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December’s massacre of striking oilfield workers in the city of Zhanaozen caused few ripples in the international community, unwilling to challenge a strategic partner with such abundant oil resources. The response of the new Kazakh government has been to crack down on the opposition.
R.I.P. Anthony Shadid who died recently on assignment in Syria. Pulitzer Prize winner and “New York Times” Foreign Correspondent talks to TGD about this very small but extraordinarily wealthy country’s increasing influence in the Middle East.
Corey Robin’s new book “The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin” traces the history of conservatism from a “counter-revolutionary” force during the French Revolution up until the current disarray in the American Republican party.
Nigeria is facing a perfect storm of crises including a national strike, widespread protests, and sectarian violence in the north. Much of the violence in the north is blamed on an Islamist sect called Boko Haram, which means, “Western education is sinful.” Nevertheless, encouraging a military solution is is not the answer
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