News On 14 August 2014, two opposition parties started their independence and revolution marches from Lahore, the provincial capital of Pakistan's most populated province, Punjab. The marches were to converge in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan. Both parties demanded the resignation of Nawaz Sharif and his brother Shahbaz Sharif. They promised their followers that the demise of the current rulers is not far away and then a new Pakistan will…

News Bolivia is the latest of the Latin American countries that has declared the so-called "Israel" to be a "terrorist state" and renounced a visa exemption agreement with the country in protest over the ongoing Jewish entity's military offense in Gaza which has already killed more than 1,300 and left over 7,000 wounded. Canceling the 1972 agreement which allowed "Israelis" to travel freely to Bolivia "means, in other words, we…

"We view the current period as a turning point, just like 1918 and 1945 ..."--- Atlantic Council President Frederick Kempe With Iraq's rapid descent into chaos and Maliki's inability to retake territory lost to both ISIS and Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, there is growing posturing amongst Kurdish leaders and their supporters to declare independence. During an interview with CNN's Christine Amanpour, the president of the northern Iraqi Kurdish Administrated Region, Massoud…

Earlier this month, the European Central Bank (ECB) introduced a series of measures aimed at stimulating euro zone's beleaguered economy. The measures include: lowering the bench mark interest rate from 0.25% to 0.15%, as well as capping long-term loans (till 2018) to banks at 7%. The ECB also considered quantitative easing but stopped short of its re-introduction. None of these measures are new and all have been tried before in…