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News
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Written by Franklin Pruett
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Tags: America | decline | empire 
America’s people are unemployed at a rate of 22-25%, while its middle and lower classes are facing huge tax increases and service cuts to cover tax breaks for its richest, who have officially declared a class war.
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Politics -
Genocide
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Written by Ann Tetan
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Tags: Cambodia | communism | genocide 
For any Cambodian over the age of 30, life has been a hard ride. From 1975 to 1979, the people of Cambodia fell under the communist regime led by Pol Pot and became part of a bloody experiment in social restructuring that, through execution, starvation and forced labour, killed an estimated two million people (nearly a quarter of the country’s population).
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Culture -
Gourmand
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Written by William Kent
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Tags: Anthony Bourdain | author | books | chef 
From the seventies, Bourdain plied his trade as a line chef then a head chef while kicking heroin addiction, methadone addiction, and extracting himself from dangerous interludes with certain “mobbed up” individuals...
On the night I meet him, Anthony Bourdain is the tallest man in Singapore. At six feet four inches, his gunfighter lean frame is stretched another three inches by a pair of handmade Luchesse cowboy boots. When offered a beer his reply is quick, “I'm your Huckleberry,” forever cementing the gunfighter image in my mind. For fans of the film Tombstone, this is akin to the offer of a Masonic handshake. Then came another coincidence.
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