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09:53 19/05/2014What’s the beef? USDA goes shopping for submachine gunsWhat does the National Weather Service, Social Security Administration and now, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), all have in common?
11:48 17/05/2014The Soma mine disaster or privatization gone wild in TurkeyAbout two weeks ago the main opposition parties' parliamentary proposal that sought to look into the frequent deaths at coal mines in the town of Soma was flatly rejected by the government.
09:45 16/05/2014Bankers killing bankers for the insurance money and another look at 9/11It turns out that banks take out life insurance policies on their employees, and those policies pay out death benefits to the banks – not the families.
19:07 15/05/2014Le Monde: Leyla Yunus has informed French president about Azerbaijan’s authoritarian and criminal regimeAzerbaijani human rights defender Leyla Yunus came to the French embassy on Monday, May 12, to meet President François Hollande who came to Baku.
09:54 15/05/2014How five American companies control what you thinkTheir control spans most of the newspapers, magazines, books, radio and TV stations, movie studios, and much of the web news content of the United States.
23:23 14/05/2014Radio Liberty: Credibility of Council of Europe is at stake as Azerbaijan takes over chairmanship of Committee of MinistersAzerbaijan takes over the chairmanship of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers on May 14, 2014, following years of relentless crackdown on criticism, the statement released by Human Rights...
10:08 14/05/2014Can the EU build an empire without a bearded lady?Some 180 million TV viewers watched an Austrian ‘bearded’ lady scoop the Eurovision prize at the weekend with a remarkable blend of ‘blingspiel’ and ‘chutzpah.’
09:53 13/05/2014Fascist violence and the value of human lifeHistorical attempts to make restitution for those unjustly deceased have rarely resulted in the creation of peace and stability. Wounds are rarely healed in this manner.
18:54 12/05/2014Al Jazeera: Azerbaijan does not want to bear the burden of democracyOn Al Jazeera TV channel's website an article was published written by political analyst Arzu Geybullayeva entitled "Azerbaijan and the burden of democracy," condemning the human rights situation in...
09:39 12/05/2014Lessons of World War II forgotten: Will Germany be the peacemaker?There is a grim irony that the NATO Supreme Commander in Europe should have announced that the alliance was considering permanently deploying troops in Eastern Europe only days before May 9.
09:58 10/05/2014The IMF goes to war in UkraineWhat’s left for the Empire of Chaos is to pray for chaos to keep spreading across Ukraine, thus sapping Moscow’s energy.
10:35 09/05/2014The New Cold War: Libya, Syria, and the UkraineSyria's not-so-civil war has been going strong for more than three years now and recently the news agency Reuters reported that "at least 150,000 people have been killed" in that time span.
17:12 08/05/2014Amnesty International: 13 years of membership in Council of Europe gave Azerbaijan little in area of civil and political rightsOn the eve of Azerbaijan's chairmanship at the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, the human rights organization Amnesty International published a report on Azerbaijan entitled “Behind...
09:51 08/05/2014Syria: The hidden massacreThe attack took place shortly after the first stirrings of trouble in the southern Syrian city of Daraa in March 2011.
18:23 07/05/2014Turan: Azerbaijan's chairmanship in Council of Europe is more like false start against background of arrests and convictions inOn the eve of the 124th session of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe in Vienna Azerbaijan accepted chairmanship in this organization for the next six months.
10:24 07/05/2014Erdogan claims it’s not genocide because not all Armenians were killedIt is greatly embarrassing that the leader of a major country like Turkey is clueless about the universally-accepted definition of genocide.
09:45 07/05/2014Everything you wanted to know about Indian elections but were afraid to askThe story of colorful and chaotic elections in India, the world’s largest democracy, can offer many surprising vignettes.
23:33 06/05/2014EurasiaNet: City of Sumgait in Azerbaijan has become source of jihadists for SyriaKnown for its Soviet-era chemical and glass factories, now mostly defunct, Sumgayit has become the center for Azerbaijani citizens volunteering to fight in Syria.
09:27 06/05/2014Euroskeptics: Fractious factionsDespite the wealth of the English language, I am uncertain what collective noun is best for a gathering of euroskeptics. One possibility: “a Consensus of euroskeptics” looks increasingly unlikely.
09:50 05/05/2014German energy: Unsustainable eco-suicideThe renewable energy bandwagon looks increasingly likely to deliver the German economy all the way back to the dark ages.