The global war against drugs is fought seemingly every day in the jungles of Colombia and the mountains of the Hindu Kush, the inner cities of the U.S. and the trafficking corridors of Central America.
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Burma: The New Great Game
Last year, the Chinese came. The villagers living in western Burma’s remote Arakan state couldn’t quite fathom what the Chinese told them, that below their rice fields might lie a vast reserve of oil
Ambulance offers hope in war-torn Somalia
Chaos and death on the streets of Mogadishu: unfortunately, it’s nothing new in the Somali capital.
The End Game in Iran: Four Ways the Crisis May Resolve
Some observers see Iran’s courageous protests against a stolen election as a replay of the 1979 revolution that ended the tyranny of the Shah — or of the “velvet revolutions” that ended communism in Eastern Europe.