Generational Dynamics - Page 9

Contents: China further escalates the rhetoric threatening India over Doklam Plateau; China attempts to justify its claim to the Doklam Plateau

Contents: Court orders France to provide water and sanitation to Calais migrants; French police accused of abusive treatment towards Calais migrants

Contents: Torture and murder of election official raise fears of violence in Kenya; Widespread fears in Kenya of a repeat of the 2008 tribal violence

Contents: Indian Kashmir separatists split over announcement of Zakir Musa as al-Qaeda leader; India says that Kashmir’s law and order situation is improving

Contents: France’s Emmanuel Macron nationalizes shipyard to keep Italy out; France-Italy tensions grow over Libya and refugees; France bypasses Italy in a deal with Libya; North Korea launches another ballistic missile

Contents: UK to send warships to South China Sea, as China’s neighbors militarize; South China Sea countries build larger navies, preparing for war with China

Contents: Israel braces for new ‘day of rage’ at al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem on Friday; Palestinian leaders incite protests and violence in Jerusalem and West Bank

Contents: Massive car bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan, targets Hazaras, kills 36; Brief recent generational history of Afghanistan; Kabul bombing puts America’s Afghanistan policy into further confusion

Contents: DR Congo’s Joseph Kabila brings the art of power and corruption to new heights; Global Witness report finds most DRC mining revenue is wasted in corruption

Contents: Kuwait expels Iran’s diplomats after ‘Abdali terror cell’ ruling; Iran says that it’s open to ‘dialog’ with Saudi Arabia over Qatar crisis; Saudi-led coalition replaces its 13 demands with 6 principles

Contents: Relations between Germany and Turkey spiral into crisis; Turkey commemorates first anniversary of attempted coup

Contents: Cambodia bans all sales of sand to Singapore; The world is running out of sand

Contents: Eritrean government laughably uses Orthodox Christian Patriarch as show prop; Eritrea’s Christian crackdown centers on Medhane Alem Orthodox Church; The violence of generational Awakening eras

Contents: China bans Winnie The Pooh because Xi Jinping looks like him; Indonesia defies China and renames part of the South China Sea

Contents: Muslim leaders express outrage at metal detectors at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque / Temple Mount; Concerns grow of a new round of violence at compound

Contents: EU countries refuge to help Italy deal with massive refugee crisis; Italy considers a ‘code of conduct,’ and possibly the ‘nuclear option’; Italy’s ‘nuclear option’ would force other countries to absorb refugees

Contents: Paranoid China races to censor news of death of Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo; China responds with outrage at countries praising Liu Xiaobo

Contents: Turkey threatens the Kurds in Afrin, Syria, with Operation Euphrates Sword; Turkey’s assault on Afrin may jeopardize the battle in Raqqa

Contents: China establishes its first foreign military base, in Djibouti; Russia, India, Japan prepare for war with China

Contents: Thousands flee homes in Kashmir as Pakistan-India shelling escalates; China threatens military intervention in Kashmir on the side of Pakistan

Contents: US, Russia, Jordan agree on ceasefire deal for southwest Syria; Israel OKs ceasefire, but expresses severe misgivings; With ceasefire, American forces become more deeply involved in Syria’s civil war

Contents: Split grows between Iran’s president Rouhani and hardliners; Trump administration considers promoting Iran ‘regime change’

Contents: Iraqi forces are just ‘tens of meters’ away from retaking Mosul from ISIS; Recapturing Mosul from ISIS leaves the future of Iraq in question

Contents: China and India have military confrontation over Bhutan’s Doklam plateau; Border tensions grow between China and India

Contents: Donald Trump’s speech in Warsaw Poland evokes the Clash of Civilizations; Remembering the horrors that Poland suffered in World War II; Donald Trump,

Contents: Russian-led Syria peace talks collapse in Astana, Kazakhstan; The four de-escalation zones; Is the end of the Syrian war in sight?

Contents: In dramatic development, US warplanes smash fortified wall in Raqqa, Syria; Turkey fears double-cross from US on arms for Syrian Kurds; Concerns grow about Syrian conflict after defeat of ISIS

Contents: Saudi Arabia extends sanctions deadline for two days; Saudi Arabia and UAE threaten Qatar with additional sanctions; North Korea launches another ballistic missile

Contents: China builds illegal surface-to-air missile sites in South China Sea; Xi Jinping threatens Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters with ‘Red Line’

Contents: Fed Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen says ‘no financial crisis in our lifetimes’; Examining the stock market bubble; Remembering Alan Greenspan as Fed Chairman; Remembering Ben Bernanke as Fed Chairman

Contents: China repudiates its Hong Kong ‘One Country, Two Systems’ agreement with Britain; Hong Kong handover celebration marred by thuggish treatment of dissidents

Contents: France struggles with hundreds of migrants returning to Calais campground; Italy begs for help after 12,000 migrants arrive in four days

Contents: Thousands in cities across India protest lynchings of Muslims and Dalits by cow vigilantes; Concerns grow over communal violence between Hindus and Muslims

Contents: Egypt’s president al-Sisi hands contested Red Sea islands over to Saudi Arabia; US troops in Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) not affected by island handover

Contents: Hezbollah’s Nasrallah makes delusional speech about ‘foreign fighters’ attacking Israel; Saudis report close relationships between Hezbollah and Qatar; How to do a generational analysis of the Mideast.

Contents: Saudi Arabia, UAE leak 13 demands to end Qatar crisis; UAE threatens ‘parting of the ways’ unless Qatar meets 13 demands; Al-Jazeera takes center stage in the Gulf crisis