With the release today of more than 90,000 documents showing the reality of the war in Afghanistan, the governments of the UK and US are arguing that the real travesty is the fact that the documents were leaked in the first place. The time for passing the buck is over. It is important to bear [...]
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Ethnic Conflicts
What is a country? Is it a collection of people with the same culture, heritage or goals? What about the factions of people within a country: the Basques, Northern Ireland, Bavaria, Somalia, the Sudan, the former Yugoslavia, Bosnia, Croatia, Israel, Palestine, etc. On the most basic level national borders are simply imaginary lines visible only [...]