Tag: Humanity
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Tracing My Roots: Why a British made line can divide a land but not people
Yahi din hai jiske liye maine kati thee in ankhon mein raatein Yahi seeli aab-e baqa, chasma noor hai, jalwa-e toor hai? Issi ke liye woh suhane, madhur, rasbhare geet gaye they maine? Urdu Poet, Akhtarul Iman in his poem Pandrah August (15th August) says, “Was it for this day that I had spent so many sleepless nights,…
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The Unspoken Agenda: What Would Xi say to Kim?
Chinese Premier Xi Jinping visits N.Korea before he meets Trump at G-20, a reunion of two leaders that are at different conflicts with the United States In my blog published on 18 June 2018 Trump-Kim Summit: What’s in it for stakeholders?, I mentioned that the loser out of the renewed relationship between Kim and…
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The Cost of Lies: Why Chernobyl is the symbol of failed Soviet Union
“The official position of the state is that global nuclear catastrophe is not possible in the Soviet Union.” & “Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later that debt is paid.” It is gripping, it shocks you, it makes you rethink the cost of living, but it just scratches the…
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Yemen Endures: Saudi and Iran’s Proxy War in ‘The Happy Land’
A Rebel Group Backed By Iran, A Government Backed By Saudi Arabia, A President Struggling to Survive…. all this at the cost of human lives In Yemen. Before we talk about the ongoing Yemen civil war, in which 65,000 lives have been lost since 2015, it is imperative to understand the difference between a war…
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People & Power: Media Strengthening Wrath of Al-Qaeda, IS and Alike
The function of media is to serve the purpose of two-way communication between the general population and those in the upper echelons of power. Instead of performing this role, media is strengthening and popularizing the terrorist groups worldwide. Always believed to be open and dynamic industry, international terrorist groups like ISIS (Islamic State now) and…
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Who’s Children Are They Anyway: Kurds Divided Over Children Born of Islamic State Rape
Children of women raped by ISIL men will not be accepted into Yazidi community, declares the sect’s faith leaders. Kurdish leaders claim that the war with IS (Islamic State) is over, but is it? Although, IS has left the Kurdish area but has left behind a conflict for Yazidi women. The Supreme Yazidi Spiritual…
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1980s Revisited: Early Hip Hop, Politics , Rebel Music and MTV
Originally posted on FaultLines: Music has been around for centuries: As long as people have been getting fed up with the status quo, they’ve been singing about it. And because music styles, human emotions, and social issues are so wide-ranging, 80s songs are too. It was the decade when the future began. Starbucks started selling…
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1980s Revisited: Early Hip Hop, Politics , Rebel Music and MTV
Music has been around for centuries: As long as people have been getting fed up with the status quo, they’ve been singing about it. And because music styles, human emotions, and social issues are so wide-ranging, 80s songs are too. It was the decade when the future began. Starbucks started selling coffee. The world learned…
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Bombs, Shrapnel and Books: Syria’s Secret Library
In a country totally devastated by 9 years of war, hardly anyone would want to save a library while defending last inch of their territory from Pro-Assad Forces. Syria, now into its ninth year of civil war has witnessed 191,369 deaths (Data till 2014) and 10.9 million Syrians, or almost half the population, has been…
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Did God commit mistake while creating humanity?
And it repented Jehovah that he had made man upon the earth, and it grieved him at his heart (Gen. 6:6). Since Bible does not contradict itself, the holy book gives the feeling that God made a mistake by creating humanity. The question revolves around why God – who does not make mistakes or…
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