Western enthusiasm for democracy stops when those opposed to its policies are elected to office.
From Tariq Ali
Power can shape 'truth,' but not forever.
A storm swept the world in 1968. It started in Vietnam, then blew across Asia, crossing the sea and the mountains to Europe and beyond. A brutal war waged by the U.S. against a poor southeast Asian country was seen every night on television.
We were constantly appealing for funds from readers when I edited 'The Black Dwarf' in 1968-69.
In some ways, the '60s were a reaction to the '50s and the intensity of the Cold War.
History rarely repeats itself, but its echoes never go away.
Anthony Powell was the most European of 20th-century British novelists.
The genealogy of fictional characters can become an obsession, like train-spotting, and should be firmly resisted.
In January 1961, the United States severed diplomatic relations in response to Cuban nationalisation of U.S.-owned sugar plantations, banks and businesses.
In 1962, President Kennedy expanded an earlier trade embargo put in place by a predecessor, President Eisenhower, to a total economic blockade, which pushed the Cubans further in Moscow's direction.
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