As history looms large, tensions flare up between China and Japan. Tienchi Martin-Liao looks at the now infamous events of December 26, 2013: China’s celebration of Mao Zedong’s 120th birthday and Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe’s visit to Yasukuni shrine, a World War II memorial.
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In a recent Gallup poll Americans rated Iran as their “biggest enemy.” Why is it like this? “Why do Americans believe all news that tries to paint Iran as an ‘enemy’ and a ‘terrorist’ only interested in building nuclear bombs?” Iranian writer Yaghoub Yadali attempts to dispel the widely held myths.
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Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo describes trips to a mall in Hollywood and a museum in New York, explaining that the former felt more “real” than the latter.
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Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo describes trips to a mall in Hollywood and a museum in New York, explaining that the former felt more “real” than the latter.
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This week columnist Mesfin Negash writes about the importance of researching, writing, and interpreting history in order to learn from it.
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Tarik Gunersel suggests we recognize the invention of writing as the turning point in history, transcending God-related labeling of turning points.
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In this week’s Night Watch Venezuelan writer Israel Centeno traces the history of violence in Venezuela from the turn of the 20th century up to the present. “Venezuela is a cocktail of poverty, injustice, resentment, a rentier mentality, and clientelistic wealth.”
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