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How globalization threatens democracy in India
July 25, 2003Ending the colonial rule of British imperialism, India won its independence and established itself as a sovereign, socialist, democratic republic on January 26, 1950. In the last half century India experienced three wars, two year-long national...
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Behind Californias recall lies a Bush
July 25, 2003The current drive for a recall of California’s Democratic governor, Gray Davis, has this financially strapped state – the seventh largest economy in the world – in a political tizzy. But with all the rhetoric over...
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Berlusconi and totalitarianism
July 25, 2003The New York Times reports that Italian students and teachers are protesting the inclusion in high school graduation exams of an essay question about “terror and repression in totalitarian systems,” which the question defines as “communism,...
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Splits in the powers that be on Iraq
July 25, 2003I never thought I’d agree with Zbigniew Brzezinski on much of anything. (For those who may not remember, he was Jimmy Carter’s national security adviser and a leading cold war ideologue.) But consider this recent exchange...
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Letters
July 25, 2003Manifest destiny robs the poor Aristotle said that every action has a condition, a situation and a cause. Billions of people in the world are starving. The situation is that there are so many people living...
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