The Sudanese Foreign Policy: A Two-Faced Stratagem
Unnoticed by the mainstream medias, recent leaked minutes from a secret meeting - held on 31 August 2014 and named the Military and Security Committee Meeting - between high-level security and military Sudanese officers offer insight…
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What the United States could learn from the French intervention in Mali
In 2012 a Tuareg organization, the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) unilaterally declared the independence of Azawad, a territory in the North of Mali, which allowed fundamentalist groups, in a not-so-new turn of…
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Debunking the ISIS Hysteria
The night before the announcement of an extended campaign against Islamic State (ISIS), national security experts warned that the organization posed no direct strategic threat to the United States. ISIS deployed the gruesome videos of the…
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Dying Dreams of Korean Unification
On July 23rd, 1953, little over three years after the Korean War was started by North Korea's surprise attack, the Korean peninsula was divided. The end of the Korean War was the beginning of a division which lasted for more than half a…
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Ebola and the Politics of Fear
"What has happened recently with Ebola reminds us that in an age of globalization and particularly global trade and travel, what was a problem that was at one time far away from us could arrive at our shores very quickly." This quote from…
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Sweden-Russia Conflict Escalates Baltic Tension
Since the Russo-Georgian war broke out in 2008, the Baltic states, still haunted by decades of Soviet domination, have watched Russia with a wary eye. The sight of tanks rolling across the border into the breakaway Georgian region of South…
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“Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish”
North Korea, officially known as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, holds an extreme wealth gap between the elite members of the Party and the rest of the population. Ranging from economic capacity and social opportunities, various…
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Perspective: Does the Tobacco need more Regulation?
During the middle of the twentieth century, scientific evidence published in journals linked smoking to health problems ranging from heart disease to cancer. As a result, tobacco advertising and sponsorship have been banned in the European…
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Women Need Not Apply – The Men Only Gender Equality Conference
On September 20, 2014, the United Nations Women’s Global Goodwill Ambassador Emma Watson gave a heralded speech on gender equality to launch the UN Women’s HeForShe campaign. In a strange turn of events, Iceland and Suriname have decided to…
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Back in (Open) Season (on the Roma) – Catching Up
It's been quite a while since anyone posted here, on Opre Roma. My apologies.
While I've been gone, lots has happened relating to the mission of this blog: illuminating the struggles of marginalized peoples against oppression and…
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