Fair Observer Founder, CEO & Editor-in-Chief Atul Singh, or the Rajput, and retired CIA officer Glenn Carle, or the WASP, examine US President Donald Trump’s cuts to the US federal government. Their ...

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When is a genocide a genocide? You’d think this question would be easy to answer. After all, the official definition of the word is clear. The UN’s 1948 Genocide Convention explains it as “any of the ...

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