Tag: US
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Abu Zubaydah Bait: Understanding the Failure of CIA’s ‘Enhanced Interrogation Techniques’ post 9/11
Did a U.S Department of Justice Official really claim that if the president wanted to crush a child’s testicles, no treaty could stop him? Did waterboarding ever result in truthful confession? What happened to Abu Zubaydah during the interrogation? Why were video recordings of many 9/11 suspected terrorists deleted? The graphics/ words might be disturbing…
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Why Osama bin Laden was a bigger catch for the United States than Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
Two self-styled terrorists, one brought the war to the United States on the American soil while the other dragged the United States to a foreign land. Both killed for having messed up with the United States yet, Osama Bin-Laden remains the biggest catch. President Donald Trump claimed in his address to the American public after…
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In Saddam’s Shadow: What has the American intervention changed in Iraq
2003-04, 15 years since the United States’ Operation Iraqi freedom ended, many in Iraq feel that its brutal dictator Saddam Hussein has gone for a good while others are still nostalgic about his rule. Iraq became a notorious country under Hussein’s rule, It invaded Iran in 1980 and launched a full-scale war to capture…
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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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