Did The CIA Attack the BRI To Disrupt the CPEC?

Did The CIA Attack the BRI To Disrupt the CPEC? by Pepe Escobar  for The Cradle A Baloch suicide bombing targeting Chinese workers in Karachi comes a mere month after the US-backed ousting of PM Imran Khan. Pakistan is a critical BRI hub in Beijing’s vast Eurasian connectivity project, and it looks like CPEC is the ultimate target of this disruption. Recently, the Balochistan Liberation Movement (BLA) had released an ISIS-influenced video threatening “Chinese officials and installations” in Pakistan’s vast province. Yet what actually happened in late April was a suicide…

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There’s No Substitute for Presence. So I Uprooted My Family.

There’s No Substitute for Presence. So I Uprooted My Family. by JEN POLLOCK MICHEL for Christianity Today How the conviction to honor my aging parents convinced me to move home. I don’t necessarily believe God advertises on billboards—but I had to wonder last August. My husband and I were sitting in a Chicago park, talking about our pressing responsibilities to our aging parents. It was the first time since the beginning of the pandemic that we had crossed the Canada–United States border to visit them: my mother in Ohio, my…

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Simple Kingdom (Video)

Simple Kingdom Video by Bryan and Katie Torwalt with Cody Karnes LYRICS: Your kingdom is simple As simple as love You welcomed the children You stopped for the one We want to see people The way Jesus does Your kingdom is simple Lord teach it to us Your kingdom is humble As humble as death His King is a savior Who gave His last breath So may we die daily Our pride laid to rest His kingdom is humble And the broken are blessed Hallelujah Hallowed be Your name May…

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