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- Jan 28, 2020
- 3 min
Trump's 'peace plan' is really a peace sham
Trump's “peace plan” is the Palestinian state death plan.
U.S president Donald Trump announced today, symbolically flanked by Israeli prime minister and without any Palestinian representation, his “peace plan” to end the ongoing Israeli – Palestinian conflict.
The problem is that his “peace plan” will not end it, it will exacerbate it.
Under the Trump plan not a single Israeli illegal settlement will be dismantlement.
Israel has been building them since 1967, after it
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- Jan 20, 2020
- 2 min
Putin rewrites history, says USSR's 1939 invasion of Poland 'saved lives'
Putin's attempts to reinvent WW2 history continues.
Today, at a public speech he gave in St. Petersburg, Putin continued his campaign of trying to distort, manipulate and rewrite the history of WW2, specifically of how Soviet Russia and their Nazi German allies invaded Poland in 1939 and started WW2.
“Actually, the fact that the Red Army’s units entered there (Poland) saved many lives of the local population.”
He went on to add that “The Red Army did not wage any hostiliti
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- Jan 18, 2020
- 2 min
China outraged after FB translates China's leader name to 'Mr. Shithole'
Accordingto FB, Xi Jinping translates to 'Mr. Shithole'.
(Reuters) Facebook said on Saturday it was working to find out how Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s name appeared as “Mr Shithole” in posts on its platform when translated into English from Burmese, apologizing China and the Chinese leader for any offense caused and saying the problem had been fixed.
The error came to light on the second day of a visit by the president to the Southeast Asian country, where Xi and state co
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- Jan 8, 2020
- 4 min
How the US and the UK turned Iran from a democracy into a dictatorship
On August 19, 1953, the CIA and MI6 launched operation AJAX - a coup d'état against Iran's democratically elected government and its leader Muhammad Mossadegh.
Unlike other leaders in the middle east, Mosaddeq was elected into office by the Iranian parliament, the "Majlis ". He was a unique "anti-colonial" middle east popular politican and leader who was also at the same time deeply committed to democratic values, the rule of law and human rights in Iran.
However, when Moss
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- Jan 3, 2020
- 3 min
How UK and France created and ruined the modern Middle East
On January 3, 1916, France and the UK created the secret Sykes-Picot agreement, which in effect partitioned the former provinces of the Ottoman empire in the middle east into French and British spheres of influence.
The agreement, which was signed in 1916, and which was kept top secret, was named after the people who negotiated it, Sir Mark Sykes and Francois Georges-Picot, hence the Sykes-Picot agreement. Under Sykes-Picot, the Syrian coast and much of modern-day Lebanon we
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