A PRINCIPAL instrument of US foreign policy is covert regime change, meaning a secret action by the US government to bring down the government of another country. There are strong
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IN DECEMBER, the New York Times reported that ‘Earth is finishing up its warmest year in the past 174 years and very likely the past 125,000.’ (Though it’s not the
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A SAD fact of jurisprudence in an unequal world is that good laws created to promote justice are often used perversely by the powerful to thwart justice. Title VI of
ONCE most, if not all, thought of the middle class as a single monolithic social economic construct. This was particularly so during the period from 1947 to 1971. It was
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POWER that be deny it exists, extremists on both sides justify it, moderates lament it, yet, this festering social disease goes on spewing blood and hatred, not confined to the
WHEN the Awami League is in a self-congratulatory mood, indulging in complacence over its success in pulling off the 12th national elections, not even its own members and associates see
AFTER stunning missile and drone strikes on three countries — Syria, Iraq and Pakistan — over a period of 24 hours, Tehran then took the extraordinary step of claiming responsibility