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Now in its sixth week, millions of Indian protesters continue taking to the streets despite harsh police retaliation and repression by the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The key target of the demonstration is the anti-Muslim Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), which cites religion as a basis for citizenship...

Last Thursday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declared that the Chinese Communist Party is “the central threat of our times.” Pompeo’s statement comes in the wake of Washington exerting pressure on European governments to ban the 5G networks of Huawei, China’s most powerful telecommunications company. Recently, the British government permitted Huawei to be among the...

Since 5 December, millions of French union workers and citizens have been protesting President Emmanuel Macron’s plan to revise the popular pension system, creating the largest strikes and protests since 1968. As reported last week, union members are feeling the financial pressure of being off the job for months, and, among them, those from the...

As reported in last week’s Trends Journal, on 19 January, nations including the U.S., Russia, UK, France, China, the United Arab Republic, Turkey, Italy, Egypt, and Algeria met in Berlin in an effort to negotiate a truce in the escalating Libyan civil war. The Government of National Accord (GNA), Libya’s current, interim government headed by...

President Donald Trump announced his Israeli/Palestinian “Peace to Prosperity” plan last Tuesday, calling it a “realistic two-state solution” and the “Deal of the Century.” While claiming his solution was fair to both the Israelis and Palestinians, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, confirmed that a “meaningful portion” of the occupied West Bank would be...