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  In China, Japan, Taiwan Dispute Over Senkaku Islands, There Can Be No Winner
  Topic by Sebastian Murdock

  The recent and quickly growing dispute between China, Japan and Taiwan over the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea is a mess of convoluted legalities, with all three nations claiming total ownership of the uninhabited territory. Unless they can resolve their conflict peacefully, none will...

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  Asia's Growing Woman Problem - Or Lack Thereof
  Topic by John Hammons

  It was a not entirely unwarranted myth that China's One Child policy had either left abandoned, or killed, a great number of girls. The sentiment appears to have spread throughout the region. "Imbalanced sex ratios" can be seen in India, Cambodia, and Vietnam. The medieval notion that a male...

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  Will the Truth About the Lockerbie Bombing Ever Be Known?
  Article by Charles F Barnaby

  The death of Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, at his home in Tripoli on 20 May 2012, leaves a number of questions unanswe...

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  Looking Back at Radicalism in the Mountain West
  Article by David R Berman

  The Mountain West in the last decade of the Nineteenth Century and the first two decades of the Twentieth Century was...

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  Self-Immolation is Public, Drastic and Heroic
  Topic by Saideh P Jamshidi

  I can still hear the voices of women around me talking about “the heroic act” of Dr. Homa Darabi. As only a young adult at the time, I had very little understanding of Dr. Darabi’s action. She was a 54-year-old psychiatrist that set herself on fire at the Tajrish Square to protest mandatory...

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  Defining Hate Speech in an International Context
  Topic by Erin Luhmann

  Despite its amateur production quality, “The Innocence of Muslims,” an anti-Islamic YouTube video, recently jumped to the top of the international agenda. This crude, American-made caricature of Muhammad has attracted more than 14 millions views and stoked violent protests across the Arab...

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  The Russia Case: Opportunities and Dilemmas for the U.S.
  Article by Roger P Hamburg

  The U.S. has supported authoritarian regimes, but it cannot be inferred or predicted with any certainty that what fol...

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  The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis Brought the World to the Brink of a Nuclear World War – Were the Lessons Learned
  Article by Charles F Barnaby

  Next October will see the fiftieth anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis - the major confrontation between the Unit...

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  American Lynching
  Article by Harvey Young

  This topic explores racial violence within the US, looking specifically at 20th and 21st century lynching campaigns.

• Vietnam Vet Politicians Fading into History
  Article by Peter Haugen
• Impasse at Vicksburg, Mississippi?
  Article by Richard B. Cathcart
• ‘Joe Frazier ‘Champ’ a Boxing Legend Remembered. Interview with Nephew Rashad’
  Article by Lillian L Thompson