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- Not long ago I chanced upon a book whose provocative title demanded that it be investigated. Its red cover, with a fireball from a tank and freshly launched missile as the backdrop, proclaims: 2017 War with Russia. The subtitle declares: “An urgent warning from senior military command.”I did not...
- Following an incredibly tumultuous three weeks in British politics, the nation gets a new prime minister today, rather sooner than expected, an event that is likely to trigger the dreaded Brexit negotiations for Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union (EU).Theresa May’s ascension to power...
- Going by the particularly apocalyptic prognostications on both sides of the debate, either result in tomorrow’s British referendum will presage a monumental disaster.Vote to leave the European Union (EU) and its already troubled economy will go down the drain, Britain will be isolated and vastly...
- In a speech marking Holocaust Remembrance Day last week, the Israeli Army’s deputy chief of staff offered his compatriots an uncomfortable reminder.“If there’s something that frightens me about Holocaust remembrance,” Maj. Gen. Yair Golan noted, “it’s the recognition of the revolting processes...
- We own half the world, oh say can you see/ The name for our profits is democracy/ So, like it or not, you will have to be free/ ‘Cause we are the cops of the world, boys/ We’re the cops of the world.The above lines are the concluding verses from a topical song composed more than half a century...
- In Charleston, South Carolina, last Wednesday, Dylann Roof spent an hour in a Bible study class with a dozen or so parishioners before declaring, “You rape our women and you’re taking over our country, and you have to go.”He took out his gun and murdered nine people, reportedly reloading his...
- On the sidelines of the commemorations marking the 50th anniversary last month of the pivotal civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, which was led in 1965 by Dr. Martin Luther King, a group known as Students Unite planned a peaceful march to the Live Oak cemetery, a burial place for...
- In the midst of what looks very much like another Cold War, it seems remarkable that just three decades have passed since the beginning of the end dawned for the last one. It somehow feels more distant than that, almost like a different lifetime.It was, however, on March 11, 1985 that the Kremlin...
- Half a century ago, when the civil rights movement was at its peak in the United States and tumultuous changes were afoot, from successful desegregation drives to potentially transformative legislation ostensibly intended to entrench civil and democratic rights for African Americans, who would...
- If only Bapu knew, the Indian poet Sarojini Naidu is said to have remarked with reference to Mahatma Gandhi, how much it costs us to keep him in poverty. It is highly unlikely that anyone would be tempted to make a comparable remark about Jose Mujica, the outgoing president of the South American...
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