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Requiem for a dream: 100 years after the founding of the USSR
January 11, 2023I belong to a privileged generation. I was born in the late 1960s in Kiev, the capital of a Soviet and socialist Ukraine, and I had the good fortune to grow up in the USSR.
Read moreThe clock is ticking in Ukraine for U.S. global hegemony
January 11, 2023The conflict has already become existential not only for Ukraine and Russia but for the U.S. as well.
Read moreBrazil’s Lula vows no deforestation but challenges loom
January 9, 2023When Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is sworn in as president of the second most populous country in the western hemisphere Jan. 1, few challenges will be greater than fulfilling his promise to end all deforestation...
Read moreBolsonaro supporters execute Jan. 6-style fascist coup attempt in Brazil
January 9, 2023Trumpism continues to spread its poison throughout the hemisphere.
Read moreAbandoning ‘zero COVID,’ China fights virus surge before Lunar New Year
January 6, 2023Hospitals in the cities are packed, while rural towns worry about holiday visitors pouring in and overwhelming unprepared health facilities.
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