Month: January 2021

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This extremely British view of the Greek Civil War is tonight’s film. The irony of the early Cold War (and really, most of the Cold War) is that the West ended up supporting the fascist-friendly forces in the postwar world because the partisans who actually fought the Nazis were mostly communists. So the British and […]

GM Going Electric

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On January 31, 2021

General Motors has seen the writing on the wall and for the first time since it introduced yearly models a century ago is actually ahead of the curve on the future of the auto industry. Those large fo

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Juan Guzmán Tapia, RIP

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On January 31, 2021
We need to note the passing of one of the heroes of modern times: Juan Guzmán Tapia, a Chilean judge who was the first person to prosecute the country’s onetime military ruler, Augusto Pinochet, using novel legal strategies to hold him and members of his regime accountable for killings and human rights offenses in the […]
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Now this here is kind of funny: Former President Donald Trump’s five impeachment defense attorneys have left a little more than a week before his trial is set to begin, according to people familiar with the case, amid a disagreement over his legal strategy. It was a dramatic development in the second impeachment trial for […]
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