Friday, April 13, 2018
Will Trump End the Iran Nuclear Deal? | Al Jazeera English
Observers believe the tensions between the two countries are driven largely by domestic US politics. Trump has recently replaced members of his administration that advocated the nuclear deal with hardliners who are calling for scrapping it. Iran, in turn, has indicated that it would not feel bound by the deal at all if the US walks away from it.
Al Jazeera's John Hendren reports from Washington.
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Donald Trump,
Iran,
nuclear deal
Thursday, April 12, 2018
Is Putin Still In Full Control in the Kremlin? – BBC Newsnight
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Kremlin,
Russia,
Vladimir Putin
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Tuesday, April 10, 2018
Tucker: Would War against Assad Make US Safer?
Thursday, April 05, 2018
The Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution of 1905 was said to be a major factor to the February Revolutions of 1917. The events of Bloody Sunday triggered a line of protests. A council of workers called the St. Petersburg Soviet was created in all this chaos, and the beginning of a communist political protest had begun.
Overview. The Russian Revolution took place in 1917, during the final phase of World War I. It removed Russia from the war and brought about the transformation of the Russian Empire into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), replacing Russia's traditional monarchy with the world's first Communist state.
1917 Russian Revolution. The 1917 Russian Revolution was not, as many people suppose, one well organised event in which Tsar Nicholas II was overthrown and Lenin and the Bolsheviks took power.
Bolshevik, ( Russian: “One of the Majority”) , plural Bolsheviks, or Bolsheviki, member of a wing of the Russian Social-Democratic Workers' Party, which, led by Lenin, seized control of the government in Russia (October 1917) and became the dominant political power.
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Russian Revolution
Tuesday, April 03, 2018
Sunday, April 01, 2018
Forever Young: The Documentary - BBC News
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BBC documentary,
Forever Young
Saturday, March 31, 2018
Theologians Under Hitler (Religious Belief Documentary) | Timeline
This film, based on ground-breaking research, introduces the viewer to three of the greatest Christian scholars of the twentieth century: Paul Althaus, Emanuel Hirsch, and Gerhard Kittel, men who were also outspoken supporters of Hitler and the Nazi party. In 1933 Althaus spoke of Hitler's rise as "a gift and miracle of God." Hirsch saw 1933 as a "sunrise of divine goodness." And Kittel, the editor of the standard reference work on the Jewish background of the New Testament, began working for the Nazis to find a "moral" rationale for the destruction of European Jewry.
This provocative film asks: how could something like this happen in the heart of Christian Europe? Could it happen again? How does the scholarship of this period affect the church today? Does the church of today retain the ability to recognize profound evil?
Friday, March 30, 2018
Douglas Murray on Tommy Robinson (and the Establishment)
Tommy Robinson Talks to RT about Free Speech
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free speech,
Tommy Robinson
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
Has North Korea Won Vital China Support Before the Trump Summit? | Inside Story
Ties between the long-time allies frayed recently as China supported tougher UN sanctions on North Korea and suspended coal and iron ore imports. Over the past couple of days in Beijing, it's all smiles and friendly handshakes.
Presenter: Elizabeth Puranam | Guests: Chad O'Carroll - Director of news site NK News; Einar Tangen - Chinese government adviser; Karl Friedhoff - Chicago Council on Global Affairs
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China,
Inside Story,
North Korea,
state visit
Radicalization in Bosnia - Islamists Gaining Ground | DW Documentary
Bosnian social worker Vahidin Omanovic warns young people about the dangers of religious extremism, and offers them the vision of a peaceful future. 20 years after the end of the Bosnian War, his country still suffers from high unemployment and political stagnation. He’s worried by conservative Islamist preacher Elvedin Pezić, who's now popular with many young Bosnian Muslims. Pezić rejects violence, but advocates Sharia law and an ultra-conservative interpretation of Islam that has its origins in Saudi Arabia. The Saudis have promoted the spread of this variety of the faith in Bosnia and many other countries by financing the construction of mosques and supporting conservative imams.
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Bosnia,
DW documentary,
Islam,
Islamism,
radical Islam
Monday, March 26, 2018
Is Saudi Arabia More Vulnerable to Houthi Attacks from Yemen? | Inside Story
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman defends his country's military intervention in the conflict in 2015, saying "the options are between bad and worse".
After three years the situation could not be any worse. About 10,000 killed in the fighting, thousands more dead from the worst recorded outbreak of cholera, and millions facing famine.
The UN calls Yemen the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. And the complex relationships and divisions of all those involved in the conflict make any hope of a settlement even more remote.
Presenter: Elizabeth Puranam | Guests: Mohammed Jumeh, columnist and editor at the Al Quds newspaper; Adam Baron, visiting fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations; Suze van Meegen, protection and advocacy adviser at the Norwegian Refugee Council
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Houthis,
Inside Story,
Riyadh,
Saudi Arabia,
Yemen
Sunday, March 25, 2018
Brexit Bombshell: Could the Vote Be Invalid?
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Brexit
What’s Next in US-Saudi Relations
Friday, March 23, 2018
What Now for Washington's Relations with the World? | Inside Story
Democrats say the loss of Rex Tillerson is yet another sign of chaos in the White House. Trump blames policy differences and lack of "personal chemistry" for the departure of the US Secretary of State.
The president's choice to replace him is CIA Director Mike Pompeo - whom he says, shares the same 'thought process'.
Will Rex Tillerson’s replacement toe the line with the President’s vision for foreign policy?
Presenter: Laura Kyle | Guests: Michael O'Hanlon - Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution; James Moran - Associate Senior Research Fellow, Center of European Policy Studies; Glenn Carle - Former CIA officer
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Inside Story,
Rex Tillerson
Is the United States Becoming More Belligerent? | Inside Story
Donald Trump's choice for national security adviser appears to match the President's confrontational views on the rest of the world.
This muscular stance often rejects consensus-building and supports using American economic and military power to punish anyone who doesn't fall in line.
What signal is the White House sending to the rest of the world now?
Presenter: Sohail Rahman | Guests: Jim Walsh, Senior Research Associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Security Studies Program; Evan Resnick, Coordinator in the United States Programme at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies; Ali Fathollah-Nejad - Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Doha Center.
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Inside Story,
Iran,
John Bolton,
North Korea,
USA
Is Mohammed bin Salman Really a Reformer? | UpFront
Debating in a Special Arena are self-exiled Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, founder of the Arabia Foundation Ali Shihabi, and the executive director for Human Rights Watch’s Middle East and North Africa division, Sarah Leah Whitson.
And as Donald Trump takes full credit for 2017 economic growth in the United States, we set the record straight with a Reality Check on the “Trump Bump”.
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