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Grudging Foreign Aid

Yankee Go Home. Nato is Nazo. American trash culture. The graffiti adorn every wall, the contempt seems to be universal. America and Americans are perceived to be uglier than ever before. It borders on hatred and xenophobia. Are we talking about...
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Nikkei Falls To 6 Week Low

Last Monday the Nikkei 225 index fell by 3.7% to a 6 week low of 13,261.82. It has fallen by 15% since hitting a five-and-a-half year high last May. Written by Chris White The fall was partly due to a collapse in Japanese shares on foot of weak...
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US Boy Scouts of America To Recruit Gay Activists

The scouting organization Boy Scouts of America yesterday passed a resolution during a general assembly at the Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Centre in Grapevine, Texas, which ends the ban on open homosexuals joining the organization...
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Ray Manzarek Dies

Sixties rock legend Ray Manzarek has died at the age of 74 in Rosenheim, Upper Bavaria, Germany. Written by Chris White According to Manzarek’s publicist Heidi Robinson-Fitzgerald the rhythmic guitarist who died of bile duct cancer passed...
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‘Obama Must Stand Up To Erdogan’ ?

WASHINGTON—For a man who has spent the past 14 years as the only inmate of a Turkish island prison on the Sea of Marmara, AbdullahÖcalan knows how to make his voice heard.  Last month, the longtime leader of Turkey’s outlawed Kurdistan...
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Five Strategies for The U.S. in Syria

WASHINGTON  In the western media’s telling, the civil war in Syria began and continues as a morality play, good versus evil, and for good reason.  The regime headed for nearly a decade and a half by Bashar al-Assad has pursued policies of...
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Xi Jinping’s First Great Test

WASHINGTON—In Washington, D.C. today, the White House was taken over by North Korean terrorists. With the help of a rogue Secret Service agent, the President and his senior advisors have been taken hostage. The terrorists’ leader, blaming...
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The United States of Corruption

The attributes that best describe how America is governed are executive over-reach, legislative complicity, judicial partisanship and journalistic decadence. The ruling elites of a now hopelessly corrupt political system are just one major blunder...
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Tomorrow’s Leaders Not Taught Cybersecurity

The world is changing at a rapid pace beyond the pace of any generation before. Such an opening sentence has probably been applicable to each of the last several generations since the industrial revolution and inventions before then like the...
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Massachusetts More Racist Than Mississippi

The Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965 is a United States legislation that abolished discriminatory voting practices responsible for the deprivation of the right to vote of African-Americans. John Glover Roberts, the 58-year-old 17th and current...