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You can be forgiven for thinking that Mixed Martial Arts Fighting (MMA) owes its popularity to the testosterone-fuelled fists of fury of fighters like Anderson “The Spider” Silva, George “Rush” St. Pierre, and “The Notorious” Conor McGregor. But that distinction belongs to the glamour-puss promotional antics of Rhonda Rousey. In fact, MMA paid its latest (and perhaps final) installment… Read more.
President Obama struck back at Russia on Thursday for its efforts to influence the 2016 election, ejecting 35 suspected Russian intelligence operatives from the United States and imposing sanctions on Russia’s two leading intelligence services. The administration also penalized four top officers of one of those services, the powerful military intelligence unit known as the G.R.U.… Read more.
Netanyahu will never miss an opportunity to undermine peace with Israel’s enemies — even if that means making enemies of Israel’s friends. (“Chutzpah: Israeli PM to Address US Congress,” The iPINIONS Journal, January 23, 2015) Bear this quote in mind as you read below. A truly stupefying feature of the relationship between Israel and the… Read more.
WTF, Francis! (Granted, the Baby Jesus seems ecstatic!) Read more.
Like America, Canada has mistreated indigenous peoples. The difference is that we know little about Canada’s aboriginal shame. But its indigenous peoples are now forcing a public reckoning. Canada’s indigenous peoples The BBC aired a documentary yesterday on Canada’s (mis)treatment of Canadian Indians. It was heartrending. Poverty and unemployment remain disproportionately high among First Nations… Read more.
President Obama insisted – from the outset of the Syrian Civil War in 2011 – that it made no sense for the United States to go “all in” because there could be no military solution. No doubt he was mindful that the underlying sectarian conflict that gave rise to it had already bedeviled U.S. efforts,… Read more.
In a meeting of the U.N. Human Rights Council on Wednesday, a special commission to South Sudan described the state of the country in the starkest terms possible. Atrocities like murder and gang rape are happening on an ‘epic’ scale, reported the commission’s chief, who warned that the world’s youngest country now ‘stands on the… Read more.
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Premier-elect Sharlene Cartwright Robinson’s Peoples Democratic Movement (PDM) has returned to power after 13 years with at least ten out of the 15 elected seats in the House of Assembly, with one constituency still undeclared after several recounts… Outgoing premier, Dr Rufus Ewing, failed to win a seat. (Caribbean News Now, December 16, 2016) Despite… Read more.
Western countries have been sanctioning Russia for years. Their aim has been to punish it for everything from launching military incursions into neighboring countries (e.g., Georgia and Ukraine/Crimea) to assassinating political dissidents (e.g., Boris Nemtsov and Alexander Litvinenko). Unfortunately, sanctions have done little to curtail Russia’s rogue behavior. Nothing attests to this quite like: The… Read more.
