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A year after leader Kim Jong-un promised in a speech to bring an end to the “era of belt-tightening” and economic hardship in North Korea, the gap between the haves and have-nots has only grown with Pyongyang’s transformation...
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Part of our ongong look at North Korea, yeat another perspective that has not really been evident or heard. Delete the scoop?
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YouGov-Cambridge poll finds people in UK more likely to sympathise with poor than Americans, French and Germans
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Is North Korea going to bomb us? Is North Korea a Threat? Is North Korea Communist? Why does North Korea Hate us? These (according to my extremely imprecise ...
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We have discussed this in class, this is a very succint summation of the best thoughts regarding events in NE Asia. Delete the scoop?
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MoJo's guide to the national pastime's deepest pockets and reviled personas.
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We've been talking about the inlfuence of money of the political system over the last couple of days. This will give you a slightly more individual look at some Americans investment in political action. Even if you don't really like baseball! Delete the scoop?
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Who pulled off the attack on Korean banks?
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We've talked about North Korea in a lot of different ways this year. Here is a really interesting look at something which many of us would not perceive as being one of their strengths. Delete the scoop?
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Once the oil stops flowing, there will be nothing left but debt and broken institutions
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He also passed an enabling act. Chavez' story is very illuminating abd very divisive depending on which side you were on. Delete the scoop?
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The fractured vote threatened instability, with many politicians and analysts predicting that Italy would have to return to the polls within months
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From our discussions today dealing with the elections in Italy and the long reach of the ghost of Mussolini. Delete the scoop?
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The Associated Press's Jean Lee has taken what is believed to be the first Instagram photo from inside North Korea.
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This is something that I would have otherwise missed, kind of a neat little tidbit - potentially historic but probably not. Delete the scoop?
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Amazon is at the centre of a deepening scandal in Germany as the online shopping giant faced claims that it employed security guards with neo-Nazi connections to intimidate its foreign workers.
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This is an interesting little new story. How blind is business to ethics, and in this case apparently history? Delete the scoop?
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The assassination of secular opposition leader Chokri Belaid has accentuated a deepening political crisis
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The transition from dictatorship to democracy is painful, Tunisia is living through that pain right now. Is this one solution truly what is needed? Delete the scoop?
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Taoiseach Enda Kenny fails to formally apologise for involvement over female enslavement causing more outrage
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I had never heard anything about this before, it is a sad story. To what extent do you think the goverment of Ireland is responsible for this? Should they go farther in trying to apologize? Delete the scoop?
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The risks of more aggressive global protectionism – including deliberate manipulation of exchange rates – cannot be dismissed out of hand
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Some things really grab my attention, this one for instance, currency is one of the ways governments can really manipulate their economies. Delete the scoop?
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Attorney General Eric Holder has said that he doesn’t want the Obama administration’s leak prosecutions “to be his legacy.” But he has also trumpeted the cases—six and counting—in response to criticism from Senate Republicans.
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To what extent does this get to the heart of how a democracy is supposed to function? Delete the scoop?
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On Thursday afternoon, the FBI released photos and video of two persons of interest in the Boston Marathon bombing. According to FBI special agent Richard DesLauriers, authorities are looking for two men, who he labeled Suspect No.
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Cameras everywhere? Should that be done? An interesting argument... Delete the scoop?
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In which John discusses life inside a North Korean concentration camp as reported by Shin Dong-hyuk, the only person ever known to have gotten out of North K...
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Reasonable, thoughtful examination of North Korea, worth the three minutes it takes to listen to it. Delete the scoop?
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Bitcoin is a fantasy. The Internet’s currency—a secure, private, decentralized type of money that makes possible anonymous and virtually costless transactions across borders—contains the seeds of its own destruction.
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Any interesting evaluation of a very interesting experiment. Lots of good fodder about government intervention and other beliefs. Delete the scoop?
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Pyongyang is turning its embassies into meth distribution centers, a prominent South Korean newspaper reports.
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This is a second part to the last article on North Korea. It is truly odd, but maybe trus - the problem of course is that we'll never really know. It does boggle the mind somewhat. Delete the scoop?
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Devotees of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, whose brutal purges killed millions of innocent citizens and made his name a byword for totalitarian terror, flocked to the Kremlin to praise him for making his country a world power Tuesday, while experts...
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Stalin still has pull in Putin's Russia, the article offers an interesting insight as to why. Delete the scoop?
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When Dennis Rodman landed in Pyongyang, the isolated capital of the world’s most isolated country, he announced his arrival with a tweet: “I come in peace. I love the people of North Korea!
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More coverage from North Korea, some of weird, much of it sad, nonetheless this is worth the read. Consider the role of the leadership in this country. Delete the scoop?
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A member of the Communist party political advisory body in Yunnan went on a massive freakout when he and his family missed his flight ... and it was all caught on video
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Speaking of dictatorial governments and their elites from today's classes seems to provide an interesting backdrop to this story. Delete the scoop?
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One of the key problems with modern debates about budgets and taxes is that many of us have lost our appreciation of the connection between what we pay and what we collectively receive in return.
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This is an important and very simple question. What do we want, and how are we going to pay for it? Delete the scoop?
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Israeli censors have banned reports of an ABC exclusive into the case of an Australian Mossad agent found hanged inside a super-secret jail cell.
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This is a fascinating story, so many loose ends... It's worth the read just for a look at a masked side of international affairs. Delete the scoop?
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The Obama administration will allow certain members of Congress to see the targeted-killing memos. But what about the public?
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How far should a government go in defence of democratic institutions?
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Nationwide events to highlight Nazi atrocities were staged across Germany to deliver the message: Never again
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It's important to remember the ways and means that authoritarians take power, this is one of those moments. Delete the scoop?
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A very important article about the examination of history, or lack thereof, in the choice of American Foreign Policy. A very good read.