Jonathan Power
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INTL CONFLICTS
The older we get the less warlike we become
Traditionally old men have sent young men to fight the wars they have started. Today, if we look at the…
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AMERICAS
No justice in Guatemala
Twenty years after 200,000 unnecessary deaths, 40,000 “disappearances” and 440 decimated villages, peace formally came to the last redoubt of…
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ASIA
Nuclear war can be avoided in Korea
Of all the rogues there is no question that Kim Jong-Un and his odious regime in North Korea are the…
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ASIA
Debating the morality of going to war
Do you wonder how the operatives of ISIS sleep at night? No problem, I think. After swallowing the double narcotic…
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AMERICAS
The US is a failed democracy
It should take a long time before America can again strut the world stage and lecture about the values of…
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AMERICAS
Time to think again about abolishing torture
Right now, 47 years ago to the day in the autumn of 1975, the corridors of the UN in New…
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ASIA
The Cambodian-UN war crimes trials are finally over
Finally, finally, the over-long, fifteen-year-long, trials of the leaders of the murderous Khmer Rouge leadership of Cambodia, are concluded. It…
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AMERICAS
Whither democracy?
In the year 2000 George W. Bush became the victor of an imperfect presidential election. The less than straightforward way…
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