July 31, 2014

Middle East: Israeli Massacre in Gaza and the Fallacy of Human Rights

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The universal declaration of human rights repeatedly stresses that all people around the world have the right to live regardless of their ...

Ukraine: West's Sanctions Against Russia Remain Relatively Porous - by Marcus Walker and Laurence Norman

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The U.S. and Europe are stepping up their sanctions against Russia, but the restrictions remain partial and porous compared with other econ...
July 25, 2014

US Power Shift Benefits Corporate America: the Hobby Lobby Ruling impact on US and EU US trade negotiations

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Last month, as you’ve probably heard, a closely divided Supreme Court ruled that corporations with religious owners cannot be required ...

Ukraine: Dutch sending unarmed police to Ukraine crash site - by Mike Corder

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The Netherlands is sending 40 unarmed military police to eastern Ukraine as part of a ramped-up effort to find the last victims of the do...

EU must cut umbilical cord with the US - deal with Moscow without US handholding - by Mary Dejevsky

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After a harrowing delay, the first bodies from MH17 arrived back at their point of departure on Wednesday. The sendoff from Ukraine’s ...
July 23, 2014

Netherlands mourns as bodies of MH17 plane crash victims are flown home - by Philip Oltermann

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A a day of national mourning in the Netherlands As the first coffin was lowered from the planes on the runway, silence fell over Eindh...
July 22, 2014

Netherlands: Majority of Dutch population polled want the Netherlands to severe diplomatic relations with Russia

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In a recent Dutch poll 58 percent of the people polled said the government should severe diplomatic relations with Russia regardless of t...