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Eurasia
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The Gilded Age Of Russia’s Foreign Policy

Vladimir Vladimirovich celebrated his [Orthodox] Christmas holidays in his newly gilded city, Sochi, a gentle irony for the legions of Olympic workers for whom he cancelled the Christmas holidays a few weeks before. One wonders...
by Radim Dragomaca
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Asia
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Soft Power And The Middle Way – A Proposal For China And Her Minorities

An international statesman was received at the White House on the 21st February to meet and discuss the issues of the day with President Obama.  While this alone would not be cause for consternation, the identity of said stat...
by Christopher Cannell
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Green

A Tribe Fights to Move Beyond Coal to Clean Energy

Southern Nevada’s Moapa Band of Paiutes called for the closure of the Reid Gardner coal plant and a transition to clean renewable energy future for Nevada. The tribe has successfully managed to close most of the Reid Gard...
by Natasha Lipman
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Human Rights
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WATCH: Glenn Ford, one of the US’ longest serving death row inmates exonerated after 30 years

Glenn Ford spent almost 30 years in prison for a murder he did not commit; on Tuesday 11th he was exonerated, thus becoming one of the longest serving death row inmates to be freed in the United States. The news comes as a shoc...
by Tímea Fazekas
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Human Rights

Drones: A Terror in the Sky

The near constant presence of CIA drones “terrorises” much of the civilian population of Pakistan’s tribal areas according to a new report. Men, women, and children are subjected to almost constant trauma – including fe...
by Inquire Magazine
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Economy
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10 Fun Facts About The Student Debt Crisis

1.) Bigger than most countries. Currently, more than 40 million Americans hold student debt. The population with student loans is actually greater than the entire population of Canada, Poland, North Korea, Australia and more ...
by Kyle McCarthy
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North America

“Ask Angy” Humanizes the Experience of Undocumented Immigrants

“Isn’t it kind of ironic that we’re undocumented, but you have to prove that you’re undocumented with all these documents?,” Angy Rivera concludes in one of her videos. Angy is a college student born in C...
by Global Voices
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Economy
 

President Obama’s Call For “A Better Politics”

Author’s Note: This article shall seek to analyse the division between Republicans and Democrats in the US government vis-a-vis the evolution of political dysfunction in the US Congress in addition to examining the truth ...
by Apratim Vidyarthi
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Asia

WATCH: Dennis Rodman says North Korea is “not so bad”

In Feburary 2013 the flamboyant “Worm” (ex-hall of fame professional basketball player Dennis Rodman) visited North Korea with Vice Media with the aim of hosting a basketball exhibition, stating on his first visit “I ...
by Ozlem Unat
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