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Baby bomb: Govind Sandhu’s new book teaches kids about hope and courage

Title: The Baby Bomb Author: Govind Sandhu Genre: Children’s fiction Publisher: HarperCollins India Cost: Rs 499 A new book, ...
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An astonishing history of wartime Berlin that reads like a thriller

Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939-1945 Ian Buruma Penguin Press, 400 pages, $35 World War II Berlin had its share of fanatical Nazis, along with a handful of courageous resisters. But it is the people ...
Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt

Middle East Wars Are Still About Oil and Empire

Gilbert Achcar explains how oil, US power, and regional rivalries have shaped decades of conflict in the Middle East — and why the confrontation with Iran fits a long imperial pattern. Why has ...

Shigeaki Mori, Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor and historian embraced by Obama, dies at 88

Japanese atomic bomb survivor Shigeaki Mori has died at age 88. Mori was a historian and best known for a big hug he was ...

Trump’s global endeavors upend the world of impotent elites — and there’s no going back

At the start of his second term, President Trump surveyed the slowly rotting swamp that was the post-Cold War landscape, and ...