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A cult of personality arises when a country's regime uses the techniques of mass media, propaganda, the...
05 February 2020
Let me cut (and I mean “cut” in all its meanings) to the “race” - uh, I mean chase: Skylight Theatre Company’s world premiere of playwright Penelope Lowder’s West Adams is a great new play. In about 90 minutes ...
03 February 2020
BANGKOK, Thailand -- International panic over the coronavirus is hyped
mostly by social media and news reports, but the actual death rate is
the same as the flu and less people will die as the virus mutates,
...
02 February 2020
This weekend, Pete Buttigieg told supporters that he became a viable candidate for president “on the strength of our vision” and “the urgency of our convictions.” Such rhetoric fits snugly into a creation myth about his campaign that...
02 February 2020
Last Monday a United States Air Force Bombardier E11A communications and intelligence gathering jet was either shot down or crashed in a remote mountainous region of Afghanistan. Almost immediately a story sourcing Taliban officials...
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