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As the political tensions and constitutional conflict between Catalonia and the Spanish government continue to escalate, analysts would benefit from asking why Madrid so violently cracked down on the referendum in the first place and, in…
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“The People of Canada to-day are being taxed to pay interest on millions of dollars of fictitious capital”. -Sir William Mulock, Member of Parliament, In reference to the Canadian Pacific Railroad, 1895 Binding the East and West Sir…
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Last week, Chicago formally submitted a bid to house Amazon’s second headquarters, HQ2. Mayor Rahm Emmanuel and Governor Rauner came together along with a committee of 600 business owners, community leaders, and government officials to make…
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After the fall down of Saigon government, Vietnam faced "chaos, instability, and economic disintegration". In 1986, Vietnam's Communist Party decided to adopt a "market-oriented socialist economy under the state guidance"- known as Đổi Mới…
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In 2008, mothers of teething infants visited their local Nigerian pharmacies to purchase some medicine to ease their child’s pain. Shortly after, 84 of those children passed away in a scandal that dominated international news headlines. The…
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With the eyes of the world fixed on Kim-Jong Un and Donald Trump's war of words, another serious escalation has been playing out along the world's most dangerous border: that between India and Pakistan. The nuclear-armed neighbors share a…
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Just last month, Chinese officials ordered Chinese Muslims in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region to hand over copies of the Quran and other religious materials as part of a crackdown on "extremists." Authorities have also tightened security…
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