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Figurative Diaspora | Gagosian Quarterly
Curated by Mark Tansey and Peter Drake of the New York Academy of Art, Figurative Diaspora presents works of “unofficial art”—subversive, non-state sanctioned art—created by five Soviet artists and five contemporary Chinese artists. PETER DRAKE “Figurative Diaspora at the New York … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, China, creatives, Culture, painting, post-communist, Russia
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World War III Has Begun
by Paul Craig Roberts The Third World War is currently being fought. How long before it moves into its hot stage? Washington is currently conducting economic and propaganda warfare against four members of the five bloc group of countries known … Continue reading
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Tagged Brazil, China, Dilma Rousseff, Eric Draitser, Paul Craig Roberts, putin, Russia
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BRICS Under Attack: Western Banks, Governments Launch Full-Spectrum Assault on Russia
Russia is the target of a multi-faceted, asymmetric campaign of destabilization that has employed economic, political, and psychological forms of warfare — each of which has been specifically designed to inflict maximum damage on the Kremlin. by Eric Draitser, Global Research: … Continue reading
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Tagged Brazil, BRICS, Color Revolution, Dollar, Eric Draitser, Full Scale Assault, oil price, Ruble, Russia, Sanctions, South Africa, Western Banks
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Scientists find clues to the mystery of what causes lightning
It’s well-known that lightning is an electric current—a quick, powerful burst of charge that flows within a cloud or between a cloud and the ground. But surprisingly, scientists still don’t fully understand how the initial spark forms that generates such … Continue reading
Merkel Calls for Security Council Reform To Reflect 21st Century Realities
It is now time that the United Nations Security Council is reformed to reflect the real distribution of power across the world in the 21st century, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday. “We need a new method of work … Continue reading
Humanitarian Imperialism: The New Doctrine of Imperial Right
Jean Bricmont’s concept “humanitarian imperialism” succinctly captures a dilemma that has faced Western leaders and the Western intellectual community since the collapse of the Soviet Union. From the origins of the Cold War, there was a reflexive justification for every … Continue reading
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Tagged African Union, Asia, Brazil, China, democracy, human-rights, India, Middle East, Russia, South Africa
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7 Innocent South African Gestures That Can Get You Killed Overseas
Like the saying goes “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure”. The same goes for some of the loved South African gestures insinuating an entire different thing, leading your genitalia in the direction of a guillotine. For preventative measures, we’ve made a list … Continue reading
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Tagged Brazil, China, Greece, Middle East, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South America, West Africa
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Originally posted on Science-Based Life:
Enter Anatoli Bugorski… As a researcher at the Institute for High Energy Physics in Protvino, Bugorski used to work with the largest Soviet particle accelerator, the U-70 synchrotron.[2] On July 13, 1978, Bugorski was checking…