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	Stopping Genocide by Dr. Habib Siddiqui I have repeatedly said that genocide never happens suddenly. It's planned over a long period of time by perpetrators that require support top-down so that it becomes a national project to eliminate the targeted group.
	A Troubled Family: NATO turns 70 by Dr. Binoy Kampmark Summit anniversaries are not usually this abysmally interesting. While those paying visits to Watford, England on the occasion of the seventieth anniversary of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation are supposedly...
	Pensions' advice to the French by Joseph Gatt The French have a unique retirement pension system. Unlike most, if not all other countries where the retirement pensions system is based largely on the number of years spent working or contributing money...

	Julian Assange in Videoconference: The Spanish Case Takes a Turn by Dr. Binoy Kampmark Judge Jose de la Mata of Spain's High Court, the Audiencia Nacional, had been facing a good deal of stonewalling on the part of his British colleagues.
	Romania 101: In its second Century - challanges ahead by Ovi Magazine Guest The Great Union of December 1st, 1919 was a "stellar moment" for Romania, which was achieved by Romanian visionary and patriotic politicians with international support yet above all with the blood sacrifice of...
	Going to the ICJ: Myanmar, Genocide and Aung San Suu Kyi's Gamble by Dr. Binoy Kampmark Leaders currently in office rarely make an appearance before either the International Court of Justice or the International Criminal Court.
	Trump is innocent! by Joseph Gatt Let's say Thanos is the president and I decide to run against him. Thanos finds out that in my stint at the Korea Times I once accidentally ate someone's sandwich.
	A dysfunctional ...thankstaking dinner by Thanos Kalamidas London's summit for NATO's 70th anniversary was a travesty of a dysfunctional family's reunion. Something like a traditional thanksgiving dinner with the crazy uncle, the dementia grandpa, the nagging aunty and the rebelling teens.
	Malaysia's Lagging Agriculture Sector by Murray Hunter Malaysia, whose agriculture sector led the economy for decades into the 1970s, is falling behind Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, and other regional players like China, Taiwan, and Korea in terms...
	Negotiating with the Palestinians by Joseph Gatt I've been spending the last 3 weeks, negotiating, inter alia, peace between the Palestinians and the Israelis. Here are some of the difficulties I have encountered, in no particular order.
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