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Thucydides’ Trap? Chinese observers now believe that the US is driven by fear and envy to contain China in every possible way The writer served as executive editor of The Express Tribune from 2009 to 2014 When an emerging power threatens to displace an existing great power, as a regional or international hegemon, a Thucydides’ Trap is said to be in the making. The term is based on a quote by ancient Athenian historian and military general Thucydides, which theorised that the Peloponnesian ...

If you haven’t yet seen The Plot Against the President, the recent documentary about Russiagate, and think you know the whole story of what some argue was the biggest political scandal in American history, don’t wait any longer.   Very capably directed by the courageous Amanda Milius, daughter of director/screenwriter John Milius ( Apocalypse Now, Conan The Barbarian), The must-read book and riveting, fast-paced movie tell the true story of how relentlessly diligent Congress...

Fox Fall Schedule: Monday’s ‘911’ Block Broken Up as ‘Lone Star’ Moves to Midseason “9-1-1” will lead into Scott Foley drama “The Big Leap,” while Lee Daniels’ “Our Kind of People” follows “The Resident” Jennifer Maas | May 17, 2021 @ 2:00 PM Fox announced its fall schedule Monday, revealing that “9-1-1” universe fans will no longer be enjoying the shows back to back in the first half of the 2021-22 season, as spinoff “9-1-1: Lone Star” has been pushed to mid...

“The Cleaning Lady” and “Welcome to Flatch” also get first previews Reid Nakamura | May 17, 2021 @ 2:00 PM Brownie Harris/FOX Fox has shared trailers for its new comedies and dramas for the 2021-22 TV season, including the Scott Foley-led “The Big Leap” and Paul Feig’s “Welcome to Flatch.” The trailers were unveiled at the network’s annual upfront presentation to advertisers on Monday, alongside information about returning favorites “9-1-1,” “The Masked Singer” and �...

(Photo: Roger Jerkovich, special to the Daily Caller) “America deserves a national security strategy that’s better than ‘what did the last guy do. I’m going to do the opposite,’ which seems to be the Joe Biden approach and that fails in Iran, Russia, China, Middle East,” Kash explained. “Fails in counterterrorism, fails in counterintelligence.” Harmeet Dhillon, an attorney and national committeewoman for the Republican National Committee, told the Caller the Nunes event was abo...

Devin Nunes hosts Freedom Fest fundraiser in Tulare with Newsom challenger Kevin Faulconer View Comments Tulare Congressman Devin Nunes will host a blockbuster private fundraising event on Saturday morning featuring prominent Republicans from across the San Joaquin Valley and nation. The event, dubbed the "Freedom Fest," will kick off at 10 a.m. at the International Agri-Center just outside Tulare, according to an itinerary viewed by the Times-Delta. More than 1,700 people are expected to att...

Jonathan P. Baird: The problem of far right extremism is nothing new Published: 5/3/2021 8:24:22 AM The Trump presidency and the events of January 6 made me wonder about past American experience with authoritarian threats. Did America ever have other close calls with far right-wing extremism? Here I am not talking about the racist, totalitarian system that persisted in the South for almost 100 years after Reconstruction. Although it is little remembered now before Pearl Harbor there was a surp...

ON THE SAME PAGE: Lets get cozy with new books, film, CD titles Kim Jankowiak and Becca Brown, Manistee County Library April 28, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 1of11 "Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted" by Suleika Jaouad is a memoir of a young woman just starting out, only to be brought up short by a cancer diagnosis. After working so hard to survive, the author now tells her story on beginning to live again. (Courtesy photo) Show MoreShow Less 2of11 3of11 4of11 Greg Bears "The Un...

Philip Roth and the repellent What is most disturbing in Blake Bailey’s biography is not Roth’s behaviour, but his biographer’s apparently unthinking alignment with it.  On page 700 of Blake Bailey’s biography of Philip Roth, we find Roth reading Greg Bellow’s memoir of his father, Saul Bellow’s Heart. Roth and Bellow had a complex relationship, meticulously detailed in Bailey’s book. The pair first met in 1957, when Roth was just starting out as a writer and teaching at the ...

A documentary film about an African American lawyer who rose from poverty and oppression in the Deep South to the highest court in the land would seem a natural for Black History Month. Yet, in February, at the very time its Prime Video service was featuring films highlighting black history makers, Amazon without explanation stopped offering digital streams of “Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words.” While the film was pulled despite having at one time reached No. 1 on Amazo...