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Talk of military intervention in Syria recalls Iraq debacle
February 7, 2012The talk of covert action, "no fly zones," and military involvement via proxies has ratcheted up following the Russian and Chinese veto of a UN Security Council resolution.
Read moreDickens “more relevant than ever” in Britain
February 7, 2012On the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens's birth, his biographer Claire Tomalin warned that the great novelist's depiction of injustice in society was still "amazingly relevant."
Read moreGuatemala dictator to stand trial
February 6, 2012Guatemalan prosecutors announced Jan. 26 that 85-year-old Efraín Ríos Montt, military dictator in 1982-1983, was going to trial in March.
Read moreLeft or right – where’s the threat?
February 6, 2012The "crime" of those on the left, aside from occasional rocks or bottles thrown at Nazis, was a failure to support the "basic libertarian democratic order."
Read morePakistan generals profit from mayhem, communists say
February 3, 2012In a recent analysis, the Communist Party of Pakistan says the Obama administration is interested in working out a political settlement in Afghanistan "in order to cut down its colossal expenditures there."
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