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Monday, 18 Oct, 2010
Blood and Gifts World premiere at the National Theatre, London September 2010 to 14 November Blood and Gifts by American writer JT Rogers is an epic political thriller, which spans over a decade of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, taking the viewer from the mountains of Pakistan to the epicenters of power in Washington DC. We meet CIA operative Jim Warnock on his arrival in Pakistan (1981) as he is to try and halt the progress of the Soviet army in Afghanistan through secret alliances ...
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Monday, 18 Oct, 2010
“I feel sure I am right when I say that the less the Afghans see of us, the less they will dislike us,” said Frederick Roberts, an Anglo-Irish commander. That was in 1880, the third year of the second Anglo-Afghan War, following another British invasion of Afghanistan in the context of the so-called Great Game between Britain and Russia. One hundred and thirty years, several wars and invasions of Afghanistan later, Roberts’ words seem to be echoing strongly in Western capitals amidst West...
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Thursday, 14 Oct, 2010
KABUL: The Pashtun warlord’s son arranged our audience in the plush living room of a villa thronged by petitioners and guarded by men dressed in army uniforms, armed with machin...
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Thursday, 14 Oct, 2010
Ethnicities and Global Multiculture: Pants for an octopus Jan Nederveen Pieterse Rowman and Littlefield Publshers, Inc. 2007 £16.10 Pieterse’s work is academic, chall...
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Wednesday, 13 Oct, 2010
Yes, he is the father of the euro, the European currency. Not only did Dr. Theodor Waigel propose the name of the currency in 1995 while serving as German finance minister (1989-1...
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Monday, 11 Oct, 2010
The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood: Islamist Participation in a Closing Political Environment Carnegie Endowment for International Peace March 2010 In a recent paper for the C...
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Monday, 11 Oct, 2010
Last Friday, Rahm Emanuel, the most powerful White House chief of staff since Ronald Regan’s James Baker, announced his resignation. He leaves his powerful position within Obama...
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A lot has been written over the past several months about Iran's trade relations with the BRICs, referring to Brazil, Russia, India and China, and Persian/Arabian Gulf countries. ...
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The impending sale of billions of dollars of additional US weapons to Saudi Arabia, if realized, could achieve a major improvement in Saudi military capabilities. Although such we...
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Can it be that American military bases abroad, usually thought of as "stabilizers" in tough neighborhoods, are really the primary cause of radical terrorism against the US and its...
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