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But the ANC leadership will alienate leaders and constituencies from the very same areas where protests and strikes are most common, including Gauteng, Western Cape,
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of Eastern Cape and Free State, and mining communities in North West and Limpopo.
Not surprisingly, some have compared today’s Sunni-Shia conflict, which is consuming
swaths
of Mesopotamia and Western Asia, to that war, which caused death on a massive scale, plagues, economic destruction, and social turmoil marked, for example, by a wave of witch hunting.
And when large
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of the working class turned against the establishment’s favorite sons and daughters (the Clintons, the Bushes, the Blairs, and the Camerons), endorsing militant parochialism, the commentariat blamed the riffraff’s illusions about capitalism.
But they must do so in a way that appeals to broad
swaths
of the electorate, not only to highly schooled elites.
More War than PeaceWINCHESTER – “Only the dead have seen the end of war.”George Santayana’s dictum seems particularly appropriate nowadays, with the Arab world, from Syria and Iraq to Yemen and Libya, a cauldron of violence;Afghanistan locked in combat with the Taliban;
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of central Africa cursed by bloody competition – often along ethnic/religious lines – for mineral resources.
Large
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of Venezuela’s territory have been ceded to criminal organizations, including terrorist groups such as Colombia’s FARC and ELN, which collude with the National Guard in the production of gold and coltan, as well as in drug trafficking.
India also confronts the strengthening nexus between its two nuclear-armed regional adversaries, China and Pakistan, both of which have staked claims to substantial
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of Indian territory and continue to collaborate on weapons of mass destruction.
Within 100 days, Mao had succeeded in purging
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of the central Party leadership, including Liu and Deng Xiaoping.
It will be impossible if large
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of the world – most notably, the Middle East – remain mired in chaos and violence.
Vast
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of territory are so lawless that the police – and in some cases even the army – dare not enter.
Significant
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of the globe may soon be uninhabitable.
Humans Can Survive UnderwaterDALLAS – The latest alarming news about climate change is that huge
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of densely inhabited land will be underwater by 2050, with their cities “erased.”
The V-Shaped Recovery Marches OnLONDON – Large
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of the global economy are exhibiting traditional signs of a V-shaped recovery from the pandemic-induced collapse this spring.
Large
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of the population yearn for democracy and the rule of law.
Governments have repeatedly broadened affirmative action to include larger
swaths
of public life, target more groups, and cover promotions as well as recruitment.
By the early 2000s, technocrats – and economists in particular – ruled the roost, and governments delegated large
swaths
of policy to independent expert bodies such as central banks and utility regulators.
Large
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of Paris and London are eerily shuttered at night.
While a tiny elite seems to have done very well, large
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of the population have fallen out of the middle class and plunged into a new world of vulnerability and insecurity.
To be sure, governments and central banks have moved to backstop broad
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of the financial sector in a fashion that seems almost Chinese in its thoroughness; and they have the firepower to do a lot more if necessary.
Its new president, a former army captain who wants to arm the citizenry and raze large
swaths
of the Amazon (which would significantly accelerate global warming), has become a lightning rod for student protests, environmentalists, and gay-rights activists.
The not-so-secret headline from large
swaths
of the developing world is that the coronavirus’s economic impact is far more devastating than the virus itself.
In contrast, the ECB spent years refusing to buy government debt and, when it did, chose to exclude large
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of bonds from its asset-purchase program.
He has already signaled his intention to annex
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of the West Bank where there are illegal Jewish settlements, and some of his allies want to go even further, by bringing the entire territory under Israel’s absolute control.
His vision seems to have been clouded by the naive hope that, by appeasing China, he could reset the bilateral relationship and weaken China’s ties with Pakistan, another revisionist state that lays claims to sizable
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of Indian territory.
Worse, it flies in the face of evidence suggesting that – even when essentials such as food and medicine are excluded – sanctions hurt large
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of the civilian population.
Huge
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of manufacturing have been idled, and sectors such as aviation and tourism are largely shuttered.
In addition to requiring an open-ended US military presence, this scenario would have resulted in Kurds ruling over substantial
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of non-Kurdish territory.
This policy failure, exacerbated by the effects of technological progress, led to what the economist Dennis J. Snower calls as the “decoupling” of economic and social trajectories: even as GDP grew, real wages and prospects for advancement stagnated or deteriorated for large
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of the population.
Despite repeatedly pledging to “drain the swamp,” Trump has enabled a level of corruption that is arguably unprecedented in American history, affecting large
swaths
of the federal bureaucracy.
In fact, emerging-market economies became so good at capitalizing on new technologies and lower-cost transportation and communication that they managed to take over large
swaths
of manufacturing from the industrialized countries.
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