The current war involving Israel as of 7 October is NOT the Gaza war only. Israel is fighting on four fronts: against Hamas in Gaza, the Houthis of Yemen, pro-Iranian militias, and, in fact, full-fledged armies in Lebanon and Syria.
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The Oscar nominations are out, and the big winner is the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the scientist/mathematician who, in concert with a number of other scientist/mathematicians, worked on a killing device named ‘the atomic bomb’ that caused the death of 200,000 people, almost entirely civilians, at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Unlike other stories that have captivated Hollywood about 20th century mathematician/scientists – A Beautiful Mind about John Nash, The Theory of Everything about Stephen Hawking, The Man Who Knew Infinity about Srinivasa Ramanujan, or The Imitation Game about Alan Turing –
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The Biden administration is putting pressure on the Israeli government to move in the direction of accepting the creation of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza under the control of a revitalized Palestinian Authority (PA).
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The conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East are fundamentally about the contest between two competing ideologies: authoritarianism and liberal democracy.
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The recently inaugurated Peruvian president, Pedro Castillo, is a Marxist. Castillo has declared that he will call for a national referendum to approve a constitutional assembly to draft a new constitution.
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