GAITHER STEWART—That the most traditional of races renounced the memory of its past, mythical or true, is no small matter. The Chinese had three thousand years of chronology (in those years, the Yellow Emperor and Chuang Tzu and Confucius and Lao Tzu) when Shih Huang Ti ordered that history began with him.
January 10, 2018
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STEPHEN LENDMAN—Its nuclear weapons deterrent was developed because Washington can’t be trusted. Its hostility toward the DPRK risks US aggression on the country. North Korea’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs are solely for defense, not offense. Responsibility for peninsula tensions lies in Washington, not Pyongyang.
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LINDA TENENBAUM—The French comment counterposes the crime of rape, to “persistently or clumsily hitting on someone,” and correctly insists that the two are simply not the same. It attacks #MeToo for branding as “traitors” and “accomplices” those who make such a distinction, creating a climate of intimidation, where freedom of speech “is today turning into its opposite.”
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What does Russian “opposition leader” Alexei Navalny represent?
20 minutes readCLARA WEISS—The campaign that Navalny has launched for the 2018 presidential elections has been massive in scale. Under conditions where literally no party or candidate even pretends to be campaigning, he has set up “campaign headquarters” in dozens of cities, including in Siberia and the Russian Far East. On his blog, he publishes commentaries and well-produced videos on an almost daily basis.
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WILDLIFE SOS RESCUES A LEOPARD FROM A 30 FT WELL
9 minutes readSOS WILDLIFE—A slight misstep and the feline was sent tumbling into the deep well, where she spends the remainder of the night, clawing at the rocky walls and struggling to keep out of the water. She finds a small, dry outcrop on one edge of the well and perches precariously on it, desperately trying to scale the steep wall that separates her from freedom.
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