News Abroad 
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1/29/2023
50 Years After the Paris Accords: How the US Lost, then Won, in Vietnam
by Robert Buzzanco
As Vietnam becomes increasingly integrated into global capitalism, the temptation to identify a long-term victory for American interests in southeast Asia should be tempered by awareness of the massive human cost paid by the Vietnamese.
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1/29/2023
A Portrait of Carlos Franqui
by Ken Weisbrode
The autodidact poet, journalist and propagandist Carlos Franqui was instrumental in making the Cuban revolution chic. He was also one of the first of the revolutionary generation to abandon it.
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1/29/2023
On Ukraine, International Law is Against Russia—But to What Consequence?
by Lawrence Wittner
If the United Nations can define the rules of international relations, but sufficiently powerful nations can flout them without consequence, it's time for a change in global governance.
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1/22/2023
Do Sanctions on Russia Portend a Return to the Interwar Order of Trade Blocs?
by Carl J. Strikwerda
The economic response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine has raised the specter of a new Cold War. But a better—and scarier—analogy might be the drastic contraction of global trade and the rise of colonial and imperial trade blocs between the World Wars.
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1/22/2023
What's Hiding in Putin's Family History?
by Chris Monday
The details of Vladimir Putin's personal and family life are surprisingly (and by design) difficult to pin down. A historian suggests that his grandfather was more powerful, and more influential on the future Russian leader's fortunes, than Putin's common man mythology suggests.
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1/15/2023
Resisting Nationalism in Education
by Jacob Goodwin
"Countering the pull toward nationalistic authoritarianism requires intellectual openness and curiosity. This is a challenge in the time of recovery from the global pandemic, environmental catastrophe and jagged economic turbulence."
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1/8/2022
Two Unlikely Champions of Fundamentalist Parties Show it's More about Power than Faith
by Donne Levy
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returns to power after embracing religious fundamentalist parties in a coalition. Like his friend Donald Trump, he seems an unlikely leader for a faith-based constituency to embrace.
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1/8/2023
My First Trip to Russia 30 Years Ago Is a Cautionary Tale Now
by Steven Knipp
The decades since the fall of Communism have borne out a Russian saying: "The horses of hope gallop. But the donkeys of experience go slowly.”
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12/18/2022
We Know About Fire. What Does Ice Tell Us About Humanity's Past and Future?
by Fred Hogge
Harnessing cold – both natural and artificially-created—has been a key support for human flourishing, but also a factor in the consumption of resources that imperils the environment.
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12/18/2022
Will the United States Accept Responsibility to Lead with a New Marshall Plan for Climate?
by James Thornton Harris
Although the United States has refused to accept the principle that it owes global reparations for past damage to the atmosphere, could reframing the issue as one of global leadership, instead of punishment, appeal to the nation's better instincts?
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12/18/2022
Mussolini in Myth and Memory
by Paul Corner
Italians' recollection of Mussolini and the Fascist regime embody the replacement of historical memory with national mythology—a mythology that dismisses both the violence of the dictatorship and Italians' collective responsibility for it and enables the resurgence of the far right today.
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12/11/2022
Writing My Father Into History
by Stephen G. Rabe
As a child, the author developed an interest in history by hearing his father's stories on the journey from parachuting in to Normandy to the Brandenburg Gate and the occupation of Berlin. But he waited until retirement to research and write about them.
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12/11/2022
How an Abstract "War on Terror" Became All Too Real in Iraq and Afghanistan
by Roger Peace
Politics drove the Bush administration to expand the scope of a military response to 9/11 to cover costly entanglements in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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12/11/2022
Will the Republican's Tilt Toward Isolationism End?
by Waller R. Newell
The Republican Party's fracturing between the remaining neocons and a younger group of isolationists comes at a critical moment when Russia is testing the possible limits on its expansive ambitions.
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12/4/2022
What's New About Putin's Nuclear Threats? Just that the US is on the Receiving End
by David P. Barash
From the American perspective, the seeming danger of Putin's nuclear saber-rattling is partly due to the novelty of being on the receiving end.
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12/4/2022
Can the World Stop Imperialist War?
by Lawrence Wittner
It's past time to finish the halting progress made a century ago to rally international cooperation against imperial aggression. The stakes are too high to leave peace in the hands of individual nations.
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11/20/2022
Does Novelist Robert Keable Deserve a Reappraisal?
by Simon Keable-Elliott
Briefly celebrated in the 1920s, then consigned to posthumous obscurity, the missionary and novelist, whose experiences encompassed the collision of colonialism, war and racism in the British empire, is overdue for rediscovery.
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11/13/2022
Monkeypox Has Been Around for Decades; This Outbreak is a Product of Neglect
by Alessandro Hammond and Cameron Sabet
The world's response to viral outbreaks in poor nations demonstrates the hoarding of resources in the Global North, but it's ultimately self-defeating for rich nations, too.
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11/13/2022
A Loss for Bolsonaro is a Win for the Amazon and the Planet
by Alon Ben-Meir
Much work remains to preserve the Amazon, but the defeat of Jair Bolsonaro's regime was a precondition to any progress on this key aspect of the climate crisis.
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11/6/2022
From Torch to Tunis to El Alamein: Events 80 Years Ago Made the Modern Middle East
by Robert Satloff
80 years ago Operation Torch, the Allied invasion of North Africa, opened a second front against Nazi Germany. Today, it has proven equally important for establishing models for America's relationship to the Middle East.
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