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India or Brazil are definitely better candidates for the UNSC than Japan. They represent different regions and blocs. Japan would just be an US puppet with no independent foreign policy if on the UNSC. Scotland will never be free now they removed the devo-max option from the referendum...

Would Turkey tolerate a Shia-Alawi splinter state on its borders? Assad could conceivably hold onto the western coastal region if he loses control over the rest of Syria.

ASEAN is closer to something like the African Union or the Arab League than the EU and NATO. A loose coalition of states. The entire purpose of ASEAN was to be a decentralised organization that holds no real power. Too many diverging interests and lack of an unifying threat would make this...

Is it the Africans complaining that China and India are the new colonial nations or just the West? Europe and the US have always overlooked Africa as a poverty stricken place, only in the last decade when China and India have taken over the growing market have they started responding and...

Maybe the Indian government is competent after all. It has set the conditions to improve the competitiveness of its manufacturing industries. :rofl: I'll admit I'll buy an Indian car over a Chinese car if only because the Indian export to Australia is made with Australian customers in mind...

You get what you pay for. I'll still stick with a Japanese car anyway.

Yay us. But Australia is still going to suffer under any China slowdown. Hopefully the Australian economy can be less reliant on China's. It's never good to put all your eggs in one basket.

And if the Chinese government doesn't respond, they'll be seen as uncaring to the needs of the HK people. Damned if you do, damned if you don't....

As the Iranian economy suffers more under Western sanctions, does it cause the Iranian public to be more spiteful towards the West or would their anger and frustration turn on the Mullahs? I would think both. If the government is overthrown, it'll be like the Arab Spring with any new...

Nice video. In China and Iran it'll be banned. In America, it'll be laughed at, discredited and disregarded as N.W.O paranoia. The end result is the same.

We're off topic. But no, two wrongs don't make a right. Historical revanchism goes nowhere, especially if this happened over a millenia ago. So the fact that Islam spread in part to forced conversion doesn't make the argument relevant.

Yes. How did you think it spread in the first place?

He makes a good point. Holocaust denial, to the core is denying a specific historical event existed as depicted in popular media, in varying degrees. Is it that categorically different from other unsubstantiated examples of historical revisionism? Holocaust denial rightfully gets a bad rap...

In the end, both statements are simply words. Isolated, they are functionally identical. Only when you take it into a wider context do you see a disproportionate reaction to the statements. I'll argue that the content of the statements should not matter as much as the intent. This should...

Nice video :tup: I think it proves that hard-working immigrants from poor countries are the only thing that is keeping America afloat. If America is ever loses its place as the 'land of opportunity', it's pretty much over. Australia is almost in the same boat.

Is there really that much of a difference between a holocaust denier and someone who insults Mohammed? Both are purposely being disrespectful of another group of people. The end results are always the same when you incite hatred. You may argue that one of the above actions will result in an...

The story gets stranger. Gaddafi 'betrayed to French by Assad'

Assange did host a show interviewing various people of importance for RT, presumably to boost his 'journalist' credentials, if I follow your line of thinking. There's a calculated reasoning in trying to assert that Assange is not a journalist. This implies he is not liable for protection...

You know, the actual number of hacking incidents is probably a magnitude or two greater than what's reported, because companies are reluctant to admit they've been hacked and the stocks will slump. Hackers Linked to China Group Apart What sets the Comment group apart is the frenetic...

If he is not a journalist, he is a publisher of information. These roles overlap. Should a journalist or publisher be treated any differently if they receive information and release it for public consumption? Assuming that Assange did not purposely coerce Manning into stealing information...