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Soccer success has a price: Pressure builds to lift Egypt’s stadium ban
With Egypt qualifying for World Cup finals for the first time in 28 years and a crackdown on militant soccer fans that has put...
Climate Change and China’s Mission
Authors: Shrey Das & Wang Li The 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was passed in Rio de Janeiro with a vision...
A ‘Second Amendment’ to India’s Constitution
The mass shooting at Las Vegas on October 01, the most gruesome and deadliest of all mass shootings in US history, segued, predictably, into...
US-Turkish visa spat: A fight for basic freedoms
Moves by the United States and Turkey that largely ban travel of their nationals between the two countries is about more than two long-standing...
After the Referendum: Secession or Confederation for Kurdistan
The Iraqi parliament voted by majority to reject the Kurdish referendum on the independence that holds on September 25 and authorized the Prime Minister...
A Tyranny of the Mind — Killings in Niger and Las Vegas
If there is a mass shooting and anyone is asked where, the answer is likely to be the United States. The reason of course...
It’s Time to Ban Automatic Weapons of Any Kind From High Population Density Areas
Even vociferous supporters of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, including undersigned, no longer have an argument against an outright and blanket ban...
Syrian Statelets and Intelligence Games: Al-Sham’s New Mukhabarat
A novel Alawite-Shi’a security network may be developing in the Assad statelet now defining western Syria. It consists of an archipelago layered with remnants...
Independent Kurdistan: The Wretched and the Damned
On September 25, 2017, the semiautonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq held an independence referendum to determine the future of its quest...
When Interests Triumph over Humanity: Rohingya Crisis
While there is international outcry to end the genocide over the Rohingyas, Russia and China blocked the UN Security Council’s resolution to stop the...