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Brexit: a Victory for Britain’s Working Class

Edit CounterPunch 24 Jun 2016
Islamabad ... the developed countries ... A single large multinational corporation owns more assets than the total GDP of many developing nations ... like the rise of Trump in America, Brexit in Europe, the success of Modi and his hardline BJP in India, the emergence of Buddhist extremists in Sri Lanka and Myanmar and the ascendancy of Islamic hardliners in the Muslim-majority countries, all of these are not the success of conservatism, as such....

Myanmar Buddhists raid Muslim village, destroy mosque

Edit Press TV 24 Jun 2016
A group of about 200 Buddhist extremists have raided a Muslim village in central Myanmar, destroying parts of a mosque and forcing residents to seek refuge overnight in a police station ... The assailants “also destroyed the fence of the Muslim cemetery,” he added ... “I do not dare to stay at my house ... Western Rakhine State is home to the Rohingya Muslim minority, who are labeled “Bengali” by hardline Buddhists....

Myanmar Buddhists ransack mosque as religious violence flares

Edit Deccan Chronicle 24 Jun 2016
Bago. Scores of Buddhists ransacked a mosque in central Myanmar forcing Muslims to seek refuge overnight in a police station after a dispute between neighbours spilled into religious violence, officials and residents said on Friday ... "We had to hide as some people were threatening to kill Muslims ... Hardline monks, known as the Ma Ba Tha are accused of stoking violence and tensions with hate speech. ....

EU Referendum Result Celebrated By Far-Right Groups Like Britain First

Edit Huffington Post 24 Jun 2016
Britain has voted to leave the EU and amongst those celebrating, some of the loudest cheers are from far-right groups and individuals. All of the wrong people are clapping. https.//t.co/PT39Zul8ko— Stephen Bush (@stephenkb) June 24, 2016 ...  1) Marine Le Pen.   ... Although not as hardline as her father, Pen campaigns aggressively against immigration and once compared Muslims in France to Nazi occupation.2) Geert Wilders ... ....

The downfall of David Cameron: a European tragedy

Edit The Guardian 24 Jun 2016
His predecessors as Conservative prime minister were both ousted by strife over Europe, so he knew the dangers. They used to call it Greek tragedy when the fates wrought their revenge on human folly and weakness ... Cameron’s lifelong soft Euroscepticism meant he had no answer to the hardliners on Europe once the issue had become turbocharged by austerity and immigration ... He had managed both to fire up the hardliners and to outrage them ... ....

What Brexit means for the world: Expert comments from University of Reading (University of Reading)

Edit Public Technologies 24 Jun 2016
(Source. University of Reading). Release Date 24 June 2016. What Brexit will mean for the FAR RIGHT; for US & LATIN AMERICA; and for the EU'S FUTURE.. Please find comments below from academics at the University of Reading. Dr Daphne Halikiopoulou, an expert on the far right in European politics at the University of Reading, said. ... companies ... A negotiation led by hardliners and fantasists is likely to lead to the worst possible future.'....

If Provos got rid of Semtex, why are we still discovering it?

Edit Belfast Telegraph 24 Jun 2016
Martin McGuinness returned home from France yesterday on a very important mission. He and Arlene Foster were trying to find a large venue for a fanzone for Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland supporters this weekend ... Share Go To ... armed actions ... The discovery is further evidence that the PSNI and MI5 appear to be winning the intelligence war against republican hardliners ... They probably didn't even know it was happening ... ....

Yugoslavia Revisited: US Hardliners Want to Bomb Syria Like It's 1999

Edit Sputnik 23 Jun 2016
The devastating conflict in Syria and the violent breakup of Yugoslavia have a lot in common in the eyes of US hardliners, who have repeatedly called for unleashing Washington's military power to force Bashar al-Assad to agree to what the US wants. Hawks think that this approach worked in Yugoslavia and will thus work in Syria. It did not ... ....

Pakistan Province Grants $3 Million to Hardline Islamic School

Edit Wall Street Journal 23 Jun 2016
A Pakistani provincial government gave a $3 million grant to a hard-line Islamic school once attended by the founder of the Taliban and other militant leaders ... ....

We Must Pressure Iran to Release Canadian Academic Homa Hoodfar

Edit Newsweek 23 Jun 2016
In the words of her friend and fellow academic Ziba Mir-Hosseini, “Homa has become a pawn in a power struggle between Iran’s hardliners and moderates.”. It appears that religious hardliners have been badly rattled by the results of the February elections, which strengthened the position of the moderate President Hassan Rouhani ... “The hardliners want ......

Iran sends mixed messages on diplomacy

Edit Financial Times 23 Jun 2016
Role in Middle East crises highlights struggle between Islamic Republic’s moderates and hardliners ... ....

Thousands attend funeral of slain Sufi musician in Pakistan

Edit The National 23 Jun 2016
Some observers have said that Sabri may have been assassinated because he was a high-profile Sufi, a mystic Islamic order that believes in living saints, worships through music, and is viewed as heretical by some hardline groups including the Taliban ... Wednesday, saying it was in retaliation for a song that the hardline group considers blasphemous....

Thousands attend funeral of Sufi musician shot dead in Pakistan

Edit The National 23 Jun 2016
Some observers have said that Sabri may have been assassinated because he was a high-profile Sufi, a mystic Islamic order that believes in living saints, worships through music, and is viewed as heretical by some hardline groups including the Taliban ... Wednesday, saying it was in retaliation for a song that the hardline group considers blasphemous....
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