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	Unnecessary Fussing: China, the United States and APEC by Dr. Binoy Kampmark The parents on the global stage of power are bickering and now, such entertainingly distracting forums as APEC (the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum) are left without a unifying message.
	The Uneasy Future Awaits Trump and MBS by Dr. Habib Siddiqui As expected the Democratic Party won the majority in the US congressional elections, while the Republicans held on to their majority position within the Senate.
	Queen-Brexit is naked by Thanos Kalamidas Back in June 2016 and a few days after the Brexit referendum, with everybody still trying to understand what really happened, I wrote an article, mostly trying to persuade myself that this is it...

	The Jerusalem Tangle: ScoMo's Recognition Policy Stumbles by Dr. Binoy Kampmark Jerusalem, deemed a holy city, and seen as trade item, bargaining chip and bartering tool over the centuries. Sought by the major faiths, despoiled at stages by various empires...
	The Disgruntled Former Prime Minister by Dr. Binoy Kampmark The disgruntled former prime minister is a rather large, and growing club, on the Australian scene. The country has become known for its killing seasons, those occasions when...
	Convenient Demonologies: Stopping Migrant Caravans by Dr. Binoy Kampmark President Donald J. Trump has been engaged with berating human caravans, a spectacle that might have been odd in another era. At first instance, it all seems fundamentally anachronistic, a sort of history in reverse.
	Bread-Education-Freedom by Thanos Kalamidas A commemoration for the victims and ideals of the Polytechnic uprising in Athens against the fascist dictatorship in 1973, all in ...Greek
	Donetsk-Luhansk-Ukraine-Russia: Another Round in a Frozen But Deadly Struggle by Rene Wadlow On 11 November while the French President Emmanuel Macron was warning the assembled heads-of-government in Paris on the dangers of the narrow nationalism which had led to the 1914-1918 war...
	Concepts of Nonsense: Australian Soft Power by Dr. Binoy Kampmark Soft power was always a term best suited for eunuchs. It relies on persuasion, counsel and an air of seduction. It does not imply actual force as such (often, that side of the bargain is hidden).
	Trump's Old Deal by Thanos Kalamidas In 1933, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt enacted a series of reforms, mainly financial, in respond to an America coming out of the Great Depression and social polarization.
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