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International Relations
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Israeli National Baseball Team: A Bizarre Circumvention of the Rules?
Are the Jews a nation? Can they hit a curveball breaking low and away? Major League Baseball (MLB) says yes to both. And Commissioner Bud Selig will prove …
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Israeli National Baseball Team: A Bizarre Circumvention of the Rules?
Are the Jews a nation? Can they hit a curveball breaking low and away? Major League Baseball (MLB) says yes to both. And Commissioner Bud Selig will prove …
Nuclear Strategy of Mutual Assured Destruction Ignores Human Fallibility, Accident Risk
A prominent proponent of MAD puts his faith in nuclear deterrence, justifying his position in historical terms.
US Intervention Continues to Undermine Egyptian Revolution
Human rights delegation to Egypt concludes any future support to the Egyptian government must meet the people's real needs, not promote the interests of foreign and local elites.
Paraguay’s Bitter Harvest: Monsanto and Rio Tinto Reap Benefits From Coup Government
Paraguay's new president Federico Franco fast-tracked negotiations with the mining giant Rio Tinto for a $4 billion aluminum plant on the banks of a river there.
What’s Really Happening in Syria?
The principal Obama Administration target in this complex affair is Iran, not Syria. The Syrian government must fall because it is Iran's main Arab ally.
Eyes to the South: French Anarchists and Algeria
It is held in some circles that anarchism, like Marxism, is a form of thought and praxis that originated in nineteenth-century Europe and as such is inseparably related to …
Syria: What Russia and China Have Learned From the Last NATO War
In the last few days, the UN Security Council passed two resolutions on the civil war in Syria, on the basis of which the first part of a UN …
Terrifying Peace: Living Within a Permanent War Economy
Today's geopolitical interventions to extract power on behalf of the Western nations has established a perpetual war for perpetual peace.
Barack Obama, Changeling
Obama is at heart a calculating pragmatist, especially when it comes to advancing his own ambitions. Many of his broken promises are due to his distaste for defeat.