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Is Bitcoin a Reaction to US Dollar Hegemony?

Blockchain technology and the birth of the so-called cryptocurrencies finds deep roots in three contributing factors: the advance of technology: the manipulation of global economic and financial rules; and the persistent attempt to weaken the national economies of countries that geopolitically challenge the US power system. In this first article I address these issues from...

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जानिये कौन है, झूठी खबर फैलाने वाली मधु किश्वर ?

इस देश में ही नहीं पूरी दुनिया में अफवाह और झूठ से लबालब ख़बरें नफ़रत फैलाने और राजनीतिक उद्देश्यों की पूर्ति के लिए फैलाई जाती रही हैं. पर झूठ के इस घटिया कारोबार में पिछले कुछ साल से भारी बढ़ोतरी हुई है. दरअसल सोशलमीडिया की आने के बाद नफ़रतवादियों ने इसका जमकर उपयोग किया है....

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The Incoherence of Moral Progress

Liberal secular progressives (including humanists, atheists, reformists, etc.) think there is nothing wrong with morality changing over time and view it as a natural, inevitable process that we should all embrace. Unfortunately for them, they are deeply confused about the very nature of morality.   These individuals have no problem with religious morality being discarded...

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The Trump Doctrine in a Regional Context

The last section of the new US National Security Strategy (NSS) describes the envisaged application of the Trump Doctrine in a regional context all across the world, and it’s worthwhile to examine what storylines will most likely be advanced by the policy document’s intrinsic infowar component. This analysis is divided according to the geographic categories contained in the...

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Turkish-Kurdish War Or Daesh Civil War?

A superficial reading of “Operation Olive Branch” indicates that it’s a Turkish-Kurdish war, but the details of who’s fighting make it look a lot more like a Daesh civil war in its opening stages, and that’s exactly what both Ankara and the YPG originally intended. The commencement of Turkey’s “Operation Olive Branch” has led to...

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Turkey: ‘Olive Branch’ of War

Turkey’s “Operation Olive Branch” was recently commenced with the stated intent of destroying what Ankara believes to be “Kurdish terrorists” in the northwestern Syrian region of Afrin. The NATO member earlier warned that it would be forced to intervene there in response to the existential threat that the US’ plans for deploying a 30,000-strong “Border Security Force” pose to its...