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The government of Japan has finally set the exact date (July 10, 2016 for the regular midterm election to the House of Councillors. This time the results of a routine election can have a far-reaching implication not only at the national...

To read the Western mainstream media, we would be led to believe that the big, bad Russian Bear, with Vladimir Putin atop, shaking a fistful of nuclear warheads, is confronting the West in the most threatening manner imaginable...

We are already into the fifth year since the conflict started in Syria and it still seems far from over—and we might not see its peaceful resolution unless the major powers involved...