necessities of...
Kashmir: A Collective Alienation
Burhan-the prominent face of young, revived and local militancy in Kashmir valley, is no more today! Killed on July 8, by forces, which resulted...
Gong or Song from China’s Hong Kong?
Following the recent abduction of five Hong Kong publishers, alleged to have edited books disclosing “inconvenient truths” about the Chinese government, thousands of people...
The Closing of the American Mind
In 1987, Dr. Bloom wrote a scathing critique of how society has failed democracy in the perennial book, The Closing of the American Mind....
Kashmir’s pain and the Fourth Geneva Convention: Is there room for peace?
The crux of the Kashmir problem is very simple (although often carefully elided in many essays on the subject): The Kashmiris want a voice...
The attempted military coup in Turkey
The Turkish Armed Forces are fighting both in the PKK Kurdish area and in the framework of the Inherent Resolve operation led by the...