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After Godwin and Proudhon came writers like Kropotkin and Mikhail Bakunin, the foremost of those philosophers who attributed to the state all the evils of society and who saw no hope for man's redemption from its tyrannies save in anarchy. . ... Everywhere the great enemy of man's freedom..

china’s ‘black week-end’

It is also a “last secret” in that it shows how the party, in the end, is designed to operate: as a one-man dictatorship, which requires obedience achieved by periodic purges and oath-style promises from survivors to follow the boss’s version of reality. ... Li was an early member of the..

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visiting vietnam arouses a sense of shame for one american

I was lost in downtown Saigon, adrift in a sea of bright lights with a map in my hand, when a man in his 60s pulled up on his motorbike. . ... As I unwound with a bottle of 333 beer, I had to wonder why an old man would still be driving a motor taxi when everyone else on the road seemed to..

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Meantime, the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported that the Ankara-backed terrorists have asked for $200,000 for releasing a young man after kidnapping him from Afrin region and torturing him. . ..

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