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Here Come the 1968 Mistakes Again

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“In our countercultural bubble, we assumed everyone watching the convention shared our feelings of revolt, but the spectacle in Chicago, as history showed us, had an unintended effect. It was the ‘law-and-order’ [Richard] Nixon who got elected.” This statement comes from David Ansen in “First Look at Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7” More

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Fighting Over Kashmir Could Blow Up the Planet

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Jammu and Kashmir, widely referred to as Kashmir, has had many designations since India and Pakistan were partitioned by Britain and gained their respective independence from the Empire: a Princely State, a State, a Union Territory. The 86,000 mile, Muslim-majority region sits in the Himalayas on the border with China. It is of strategic significance More

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India's first 'Kisan Rail' flagged off from Maharashtra's Deolali

Zee News (zeenews.india.com) 

Union Minister Narendra Singh Tomar on Friday flagged off the country's first 'Kisan Rail' train from Deolali in Nashik to Danapur in Bihar, through video-conferencing. Speaking on the occasion, the Union minister for agriculture and farmers' welfare said Kisan Rail will help in transporting agricultural produce, especially perishable commodities, at cheaper rates and aid farmers in getting the right price for their crops.

Haven’t We All Known Guys Who Were Exactly like Donald Trump?

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Although it gives me no pleasure to report this, while growing up in the shady suburban confines of Southern California, in the Sixties, I probably knew half a dozen guys who—other than being middle or lower middle-class rather wealthy, and shorter rather than taller—were otherwise exactly like President Trump. I’m also certain that I never More

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What’s Driving the Simmering Conflict Between India and China

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Chinese and Indian forces have pulled back from their confrontation in the Himalayas, but the tensions that set off the deadly encounter this past June—the first on the China/India border since 1975—are not going away. Indeed, a combination of local disputes, regional antagonisms and colonial history have brewed up a poisonous elixir that could pose More

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American Failures: August, 2020

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It’s probably unpatriotic and maybe treasonable to talk about American failures but they are now so glaring that some 12 minutes of read time seems pardonable in this Age of Twitter “discourse.” That such obvious failures, if admitted at all, are politicized relative to which side of the Blue/Red street you are one is itself More

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Phillies' Velasquez looks to get groove back vs. Braves

BigNewsNetwork.com (sports) 

A struggling veteran and a highly valued rookie trying to find his way square off on Friday when the Philadelphia Phillies host the Atlanta Braves in the opener of a four-game series between the two N

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Sri Lanka's powerful Rajapaksa brothers claim landslide in parliamentary elections - CNN

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  1. Sri Lanka's powerful Rajapaksa brothers claim landslide in parliamentary elections  CNN
  2. Sri Lanka election: Rajapaksa brothers win 'super-majority'  BBC News
  3. Rajapaksa brothers win by landslide in Sri Lanka's election  Al Jazeera English
  4. Sri Lanka election: Rajapaksa brothers tighten grip on power  BBC News
  5. Sri Lanka president, brother tighten grip with big election win  Reuters
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