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What the Afghan government and other actors hoped would be a period of stabilization and decline, or at least stagnation, turned out to characterize a continuous and tremendous upsurge in the country’s notorious opium production. In 2017,…
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Editor's Note: This article is the first of a two-part series on the Middle East and North Africa's (MENA) shifting power dynamics. In Part II, Chanko explores the strategic partnership between Russia and China, as a counterbalance to…
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Recent anti-government protests this month have engulfed over 80 cities in Iran, as thousands of predominantly youth and working-class citizens have taken to the streets in opposition to rising unemployment, stagnant economic growth, and…
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"Water resources could become a problem in the future that could escalate tensions not only in our region, but on every continent,” former Uzbek president Islam Karimov famously told reporters in 2012. “I won’t name specific countries, but…
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The Need for Seaweed Seaweed has for centuries been a staple of human diets all over the world, bringing rich abundances of proteins and key amino acids to our diets. Some anthropologists go so far as to speculate that our success as a…
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The crossroads of religion and politics, despite its universal prevalence, continues to be overlooked and even disputed in many parts of the world. While many politicians openly admit to being religious and even publicly cite their faith as…
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The shocking revelations unveiling the prevalent sexual abuse misconduct in Hollywood was a significant keynote at the tail end of 2017. The movement initially began to gain momentum when brave, famous women came forward with their personal…
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On November 13, CNN released a video of slave auctions in Libya. The video showed an off-screen auctioneer offering black men as “big strong boys for farm work,” rattling off dinar figures until one man, later identified as Nigerian, is…
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The recent ban on Russian athletes competing in the upcoming 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics has been interpreted by some as a major victory for clean sport, and by others (particularly Russia itself) as an act of political ostracism…
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