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Power is a drug – What China is the U.S. fighting against?
At the basement floor of the Chinese
National museum in Beijing, there’s a curated collection of China’s imperial
history from antiquity to the fall of the...
Scandinavia Veers Left plus D-Day Reflections as Trump Storms Europe
Mette
Frederiksen of the five-party Social Democrat bloc won 91 of the 169 seats in
the Danish parliament ending the rule of the right-wing Liberal Party...
Victory Day: We must not forget the lessons of history
The month of May and the fireworks are now behind us.
The country and the world celebrated Victory Day, which is a holiday of war...
Pointless Colonial Massacres and Post-Colonial Wars and Killings on the Indian Subcontinent
Two colonial mass killings from the
twentieth century are always remembered: The Qissa Khwani
Bazaar massacre on April 23, 1930 in
Peshawar (then India, now in Pakistan)...
The feminist inspiration of Mona Lisa
This year marks the 500th anniversary of the death of the Italian
genius, Leonardo da Vinci, who died on 02 May 1519. On this occasion,...
Turkish denial of Armenian genocide and application of international law for justice
Authors: Punsara Amarasinghe and Anastasia
Glazova*
Exactly one hundred and four years ago
world witnessed the first systematic genocide when the international law had
adopted no specific legal...
China 70 years from now
In my opinion, after
the 19thCPC National Congress, two changes characterize the new form
of Communist China: the amendment to the Party’s Constitution, with the phrase
"Xi...
Russians Need to Question their Foreign Policy
Open, public discussion on Russian
official foreign policy has been rarely seen in Russian history, due largely to
the common perception that the government correctly understands...
Jammu & Kashmir: What happens if India repeals Articles 35-A and 370 of its Constitution?
India’s Union minister Jaitley declared, `Article 35 A was “surreptitiously” included in the Indian Constitution. It was
a “historical blunder” committed by Jawaharlal Nehru”’....
Chagos Islands: Has the Sun Finally Set on the British Empire?
Authors: Punsara Amarasinghe and Anastasia
Glazova*
The fame of
British Empire was once embellished around the corners of the world as the
empire where sun never sets and...