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“Two major contradictions: between ranking as No. 1 on Quality of Life indicators, yet having a high and increasing loneliness and not only at old age; and between having a country but increasingly letting others do the work. How come?…

After the horrors of World War II Japan installed article 9 in its constitution which generally renounces war as a means of conflict resolution and this way forbade the building up of an army. In fact Japan possesses so called…

The world lost two remarkable men in May, two African Americans who helped shape modern history, yet whose names and achievements remain too little known. William Worthy, a journalist, died at the age of 92. Civil-rights activist Vincent Harding was…

From friend Grahame Lynch’s Facebook pages (resident in Thailand): Update: Grahame Lynch 25 May at 23:16 · End of day update on the Thai coup: * The National Council for Peace and Order has extended sweeping powers to the military…

All information about Ukraine tends to orbit around the three main gravity centres… By Olga Khzaryan Position of the State Department: Free people of Kiev threw down the dictatorship of Yanoukovich and now, nobody dare oppose them of squandering the…

May 11, while in Mariupol people’s homes were still smouldering in ambers, then came a new storming. That was the “mass storming” of the electoral booths where the plebiscite of the Donetsk region’s people took place resulting in the “Donetsk…

I’ve eye-witnessed the Odessa events of May 2, when the neo-Nazis killed my fellow activist Andrey Brajevsky, member of the Borotba party. Aleksey Alba, wounded on the same day, was repeatedly interrogated by the SBU. He was to be arrested…

The two-week strike by 40,000 workers at the vast Yue Yuen shoe factory in Dongguan last month was one of the largest strikes in living memory [in China]. It was important not simply because of its sheer scale but also…

By Jim Lobe Pending legislation calling for U.S. President Barack Obama to impose sanctions against key Venezuelan officials is unlikely to defuse the ongoing crisis there and could prove counter-productive, according to both the administration and independent experts here. A…

Lionel Mok is a Hong Kong resident whose work frequently takes him into China. He has a strong interest in Chinese affairs, current, historical and cultural. Pressenza asked Lionel about social media in China and its affect on change, especially…