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The Lost Hegemon: Whom the Gods Would Destroy

The Lost Hegemon: Whom the Gods Would Destroy Opium Wars, bin Laden, and Mujahideen “When the operation started in 1979, this region grew opium only for regional markets and produced no heroin. Within two years, however, the Pakistan-Afghanistan borderlands became the world’s top heroin producer. . . . CIA assets again controlled this heroin trade. As the Mujahideen guerrillas seized territory inside Afghanistan, they ordered peasants to plant opium as a revolutionary tax.” Alfred McCoy, author, The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia A Soviet “Vietnam” By far the most influential voice in the US Administration of President Jimmy Carter was his National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. Brzezinski’s influence drew largely from the fact that he had one of the most influential patrons in the United States at the time. David Rockefeller, then chairman of the family’s Chase Manhattan Bank, one of the most influential banks internationally, had taken Brzezins

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Robert Frost revealed in his letters | Harvard Magazine

Illustration by David Johnson Excerpts from “A Drumlin Woodchuck,” “Into My Own,” “Acquainted with the Night,” “The Most of It,” “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” and in its entirety, “The Aim Was Song,” from the book THE POETRY OF ROBERT FROST edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Copyright © 1923, 1928, 1934, 1969 by Henry Holt and Company, copyright © 1936, 1942, 1951, 1956, 1962 by Robert Frost, copyright © 1970 by Lesley Frost Ballantine. Reprinted by arrangement with Henry Holt and Company, LLC. All rights reserved. It’s not often that a poet is famous enough to become the target of character assassination 50 years after his death. But in November 2013, a half-century after Robert Frost died,

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PBS Hemingway Docuseries Covers Up His Communist Connections

PBS Hemingway Docuseries Covers Up His Communist Connections
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Why Petitioning is Vital for Democracies | Harvard Magazine

Petitioning campaigns are a vital complement to democratic voting.

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The Global Novel: Mediations Fall 2020 | Duke Novel: A Forum on Fiction & Society for Novel Studies (SNS)

The Global Novel: Mediations Hours: M 5:05-7:45 Nancy Armstrong, Roberto Dainotto Louis Althusser is known to have said that “ideology represents individuals’ imaginary relation to their real conditions of existence.” Assuming that statement is a pretty good fit for traditional literary realism as well, we feel it is time to rephrase this principle for the global novel which would go something like this: “the global novel represents individuals’ imaginary relation to forms of mediation.” Rather than refer to life beyond the page as one organized around the home, the workplace, the school, the legal system and so forth, the novels we have in mind aspire to live not only outside the language in which they were written but also beyond the printed page in film, television series, comic books, audiobooks, electronic games, and so forth. In that a good number of these novels quite literally attempt to escape the material confines of the medium, they require us to figur

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