Coronavirus Update, Singapore: A Surge in New Cases (from Edward Mears) (John Eipper, USA, 04/08/20 3:27 am) Edward Mears writes: In response to John E's comment on Eugenio Battaglia's post regarding the situation in Singapore, I can report that things here have changed significantly s ...
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Minutes from the WAIS Mini-Summit, Singapore (Patrick Mears, -Germany, 12/30/19 4:53 am) Minutes of WAIS Mini-Summit, held on Saturday, December 28, 2019, in the Former Ford Motor Company Factory, 351 Upper Birkit Timah Road, Singapore, commencing at 11:48 a.m. and endin ...
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Death of Lee Kuan Yew (Bienvenido Macario, USA, 03/23/15 5:28 am) I have just learned of Lee Kuan Yew's passing. He was one of the most respected leaders of our time, whose opinion was sought by other world leaders. He was one of the first to challenge the limit ...
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Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic, Croatia's New President (Eugenio Battaglia, Italy, 03/05/15 5:33 am) The right-wing Croatian Democratic Unionist (HDZ) Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic on 19 February 2015 has assumed the office of President of Croatia. She was born in Fiume/Rijeka in 1968; as Croatian F ...
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Report: Armed Women Repel Boko Haram Attack (Luciano Dondero, Italy, 01/21/15 1:30 am) I don't know if the following story from Countercurrentnews (http://countercurrentnews.com/2014/ ...
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Liberia and "Colonization"; from Gary Moore (John Eipper, USA, 08/07/16 10:27 am) Gary Moore writes: Discussing the history of slavery in the United States, JE asked (August 5) for more information on a confusing part of the picture: "coloniza ...
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Charles Taylor and Firestone (Massoud Malek, USA, 11/21/14 7:52 am) In 1980 a military coup led by eventual president Samuel Doe killed and disemboweled President Tolbert of Liberia in his bed while he slept. This marked the beginning of political and economic instab ...
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Memories of Mina Saud, c. 1968 (with Photos) (Eugenio Battaglia, Italy, 03/09/15 12:15 pm) We have talked a lot about racism, Islam, the self-proclaimed Islamic State (Daesh) and Islamophobia. I am going back in memory to my days in Mina Saud (Kuwait) and to the wonderful local people. May ...
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Kuwait: Small Nation, Big Hearts (Yusuf Kanli, Turkey, 01/14/14 5:11 am) Kuwait City--It is not of course the smallest one, but neither is Kuwait one of the biggest countries of the world. It has a small population of less than 3.5 million people--that is, it has a populat ...
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Ukraine War at Month Three: There Will be Peace, Only Without Putin (Mendo Henriques, Portugal, 05/24/22 7:17 am) Three months ago, Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine, destroying one by one all the diplomatic, economic, and political pillars that guaranteed peace in Europe for more than seventy years. Yet the Kremlin ...
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May 9th Has Come and Gone; War Rages On (Consoly Leon Arias, Spain / Canary, 05/12/22 4:15 am) May 9 is over, and the Russian invasion has not come to an end, as Pope Francis dared to comment at some point, after having a conversation with the Hungarian president Viktor Orbán. Evidently, ...
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Ukraine War Chronicle: Geopolitics is a Pseudoscience (Mendo Henriques, Portugal, 05/07/22 8:03 am) Geopolitics is a pseudoscience and causes disaster It is increasingly painful to hear commentators on the Ukraine war dig out Friedrich Raztzel's and antiquated 1900s concepts of ...
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