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#ImpeachSaraNow #SaraLitisin #ImpeachSaraDuterte: The #Philiippines #SupremeCourt favoured VP Sara #Duterte in a challenge against her impeachment complaint, but this is another decision that violates the Constitution. The author’s call: fromonedrop.wordpress.com/2025/07/28/p...
Philippines: Impeach the entire High Court
Why should we recognise the recent decision by the Philippines’ Supreme Court that considers the fourth impeachment complaint against vice president Sara Duterte unconstitutional? I mean, thi…
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July 28, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Keir #Starmer is now 1 year as UK PM, but he was not able to turn expectations into reality, succumbing to current realities instead Read “What a letdown”: fromonedrop.wordpress.com/2025/07/05/w...
#China #Russia #Trump #ReformUK
What a letdown
After the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union, leadership under the Conservative Party suffered from own failures: Boris Johnson partying against COVID-19 pandemic protocols, Liz Truss cr…
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July 5, 2025 at 1:30 AM
2025 is a striking year for #Tibet: the echoes of protests vs the Medog dam, the earthquake, the death of Tulku Hungkar Dorje, and especially the 90th bday of the #DalaiLama. Tibet won't be gone from major issues after. Read "victory in sight": fromonedrop.wordpress.com/2025/07/02/t...
Tibetan victory in sight
In the Himalayas lies the vast country known as Tibet, the Rooftop of the World, known for towering snow-capped mountains, harmony and tranquillity, and Buddhism and the spiritual leader of the Vaj…
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July 2, 2025 at 12:00 PM
From the February 2025 archive: No force in #RDCongo #DRCongo #DRC #RDC can uphold justice, peace and progress but its own masses. Read how the African nation can become a major power: fromonedrop.wordpress.com/2025/02/16/t...
#Rwanda #Kivu #M23
Turning DR Congo into a major power
The world knows that the Democratic Republic of the Congo is rich in resources, with towering mountains filled with minerals, and lush rainforests teeming with diverse flora and fauna, blessed by t…
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June 27, 2025 at 4:21 PM
From the 2022 archive: Some netizens cheer for the approval of the Majlis of #Iran on non-cooperation with the IAEA. Instead of calling for nukes, why can’t we have a nuke-free world? Read “Countries’ ‘right to bear arms’”: fromonedrop.wordpress.com/2022/05/28/c...
Countries’ “right to bear arms”
A school shooting shook the United States this week, after a young adult killed 19 students and two teachers in an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas on 24 May 2022 before getting killed by securit…
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June 26, 2025 at 1:43 PM
From the 2024 archive: This day is the start of the 3-day protests in #Togo against Faure Gnassingbé who leads since 2005.
Read “Can’t take it anymore”: fromonedrop.wordpress.com/2024/04/11/t...
#FreeTogo
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June 26, 2025 at 7:12 AM
From the January 2025 archive: #Mozambique/#Moçambique FRELIMO evolved from the country’s liberator to oppressor, with the recent election rejecting popular will to maintain power, something akin to Venezuela.
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African Venezuela: Eyes on Mozambique
If one issue comes from Africa, the international community pays less attention (read here and here), unless superpowers have something to do therein. Compare coverage of the war in Kivu region in …
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June 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM
From the April 2025 archive: #KoreanWar | Lee Jae-myung is taking the path of Kim Dae-jung & Moon Jae-in in reopening ties with #DPRK. Like their conservative rivals, he doesn't put human rights at the top. Read why #Korea needs a new force: fromonedrop.wordpress.com/2025/04/04/k...
Korea needs a new force who will lead
I sense too much toxicity in Korean politics; it’s polarised between the liberal left wing and the conservative right wing. And basing on my principles, I cannot support both. On one hand is …
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June 25, 2025 at 12:32 PM
From the 2023 archive: Trump tweeted #MIGA, and #Pahlavi exploits #Khamenei’s weakness and this slogan. But he’s not the Supreme Leader’s ideal replacement. Read “Be it the Shah or the Leader”: fromonedrop.wordpress.com/2023/02/11/b...
#No2ShahNo2Mullahs
#IranThirdOption
Be it the Shah or the Leader
Since 2016-2017, the anger of the Iranian populace grew and spread like a wildfire, and with the rise of the prices of basic commodities, the lies behind the crash of a Ukrainian civilian jet, and …
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June 23, 2025 at 2:08 PM
#Trump’s attack on Iran is like Iraq 2003 repeated. Even #Iran being ruled by a repressive dictatorship isn’t an excuse for intervention, with revolution being ideal. Read more: Revolution, not war fromonedrop.wordpress.com/2025/06/22/r...
#NoToWar
Revolution, not war
You heard the news, Donald Trump announced that the United States struck three nuclear facilities in Iran, after days of being undecided whether to continue or not. I feel it has the same essence w…
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June 22, 2025 at 11:34 AM
From the 2019 archive: some critics of the ruling regime in #Iran favour its preceding system- the Pahlavi dynasty- but the country is never free since. Read how it changed from one despotism to another on the piece on the 1979 Revolution's 40th anniversary: fromonedrop.wordpress.com/2019/02/11/i...
Iran: 40 more years of oppression and repression
Iran had suffered from dictatorships even before the “Islamic Revolution” on 11 February 1979; the uprising as a result of the Pahlavi regime’s oppression and repression against t…
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June 21, 2025 at 2:39 PM
IAEA's report on #Iran regime's noncompliance with its nuclear obligations is used as an excuse by #Israel to conduct strikes on Iranian territory, while the former retaliates. Why can't we back either party? Read more: "Neither of you" (fromonedrop.wordpress.com/2025/06/19/n...)
Neither of you
I know that the two regimes— of the ultra-Zionists (like Kahanists) in Israel under Benjamin Netanyahu, and of the Twelver Shi’a interpretation of Velayat-e-Faqih in Iran under Seyyed Ali Khamenei—…
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June 19, 2025 at 3:15 PM